Table 1.

Vaccines and their alleged consequences.

Diseases that can be prevented by immunization	Available vaccine(s)	Adjuvant in vaccine allegedly causing adverse effects	Prevailing myth(s)
Human papillomavirus	Gardasil, Gardasil 9	Polysorbate 80, aluminium	Infertility, premature ovarian failure, paralysis
Measles, mumps, rubella (MMR)	MMR	Aluminum, fetal bovine serum, recombinant human albumin	Autism, seizures, measles shedding from a vaccine, Alzheimer’s, lupus, aseptic meningitis
Diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus	Dtap, Tdap	Formaldehyde, polysorbate 80, bovine serum albumin	SIDSa, autism, vaccine-induced pertussis, neurodevelopmental problems, miscarriage, death
Polio	Inactivated poliovirus	Simian virus 40	Cancer, vaccine-induced paralysis

^aSIDS: sudden infant death syndrome.