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Thursday, March 03, 2005In this latest study. a team of researchers examined the medical records of 31,426 children born in one area in Japan, Yokohama, between 1988 and 1996. During that period - in 1993 - the MMR vaccine was withdrawn and replaced with single vaccines. This gave the researchers an opportunity to examine rates of autism both before and after the vaccine was used. The study found that before the vaccine was withdrawn, between 48 and 86 children per 10,000 were diagnosed with autism. After it had been withdrawn and replaced with the single vaccines, the number of children being diagnosed with autism actually rose to between 97 and 161 per 10,000. 'The findings are resoundingly negative...(the vaccine) cannot have caused autism in the many children with autism spectrum disorders in Japan who were born and grew up in the era when MMR was not available', Dr Hideo Honda of the Yokahama Rehabilitation Centre told New Scientist magazine. posted by Sydney on 3/03/2005 07:30:00 AM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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