The Nation - News from May 13, 1986

Several teary-eyed parents described for federal immunization experts how their children suffered or died from a controversial vaccine called DPT (for diphtheria-pertussis-tetanus). At least seven parents made presentations to the national Centers for Disease Control’s Immunization Practices Advisory Committee, which is meeting in Atlanta to discuss vaccines and preventive drugs, CDC spokeswoman Betty Hooper said. “Most of them had a child who had had some kind of reaction that ran from mild to severe to death,” she said.