General resources

Basics and Common Questions
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vac-gen

Vaccine Safety Updates
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/concerns/index.html

Vaccine Misinformation
Source: National Network for Immunization Information
www.immunizationinfo.org/issues/general/vaccine-misinformation

10 Tips on Evaluating Immunization Information on the Internet
Source: National Vaccine Program Office
www.hhs.gov/nvpo/tips.htm

Reliable Sources of Immunization Information: Where to go to find answers!
Source: Immunization Action Coalition
www.immunize.org/catg.d/p4012.pdf

Cause or Coincidence
Source: National Network for Immunization Information
www.immunizationinfo.org/issues/vaccine-safety/cause-or-coincidence

Causality Assessment of Adverse Events Following Immunization
Source: Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety
www.who.int/vaccine_safety/causality/en

Ten Things You Need to Know about Immunizations
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vac-gen/10-shouldknow.htm

Shot or not? Part 3: Glossary of individuals and groups frequently encountered in discussions of opposition to vaccines and/or vaccine policy
Author: Cindy Province, RN, MSN
Source: CINAM (Current Issues in Alternative Medicine)
www.cinam.net/son3-1-cp.html

Vaccines: What Every Parent Should Know
By Paul Offit, MD, and Louis Bell, MD IDG Books, 1999

Vaccines: Separating Fact from Fear
(online video)
Source: Vaccine Education Center
www.vaccineinformation.org/video/chop1.asp
 
Vaccine safety

Click here to visit the "Vaccine Safety" section of this website.

Click here to visit the “Vaccines and Autism" section of this website

Click here to visit the “Thimerosal in Vaccines” section of this website

 
Investigating common arguments against vaccination

Clear Answers & Smart Advice About Your Baby's Shots (by Dr. Ari Brown)
Source: Immunization Action Coalition
www.immunize.org/catg.d/p2068.pdf

Adhering to Vaccine Schedule is Best Way to Protect Children from Disease
By Margaret Fisher, MD, FAAP and Joseph Bocchini, Jr., MD, FAAP
Source: Reprinted with Permission of AAP News, January 2009
www.immunize.org/aap/fisher.pdf

The Problem with Dr Bob's Alternative Vaccine Schedule
Authors: Offit, PA, Moser CA
Source: Pediatics, January 1, 2009, Vol. 123(1): e164-9
www.immunize.org/concerns/offit_moser2009.pdf (full text)

Shot or not? Part 2: Misconceptions about immunizations
Author: Cindy Province, RN, MSN
Source: CINAM (Current Issues in Alternative Medicine)
www.cinam.net/son2-1-cp.html

The Facts about Childhood Vaccines
English
Spanish

Too Many Vaccines? What you should know
Source: Vaccine Education Center
English
Spanish

Aluminum in Vaccines: What you should know
English
Spanish

Vaccines and Autism: What you should know
Source: Vaccine Education Center
English
Spanish

Thimerosal: What you should know
Source: Vaccine Education Center
English
Spanish
 
Religious/ethical issues and immunization

Vatican Statement on Vaccines Derived From Aborted Human Fetuses
Clarification about the liceity of vaccinating children with vaccines prepared using cell lines derived from aborted human fetuses
Source: Pontifical Academy for Life, Vatican
www.immunize.org/concerns/vaticandocument.htm

Human Fetal Links with Some Vaccines
Source: National Network for Immunization Information
www.immunizationinfo.org/issues/vaccine-components/human-fetal-links-some-vaccines

Catholics Consenting to Rubella Vaccine
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vac-gen/laws/rubella-cathnews.htm

Vaccines and the Right of Conscience
Source: National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly, Spring 2004, Vol. 4(1):53-62
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Vaccines, Abortion, and Moral Coherence
Author: Maher DP
Source: National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly, Spring 2002, Vol. 2(1):51-67
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Vaccines Originating in Abortion
Author: Furton EJ
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The Judicially Prohibited and Impure Substances in Foodstuff and Drugs
Source: World Health Organization, Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean; Islamic Organization for Medical Sciences
www.immunize.org/concerns/porcine.pdf

Alternative Medicine and the Church
Author: Janice Lyons
Source: CINAM (Current Issues in Alternative Medicine)
www.cinam.net/AMChur.html

Shot ... or not? Part 1: What to make of the anti-vaccination information
Source: CINAM (Current Issues in Alternative Medicine)
Author: Cindy Province, RN, MSN
www.cinam.net/son1-1-cp.html
 
Chiropractic and immunization

Chiropractors and Immunization
Author: Barrett S
Source: "Quackwatch" website
www.chirobase.org/06DD/chiroimmu.html

Chiropractors and Vaccination: A Historical Perspective
Authors: Campbell JB, Busses JW, Injeyan HS
Source: Pediatrics, April 2000, Vol. 105(4):E43
www.pediatrics.org/cgi/content/full/105/4/e43
 
Alternative medicine and immunization

Naturopathic Opposition to Immunization
Authors: Atwood KC, Barrett S
Source: "Quackwatch" website
www.quackwatch.com/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/Naturopathy/immu.html

Homeopathy: The Ultimate Fake
Author: Barrett S
Source: "Quackwatch" website
www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/homeo.html

National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM), National Institutes of Health
NCCAM is one of the 27 institutes and centers that make up the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the Department of Health and Human Services. Their mission is to support rigorous research on complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), to train researchers in CAM, and to disseminate information to the public and professionals on which CAM modalities work, which do not, and why.
www.nccam.nih.gov

The National Council Against Health Fraud
www.ncahf.org
 
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