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His story underscores an increasingly tough challenge for scientists balancing compelling data with public concern over vaccines and their side effects. Treatments which stimulate immunity to disease are highly controversial. In the past couple of decades - especially after a British doctor made now-discredited claims linking the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine to autism - the field has become even more charged. After the false alarm sounded by British doctor Andrew Wakefield, some scientists say they are more hesitant to credit reports of potential side effects from vaccines.
A well-balanced article about just how difficult it can be to deal with real side effects of vaccines, in a climate where disinformation is frequently very stridently disseminated.
However, I have previously highlighted in this forum that H1N1pdm flu infection itself is associated with narcolepsy - a fact which seems to be ignored when people discuss how the vaccine causes / is associated with it.