Surveillance systems, prevention program

The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) is a national vaccine safety surveillance program co-sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). VAERS collects and analyzes information from reports of adverse reactions after immunization. Anyone can report to VAERS, and reports are sent in by vaccine manufacturers, health care providers, and vaccine recipients and their parents or guardians. An example of the VAERS and instructions for completing the form are found in Appendix F. Any clinically significant adverse event that occurs after the administration of any vaccine should be reported. Individuals are encouraged to provide the information on the form even if the individual is uncertain if the event was related to the... 

Surveillance on EDPs in Georgia was stopped for some period, or minimized after the collapse of the Soviet Union. After Health Care System reform, the State Program of Epidemiological Surveillance and Control of Epidemics, Surveillance, Control and Prevention of Quarantinous, Particularly Dangerous and other Communicable Diseases were launched. 

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