There is enough fear and anxiety among parents without the storage of Vaccines adding fuel to an already difficult situation. I am all for vaccinations and early childhood vaccinations. However, a bad batch of vaccines or vaccines that are not properly stored could severely compromise the health of children and people with vulnerable immune systems.
Doctors need to be more careful so that they do not feed into the fear of vaccinations!
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Doctors need to be more careful so that they do not feed into the fear of vaccinations!
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Children's stored vaccines compromised, expired: federal investigation
Wednesday, June 06, 2012
Denise Dador
LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- An inspection of the federal Vaccines for Children (VFC) Program finds some vaccines may be compromised. The investigation discovered frozen and expired vaccine doses in doctors' offices and clinics.
The findings could apply to a much wider lot of vaccines since many of the same clinics that provide free immunizations for low-income children also give shots to insured children.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) turned the microscope on itself and was shocked when the Health and Human Services inspector general found severe storage violations in the federal vaccine program. Ice was found on flu shots, which shouldn't be frozen. Expired doses were also found.
"We found three of four providers were storing the vaccines in temperatures that were either too hot or too cold," said HHS Regional Inspector General Dwayne Grant.
Seventy-five percent of 45 doctors' offices and clinics inspected were storing vaccines improperly.
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http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/health&id=8691741
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