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- Physicians for Informed Consent Finds MMR Vaccine Causes Seizures in 5,700 U.S. Children Annually
The California-based nonprofit organization, Physicians for Informed Consent (PIC), recently reported in The BMJ that every year about 5,700 U.S. children suffer seizures from the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine. This finding is derived from results of the most statistically powered safety study ever to measure the association between MMR vaccination and febrile seizures. More than half a million children were evaluated, both vaccinated and unvaccinated, from a Danish population that is relied upon globally to examine vaccine safety.
Source: Vaxxter - Common variants associated with general and MMR-related vaccines
Febrile seizures represent a serious adverse event following measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccination. We conducted a series of genome-wide association scans comparing children with MMR-related febrile seizures, children with febrile seizures unrelated to vaccination and controls with no history of febrile seizures.
Source: Bjarke Feenstra, Björn Pasternak, Frank Geller, Lisbeth Carstensen, Tongfei Wang, Fen Huang, Jennifer L Eitson, Mads V Hollegaard, Henrik Svanström, Mogens Vestergaard, David M Hougaard, John W Schoggins, Lily Yeh Jan, Mads Melbye & Anders Hviid - MMR and febrile seizures
MMR vaccination can produce a fever, and therefore increases the risk of a febrile seizure. The absolute risk is one or two per 1,000 doses of vaccine. Children with a personal history of febrile seizures have a higher risk, of an additional 20 per 1,000 doses of vaccine. There was no association between febrile seizure and later development of epilepsy.
Source: - Increased risk of febrile seizures with MMR and DTap Vaccines
The administration of the diphtheria and tetanus toxoids and whole-cell pertussis (DTP) vaccine and measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine has been associated with adverse neurologic events, including seizures. We studied the relation between these vaccinations and the risk of a first seizure, subsequent seizures, and neurodevelopmental disability in children.
Source: Anne T. Berg, Ph.D. - CDC Says “Seizures Can Occur After Vaccination”
This should be required reading for every parent before every vaccination given to their children. The CDC says ‘seizures can occur after vaccination,’ seizures after MMR ‘often result in a visit to an emergency room’ and implies that 10% of toddlers who get such seizures will develop epilepsy. Parents aren’t knowingly signing up for childhood seizures, visits to emergency rooms and the tacitly admitted 10% risk of epilepsy (after having seizures) when they vaccinate their children.
Source: Health Impact News - Delaying Vaccines May Increase Seizure Risk
Childhood vaccinations like those for measles–mumps–rubella carry a small risk of seizures. Some parents postpone their children’s vaccinations because they believe the delay decreases the risk. But a new study finds the opposite may be true. The analysis, published online in Pediatrics, involved 5,496 children born from 2004 to 2008 who had seizures in the first two years of life.
Source: New York Times, May 29, 2014 - Combo Vaccine Raises Risk of Seizures in Toddlers?
Toddlers who get a newer vaccine that fights four infections in one jab have a slightly increased risk of fever-induced seizure, a large new study confirms. At issue is a vaccine that targets measles, mumps, rubella and varicella (chickenpox) in one shot, instead of giving the traditional MMR and varicella vaccines separately.
Source: WebMD
