General resources

Basics and Common Questions
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vac-gen

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

Vaccine Misinformation
Source: National Network for Immunization Information
www.immunizationinfo.org/immunization_issues_detail.cfv?id=52

10 Tips on Evaluating Immunization Information on the Internet
Source: National Vaccine Program Office
www.hhs.gov/nvpo/tips.htm

Reliable Sources of Immunization Information: Where to go to find answers!
Source: Immunization Action Coalition
www.immunize.org/catg.d/p4012.pdf

Cause or Coincidence
Source: National Network for Immunization Information
www.immunizationinfo.org/immunization_issues_detail.cfv?id=67

Causality Assessment of Adverse Events Following Immunization
Source: Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety
www.who.int/vaccine_safety/causality/en

Ten Things You Need to Know about Immunizations
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vac-gen/10-shouldknow.htm

Shot or not? Part 3: Glossary of individuals and groups frequently encountered in discussions of opposition to vaccines and/or vaccine policy
Author: Cindy Province, RN, MSN
Source: CINAM (Current Issues in Alternative Medicine)
www.cinam.net/son3-1-cp.html

Vaccinating Your Child: Questions and Answers for the Concerned Parent
By Sharon Humiston, MD, MP, and Cynthia Good Peachtree Publishers, 2000

Vaccines: What Every Parent Should Know
By Paul Offit, MD, and Louis Bell, MD IDG Books, 1999

Vaccines: Separating Fact from Fear
(online video)
Source: Vaccine Education Center
www.vaccineinformation.org/video/chop1.asp
 
Vaccine safety

Click here to visit the "Vaccine Safety" section of this website.

Click here to visit the “Vaccines and Autism" section of this website

Click here to visit the “Thimerosal in Vaccines” section of this website

 
Investigating common arguments against vaccination

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

Adhering to Vaccine Schedule is Best Way to Protect Children from Disease
By Margaret Fisher, MD, FAAP and Joseph Bocchini, Jr., MD, FAAP
Source: Reprinted with Permission of AAP News, January 2009
www.immunize.org/aap/fisher.pdf

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 Concerns
Authors: Paul A. Offit, MD, and Louis M. Bell, MD
Source: Vaccines: What Every Parent Should Know (chapter 16, revised edition)
www.immunize.org/catg.d/p4038.pdf

10 Vaccine Myths—Busted
Author: Beth Howard
Source: Published in Babytalk, September 2005. Reprinted with permission on the Vaccine Education Center’s website.
Click here to view this resource

Shot or not? Part 2: Misconceptions about immunizations
Author: Cindy Province, RN, MSN
Source: CINAM (Current Issues in Alternative Medicine)
www.cinam.net/son2-1-cp.html

Issues in Immunization
Includes section on "fear mongers"
Source: Lon Morgan, DC, DABCO
www.geocities.com/issues_in_immunization

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
 
Religious/ethical issues and immunization

Vatican Statement on Vaccines Derived From Aborted Human Fetuses
Clarification about the liceity of vaccinating children with vaccines prepared using cell lines derived from aborted human fetuses
Source: Pontifical Academy for Life, Vatican
www.immunize.org/concerns/vaticandocument.htm

Human Fetal Links with Some Vaccines
Source: National Network for Immunization Information
www.immunizationinfo.org/immunization_issues_detail.cfv?id=32

Catholics Consenting to Rubella Vaccine
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vac-gen/laws/rubella-cathnews.htm

Vaccines and the Right of Conscience
Source: National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly (www.ncbcenter.org/ncbq.asp), Spring 2004, Vol. 4(1):53-62
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Vaccines, Abortion, and Moral Coherence
Author: Maher DP
Source: National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly (www.ncbcenter.org/ncbq.asp), Spring 2002, Vol. 2(1):51-67
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Vaccines Originating in Abortion
Author: Furton EJ
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Statement from Rabbi Adler Concerning the Use of Porcine and Animal Products in Vaccines
Source: Rabbi Abraham Adler, Kashrus and Medicines Information Service, July 31, 2003
www.immunisation.nhs.uk/newsitem.php?id=15

The Judicially Prohibited and Impure Substances in Foodstuff and Drugs
Source: World Health Organization, Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean; Islamic Organization for Medical Sciences
www.immunize.org/concerns/porcine.pdf

Alternative Medicine and the Church
Author: Janice Lyons
Source: CINAM (Current Issues in Alternative Medicine)
www.cinam.net/AMChur.html

Shot ... or not? Part 1: What to make of the anti-vaccination information
Source: CINAM (Current Issues in Alternative Medicine)
Author: Cindy Province, RN, MSN
www.cinam.net/son1-1-cp.html
 
Chiropractic and immunization

Chiropractors and Immunization
Author: Barrett S
Source: "Quackwatch" website
www.chirobase.org/06DD/chiroimmu.html

Autism--Another Topic Often Lacking Facts When Discussed within the Chiropractic Profession
Author: Ferrance RJ
Source: Journal of the Canadian Chiropractic Association, March 2003, Vol. 47(1):4-7
www.jcca-online.org/client/cca/JCCA.nsf/objects/Volume+47-1-2/$file/Pages04-07.pdf

Vaccinations: How About Some Facts for a Change?
Author: Ferrance RJ
Source: Journal of the Canadian Chiropractic Association, September 2002, Vol. 46(3):167-172
www.jcca-online.org/client/cca/JCCA.nsf/objects/Issue+46_3/$file/Pages167-172.pdf

Chiropractors and Vaccination: A Historical Perspective
Authors: Campbell JB, Busses JW, Injeyan HS
Source: Pediatrics, April 2000, Vol. 105(4):E43
www.pediatrics.org/cgi/content/full/105/4/e43
 
Alternative medicine and immunization

Naturopathic Opposition to Immunization
Authors: Atwood KC, Barrett S
Source: "Quackwatch" website
www.quackwatch.com/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/Naturopathy/immu.html

Homeopathy: The Ultimate Fake
Author: Barrett S
Source: "Quackwatch" website
www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/homeo.html

National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM), National Institutes of Health
NCCAM is one of the 27 institutes and centers that make up the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the Department of Health and Human Services. Their mission is to support rigorous research on complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), to train researchers in CAM, and to disseminate information to the public and professionals on which CAM modalities work, which do not, and why.
www.nccam.nih.gov

The National Council Against Health Fraud
www.ncahf.org
 
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