Its annual budget reflects political pressure and interests of the [[drug|pharmaceutical]] industry rather than the incidence of [[disease]] and [[health]] problems among [[American]]s. There have been frequent complaints of conflicts of interest by officials at the CDC. The CDC has made many high-profile mistakes in recommending [[vaccine]]s wanted by the pharmaceutical industry, such as the [[Lyme disease]] vaccine, the [[rotavirus]] vaccine and the [[swine flu]] vaccine, all of which were later pulled from the market. | Its annual budget reflects political pressure and interests of the [[drug|pharmaceutical]] industry rather than the incidence of [[disease]] and [[health]] problems among [[American]]s. There have been frequent complaints of conflicts of interest by officials at the CDC. The CDC has made many high-profile mistakes in recommending [[vaccine]]s wanted by the pharmaceutical industry, such as the [[Lyme disease]] vaccine, the [[rotavirus]] vaccine and the [[swine flu]] vaccine, all of which were later pulled from the market. |