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Myocarditis and pericarditis can be a side effect of some vaccines like the smallpox vaccine. [30] Myocarditis can be a side-effect of the Covid-19 mRNA vaccines. The FDA and European Medicines Agency estimates the risk of myocarditis after the Covid-19 vaccine as 1 case per 100,000 of those who are vaccinated.
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, while "any vaccine can cause side effects", [11] most side effects are minor, primarily including sore arms or a mild fever. [11] Unlike most medical interventions vaccines are given to healthy people, where the risk of side effects is not as easily outweighed by the benefit of ...
The study only documented myocarditis and pericarditis, rare inflammatory heart conditions, in the vaccinated group, but the incidences were very rare − 27 cases per million after the first dose ...
A student athlete was diagnosed with myocarditis after ... who acknowledge that vaccines can have any potential side effects, stress that these rare reactions must be weighed against the realities ...
VAERS is a postmarketing surveillance program, collecting information about adverse events (possible harmful side effects) that occur after administration of vaccines to ascertain whether the risk–benefit ratio is high enough to justify continued use of any particular vaccine.
According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, myocarditis — inflammation of the heart muscle — is an “extremely rare” side effect of COVID vaccinations. The AAP points out that getting ...
CimaVax-EGF is a vaccine used to treat cancer, specifically non-small-cell lung carcinoma (NSCLC). CIMAvax-EGF is composed of recombinant human epidermal growth factor (EGF) conjugated to a protein carrier. [2] The vaccine was developed by the Center of Molecular Immunology, Havana, Cuba, and made available to the Cuban population in 2011.
In 1983, an incidence of myocarditis of 1 per 10 000 was reported among Finnish military personnel. [4] Among US military service members vaccinated between December 2002 and March 2003 with Dryvax smallpox vaccine 18 cases of probable myopericarditis were reported, which was an incidence of 7.8 per 100 000 over 30 days.