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Vaccines: an issue of trust - misinformation and government foot-dragging are fanning fears.(part 1 of 2)(Cover Story)

Consumer Reports

| August 01, 2001 | COPYRIGHT 2001 Consumers Union of the United States, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

This is the season of the shots, when parents scramble for appointments to bring their kids' immunizations up to date in time for school openings. The annual ritual is becoming anything but routine for growing numbers of parents who feel they're confronting a terrible dilemma: Do I expose my child and community to the risk of a serious disease? Or do I expose my child to the risk of one of those rare catastrophic reactions to the vaccine itself--reactions that I keep reading about on the Internet?

Even for those who don't have small children or grandchildren, distrust of the vaccine program--one of America's most successful public-health initiatives--is cause for ...

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