Childhood Vaccines

Impact of New Childhood Vaccines

228 March 2014, Vol. 104, No. 3 (Suppl 1) Rationale for pneumococcal conjugate vaccine and rotavirus vaccine introduction into public immunisation programmes While progress has been made in preventing deaths due to some of the vaccine-preventable diseases (e.g. measles deaths reduced from 535 000 in 2000 to 139 000 by 2010), a greater proportion of vaccine-preventable deaths is now attributed t...

Combination Vaccines for Childhood Immunization

Vaccination is one of the most valuable and cost-effective strategies available to medicine in the battle to prevent and control infectious diseases. It is considered to be one of the ten greatest public health achievements of the 20th century (1). In the Americas, vaccination has brought about the eradication of smallpox in 1970 and of polio in 1991; the interruption of indigenous measles tran...

Task Force on Safer Childhood Vaccines

Non-specific effects of childhood vaccines

Non-specific effects of vaccines or “off target effects” as they are sometimes called can be defined as effects of a vaccine beyond their intended target pathogen or disease. These effects can be beneficial as well as harmful. The published evidence on non-specific effects of childhood vaccines remain confusing, so the linked systematic reviews by Higgins and colleagues (doi:10.1136/bmj.i5170) ...

Aluminum in Childhood Vaccines Is Unsafe

Aluminum is a neurotoxin, yet infants and young children are repeatedly injected with aluminum adjuvants from multiple vaccines during critical periods of brain development. Numerous studies provide credible evidence that aluminum adversely affects important biological functions and may contribute to neurodegenerative and autoimmune disorders. It is impossible to predetermine which vaccinated b...