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DIFFICULTIES IN DETECTING ADVERSE EVENTS FOLLOWING VACCINATION
Pages 3-4

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... In addition, several possible adverse events can occur following a single vaccination. Traditional public health surveillance measures are usually aimed at detecting a single specific disease outcome or event following exposure to a single agent or disease entity (for infectious diseases, this follows exposure to an etiologic factor such as human immunodeficiency virus)
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... Finally, the fact that large numbers of children in the United States receive vaccinations during childhood presents problems in detecting adverse events following vaccination. In particular, it is difficult to find a comparable control population that has not received the vaccine to help assess potential causality and to determine how often adverse events occur in the absence of vaccination.
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