MMR causes fevers and fits, US agency admits

The MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccine causes fever and fits in around 2.5 per cent of children vaccinated, a US government agency has admitted.
The most vulnerable age appears to be between 16 and 18 months at the time of vaccination, a group that will suffer “significantly higher” rates of fits and seizures compared to younger children aged between 12 and 15 months.
The US agency, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), made the discovery when they analysed the records of 840,348 children, aged between 12 and 23 months, who had been given the MMR vaccine between 2001 and 2011. Of these, 18,403 children had a fever within 14 days of being vaccinated, and a further 1,810 suffered a seizure. Together, this represents a rate of around 2.5 per cent.
If there is a hidden agenda to this sudden revelation, it is this: there’s a growing move to have children vaccinated at a later stage, and this is an argument against changing current policy.
(Source: JAMA Pediatrics, 2013, epub ahead of print).

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