IOM seeks comments: Safety Evaluation of Different Childhood Immunization Schedules

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*AGE OF AUTISM: Comment on IOM Study Designs for the Safety Evaluation

of Different Childhood Immunization Schedules

HERE

<http://www.ageofautism.com/2012/05/comment-on-iom-study-designs-for-the-safety-\

evaluation-of-different-childhoood-immunization-schedule.html>*

/The Committee on Assessment of Studies of Health Outcomes Related to

the Recommended Childhood Immunization Schedule has commissioned a

discussion paper from a consultant, Kulldorff, Ph.D., titled,

Study Designs for the Safety Evaluation of Different Childhood

Immunization Schedules. This paper will be available on the project’s

website on May 14th. We will be inviting comments and reactions to the

paper to inform the committee discussion. The comment period will be

open from May 14th until May 31st, 2012, . . ./

/“To date, much of the debate on vaccine safety in the context of autism

has focused on the safety of individual vaccines, the adjuvants used

(e.g. mercury, aluminum) etc. The childhood vaccine schedule currently

followed by the CDC requires that vaccinations start at birth and calls

for ~48 doses of 14 vaccines prior to the age of six. Some people

believe that the rate of increase in autism is directly correlated to

the vaccine schedule, and changes made in this schedule over the last

few decades. In other words, some people believe that the autism

epidemic is caused by the vaccine SCHEDULE and the neuro-immunological

consequences of giving many vaccines at once, with the first one given

at birth. Their contention is that the current vaccine schedule has not

been adequately evaluated for risks due to the age at which vaccines are

given, the effect of giving several vaccines at once etc./

/To understand whether this is true or not, the vaccine schedules as

well as vaccine-vaccine interactions will have to be studied. The IOM is

inviting public comment on a study on the safety of various vaccine

schedules through May 31st.â€/

/INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE VACCINE SURVEY: Committee on the Assessment of

Studies of Health Outcomes Related to the Childhood Immunization Schedule *

HERE

<http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/927011/BPH-Committee-on-the-Assessment-of-Studies\

-of-Health-Outcomes-Related-to-the-Childhood-Immunization-Schedule>

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