TY  - JOUR
T1  - VAccine complications
AU  - Poser CM
Y1  - 1983/11/01
N1  - 10.1001/archneur.1983.04050110092025
JO  - Archives of Neurology
SP  - 774
EP  - 774
VL  - 40
IS  - 12
N2  - To the Editor. 
    —If we are to believe Fenichel (Archives 1983;40:390), all vaccines are completely harmless and the persons unfortunate enough to have neurologic complications have only themselves to blame (or is it their parents who passed on the wrong genes?). In his review of the pertinent literature, Fenichel missed the article by Reinstein et al,1 as well as scores of well-documented series and case reports relating a variety of complications occurring after many different types of vaccinations that have appeared during the past 30 to 40 years. Fenichel's own statement that "complications following administration of vaccines prepared from live attenuated viruses are quite different from complications following administration of vaccines prepared from whole killed organisms"2 is contradicted by publication in the July 1982 issue of the Archives of two articles dealing with this subject: myelitis following rabies vaccine in one and live rubella virus vaccine in the
SN  - 0003-9942
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archneur.1983.04050110092025
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archneur.1983.04050110092025
ER  -