Vaccines now given to most kids, despite parents' fears (PICTURES)

Most American kids are now getting recommended vaccines, according to a new survey. Does that mean the controversy surrounding childhood vaccines has died down?

Not even close.

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Although 95 percent of parents say they vaccinate their kids, most say they worry that the vaccines are unsafe.

"The good news is that almost all parents are getting their children vaccinated," CDC epidemiologist Allison Kennedy said in a written statement. "But that doesn't necessarily mean all parents have a high level of confidence in those vaccines." 

For the study, CDC researchers sent a survey to 376 homes. Only 23 percent of parents said they had no concerns about vaccines. The rest cited a number of fears, such as the injections might be too painful for their young ones or that kids might get them too early or too many at one time. And some parents said they worried that the vaccines could cause learning disabilities or autism - worries the medical community laid to rest when "The Lancet" retracted Dr. Andrew Wakefield's controversial study linking the neurological disorder to childhood vaccinations.

"The results are not surprising, but they are unfortunate in the sense that pediatricians have been able to offer more vaccines to prevent a multitude of conditions while parents are raising greater concerns about vaccines," Dr. Andrew Adesman, chief of developmental pediatrics at the Steven and Alexandra Cohen Children's Medical Center of New York, told The Daily News.

"These findings point us toward what we need to focus on to better answer questions and concerns parents have about why immunization is important," Kennedy said in the statement.

The CDC has more on vaccines.