Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System

The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS, English vaccine adverse event reporting system ) is a reporting system for adverse drug reactions from vaccines in the United States .

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The VAERS has been operated jointly since 1990 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). It was created on the basis of the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (NCVIA) of 1986. It sees itself as a “national early warning system for the detection of possible safety problems with vaccines approved in the USA”. The database includes unchecked doctor and patient reports on possible side effects that any person can enter without checking. VAERS contained more than 200,000 reports in 2014. Only serious adverse events are reviewed. In the database, the suspected cases are classified according to MedDRA .

A 2006 study found that reports of possible side effects of thimerosal and reports of cases of overdose , autism and neuropathy had been posted in the database mostly by lawyers in connection with legal proceedings. This would manipulate the database.

Web links

Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). Official website. Retrieved January 15, 2020 .
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Vaccine Safety Monitoring at CDC . Retrieved May 19, 2015.
Food and Drug Administration: Vaccine Adverse Events .

literature

EJ Woo, R. Ball, DR Burwen, MM Braun: Effects of stratification on data mining in the US Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). In: Drug Safety . Volume 31, Number 8, 2008, ISSN 0114-5916 , pp. 667-674, PMID 18636785 .

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Eva Wirtz: No, a study did not show 35,570 vaccine damage from measles vaccinations within one month. In: Correctiv . December 10, 2019, accessed on January 15, 2020 (German).
↑ VAERS - About Us. September 17, 2019, accessed January 15, 2020 .
↑ Cui Tao et al .: Linked vaccine adverse event data from VAERS for biomedical data analysis and longitudinal studies . In: BioData Mining . tape 7 , 2014, p. 36 , doi : 10.1186 / s13040-014-0036-y , PMID 25699091 , PMC 4333877 (free full text).
↑ Eva Wirtz: No, a study did not show 35,570 vaccine damage from measles vaccinations within one month. In: corrective . December 10, 2019, accessed March 4, 2020 .
↑ Michael J. Goodman and James Nordin: Vaccine adverse event reporting system reporting source: a possible source of bias in longitudinal studies . In: Pediatrics . tape 117 , no. 2 , February 2006, p. 387-390 , doi : 10.1542 / peds.2004-2687 , PMID 16452357 .
^ Offit PA (2008). Autism's False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-14636-4 .

[:0-1] Eva Wirtz: No, a study did not show 35,570 vaccine damage from measles vaccinations within one month. In: Correctiv . December 10, 2019, accessed on January 15, 2020 (German).

[2] VAERS - About Us. September 17, 2019, accessed January 15, 2020 .

[3] Cui Tao et al .: Linked vaccine adverse event data from VAERS for biomedical data analysis and longitudinal studies . In: BioData Mining . tape 7 , 2014, p. 36 , doi : 10.1186 / s13040-014-0036-y , PMID 25699091 , PMC 4333877 (free full text).

[4] Eva Wirtz: No, a study did not show 35,570 vaccine damage from measles vaccinations within one month. In: corrective . December 10, 2019, accessed March 4, 2020 .

[5] Michael J. Goodman and James Nordin: Vaccine adverse event reporting system reporting source: a possible source of bias in longitudinal studies . In: Pediatrics . tape 117 , no. 2 , February 2006, p. 387-390 , doi : 10.1542 / peds.2004-2687 , PMID 16452357 .

[6] Offit PA (2008). Autism's False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-14636-4 .