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Shortly after that the CDC called a halt to all inoculations with RotaShield, a new vaccine made available last year. It was designed to protect infants from potentially fatal rotavirus infections, which cause severe diarrhea and dehydration. The agency's action followed word that 23 infants suffered a collapsed bowel after getting the vaccine...
...tetanus and pertussis (whooping cough), is still on the market. As far back as 1994 the Institute of Medicine and the National Academy of Sciences warned that DTP was responsible for cases of brain inflammation and permanent brain damage. A safer version, called DtaP, is now recommended by the CDC...
...problems could arise if questioning leads to exemptions from state-mandated shots or even boycotts of them, which people in some communities are calling for. The CDC estimates that only 78% of U.S. two-year-olds have been given all the recommended inoculations...
Thena Durham, head of the executive secretariat at the CDC, says that Satcher always had national goals in sight, even as director...
According to Broome, fire drills were frequent at the CDC during Satcher's tenure there and the employees "used to joke that that was part of his 'physical campaign...