Only if the rates of these events exceed these baseline numbers should experts suspect the vaccine might be responsible.
"People die every day for lots of reasons, but we tend not to think about that when a mass immunization campaign is happening," said Steven Black of
Cincinnati Children's Hospital in Ohio, one of the paper's authors. "We're not saying we don't need to look at vaccine safety, but let's do it
judiciously."
Black, like several of the study's authors, received grants from companies that make swine flu vaccine.
Mass immunization campaigns for diseases like measles and yellow fever have frequently been undermined by rumors that the vaccines cause dangerous
side effects.
Still, rumors may also mask legitimate vaccine concerns. In Nigeria, fears that the oral polio vaccine causes HIV were unfounded but concern about the
vaccine was not entirely unwarranted: it does cause polio in rare instances.
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Ummm, do you think they're trying to cover their behinds? Like "don't blame us if you die"?
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