Complexity of Assessing the Benefit vs Risks of Vaccines

This Viewpoint uses experience with rotavirus vaccine –induced intussusception and dengue virus vaccine–induced shock syndrome to discuss issues of disease prevalence and severity underlying recommendations the vaccines be used widely, and it reviews the systems in place to monitor vaccine safety that broadly favor vaccine benefits over risks to in dividuals and society.
Source: JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association - Category: General Medicine Source Type: research