Patent ID: 7008790

Claim:
A method for safely immunizing a human with one or more doses of one or more immunogens which induce protective immunity to one or more infectious diseases when administered according to one or more immunization schedules, said method comprising (I) considering the association between said immunization schedule and one or more chronic immune mediated disorders by a) considering the incidence, prevalence or frequency of a chronic immune mediated disorder in a first group comprising humans where the majority receive an immunization schedule comprising said one or more immunogens relative to that in at least one other group comprising humans where the majority receive a different immunization schedule, or b) considering the risk of said chronic immune mediated disorder associated with said immunization schedule relative to at least one other immunization schedule of said one or more immunogens (II) screening one or more potential recipients and identifying at least one human subject who would be expected to be immunized safely with said one or more immunogens according to said immunization schedule reflective of the analysis from (I), and (III) immunizing said human against said one or more infectious disease by a method identified in (I).