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Friday, September 10, 2004The Medical Research Council team looked at the vaccination records of 1,294 children diagnosed with autism or other conditions they termed pervasive development disorders (PDDs) between 1987 and 2001 in England and Wales. PDDs are a range of conditions first seen in childhood that include abnormalities in language development, communication abilities and social interactions, and a rigid, repetitive pattern of behaviours and interests. These children were compared with 4,469 children of the same sex and similar age who were registered with the same GP surgeries but did not have autism or PDDs. Dr Liam Smeeth and his colleagues from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine were unable to find any evidence to support an association between the triple measles, mumps and rubella vaccine and autism or other PDDs. Overall, 78% of the children with autism or a PDD had received MMR. Similarly, 82% of the other children had been given MMR. Can we finally put this issue to rest? posted by Sydney on 9/10/2004 07:38:00 AM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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