Revised World Health Organization (WHO)’s causality assessment of adverse events following immunization—a critique

Revised World Health Organization (WHO)’s causality assessment of adverse events following immunization—a

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has recently revised how adverse events after immunization (AEFI) are classified. Only reactions that have previously been acknowledged in epidemiological studies to be caused by the vaccine, are classified as a vaccine-product–related-reaction. Deaths observed during post-marketing surveillance are not considered as “consistent with causal association with v...

Causality assessment of adverse events following immunization.

[Adverse events following immunization and causality assessment of an adverse event following immunization].

Several fatal events occurred in Hunan, Guangdong and Sichuan Province in December, 2013. The events were reported by the news media, which followed growing public concern. Currently, more and more vaccines were developed and the immunization was adopted for more objectives. The clinicians, especially pediatricians will face a growing number of clinical problems related to the vaccine. The clin...

Assessment of causality of individual adverse events following immunization (AEFI): a WHO tool for global use.

Serious illnesses or even deaths may rarely occur after childhood vaccinations. Public health programs are faced with great challenges to establish if the events presenting after the administration of a vaccine are due to other conditions, and hence a coincidental presentation, rather than caused by the administered vaccines. Given its priority, the Global Advisory Committee for Vaccine Safety ...

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