Immunization Safety Review: Multiple Immunizations and Immune Dysfunction - Softcover

Institute Of Medicine; Board On Health Promotion And Disease Prevention; Immunization Safety Review Committee

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0309083281 ISBN 13: 9780309083287

Publisher: National Academies Press, 2002

Synopsis

By two years of age, healthy infants in the United States can receive up to 20 vaccinations to protect against 11 diseases. Although most people know that vaccines effectively protect against serious infectious diseases, approximately one-quarter of parents in a recent survey believe that infants get more vaccines than are good for them, and that too many immunizations could overwhelm an infant's immune system. The Immunization Safety Review Committee reviewed the evidence regarding the hypothesis that multiple immunizations increase the risk for immune dysfunction. Specifically, the committee looked at evidence of potential biological mechanisms and at epidemiological evidence for or against causality related to risk for infections, the autoimmune disease type 1 diabetes, and allergic disorders.

Table of Contents

• Front Matter
• Executive Summary
• Immunization Safety Review: Multiple Immunizations and Immune Dysfunction
• Appendix A Chronology of Important Events Regarding Vaccine Safety
• Appendix B Committee Conclusions and Recommendations from Previous Reports
• Appendix C Immmunization Safety Review Committee
• Appendix D Methods of Identifying the Literature for the Causality Agreement

About this title

About the Author:

Kathleen Stratton, Christopher B. Wilson and Marie C. McCormick, Editors, Immunization Safety Review Committee, Board on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

About this edition

• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0309083281
• ISBN 13: 9780309083287
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 152
• Editor: McCormick Marie C., Wilson Christopher B., Stratton Kathleen