This report, issued today, by the Institute of Medicine, part of the National Academies of Sciences, is the first comprehensive report on vaccine side effects since 1994.
Fears that vaccines might cause autism or other health problems have led some parents to skip vaccinating their children, despite repeated reassurances from health authorities.
“We looked at more than 1,000 articles evaluating the epidemiological and biological evidence about whether vaccines cause side effects,” said committee chair Ellen Wright Clayton, professor of pediatrics and law, and director of the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society at Vanderbilt University in Nashville.
“The big take-home message is that we found only a few cases in which vaccines can cause adverse side effects, and the vast majority of those are short-term and self-limiting,” she said in a telephone interview.
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This is an interesting report. I can understand how some people desperate for answers will look for anything that might have caused type 1 diabetes and other diseases. But there are still many things we need to discover before we can have a more concrete ideas.
What is even more important than discovering the source, is discovering a cure. An ambitious undertaking, but with the proper distribution of resources, it is possible.