Best Vaccine Websites

Need to do your research and get educated about vaccines?

There are plenty of great vaccine books to turn to.

Best Vaccine Websites

Rather use the Internet?

Caveant lector et viewor — Let the reader and viewer beware.

Silberg et al, on Assessing, controlling, and assuring the quality of medical information on the Internet

Unfortunately, you can’t just trust any website that pops up at the top of your search results on Google, Bing, or Yahoo or that is shared by a friend on Facebook. Some of these sites might push misinformation about vaccines and be filled with anti-vaccine talking points.

Whether you are on the fence or just have a few questions, instead of feeling lucky that Google will lead you to trusted information, start your research about vaccines on the following websites. They are the most reliable and trusted sources of immunization information you will find.

1. American Academy of Pediatrics
2. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
3. World Health Organization
4. Every Child By Two
5. EZIZ
6. Families Fighting Flu
7. Gavi The Vaccine Alliance
8. Harpocrates Speaks
9. History of Vaccines
10. Immunise Australia
11. Immunisation Scotland
12. Immunization Action Coalition
13. The Immunization Advisory Centre
14. Immunize Canada
15. Immunize for Good
16. Institute for Vaccine Safety
17. I Speak of Dreams
18. Just the Vax
19. Left Brain Right Brain
20. Measles & Rubella Initiative
21. Moms Who Vax
22. National Foundation for Infectious Diseases
23. National Meningitis Association
24. NHS
25. Northern Rivers Vaccination Supporters
26. Nurses Who Vaccinate
27. Parents of Kids with Infectious Diseases
28. The Poxes Blog
29. Pro-Vaccine Parenting Group (Facebook)
30. Shot of Prevention
31. Skeptical Raptor
32. TIP Talk
33. Vaccinate Your Family
34. the Vaccine Blog
35. Vaccine Education Center
36. the Vaccine Mom
37. the Vaccine Page (Facebook)
38. Vaccines on the Fence (Facebook Group)
39. Vaccines Work
40. Voices for Vaccines

Other websites that are also reliable sources of immunization information, but don’t focus on vaccines include:

• A Photon in the Darkness (archived)
• Autism Science Foundation – Autism and Vaccines
• Bad Science on vaccines
• Brian Deer on Andrew Wakefield
• Debunking Denialism
• Emily Willingham
• Epidemiological
• Dr. Jen Gunter
• The Logic of Science
• Losing in the Lucky Country
• The Pediatric Insider
• PedsGeek MD
• PLOS Blogs
• Quackwatch
• Rational Catholic
• Reasonable Hank
• Red Wine & apple sauce
• Respectful Insolence
• Seattle Mama Doc
• Science Based Medicine
• The Skeptical OB
• Skeptic North
• Skeptico
• Skewed Distribution
• Steven Novella
• Stories from the Trauma Bay
• Tara C. Smith
• Thinking Person’s Guide to Autism on Busting Anti-Vaccine Myths While Supporting Autistic People
• Victorian Skeptics
• Violent Metaphors
• ZDoggMD

Get all of your questions answered yet?

Your pediatrician should also be a good resource for questions about vaccines.

Evaluating Vaccine Websites

Be skeptical if looking elsewhere.

Some general questions experts recommend asking, and which will certainly help when visiting a website about vaccines, include:

• Who runs the Web site?
• Who pays for the Web site?
• What is the Web site’s purpose?
• What is the original source of the Web site’s information?
• How does the Web site document the evidence supporting its information?
• Who reviewed the information before the owner posted it on the Web site?
• How current is the information on the Web site?
• How does the Web site owner choose links to other sites?

Fortunately, anti-vaccine websites are fairly easy to spot.

They are often filled with vaccine injury stories and articles about how vaccines are filled with poison (they aren’t), don’t really work (they do), and aren’t even needed (they certainly are).

Tragically, their pseudo-scientific arguments can sometimes be persuasive, especially if you don’t understand that they are mostly the same old arguments that the anti-vaccine movement has been using for over 200 years to scare parents away from vaccinating and protecting their kids.

What to Know About the Best Vaccine Websites

With current information, a clear purpose (informing users, not selling supplements in an online store), and authors who are well-respected, our collection of the best vaccine websites can help you get educated about vaccines from a trusted source.

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