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| Irene Cleanup Workers Get Tetanus Shots Amid Mucky Cleanup |
| NBC New York - 9/2/11 |
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| Cleanup crews are getting tetanus shots before heading out to work on the recovery efforts in Wallington, N.J. There is so much debris and garbage that some say it's a health hazard. |
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| Survey Shows More U.S. Children Getting Vaccines |
| Reuters - 9/1/11 |
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| More young children are getting immunized in the United States for preventable diseases such as measles, mumps, rubella and hepatitis A, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on Thursday. |
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| Vaccine Safety: New Report Finds Few Adverse Events Linked to Immunizations |
| TIME - 8/25/11 |
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| In a new report investigating adverse events caused by vaccines, a panel of experts says there are relatively few health problems caused by the most commonly recommended immunizations, which public health experts advise that all children receive. The conclusions, issued by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) in its latest report, "Adverse Effects of Vaccines: Evidence and Causality," represent the most comprehensive review of the available literature on the potential side effects of eight vaccines – for mumps, measles and rubella (MMR); chickenpox; influenza; hepatitis A; hepatitis B; human papillomavirus (HPV); diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis (DTaP); and meningococcus. |
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