Study: No Significant Rise in Seizure Risk From Common Kids' Vaccine
Quick ReadImmunizations protect children from life-threatening diseases, experts say
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Children who receive a combination vaccine known as DTaP-IPV-Hib have no significant increased risk of febrile seizure, a convulsion triggered by a fever, during the week after vaccination, researchers in Denmark report.
The vaccine protects children from five life-threatening illnesses: diptheria, tetanus, pertussis (whooping cough), polio and Haemophilus influenzae type b, a bacterium that...
