A study undertaken at the University of
California, Los Angeles, under the sponsorship of the Food and Drug Administration,
and which has been confirmed by other studies, links DPT (diphtheria, pertussis,
tetanus) vaccination, and more specifically the pertussis component, to
sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). This study found that 53 of 145 SIDS
victims whose families were interviewed had received a DPT vaccination
within 4 weeks. The authors conclude that "the excess of deaths in the
24 hours and first week following immunization and the absence of deaths
in the fourth week following immunizations were significant." They call
for more studies to substantiate their findings, despite the fact that
this is already the third investigation, and all 3 have pointed in the
same direction. Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, 1983. Possible temporal
association between diphtheria - tetanus toxoid - pertussis vaccination
and sudden infant death syndrome. Baraff, L.J., Ablon, W.J., Weiss, R.C. |
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