A speculated link between vaccines and SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) has been refuted,[1] but remains a common anti-vaccine claim.
[2] The claim, attributed to Robert Mendelsohn in 1991[3][non-primary source needed] and promoted by anti-vaccination activists such as Viera Scheibner in the early 1990s, is that vaccines, especially the DTP vaccine that protects against diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis, sometimes causes sudden infant death syndrome.
[4] Some also claim that a vaccine court case, Boatmon v. Secretary of Health and Human Services, 13-611 (Fed.
While compensation was awarded to Boatmon, this did not prove any link,[5] and the award was in any case vacated in July 2018 as the Special master had applied too low a standard of proof.
[6] Multiple studies and meta-analyses have shown that vaccinated children are less likely to die of SIDS.