Study Dispels Link Between Autism and Measles Vaccine

jerry submitted, created time 2 months 2 weeks (www.washingtonpost.com)

Hoping to dispel long-running concerns that autism is linked to the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine (MMR), researchers now say a new study shows the childhood vaccine does not raise that risk.

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Sixty-four cases of measels in the U.S., all but one in unvaccinated patients

Darkfrog submitted, created time 6 months 2 weeks (www.nytimes.com)

Measels is on the rise in the U.S. There have been sixty-four cases this year alone. Only one of these patients can be shown to have had the vaccine. There have been no fatalities so far.

Sixteen of these children are from families who declined vaccination for religious or other resasons, including fear of autism

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Parents spare the vaccines and sicken the children

Darkfrog submitted, created time 8 months 19 hours (www.nytimes.com)

I would like to nominate ABC and all the other anti-vaccine elements who decided to ignore the science and play up that hype: Twelve kids in San Francisco just got measels, nine of them because their parents thought that the vaccines were too dangerous.

Let's see... What are the dangers of NOT vaccinating the kids? Pneumonia, brain swelling, and -- oh what was that other one -- DEATH!! One contributor put it very well. Because vaccines became so widespread during the twentieth century, the parents have never seen measels and don't know how dangerous it is

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