New Data Suggest Vaccine Safer Than H1N1
(Undated) -- Health officials are finding new evidence that it may be safer to get the H1N1 vaccine than to go without it. Last year, opponents of the vaccine said it was safer to get the virus than be vaccinated against it. However, fresh statistics released by the California State Department of Health show there has been one death for every ten-thousand Californians who have contracted the H1N1 virus. In contrast, just three of the 13-million Californians who've been inoculated against the pandemic flu have died. The figures from California are giving the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention a better understanding of the H1N1 vaccine's potential dangers. By now, more than 120-million doses of the vaccine have been distributed around the U.S. Just over 82-hundred cases of adverse reactions have been reported to the CDC. However, only six-percent were considered "serious." The other 94-percent were considered "non-serious" side effects, such as soreness at the injection site. The highest estimate for the overall death rate from the shot is about one in every four-point-three-million people vaccinated. |