Study Dispels Link Between Autism and Measles Vaccine

jerry submitted, created time 2 months 3 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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Parents spare the vaccines and sicken the children

Darkfrog submitted, created time 8 months 1 week (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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