The Miami Herald – Christina Veiga
“Millions of people around the world get vaccinated every year with no ill effects. The most likely reactions tend to be minor and temporary, like redness around the injection area or a fever. Serious problems — deafness, seizures or brain damage — are so rare that the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that it is uncertain if they can even be linked to the shots. “It’s like if 1 million people got a vaccine, and one walked out and got hit by a bus,” said Eben Kenah, an assistant professor of biostatistics at University of Florida. “It’s going to be very hard” to prove any connection. The CDC puts the odds of a serious reaction like slipping into a coma at less than 1 in a million for the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine. And public health experts agree that any link between vaccines and autism — a connection made by a single research paper long since withdrawn — has been thoroughly debunked.”(more)