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Vaccine
Information Statements
Vaccine
Information Statements (VISs) are information sheets
produced by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
that explain to vaccine recipients, their parents, or their
legal representatives both the benefits and risks of a vaccine.
Federal law requires that VISs be handed out whenever (before
each dose) certain vaccinations are given.
All VIS files are in Adobe PDF format. They may be downloaded,
printed, and used as camera-ready copy. If you do not have Adobe
Acrobat Reader, you can download a copy of it from the Adobe
web site.
Patients who take VISs home with them after vaccination may opt to download them onto a mobile device (e.g., iPhone, BlackBerry) in leiu of taking paper copies, which often get quickly thrown away. A new web page (www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/vis/vis-downloads.htm) has been created to give patients easy access to the VISs. A link from the main VIS page (www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/vis/default.htm) goes to this new page.
For more information, see the note on the VIS-News page (www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/vis/vis-news.htm).
Also see the note on VIS-News about the elimination of separate "text only" VIS files. These are no longer needed because .pdf files can now be made Section-508 compliant (i.e., accessible by screen-reader software) for the visually impaired.
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