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Article: Childhood vaccines linked to rare health problems. (Brief Article)
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- Trial
- Article date:
- January 1, 1994
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Certain common childhood vaccines may cause specific, but rare, health problems, according to a recent report by an Institute of Medicine committee.
The committee identified a causal relation between diphtheria, tetanus, and hepatitis B vaccines and anaphylaxis, a sudden, rare, and potentially life-threatening allergic reaction. It also established a causal relation between measles vaccine and death from measles infection; oral polio vaccine and death from polio infection; and measles-mumps-rubella vaccine and anaphylaxis and thrombocytopenia, which can result in severe bruising or prolonged bleeding. The committee noted that death from measles and polio ...