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Sunday, March 22, 2009

Injured by a vaccine, or think you were?

I was asked this question, that is how do I report a vaccine reaction:

The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) is a non-profit, educational organization founded in 1982 by parents of vaccine-injured children and located in Vienna, Virginia.

As a consumer vaccine safety advocacy organization, they worked on the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 and were responsible for urging the creation of safety provisions in that historic law.

This included a centralized vaccine reaction reporting system, called the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) that is jointly operated by the federal Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control.


Visit VAERS to report an adverse event, and contact your primary care physician. If it is an emergency (anaphylatic shock) dial 911!

1 comment:

  1. Wow I never new there was an actual reporting system!!! I thought you just go to the hospital if you had bad reaction. Thanks for the info

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