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17-18 December 2008 meeting
Safety of rotavirus vaccines; Safety of human papillomavirus vaccines; Vaccine safety alerts; GACVS subgroups.
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18-19 June 2008 meeting
Safety of yellow fever vaccine; Diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis vaccine and asthma; Non-specific effects of DTP vaccine on child mortality; Pregnancy outcomes after inadvertent immunization with rubella vaccine; Mitochondrial diseases and vaccination;Thiomersal; Report from subgroups.
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12-13 December 2007 meeting
Guillain-Barré syndrome and vaccination; Safety of immunization in immunocompromised individuals; Safety of yellow fever vaccines; Hepatitis B vaccination and rheumatoid arthritis; Safety of live 14-14-2 Japanese encephalitis vaccine; Safety of meningococcal B vaccines; Rotavirus vaccines and Kawasaki disease; Modus operandi of the committee and additional information.
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12-13 June 2007 meeting
Monitoring vaccine safety; Safety of vaccine formulations; Mumps vaccine virus strain repository; Safety of BCG vaccines; Safety of human papillomavirus vaccine; Update on Menactra® and Guillain-Barré syndrome; Safety of rotavirus vaccines; Influenza vaccines: update; Modus operandi of the Committee and additional information.
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29-30 November 2006 meeting
Monitoring vaccine safety; Report of the WHO Expert Committee on Biological Standardization; Safety of vaccine formulations; Vaccinating adolescents and young adults: problems with coincidental pathologies and safety assessments; Safety of mumps vaccine strains; Safety of BCG vaccine in HIV-infected children; Update on Menactra® and Guillain-Barré syndrome; Pandemic influenza vaccines; Safety of Japanese encephalitis vaccination in India; Safety of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine.
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6-7 June 2006 meeting
Vaccine safety monitoring and the WHO Programme for International Drug Monitoring; Post-marketing surveillance of rotavirus vaccines; Safety of squalene; Immunogenic overload; Safety of pandemic influenza vaccines; Safety issues of varicella vaccines; Modus operandi of the Committee and additional information
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1-2 December 2005 meeting
Vaccine Safety Net; Safety issues associated with pandemic influenza vaccines; Safety of adjuvants; Rotavirus vaccine safety; Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis and measles vaccination; Chronic fatigue syndrome and hepatitis B vaccination; Conjugate meningococcal vaccine and Guillain-Barré Syndrome; Modus operandi of the Committee.
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9-10 June 2005 meeting
Mouse brain-derived Japanese encephalitis vaccine; Safety of SA 14-14-2 Japanese encephalitis vaccine; Isoniazid resistance of bacille Calmette-Guérin strains; International drug monitoring; Thiomersal; Safety of hexavalent vaccines; Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis and measles vaccination; National regulatory authorities planning workshops.
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2-3 December 2004 meeting
Safety of adjuvants; Thiomersal: neurobehavioural studies on animal models; Safety of residual cellular DNA in vaccines; Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy; Potential risk of vaccines produced on yeast; Safety of hexavalent vaccines; Yellow fever; Vaccine Safety Net.
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10-11 June 2004 meeting
Safety of adjuvants; Dengue vaccine safety; Effect of diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis (DTP) vaccination on child survival
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3–4 December 2003 meeting
Intranasal influenza virus vaccine; Influenzae vaccines and neurological complications; Influenza vaccination of women during pregnancy; Nonspecific effects of childhood immunization; Safety issues in the poliomyelitis eradication campaign; International reference laboratory for mumps virus isolates; Yellow fever vaccine safety; BCG immunization in HIV-positive subjects; Safety of smallpox vaccination; Switch from rubella vaccine to mumps, measles and rubella vaccine; Aluminium-containing vaccines and macrophagic myofasciitis.
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11-12 June 2003 meeting
Adverse events following mumps vaccination; Safety of smallpox vaccines; Safety of BCG vaccination in immunocompromised individuals; Thiomersal
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16-17 December 2002 meeting
MMR and autism; Oculorespiratory syndrome; Hepatitis B vaccination and leukaemia
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20-21 June 2002 meeting
Safety of thiomersal-containing vaccines; Hepatitis B vaccine and leukaemia; Hepatitis B vaccine and multiple sclerosis; Aluminium-containing vaccines and macrophagic myofasciitis; Bell palsy following intranasal vaccination; Potential adverse impact of routine vaccination on child survival
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23 March 2001
Causality assessment of adverse events following immunization
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15 October 1999
About GAVCS; Macrophagic myofasciitis and aluminium-containing vaccines
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