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MHRA Yellow Card Contact Us Form Submission

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Case reference FOI2025/00612

Received 21 June 2025

Published 12 August 2025

Request

I’m looking to better understand the side effects reported for childhood vaccines in the UK and was hoping you could point me in the right direction. Do you have a summary or any data on what’s been reported through the Yellow Card scheme for each vaccine please? I’m particularly interested in how common the different reactions are and whether there’s any analysis or commentary available from the MHRA. Also, my son has a rare ectopic heartbeat condition, and as far as I'm aware I can't see any research on whether vaccines can lead to more severe reactions in babies who have this condition - hence my hesitancy. If there’s a public dashboard or report that covers this, a link would be really helpful. Thanks in advance for your help

Response

see attached

Documents

• Annex 1 - VACCINE ANALYSIS PRINT Fluenz.pdf (100.0 KB)
• DAP/VAP guidance.pdf (119.6 KB)
• FOI2025_00612 redacted for publication.pdf (137.0 KB)

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