Why Vaccines Are Necessary

• CDC – What Would Happen If We Stopped Vaccinations?
• What would happen if we stopped vaccination?
• What Happens When We Don’t Vaccinate? 
• The Harm of Skipping Vaccinations or Delaying
• The Consequences of Refusing Vaccines
• Benefits vs. Risks
• Vaccine refusal endangers everyone, not just the unvaccinated
• Dr. Robert W. Sears: Why Partial Vaccinations May Be an Answer
• The Problem With Dr Bob’s Alternative Vaccine Schedule
• Delayed Vaccine Schedules
• Informed Consent and CAM: Truth Not Optional
• Should Vaccines Be Compulsory?
• Childhood Vaccines: What They Are and Why Your Child Needs Them
• 5 Cases of Polio in Amish Group Raise New Fears
• Polio among the Amish
• CDC – Imported Vaccine-Associated Paralytic Poliomyelitis — United States, 2005
• The whole cell pertussis vaccine, media malpractice, and the long-term effects of avoiding difficult conversations
• Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) Invasive Disease in Amish Children, Missouri 2014 
• CDC – Invasive Haemophilus influenzae Type B Disease in Five Young Children — Minnesota, 2008
• Study – Impact of anti-vaccine movements on pertussis control: the untold story
• Report – Diphtheria in the Former Soviet Union: Reemergence of a Pandemic Disease 
• Report – Diphtheria in the Russian Federation in the 1990s
• Report – Epidemic Diphtheria in Ukraine, 1991–1997

More on Vaccine Safety

• The Benefits and Risks of Delaying Vaccines
• Are Vaccines Causing Long-Term Health Problems?
• Are There Any Long-Term Studies On Vaccine Safety?
• Why Are You Still Worried About the MMR Vaccine?
• Why Aren’t Vaccines Regulated like Drugs?
• Are Vaccines Evaluated for Mutagenicity, Carcinogenicity or Impairment of Fertility?
• More Questions to Help You Become a Vaccine Skeptic
• Answers To Frequently Asked Questions About Immunizations
• What Are the Pro and Con Arguments for Vaccines?
• Are Vaccines Safe?
• CDC – Vaccine Safety
• Institute of Medicine’s Vaccine Safety Reports
• WHO – Global Vaccine Safety Topics
• Study – Safety of vaccines used for routine immunization of U.S. children: a systematic review
• Study – Post licensure surveillance of influenza vaccines in the Vaccine Safety Datalink in the 2013-2014 and 2014-2015 seasons
• Are the recommended childhood vaccine schedules evidence-based?
• Vaccines. Are they safe?
• The Facts Behind Vaccine Safety
• Safety of Flu and Pertussis Vaccines in Pregnancy Assessed
• Vaccine Safety and Your Child: Separating Fact From Fiction
• Vaccine Safety Systematic Review
• Vaccine Safety
• Vaccines: A Safe Choice
• Debunking myths about vaccine testing and safety
• Vaccine Benefits vs. Risks
• Vaccine Development, Testing, and Regulation
• Debunking myths about vaccine testing and safety
• Vaccines aren’t tested – myth vs. science
• Debunking myths about vaccine testing and safety
• Study – Vaccine development: From concept to early clinical testing

More About Slogans of the Anti-Vaccine Movement

• Anti-vaccine slogan being pushed – close but no cigar
• Green Our Vaccines: science, slogan or smoke screen?
• Antivax 101: Tactics and Tropes of the Antivaccine Movement
• 15 Common Anti-Vaccine Arguments and Why They are a Load of Crap
• Battling misinformed consent: How should we respond to the anti-vaccine movement?
• Not anti-vaccine, except when he is anti-vaccine
• Toxic myths about vaccines
• What does “anti-vaccine” really mean?
• The difference between being antivaccine and “pro-safe vaccine,” explained using J.B. Handley
• Is NVIC Anti-Vaccine?
• The Greater Good: Pure, unadulterated anti-vaccine propaganda masquerading as a “balanced” documentary

More About Defining the Anti-Vaccine Movement

• What does “anti-vaccine” really mean?
• Special report: Living in denial
• What Does it Mean to Be a Skeptic?
• Vaccine skeptics – let’s be clear, they are really science deniers
• Scientific skepticism about vaccine safety: you’re doing it wrong
• Dealing with vaccine hesitancy and refusal
• How should we deal with vaccine hesitancy, refusal, and antivaccine beliefs
• Green Our Vaccines: science, slogan or smoke screen?
• Learning the Hard Way: My Journey from #AntiVaxx to Science
• Antivax 101: Tactics and Tropes of the Antivaccine Movement
• Battling misinformed consent: How should we respond to the anti-vaccine 
• What does “anti-vaccine” really mean?
• Does society try to shame and shun vaccine refusers and the vaccine-averse?
• The difference between being antivaccine and “pro-safe vaccine,” explained using J.B. Handley
• Pediatricians Who Refuse Families Who Don’t Immunize
• 5 Types of Vaccine-Hesitant Parents
• Study – Vaccine Rejection and Hesitancy: A Review and Call to Action
• Study – Addressing heterogeneous parental concerns about vaccination with a multiple-source model: a parent and educator perspective.
• Study – Immunization attitudes and beliefs among parents: beyond a dichotomous perspective.
• Study – Identifying and Addressing Vaccine Hesitancy

More on the Vaccine Wars

• How Pediatricians Should Talk to Vaccine Hesitant Parents
• Understanding Immunization Signs That Protestors Carry
• Are You on the Fence About Vaccines?
• Are You Too Scared to Vaccinate Your Kids?
• 10 Reasons You Aren’t Vaccinating Your Kids
• How To Counter Vaccine Hesitancy
• Ask 8 Questions Before You Skip a Vaccine
• More Questions to Help You Become a Vaccine Skeptic

More on the Measles Outbreak in Samoa

• The Timeline of the Measles Epidemic in Samoa
• The Tragedy in Samoa Was Not Caused by the MMR Vaccine
• Who is Taylor Winterstein?
• Measles has peaked in Samoa…
• Measles in Samoa – a couple of referenced facts
• Samoa’s devastating measles epidemic – why and how bad?
• Antivaxxer Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. writes to Samoan Prime Minister Tuilaepa Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi about measles in the middle of an outbreak
• Antivaccine activists and the deadly measles outbreak in Samoa
• Measles Outbreak in the Pacific – Situation Report No 10, January 8, 2020
• Samoa ends measles state of emergency as infection rate slows 
• ‘These babies should not have died’: How the measles outbreak took hold in Samoa
• Fact Check –  Samoa “measles timeline” ignores reality of epidemic spread
• Learning from the Tragedy in Samoa

More on Flu Vaccine Benefits

• Is This Year’s Flu Shot Only 9% Effective?
• Do Flu Vaccines Cause RSV?
• Can Flu Shots Cause the Flu?
• Getting Vaccinated to Protect Those Who Can’t Get the Vaccines
• What Are the Benefits of the Flu Shot?
• Why Do Kids Die With the Flu?
• I’m Not Anti-Vaccine, I Just Don’t Believe in Flu Shots
• Study – Influenza Vaccination and Respiratory Virus Interference Among Department of Defense Personnel During the 2017-2018 Influenza Season
• Study – Influenza Vaccination Is Not Associated With Detection of Noninfluenza Respiratory Viruses in Seasonal Studies of Influenza Vaccine Effectiveness
• Study – The Test-Negative Design: Validity, Accuracy and Precision of Vaccine Efficacy Estimates Compared to the Gold Standard of Randomised Placebo-Controlled Clinical Trials
• Study – Assessment of Virus Interference in a Test-negative Study of Influenza Vaccine Effectiveness 
• CDC – Misconceptions about Seasonal Flu and Flu Vaccines
• The myth of getting the flu from the flu shot
• Ask the Experts about Influenza Vaccines

More About Common Vaccine Reactions

• Vaccination site reaction or bacterial cellulitis?
• Should Your Child See a Doctor for these Immunization Reactions?
• Treatment of local injection reactions
• Medical Management of Vaccine Reactions in Children and Teens
• Editorial – Adverse Events Following Immunization: Will It Happen Again?
• Study – Risk of Recurrence of Adverse Events Following Immunization: A Systematic Review
• WHO – Adverse events following immunization
• What to do about vaccine side effects
• CDC – Possible Side-effects from Vaccines
• ACIP – Preventing and Managing Adverse Reactions
• Side Effects from Vaccines
• AAP – Vaccines and Side Effects: The Facts
• A look at the numbers in vaccine reactions
• A Serious Reaction After Vaccination Rarely Occurs Again With Later Immunization, Study Finds
• Ask the Experts: Vaccine Safety
• Side effects of childhood vaccines are extremely rare, new study finds
• Adverse skin reactions to vaccines
• Study – Severe reactions associated with diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis vaccine: detailed study of children with seizures, hypotonic-hyporesponsive episodes, high fevers, and persistent crying.
• Vaccine Side Effects and Adverse Events
• Study – The risk of immune thrombocytopenic purpura after vaccination in children and adolescents.

Risks of Vaccines

• CDC – Possible Side-effects from Vaccines
• CDC – If You Choose Not to Vaccinate Your Child, Understand the Risks and Responsibilities
• AAP – Vaccines and Side Effects: The Facts
• WHO – Six common misconceptions about immunization
• Vaccine Side Effects and Adverse Events
• What to do about vaccine side effects
• Understanding Risks
• Vaccine Benefits vs Risks
• Vaccines and relative risks
• Vaccine Acceptance Still an Issue
• Delaying Vaccines Not A Good Idea
• In the wake of Wakefield: Risk-perception and vaccines
• Study – Vaccine hesitancy
• Study – Meta-analysis of the relationship between risk perception and health behavior: the example of vaccination.
• Study – A risk benefit analysis of vaccination
• Study – Understanding public perceptions of benefits and risks of childhood vaccinations in the United States.

More on Live Vaccines

• How Are Vaccines Really Made?
• How Much Shedding Would a Vaccine Shed…
• Can I Get Rotavirus from My Recently Vaccinated Baby?
• Does the FluMist Vaccine Shed?
• Myths About the Yellow Fever Vaccine
• Rash After the MMR – Is This Normal?
• What Is the Morbidity/Mortality Rate of the Polio Vaccine vs the Wild Virus?
• CDC – Types of Vaccines
• CDC – The Pink Book: Course Textbook – 13th Edition (2015)
• Different Types of Vaccines
• Live , Attenuated Vaccines
• Vaccine Shedding: Should You Really Be Concerned?
• Ask the Experts: Chickenpox Vaccine
• Ask the Experts: MMR
• Ask the Experts: Rotavirus Vaccines
• CDC – Live Attenuated Influenza Vaccine (The Nasal Spray Flu Vaccine
• Ask the Experts: Shingles Vaccine
• WHO – Oral polio vaccine (OPV)
• Vaccine Precautions and Contraindications
• Immunization of Immunocompromised Persons
• Vaccination During Cancer Treatment