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link between autism and vaccines

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No Link Between Autism and Vaccination

According to the World Health Organization and the American Psychological Association , autism is a developmental disability manifesting itself before the age of three , and resulting from a dis of the central nervous system . The

developmental disability is diagnosed with the use of specific criteria for impairments in the areas of communication , basic social interaction , the interests of affected individuals , and their imagination as well as activities . Autistic children are known to be slow at basic processes like language acquisition that healthy children are known to learn quickly ( Autism

The causes of autism are controversial , which is why it is possible for people to formulate a host of theories on the causes of this developmental disability ( Autism . A British study published in February 1998 was misinterpreted by countless people who believed that the data provided proof that the measles , mumps , rubella (MMR ) vaccine was responsible for autism in children . The study was conducted by a team of thirteen scientists with Dr . Andrew Wakefield of Oxford University as the team leader . After it was discovered that parents had begun to fear the MMR vaccine because a debate had been waged with regards to the data presented in their study , ten of the thirteen authors of the study report made the following statement which was published on the BBC website "We wish to make it clear that in this no causal link was established between MMR vaccine and autism , as the data were insufficient (Jackson

The demand for vaccination fell in the United Kingdom after the data in the above mentioned study had been misunderstood , and the misinterpreted information had been publicized . This meant that children could no longer be protected from measles , mumps , and rubella In point of

NO LINK BETWEEN AUTISM AND VACCINATION

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fact , it was found that a significant number of families had entirely given up on the idea of vaccination for their children . Some parents had opted for single vaccines rather than the MMR at the time , but health organizations and the UK government warned that even single vaccines put children at risk (Burke . What is more , even some doctors in the United States had begun to believe that the MMR vaccination was responsible for autism . Globalization had spread the rumor overseas According to Dr . Mary Megson from Virginia

The segment of children with "regressive autism " the form where children develop

normally for a period of time then lose skills and sink into autism most commonly at 18-24

months of age , is increasing at a phenomenal rate . I am seeing several children in the same

family affected , including in the last week four cases of...

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