Vaccine risk perception among reporters of autism after vaccination: vaccine adverse event reporting system 1990-2001

Emily Jane Woo1, Robert Ball, Ann Bostrom

  • 1Food and Drug Administration, HFM-222, 1401 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 20852, USA. wooj@cber.fda.gov

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