Chapter 32 – Vaccines

The Side Effects of Drugs Annuals forms a series of volumes in which the adverse effects of drugs and adverse reactions to them are surveyed. The series supplements the contents of Meyler's Side Effects of Drugs: the International Encyclopedia of Adverse Drug Reactions and Interactions. This review of the January 2012 to June 2013 publications on vaccines covers Bacille Calmette–Guerin vaccine, diphtheria–pertussis vaccines, human papilloma virus vaccine, influenza vaccine, Japanese encephalitis vaccine, measles vaccine, measles–mumps–rubella vaccine, mumps vaccine, rubella vaccine, rotavirus vaccine, smallpox vaccine, varicella vaccine and yellow fever vaccine.