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Centers for controlling and preventing diseases are intended to do a major study to examine a possible link between autism and child vaccines, despite a considerable research organ showing that vaccines and autism are not related. Reviewing debut theories that associate autism with measles, mumps and rubella vaccine, this can undermine public confidence and lead to further vaccine reluctance.
More than a quarter of a century ago, the small study by an (former) gastroenterologist Andrew Wakefield and colleagues suggested a link between the MMR vaccine – were used to protect children from a variety of serious or potentially fatal diseases – and autism spectrum disorder, a condition associated with abnormal brain development.
Wakefield et al. Lancet described 12 children who had intestinal abnormalities after receiving vaccination of MMR. For eight of the 12 children, parents linked the onset of symptoms of behavior with the vaccine. Wakefield and co -authors hypothesized that intestinal inflammation after the MMR vaccine released intestinal proteins that eventually migrated to the brain, causing damage reflected in the symptoms of autism.
The study was further revised and withdrew. It was a report of eight children who had developed signs and symptoms of autism within one month of receiving the MMR vaccine. With such a small sample and no control group had any way to know if autism was happening to a larger level than it would only be expected by chance.
In addition to withdrawal, Wakefield’s medical license was revoked due to forged information.
Since then, numerous studies revised by peers have debuted a link between autism and the MMR vaccine. A group of London -based scholars in 1999 found no epidemiological evidence of a causal link between autism and the MMR vaccine. And this conclusion has consistently played in studies published in the following years. Perhaps the largest of its kind was a retrospective analysis that appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2002. It included 537,000 Danish children and showed that the risk of autism was similar among those who received the MMR vaccine and those not. Moreover, the American Medical Association newspaper published a 2015 study that included an analysis of more than 95,000 children’s health data. Approximately 2,000 of those children were classified as at risk for autism because they had a sister already diagnosed with autism. The study confirmed that the MMR vaccine did not increase the risk of autism spectrum disorder.
The existence of all this test raises the question why CDC now wants to do another study. Asked about comment, the CDC did not respond immediately. But perhaps we can assume why by appreciating the views of the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and the nominees of CDC director David Weldon, both have consistently raised questions about the safety of MMR vaccines. If confirmed, Weldon would strengthen the vaccine agenda that RFK Jr. likely to follow.
Weldon promoted controversy when insinuating a link between MMR and Autism, citing the debut theory presented by Wakefield.
Such views of sneepic vaccines are a cause for concern in the public health community, Guardian Says. Only messages can promote an increase in the reluctance of the childhood vaccine. To illustrate, in the UK vaccinations received a significant decline in the early 2000s after Wakefield’s false claims about a link between MMR goal and autism were posted in the media.
Long after his work was exposed as a deceitful, Wakefield left a inheritance of damage that continues today, vaccine reluctance is growing again in the United States. Coverage of fraudulent vaccines has contributed to the current explosion in Texas and New Mexico.
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Apparently, Elon Musks’s government efficiency department aims to eliminate waste in agencies such as CDC. Cuttings have already wreaked havoc on the CDC and in all other entities within HHS. However, it will seem useless for the CDC to spend money on a major study to prove something that has been demonstrated over and over. Cann’t these resources be used much more wisely elsewhere? Like, for example, in studies to examine the hesitation of vaccines and how to strengthen immunization coverage.