The ACIP or Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices is a group of fifteen volunteer medical and public health experts who make vaccine recommendations for children and adults in the United States. The ACIP: helps the CDC set the US childhood immunization schedule, along with the AAP and AAFP. includes a consumer representative and fourteen experts […]
ASIA is an acronym for Autoimmune/Inflammatory Syndrome Induced by Adjuvants, which was originally defined by Yehuda Shoenfeld. Anti-vax folks push it as a new way to scare people away from vaccines, especially the HPV vaccine. Parents should keep in mind that ASIA has been described as “basically a made-up syndrome that isn’t generally accepted.” Others
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A common argument of those who push non-standard, parent-selected, delayed protection vaccine schedules is that kids are no long at risk for many vaccine-preventable diseases any more because those diseases have disappeared. After all, when was the last time you saw polio or diphtheria in the United States? How about measles, mumps, or pertussis? Oops.
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Vaccines do not contain aborted fetal tissue. Some vaccines are made with fetal embryo fibroblast cells from cell lines that are derived (they can replicate infinitely) from two electively terminated pregnancies in the 1960s. That certainly does not mean that any vaccines contain aborted fetal tissue or fetal parts though. The original cells aren’t even
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