Children who start having seizures soon after a vaccination and go on to develop epilepsy usually turn out to have an underlying cause of the seizure disorder, according to a new study published in Pediatrics.
“It’s reassuring to hear that with follow-up testing, the vast majority of these cases can be identified as coming from a different cause,” Dr. Shannon MacDonald told Reuters Health.
“These types of studies are important because parents have a right to expect that we take vaccine safety seriously and that we investigate any potential adverse events following immunization,” added MacDonald, who studies vaccine safety and parents’ decision-making about vaccines at the University of Calgary but wasn’t involved in the new research.
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