Check the source: WHO-validated websites provide trustworthy information on vaccine safety
When people need advice about topics like health, careers, or relationships, the first place they often look is the internet. The same is true when parents and caregivers are seeking credible information about whether vaccines are safe for their children.
However, finding that information often isn't easy. In recent years a number of websites providing unbalanced, misleading, and alarming vaccine safety information have been established, prompting a wave of undue fears.
"Every day, misinformation about vaccines continues to proliferate on the internet," says Isabelle Sahinovic, Vaccine Safety Net coordinator at WHO. "This is dangerous. We need to make sure that all parents, caregivers, and health care professionals can easily access accurate and trustworthy information about vaccines."
WHO’s Vaccine Safety Net, a global network of vaccine safety websites, aims to do just this. Today, the network has 47 member websites in 12 languages. It is estimated that more than 173 million users every month access VSN websites that contain, among other information, credible vaccine safety information.
(Reference: http://www.who.int/features/2017/vaccine-safety-website/en/)