Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  
Vaccine Safety Updates
www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety

Some Common Misconceptions about Vaccination and How to Respond to Them
www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vac-gen/6mishome.htm

Video: Safer Healthier Children
www.vaccineinformation.org/video/general.asp#safechildren (7:54 min  26,212 KB)
 
Institute of Medicine
  
Immunization Safety Review: Vaccinations and Sudden Unexpected Death in Infancy
www.nap.edu/books/0309088860/html/

Hepatitis B Vaccine and Demyelinating Neurological Disorders
Click here to view this resource

Immunization Safety Review: Measles-Mumps-Rubella Vaccine and Autism
www.nap.edu/catalog/10101.html (can order as a book or read online)

Immunization Safety Review: Thimerosal - Containing Vaccines and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
www.nap.edu/catalog/10208.html?onpi_newsdoc100101 (can order as a book or read online)

Immunization Safety Review: Multiple Immunizations & Immune Dysfunction
www.nap.edu/catalog/10306.html (can order as a book or read online)
 
Institute of Vaccine Safety
   
Website home page
www.vaccinesafety.edu

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

MMR vaccine does not cause autism. Examine the evidence!
www.immunize.org/catg.d/p4026.pdf
 
National Network for Immunization Information
  
Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System
www.immunizationinfo.org/issues/vaccine-safety/vaccine-adverse-event-reporting-system

Immunization Issues
www.immunizationinfo.org/issues

Immunization Science
www.immunizationinfo.org/science
 
American Academy of Pediatrics
 
Important Information for Families
www.cispimmunize.org/fam/fam_main.html
 
Vaccine Education Center, Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia
  
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)

Vaccine Safety FAQs
www.chop.edu/service/vaccine-education-center/vaccine-safety

Vaccine Safety Hot Topics
www.chop.edu/service/vaccine-education-center/hot-topics

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

Vaccines and Autism: A Tale of Shifting Hypotheses
Authors: Paul Offit, MD, and Jeffrey Gerber, MD
Source: Clinical Infectious Diseases
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1086/596476
 
Every Child By Two

Vaccine Safety
www.ecbt.org/parents/vaccinesafety.cfm

Vaccinate Your Baby
www.vaccinateyourbaby.org
 
Food and Drug Administration
 
Vaccines
www.fda.gov/BiologicsBloodVaccines/Vaccines

 
Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety

GACVS reports and articles
www.who.int/vaccine_safety/reports/en
 
Quackwatch
 
Misconceptions about Immunization
www.quackwatch.com/03HealthPromotion/immu/immu00.html
  
Phone Numbers
 
CDC's Immunization Information Hotline
CDC-INFO Contact Center (800) 232-4636
 
Books, booklets, and other resources
 
Parents Guide to Childhood Immunization (94-page booklet)
From CDC's National Immunization Program
www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/parents-guide/default.htm

Vaccines: Separating Fact from Fear (online video)
Source: Vaccine Education Center
www.vaccineinformation.org/video/chop1.asp
 
For more technical information about vaccine safety, including links to related peer-reviewed journal articles, please click here.

This page was reviewed on February 2, 2011