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Is it safe to get a flu shot while pregnant?
With all the confusing, often times misleading, information that is out there about the safety of routine vaccinations, it’s...
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Vaccine Injury Blog
Legal Disclaimer: This blog is not intended to diagnose, treat or cure a disease. Nor is it intended as medical advice. The reader is responsible for their decisions and their health.
Rawls Law Group
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Anaphylaxis is an Extremely Rare Reaction to a Vaccine
We are sometimes asked if vaccines can cause an anaphylactic reaction. You may recognize this medical term used in association with...
Rawls Law Group
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Reaction to Gardasil (HPV) Vaccine
According to the CDC, the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) causes over 10,000 cancers per year in both men and women in the United States....
Rawls Law Group
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How to report a Vaccine Injury to VAERS
VAERS is the national Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System. The FDA recommends reporting any adverse event that happens after getting a...
Rawls Law Group
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Vaccines and Transverse Myelitis
In another blog post, linked here, I explained that vaccines can indeed cause transverse myelitis in rare cases. Medical literature...
Rawls Law Group
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Is the MMR Vaccine Safe for My Child?
Generally speaking, the MMR vaccine is safe for children. And being protected against measles, mumps, and rubella (which before the...
Rawls Law Group
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Can I sue if I've been injured by a vaccine?
Several deadly diseases have been completely eradicated in the United States because of widespread vaccination. However, widespread...
Rawls Law Group
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Do Vaccines Cause Transverse Myelitis?
The short answer is yes, in rare cases vaccines can cause transverse myelitis. Transverse myelitis is an auto-immune disorder that can be...
Rawls Law Group
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Vaccine-Caused Encephalopathy and Encephalitis (but not Autism)
A Historic Vaccine-Injury Case About a decade ago, the family of 9-year-old Hannah Poling pursued a claim through the Vaccine Injury...
Rawls Law Group
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Lingering Pain After Flu Shot
As we are nearing the end of the 2017-2018 flu season, or at least survived the peak, we are finding that this record-breaking flu season...
Glen Sturtevant
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Billions Paid to Vaccine Injury Victims
It was a simple act that our vaccine injury client, Ron Flood, had done quite possibly thousands of times before: opening the...
Rawls Law Group
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What Causes Injury From a Flu Shot?
As of March 2017, SIRVA injuries resulting from the flu vaccine became classified as table injuries under the National Vaccine Injury...
Glen Sturtevant
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Possible Injuries Caused by Vaccines
Nearly all medications involve risks to the patient, and vaccines are no different. But the risk of injury due to a vaccine is...
Rawls Law Group
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What is the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program?
The National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (NVICP) was established in 1988 to compensate individuals and families of individuals...
Rawls Law Group
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Reactions to the Rotavirus Vaccine
Rotavirus is a viral disease that causes gastroenteritis, the symptoms of which are: severe diarrhea, vomiting and dehydration....
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Symptoms of Transverse Myelitis from Vaccine
Transverse myelitis can be a particularly devastating illness caused by vaccine administration. Thankfully it is a relatively rare...
Rawls Law Group
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Pain from the Tdap Vaccine
The Tdap vaccine (also known as DTaP, DTP, DT, Td, or TT) has been very successful at preventing serious diseases such as tetanus,...
Rawls Law Group
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Reactions to the Flu Shot
Flu season is on us again and The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)) recommends that all persons over the age of six months...
Rawls Law Group
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What Causes Guillain Barre Syndrome
Although its rare and its exact cause is not definitively known, Guillain-Barre Syndrome is an autoimmune disorder that causes the body’s...
Rawls Law Group
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What is SIRVA?
In a recent blog, we noted the increase in vaccine injury claims. Two types of claims noted to be on the rise are flu shot injury claims...
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