Good and Bad of Vaccinations: Insights into Vaccine Research and Compensation Models (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798466577402)

Authors, Dr. Jianqing Wu and Dr. Ping Zha, conduct a comprehensive analysis of critical issues in vaccine research and compensation models used in the United States. They show how research models and evaluation methods affect vaccines' short-term benefits, side effects, potential long-term risks, and recognized symptoms in accuracy that cannot be achieved under the current research model. Based on their discoveries of problems in medicine and human immune functional dynamics, they conducted their analysis from different perspectives. They explored how population-based research model, symptom-based side-effect evaluation method, and multiple disease causes model alter vaccines' benefit-to-risk ratios. In their analysis, they presented three highly relevant facts: the historical DES disaster, stress hormones' conflicting roles, and immune system's demand for a sophisticated balance. They also took a deep look into the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program and identified key huddles for vaccine victims. They proposed measures for mitigating vaccine injuries and reducing breakthrough infection risks for vaccinated persons in various situations. This book may help laypersons to make best decisions in using vaccines, selecting right kinds of vaccines, avoiding vaccine injuries, and achieving the largest vaccine's benefits. The overwhelming problems disclosed in this book may help vaccine researchers to find better vaccines and help societies to reduce vaccines injuries in future.