Vaccinations

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The Return of the Vaccine Wars

The controversy over vaccines is as old as vaccination itself. When Edward Jenner, a brilliant English country doctor, discovered the vaccine for smallpox in 1796, he faced as much criticism as praise. Ministers thundered against tampering with the Lord’s grand design. The economist Thomas Malthus worried that vaccines would lead to dangerous population increases. The very idea of injecting animal matter into the human body struck many as dangerous and repulsive. Cartoons appeared showing cows’ horns sprouting from the heads of recently vaccinated children.

The current measles outbreak, with more than 140 cases so far, has created a firestorm that may not disappear when this particular…

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 The Return of the Vaccine Wars

The controversy over vaccines is as old as vaccination itself. When Edward Jenner, a brilliant English country doctor, discovered the vaccine for smallpox in 1796, he faced as much criticism as praise.

Immunization Schedules

Easy-to-read schedules for all ages.

Vaccinate Your Family

Through educational campaigns and social media outreach, we seek to reach as many people as possible with science-based information on vaccinations. The organization’s expanded mission to protect people of all ages is now reflected in our new name – Vaccinate Your Family: The Next Generation of Every Child By Two.

Vaccines.gov

Vaccines.gov is the federal gateway to information on vaccines and immunization for infants, children, teenagers, adults, and seniors. Vaccines.gov provides resources from federal agencies for the general public and their communities about vaccines across the lifespan.

Voices for Vaccines

Voices for Vaccines is a parent-led organization that supports and advocates for on-time vaccination and the reduction of vaccine-preventable disease. Although the majority of parents choose to immunize their children against disease, most of us do not speak out about our decisions because it seems to us common sense.

AdolescentVaccination.org

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends vaccinations from birth to adolescence to adulthood to provide a lifetime of protection against many diseases and infections, such as meningitis, whooping cough, influenza, HPV (a virus that causes cancer), measles, mumps, rubella, and hepatitis A and B. Yet many adolescents are not vaccinated as recommended, leaving them needlessly vulnerable to disease, suffering, and death.

Immunization Action Coalition

The Immunization Action Coalition (IAC) works to increase immunization rates and prevent disease by creating and distributing educational materials for healthcare professionals and the public that enhance the delivery of safe and effective immunization services. The Coalition also facilitates communication about the safety, efficacy, and use of vaccines within the broad immunization community of patients, parents, healthcare organizations, and government health agencies.

Institute for Vaccine Safety

Our mission is to provide an independent assessment of vaccines and vaccine safety to help guide decision makers and educate physicians, the public and the media about key issues surrounding the safety of vaccines. The institute’s goal is to work toward preventing disease using the safest vaccines possible.

International Vaccine Institute

The International Vaccine Institute is founded on the belief that health in developing countries can be dramatically improved by the development, introduction and use of new and improved vaccines.

National Vaccine Information Center

The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) is dedicated to the prevention of vaccine injuries and deaths through public education and to defending the informed consent ethic in medicine. As an independent clearinghouse for information on diseases and vaccines, NVIC does not advocate for or against the use of vaccines. We support the availability of all preventive health care options, including vaccines, and the right of consumers to make educated, voluntary health care choices.

National Vaccine Program

This site provides pertinent information about childhood, adolescent, and adult immunizations. You will find publications and reports on vaccine preventable diseases, vaccine safety, vaccine coverage, immunization laws, and immunization registries.

PreventChildhoodInfluenza.org

The Childhood Influenza Immunization Coalition is committed to protecting children's health by raising awareness of influenza and prevention.

Shot of Prevention

Shot of Prevention is a community blog where individuals, parents, medical professionals and others can gather to discuss current events regarding immunizations. Over the years we have heard many stories from parents, doctors and advocates about how confusing and frustrating it can be to find good information about vaccines and vaccine safety on the Internet.

The Vaccination Racket

Why vaccination continues even though it is unsafe and ineffective.

The Vaccine Page

The Vaccine Page provides access to up-to-the-minute news about vaccines and an annotated database of vaccine resources on the Internet.

Think Twice

The Global Vaccine Institute...Uncensored information on how vaccines affect our children.

Vaccination News

Vaccination News, A Non-Profit Corporation, is published in order to provide a wide range of news and views on vaccinations and vaccination policy. By providing all sides of the vaccination controversy, it is believed the public/consumer will be best equipped to make reasoned decisions regarding vaccination use, decisions which will have profound implications for them and their family’s health.

Vaccination.co.uk

Assists parents in the decision making process on immunisation, by providing you with what we consider to be balanced objective information. The question most parents would like answered is whether vaccinated children are healthier than unvaccinated children and despite the masive uptake of vaccination programmes no one is trying to find out.

Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System

VAERS is a post-marketing safety surveillance program, collecting information about adverse events (possible side effects) that occur after the administration of US licensed vaccines.

Vaccine Resource Library

PATH's Vaccine Resource Library offers a wide variety of high-quality, scientifically accurate documents and links on vaccine-preventable diseases and topics in immunization.

Vaccine Safety Website

This site is dedicated to the promotion of safer immunization practices through the application of scientific principles to vaccine research.

VaccineInformation.org

This website is brought to you by the Immunization Action Coalition, a national leader in immunization education. For parents and people of all ages, it provides timely, accurate, and proven information about vaccines and the diseases they prevent. Vaccines save lives!

Vactruth.com

Your child. Your choice.

American Academy of Pediatrics

The information on this site is intended to help pediatricians deliver on-time immunizations to their patients using the most current scientific research.

CDC

Vaccinations and Immunizations extensive reference site.

Gov,UK

After clean water, vaccination is the most effective public health intervention in the world for saving lives and promoting good health. The term vaccination originated from the procedure used to protect people with the first vaccine for smallpox, vaccinia.

WHO

Immunization, vaccines and biological.

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