For years, the anti-vaccination lobby has spread misinformation about a supposed ‘link’ between the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine — a link based on decades-old pseudoscience by discredited, fraudulent gastroenterologist Andrew Wakefield.
And for years, science has disproved any supposed link between the two — with scientists reassuring parents of vaccines’ safety for 17 years now, The Guardian reports.
Now, yet another major study has proved once and for all there is absolutely no link between the MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccination and autism in children.
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The findings from the study of more than 95,000 children were published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, one of the world’s leading medical journals.
As The Guardian reports, the study sought to find out whether children who had older brothers or sisters with autism — and therefore were at higher risk than most — were more likely to develop an autistic spectrum disorder after having the vaccination.
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The research team, led by Anjali Jain of the Lewin Group in Virginia, found no association between the jab and autism — and that finding held even among the 2% of ‘high-risk’ children in the study, who had an older brother or sister with an autistic spectrum disorder.
So, there you go. The world is still round. The sky is still blue. And there is still no link — at all — between this vaccine and autism.
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Save the Date to Vaccinate is an initiative from NSW Health to remind parents of the importance of on-time vaccinations for children. Visitwww.immunisation.health.nsw.gov.au to download the free ‘Save the Date’ phone app.”
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To All The Vaccination causes Autism Believers, Answer me this: How do you explain the children who are born with autism of which there are many? I have a friend who has an autistic son and she doesn't believe Autism is caused by vaccines and he has a severe case of it which was evident from birth....pre vaccine, so can you tell me why he has it?
Hi. You can keep posting this same general opinion (MMR autism blahblah) over and over again, getting it shared all over social media by scared mothers. But you're doing nothing to help vaccination rates. Because the vast majority of people that don't vaccinate, can't for health reasons. Articles such as this are only making those poor mothers, fathers and children suffer more than they already are.
The vast majority of unvaccinated children are not unvaccinated for health reasons, but for conscientious objection. The conscientious objection rate has risen enormously in the past decade. I do agree that this argument (autism) is getting old, but the research is still needed to finally send the point home. The research would have started years ago, anyway - they're not going to throw that away because this is now general opinion!
Anonymous this is not about people who cannot be vaccinated due to health reasons. It is about protecting this people. If everyone who CAN get vaccinated does then you end up with herd immunity as the majority are vaccinated and this prevents the rest getting the disesases.
The problem we have currently is that it is trendy not to vaccinate amongst certain sections of the population so the overall percentage of people who are vaccinated has dropped below what is required for herd immunity.
"Because the vast majority of people that don't vaccinate, can't for health reasons."
I assume you can point to supporting data?