Database Designed To Compensate People Injured By Vaccines Shows Negative Reactions Are Extraordinarily Rare

Fear over vaccines' safety has been in large part driving the measles outbreak that's been the worst the country's seen in decades--but a look at federal numbers reveals that only a very tiny percentage of people who get vaccines file for injury compensation. Over the past three decades, when billions of doses of vaccines have been given to hundreds of millions of Americans, the program has compensated about 6,600 people for harm they claimed was caused by vaccines. About 70 percent of the awards have been settlements in cases in which program officials did not find sufficient evidence that vaccines were at fault.

from Kaiser Health News http://bit.ly/2IpX51e