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{{Infobox pseudoscience
| name = Vaccines and SIDS
| Topics= Medicine, anti-vaccination
| claims = Vaccines are claimed to cause [[Medicine:Sudden infant death syndrome|sudden infant death syndrome]]
| origyear = 1991
| origprop = Attributed to Robert Mendelsohn
| currentprop = [[Biography:Viera Scheibner|Viera Scheibner]], Kelly Brogan
}}

A speculated link between '''vaccines and SIDS''' (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) has been denied by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/concerns/sids.html |title=Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) and Vaccines | website=U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention |date=14 August 2020 |language=en |quote= Vaccines have not been shown to cause sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).}}</ref> but remains a common [[Unsolved:Vaccine hesitancy|anti-vaccine]] claim.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/antivaccine-propaganda-from-dr-w-gifford-jones-in-the-toronto-sun/ |title=Antivaccine propaganda from Dr. W. Gifford-Jones in The Toronto Sun |date=2018-10-29 |website=Science-Based Medicine |language=en-US |access-date=2019-02-05}}</ref> The claim, attributed to Robert Mendelsohn in 1991<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XAxYur9IzCsC&q=%2522My%2520suspicion%252C%2520shared%2520by%2520others%2520in%2520my%2520profession%252C%2520is%2520that%2520nearly%2520ten%2520thousand%2520SIDS%2520in%2520the%2520U.S.%2520each%2520year%2520are%2520related%2520to%2520the%2520vaccines%2520routinely%2520given%2520to%2520children%2522&pg=PA75 |title=Animal Research Takes Lives: Humans and Animals Both Suffer |last=Overell |first=Bette |date=1993 |publisher=NZ Anti-Vivisection Society Inc. |isbn=9780473018467 |language=en |access-date=2019-02-01}}</ref>{{primary inline|date=February 2019}} and promoted by anti-vaccination activists such as [[Biography:Viera Scheibner|Viera Scheibner]] in the early 1990s, is that [[Biology:Vaccine|vaccine]]s, especially the [[Medicine:DTP vaccine|DTP vaccine]] that protects against [[Medicine:Diphtheria|diphtheria]], [[Medicine:Tetanus|tetanus]] and pertussis, sometimes causes [[Medicine:Sudden infant death syndrome|sudden infant death syndrome]]. The [[Organization:World Health Organization|World Health Organization]] has classified this as a "common misconception".<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.who.int/vaccine_safety/initiative/detection/immunization_misconceptions/en/index4.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140501221843/http://www.who.int/vaccine_safety/initiative/detection/immunization_misconceptions/en/index4.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=May 1, 2014 |title=Six common misconceptions about immunization |website=WHO |access-date=2019-02-01}}</ref>

Some also claim that a [[Medicine:Vaccine court|vaccine court]] case, ''Boatmon v. Secretary of Health and Human Services'', 13-611 (Fed. Cl. 2017), proves this link. While compensation was awarded to Boatmon, this did not prove any link,<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-vaccine-court-science-doesnt-always-win-out/ |title=No, a Vaccine Court ruling does not show that vaccines cause SIDS |date=2017-08-21 |website=Science-Based Medicine |language=en-US |access-date=2019-02-01}}</ref> and the award was in any case vacated in July 2018 as the Special master had applied too low a standard of proof.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.leagle.com/decision/infdco20180719a67 |title=BOATMON v. SECRETARY OF HHS |last=Judge |first=THOMAS C. WHEELER |website=Leagle |language=en |access-date=2019-02-01}}</ref>

Multiple studies and [[Meta-analysis|meta-analyses]] have shown that vaccinated children are less likely to die of SIDS.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/concerns/sids.html |title=Vaccines and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) |publisher=Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | date=2018-12-20 |website=www.cdc.gov |language=en-us |access-date=2019-02-01}}</ref>

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