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“Protecting the health and informed consent rights of
children since 1982.” =============================================
for immediate release
August 27, 2001
NATIONAL VACCINE INFORMATION CENTER URGES PARENTS TO
VACCINATE SAFELY
Washington, D.C. -
The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC), a non-profit,
educational organization dedicated to preventing vaccine injuries and deaths
through public education, is urging parents to take precautionary measures to
minimize vaccine risks. As parents take their children in for school
vaccinations, NVIC cautions that parents must be fully informed in order to be
effective partners with their doctors in preventing vaccine reactions.
“Although vaccines can prevent serious childhood diseases,
every vaccine, like every drug, carries a reaction risk,” said NVIC President
Barbara Loe Fisher. “All children are not alike and some children do have
problems with vaccination. It is just as important for parents to know how to
protect against and recognize vaccine reactions as it is for doctors to work
with parents to minimize vaccine risks and report health problems following vaccination
to the federal Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System.”
The parent-founded and operated NVIC, which worked with
Congress to create the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 and has
served as a consumer advocate watchdog since its implementation, has the
following vaccine safety tips:
·
Do not vaccinate a child sick with a viral or bacterial
infection - wait until the child has been healthy for several weeks;
·
Do not revaccinate a child who has had a deterioration
in health following previous vaccinations until it can be conclusively
determined that the vaccines were not the cause;
·
Before vaccinating, give your doctor information about
a family medical history of severe autoimmune or neurological disease;
·
Try to avoid administration of many vaccines on one
day.
“The most important thing parents can do after vaccination
is to monitor their child carefully. If
there are dramatic changes in the child’s physical, mental or emotional well
being in the days or weeks following vaccination, they need to call their doctor
and the doctor needs to take them seriously. Beyond that, doctors should always
report any vaccine-related adverse event to the federal Vaccine Adverse Event
Reporting System (VAERS),” said Fisher.
The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 mandated
that all doctors report adverse events which occur within 30 days of
vaccination to the federal vaccine adverse event reporting system but there are
no sanctions for doctors who do not report. Even though about 12,000 vaccine-related
adverse events are reported annually to VAERS, it is estimated that less than
ten percent of all doctors actually report vaccine adverse events. This is in
line with a 1993 estimate by former FDA Commissioner David Kessler in the
Journal of the American Medical Association that indicated perhaps only one
percent of all doctors report adverse events following prescription drug
administration.
The National Vaccine Information Center will assist
parents, whose doctors refuse to report vaccine-related adverse events, with
making a report to VAERS. Parents can report suspected vaccine reactions to
NVIC at www.909shot.com.
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VACCINATE IS AN IMPORTANT AND COMPLEX ISSUE AND SHOULD BE MADE BY YOU, AND YOU
ALONE, IN CONSULTATION WITH YOUR HEALTH CARE PROVIDER.