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About the Immunization Safety Office

Vaccine Safety Basics

• Information for Parents
• Why It's Important to Monitor Vaccine Safety
• How Vaccines Are Tested and Monitored
• Common Questions
• History of Vaccine Safety
• Vaccine Safety Concerns
• Measles, Mumps, and Rubella (MMR) Vaccine
• Mercury and Vaccines (Thimerosal)
• Frequently Asked Questions about Thimerosal
• Frequently Asked Questions about Thimerosal-free Vaccines
• Frequently Asked Questions about Mercury and Thimerosal
• References for Frequently Asked Questions about Mercury and Thimerosal
• Timeline: Thimerosal in Vaccines (1999–2008)
• Questions About Multiple Vaccines
• Questions About Vaccine Recalls
• Fainting (Syncope) After Vaccination
• Kawasaki Disease and RotaTeq Vaccine
• Guillain Barré Syndrome and Menactra^® Meningococcal Vaccine fact sheet and frequently asked questions
• Sudden Infant Death Syndrome

Public Health Activities

• Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS)
• Publications
• Gardasil Vaccine Reports to VAERS
• Monitoring of Intussusception after RotaTeq Vaccination
• Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD) Project
• Priority Studies
• Rapid Cycle Analysis (RCA)
• Data-Sharing Program
• Publications
• Study: Infant and Environmental Exposures to Thimerosal and Neuropsychological Outcomes at Ages 7 to 10 Years
• Questions and Answers about MMRV Safety Monitoring of Febrile Seizures
• What Clinicians Need to Know About MMRV Vaccine Safety
• Clinical Immunization Safety Assessment (CISA) Network
• Priority Studies
• Publications
• Brighton Collaboration
• Publications
• Vaccine Technology
• Needle-Free Injection Technology
• Vaccine Identification Standards Initiative (VISI)
• Peel-Off Stickers
• Barcoding
• Uniform Vaccine Administration Record
• National Drug Code Vaccine Database
• Vaccine Facts Sidebar
• Standard Abbreviations
• Emergency Preparedness
• Smallpox
• Swine Flu
• Publications
• 2008
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• 2005
• 2004
• 2003
• 2002
• 2001
• 2000
• ISO's Scientific Agenda