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a substance used to stimulate the production of antibodies and provide immunity against one or several diseases, prepared from the causative agent of a disease, its products, or a synthetic substitute, treated to act as an antigen without inducing the disease.

A biological preparation that improves immunity to a particular disease.

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How are vaccines tested for very young children or infants?

I've heard people claim that vaccines aren't tested before being given to infants. I looked into it and found lots of references to extensive human trials, but the best reference I've found about testing in children is this from a site run by the…
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Is there correlation between vaccination rates and autism diagnosis?

I came across the below infographic that shows increasing vaccinations and autism diagnosis rates over time. This implication of this infographic is that as vaccination rates go up so does autism. I want to know if this infographic is in any way…
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Would measles be no great health risk in the US, even without vaccines?

According to this article, most of the drop in the measles death rate occurred in the United States prior to the introduction of vaccines because of better health care and nutrition. That fact is quoted here and summarized provocatively as, Note…
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Were flu vaccines 9% effective for the elderly in 2013?

I recently saw this video featuring Robert Scott Bell, where he basically says that the flu shot is not terribly effective. Under the video is this description, in part: Reports in 2013 state that flu shots were only 9% effective for the…
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Did HHS admit that mandated childhood vaccines had not been tested for safety in pre-licensing inert placebo tests?

Robert F. Kennedy Jr claims in his book The Real Anthony Fauci on pages 594-595: Most medicinal products cannot get licensed without first undergoing randomized placebo-controlled trials that compare health outcomes— including all-cause…
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Does the body manage to eliminate ethylmercury far more efficiently than it eliminates naturally occurring methylmercury?

STATNews wrote in Correcting Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s vaccine ‘facts’: The human body eliminates ethylmercury from vaccines far more efficiently than it eliminates naturally occurring methylmercury. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. writes in his book…
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Does getting more doses of COVID-19 vaccinations correlate to more hospitalisations in NSW, Australia?

Twitter user @LCHF_Matt has created a NSW Surveillance Report which is a dashboard that compare the rate of "events" (which can be configured to include COVID-19 deaths, COVID-19 ICU admissions, COVID-19 non-ICU hospital admissions or reported…
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Are morticians finding huge blood clots as a result of Covid-19 vaccines in otherwise healthy adults that died suddenly?

Infowars is reporting that Covid-19 vaccines are causing blood clots. For example, here: Another article is here: In this article, the story goes into more detail, with Infowars claiming that "Mike Adams and Harrison Smith examine strange…
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Why does PHE data indicate higher death numbers for vaccinated than unvaccinated persons?

INTRODUCTION: The Public Health England technical briefings are technical documents indicating specific statistics and their breakdowns regarding…
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Does Israel have a contracted minimum quota of people they must inject with Pfizer vaccines?

From Outcry to the world, from Israel!!! (NL+ENG subtitles) (transcript from The Current Situation in Israel as Told by Ilana Rachel Daniel) “There is a contract. There is an actual physical contract between Pfizer and our government. We’ve seen…
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Are the only remaining polio cases in Africa vaccine-derived?

World Polio Day: Wild poliovirus type 3 declared eradicated: Salisbury also said no WPV1 has been detected anywhere on the African continent since 2016. Several African nations, however, are still reporting cases of circulating vaccine-derived…
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Was human DNA found in a sample of Priorix Tetra MMRV vaccine?

I came across this tweet in my feed: The claim is that a group of scientists from Corvelva tested a sample of MMRV and determined that it contained human DNA. Here is the article linked in the tweet, which provides links to the source Corvela and…
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Can the flu shot cause the flu?

I've heard in many places that you can catch the flu from the flu shot. This is in contrast to most other vaccines for some technical reason. I read on Gizmodo today that: The flu shot does not, and cannot, give you the flu. Has this been tested?…
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Were Covid-19 vaccine manufacturers asking for reduced liability invoking the unprecedented testing schedule?

According to RebelNews, Canadian MP Anthony Housefather said It's because these documents were signed at the beginning of the pandemic when everybody was desperate for vaccines, when companies were being told to rush vaccine production, do testing…
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Is this study on the dangers of vaccines peer reviewed?

When discussing vaccines with a friend, they brought up a study: Analysis of health outcomes in vaccinated and unvaccinated children: Developmental delays, asthma, ear infections and gastrointestinal disorders by Brian S. Hooker and Neil Z…
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