"Vaccines & Infant Death (SBS)

“Vaccines & Infant Death (SBS): Pediatrician Speaks Out on NVIC’s The Doctor’s Corner


by Barbara Loe Fisher

The Doctor’s Corner, sponsored by the National Vaccine Information Center, is a new internet forum at www.NVIC.org for pediatricians to publish referenced articles and analyses evaluating vaccine risks. Today, F. Edward Yazbak, M.D., FAAP, has published an analysis, “Multiple Vaccinations and Shaken Baby Syndrome,” that reviews the relationship between administration of multiple vaccines to infants who die and parents are subsequently charged with “Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS).

Dr. Yazbak provides a review of death reports of infants 6 months of age or younger to the federal Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS). He describes individual case histories and the history of vaccine deaths which are misdiagnosed as Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) and discusses vaccine deaths which may be misdiagnosed as Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS).

When an infant dies after vaccination, often pediatricians are reluctant to consider the possibility that the vaccine(s) recently given to keep the child well have killed the child. In 1985, Dr. Coulter and I described the misdiagnosis as SIDS of infant deaths, which have occurred within 24 to 72 hours after DPT vaccination, in our book, A Shot in the Dark. The fact that coroners often misdiagnose vaccine deaths as SIDS is further evidenced by compensation awards made in the U.S. Court of Claims to parents whose babies died within hours of DPT vaccination but the coroner initially diagnosed the death as “SIDS.”

Dr. Yazbak’s article about the misdiagnosis of vaccine deaths as “Shaken Baby Syndrome” and the subsequent persecution and imprisonment of parents, whose babies died after vaccination, is an important one. No parent, who commits the crime of shaking a baby to death should be held unaccountable.

However, it is well known that vaccines can cause brain inflammation and catastrophic brain damage in some children. Until all of the biological mechanisms for vaccine injury and death are fully understood and described in the scientific literature, parents should be given the benefit of the doubt when babies die after vaccination.

To read Dr. Yazbak's article, click here.