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The Center for Disease Control (CDC)
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The Center for Disease Control provides up to date information on vaccines, their side effects, and changes to immunization schedules for children and adults. The CDC administers the National Immunization Program. NIP provides leadership for the planning, coordination, and conduct of immunization activities nationwide.
NIP is designed to accomplish the following:
- Provides consultation, training, statistical, promotional, educational, epidemiological, and technical services to assist health departments in planning, developing, and implementing immunization programs.
- Supports the establishment of vaccine supply contracts for vaccine distribution to state and local immunization programs.
- Assists health departments in developing vaccine information management systems to
- facilitate identification of children who need vaccinations
- help parents and providers ensure all children are immunized at the appropriate age
- assess vaccination levels in state and local areas
- monitor the safety and efficacy of vaccines by linking vaccine administration information with adverse event reporting and disease outbreak patterns
- Administers research and operational programs for the prevention and control of vaccine-preventable diseases.
- Supports a nationwide framework for effective surveillance of designated diseases for which effective immunizing agents are available.
- Supervises state and local assignees working on immunization
activities.
The CDC can help you answer many questions about Vaccine safety such: How many people experience side effects following vaccination? Do multiple vaccinations increase the risk of side effects? What signs of a moderate or severe reaction should I look for? What should be done if someone has a reaction to a vaccine?
In most cases, vaccines cause no side effects, or only mild reactions such as fever or soreness at the injection site. Very rarely, people experience more serious side effects, like allergic reactions. Severe reactions to vaccines occur so rarely that the risk is usually difficult to calculate.
Many parents worry when their child needs to receive more than one vaccine at the same time. Studies show that giving a child multiple vaccinations for different diseases at the same time is safe, effective and does not increase the risk of side effects.
After you or your child are vaccinated, look for any unusual conditions, such as a serious allergic reaction, high fever or behavior changes. Signs of a serious allergic reaction include difficulty breathing, hoarseness or wheezing, hives, paleness, weakness, a fast heart beat or dizziness, and swelling of the throat.
- Call a doctor. If the person is having a severe reaction take him or her to a doctor right away.
- After any reaction, tell your doctor what happened, the date and time it happened, and when the vaccination was given.
- Ask your doctor, nurse, or health department to file a Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) form, or call VAERS yourself at 1-800-822-7967.
- In the rare event that a vaccine injures a child, he or she may be compensated through the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP).
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