Emmy Award winning documentary 'DPT: Vaccine Roulette' produced by Lea Thompson at WRC-TV in Washington DC in April 1982, uncovers the issues with DPT (also called DTP at times) which stands for the Diphtheria, Pertussis, and Tetanus Vaccines.
The vaccine would eventually be proven to increase a child's risk for encephalopathy, seizures, and death, which is why the US Government switched out the DPT vaccine for a less reactogenic vaccine, the acellular pertussis vaccine, or DTaP vaccine, which replaced the DPT vaccine in the mid-1990s.
