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Immunization
Studies conducted at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on immunization recently published
December 31st, 2008
Fresh data on immunization are presented in the report 'Adverse event reports following yellow fever vaccination.' "Yellow fever (YF) vaccine has been used for prevention of YF since 1937 with over 500 million doses administered. However, rare reports of severe adverse events following vaccination have raised concerns about the vaccine's safety," researchers in the United States report. "We reviewed reports of adverse events following YF vaccination reported to the U.S. Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) from 2000 to 2006. We used estimates of age and sex distribution of administered doses obtained from a 2006 survey of authorized vaccine providers to...
Source: Vaccine Weekly (2008-12-31)
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