Vaccine defenders
August 29, 2011
RESEARCHERS from the
University of California-San Diego
have released a 700-page report
which downplays the role of
vaccines in the development of
chronic diseases including diabetes
and autism.
In preparing the report, the
researchers looked at a large range
of vaccines and the majority of
their potential side-effects across
12,000 peer-reviewed studies, and
found that vaccine complications
were extremely rare.
“We’re talking about millions of
doses of vaccines, and only a few
case reports of these rare events,”
said report co-author, S. Claiborne
Johnston.
According to Johnston, the
report refutes some common
misconceptions including that flu
shots can trigger asthma attacks.
On the flip-side the report did
find evidence that combined
measles-mumps-rubella shots
increased the risk of fever seizures.
However overall side effects
were most often found to occur in
children with known risks.
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