Raise your hand if your child was ever tested or evaluated for underlying immunodeficiency disorder before the doctors recommend a vaccine. From the ProQuad vaccine package insert. Do not administer ProQuad to individuals with primary and acquired immunodeficiency states,including AIDS or other clinical manifestations of infection with human immunodeficiency viruses; cellular immune deficiencies; and hypogammaglobulinemic and dysgammaglobulinemic states. Measles inclusion body encephalitis, pneumonitis, and death as a direct consequence of disseminated measles vaccine virus infection have been reported in severely immunocompromised individuals inadvertently vaccinated with measles-containing vaccine. In addition, disseminated varicella vaccine virus infection has been reported in children with underlying immunodeficiency disorders who were inadvertently vaccinated with a varicella-containing vaccine {1}.
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