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WARNING: According to court precedent, if a vaccine damages you or your child in a way described in the package inserts, the manufacturer is free of liability.

Merck Chicken Pox Vaccine Package Insert

Ingredients:

  • Fetal bovine serum
  • Hydrolyzed gelatin
  • Monosodium glutamate
  • MRC-5 cells: DNA and protein (aborted human embryo's lung cells cultures)
  • Neomycin
  • Sucrose

Facts & warnings

  • Vaccinated person may be capable of transmitting virus to close contacts
  • Vaccinated people need to avoid newborns, pregnant women, and immune-compromised persons
  • No evaluation for cancer-causing or mutagenic potential or for fertility impairment
  • No animal reproduction studies
  • No placebo-controlled studies in children, adolescents and adults
  • No reproduction capacity data - No data on fetal harm if injected into a pregnant woman
  • No injection into pregnant females
  • If vaccinated, a woman needs to avoid pregnancy for 3 months
  • No data on safety or efficacy in children under 1-year-old
  • Injection into infants under 1-year-old not recommended
  • Unknown duration of protection and undefined need for booster doses
  • Undetermined completeness of clinical trial reporting

*Warning to avoid salicylates (aspirin) for 6 weeks after injection as physicians advised chickenpox vaccine study patients;

Adverse reactions

  • Seizures, numbness, joint and muscle pain, abdominal pain, vomiting, nausea, itching, red skin patches, hives, inflamed lungs, disturbed sleep, irritability.

Center for Disease Control (CDC) Vaccine Information Sheet (VIS) Varicella (Chickenpox) vaccine:

CDC admits vaccination may cause:

  • High Fever ("A high fever or seizure, if it occurs, would happen 1 to 6 weeks after the shot")
  • Seizure caused by fever
  • Pneumonia
  • Severe brain reactions
  • Low blood count
  • Behavior changes
  • Difficulty breathing, hoarseness, wheezing hives, paleness, weakness, fast heart beat

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