How Are Vaccines Evaluated For Safety?
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How Are Vaccines Evaluated For Safety?
| Sat, 01-23-2010 - 2:14pm |
How are vaccines evaluated for safety?
*All data herein is from the manufacturer’s package inserts.
**All studies listed excluded children who weren’t healthy–roughly 60% of the general population of infants and children would not be accepted into a vaccine study.
***Vaccines are tested in animals first, but
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We come to the fundamental question of "are those that don't vaccinate either themselves or their children harming themselves/their children/the herd"?
I cannot help but notice that even the inserts themselves would show pause (we'll put aside any study here at this point). Investigate a little further, and it at least draws this reader/mother to ask, WTF?
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