Vaccine Safety

No Evidence for Link Between MMR Vaccine and Autism/Bowel Disease Syndrome

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, May 18th, 1998

On February 28, 1998, The Lancet published a study by Dr. Andrew Wakefield and colleagues from the Royal Free Hospital in London which suggested that there might be a link between the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine and a new syndrome of chronic inflammatory bowel disease and autism.

The authors concluded that "further investigations are needed to examine this syndrome and its possible relation to this vaccine."

Despite this note of caution, public confidence in the MMR vaccine diminished.

Now researchers in Finland have presented their data, as a Research Letter in the May 2, 1998, issue of The Lancet, which show no...

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