Tag: Tdap
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Do Combination Vaccines or Simultaneous Vaccination Increase the Risk of Adverse Events?
Conclusion Certain combination vaccines or simultaneous administration of vaccines that are known to cause fever can rarely cause febrile seizures in infants and young children beyond the risk presented by individually administered vaccines. Specifically, the rate of febrile seizures in the 7-10 days after vaccination was approximately 2-3 times higher for children who received MMRV…
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Do Vaccines Cause Myocarditis and/or Myocardopathy/Cardiomyopathy?
Conclusion Myocarditis can be induced by either viral or bacterial infection, most notably developing in up to two thirds of persons infected with diphtheria. Thus, diphtheria vaccine prevents myocarditis by protecting against natural infection. Smallpox vaccine can very rarely cause myocarditis and myocardiopathy/cardiomyopathy, but is not routinely recommended to the general population in the United…
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Do Vaccines Cause Thrombocytopenia or Immune Thrombocytopenic Purpura?
Conclusion Natural viral infections such as influenza, varicella, measles, mumps and rubella are associated with immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP). Thus, influenza, varicella, measles, mumps and rubella vaccines prevent ITP by protecting against natural infection. Measles-containing vaccines can very rarely cause ITP within 6 weeks of vaccination in children. However, these vaccines prevent many more cases…
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Do Vaccines Cause Primary Ovarian Insufficiency?
The 2012 report by the Institute of Medicine (IOM), now called the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), did not assess POI as a potential outcome of vaccination.