This book answers questions about the science and safety of modern vaccines. In straightforward prose, it explains how vaccines work, how they are made, and how they are tested. Most important, it separates the real risks of vaccines from feared but unfounded risks. The book addresses parental fears that children may receive too many vaccines too early, that the HPV vaccine may cause chronic fatigue or other dangerous side effects, that additives and preservatives in vaccines cause autism, and that vaccines might do more harm than good. This book offers honesty—instead of hype—in the quest to ... More
Keywords: vaccine safety, modern vaccines, vaccine tests, vaccine risk, parental fears, HPV vaccine, chronic fatigue, vaccine side effects, autism, children's health
| Print publication date: 2011 | Print ISBN-13: 9780231153072 |
| Published to Columbia Scholarship Online: November 2015 | DOI:10.7312/columbia/9780231153072.001.0001 |
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