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It Wasn't the Vaccine--So Why Did Baby Have Seizures?
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"Men in Black" was flickering on the screen, and Laura Cossolotto and her husband were
enjoying a rare night at the movies in their home town of Centerville, Iowa, when her
brother-in-law rushed into the darkened theater.
The couple's third child, 6-month-old Michaela, had just suffered a serious seizure and was at
a nearby hospital. As Cossolotto raced to be with the baby, she immediately remembered that
Michaela had been running a fever after receiving a vaccine against diphtheria, pertussis and
tetanus (DPT) three days earlier.
"I thought the shot must have something to do with it," Cossolotto recalled. "I had three
kids, and nothing like this had ever happened, so what else could it have been?"
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