Encyclopedia: VAERS
The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System is a United States program for vaccine safety, co-sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration . VAERS is a post-marketing safety surveillance program, collecting information about adverse events that occur after administration of vaccines. The program is an outgrowth of the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act , which requires health care providers to report: ,...
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