Vaccine Basics

• The World Health Organization's hub of information about vaccines.
• The CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)'s vaccine information hub, with information on which vaccines you should get and when.

Vaccine Safety

• This is the FDA's explanation of the vaccine approval process. Vaccines are thoroughly tested.

Vaccines and Autism

Vaccines do not cause autism. Here are several explanations.

• From the CDC
• From the Autism Science Foundation
• From the Children's Hospital of Pennsylvania. This analyzes the two studies that claimed to establish a link between vaccines and autism, explaining the problems with them.
• From SMBC Comics (note: this is a joke) (note: site is NSFW)
  

Why Are Vaccines Important?

• An explanation from the CDC of what would happen if we stopped vaccinations.
• From the Chicago Tribune, about the recent increase in unvaccinated children and the relation to the recent measles outbreaks.
• From the CDC, about the recent measles outbreaks, which mostly affect unvaccinated people.

Refusal of Vaccines: Why?

• From Healthline, about the reasons parents refuse vaccines for their children.
• From Infection Control Today, about a survey of adults regarding their feelings about vaccines. Of the 2,000 surveyed, abotu 45% said they doubted vaccine safety.
• From the Chicago Tribune, discussing potential reasons other than fears about safety that parents might not vaccinate their children. (This is the same article that discussed measles, linked in the previous section.)
• Percentage of US children receiving various vaccines, from the CDC.

Talking to Parents

(For Physicians)

• A physician discusses how he talks to vaccine-hesitant parents, from Mother Jones.
• Advice to physicians on getting parents to get their children vaccinated, from Medical Economics.

Vaccines and Compromised Immune Systems

• Resource from Cleveland Clinic for patients with compromised immune systems.
• A resource from the Australian Gevernment Department of Health.
• Guidelines from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.

Vaccine Effectiveness and Duration

• Why adults need vaccines, and which ones they need, from WebMD.
• From the Immunisation Advisory Centre, on vaccine efficacy and effectiveness and duration of protection, and why it's hard for these to be known for certain.
• From ScienceMag.org, on duration of protection and why it's uncertain.

Global Stats

• From the World Health Organization, on global immunization coverage. This is about people with no access to vaccines, not people who choose not to receive them.
• Stats from the Children's Hospital of Pennsylvania on deaths from vaccine-preventable diseases.
• From the WHO, on efforts to increase access to vaccines.

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