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NOTICE: The Utah Department of Health has recommended guidelines for use of Tdap vaccine in emergency rooms and urgent care centers. Click here for more information.

At some point, most patients will encounter the need for vaccination. Many people question how vaccines are made, if they are effective and whether they are safe. They seek answers to these questions from a wide variety of sources including family, friends, health care providers, the Internet, television and medical literature. The information they receive is complex and, at times, inaccurate or misleading. Therefore, health professionals have a responsibility to provide accurate, understandable information and to handle vaccine safety concerns appropriately.

The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (NCVIA) requires all health care providers who administer vaccines to discuss the potential risks and benefits of immunization. Additionally, federal law requires all health care providers who administer vaccines in the United States to provide Vaccine Information Statements (VISs) to vaccine recipients (or their parent/guardian) prior to each dose being administered. VISs are developed by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and contain information on the disease as well as the risks and benefits associated with immunization. These documents, and others, can be obtained from the National Immunization Program (NIP) through the CDC Information Contact Center at 1-800-232-4636 or from the NIP's VIS website.

The Fraud Behind the MMR Scare

Click here to read media coverage of issues raised by the British Medical Journal's (BMJ) special three-part series about Dr. Andrew Wakefield's 1998 paper that linked MMR vaccine and the development of autism.

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