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Vaccines and SIDS

The relationship between vaccines and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), including the lack of scientific evidence for a causal link.

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Jan 8, 2026

is there any scientific posed method of how a vaccine might lead to SIDS?

No scientifically established mechanism shows that vaccines cause sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS); leading public-health bodies and large epidemiologic studies have found no causal link and in som...

Jan 8, 2026

are there studies looking at SIDS deaths in vaccinated vs unvaccinated infants?

Extensive research has asked precisely whether sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) is more common in vaccinated versus unvaccinated infants; the bulk of large epidemiologic studies and authoritative r...