Disease Associations

British Officials Reassure Parents About MMR Vaccine

Published in Vaccine Weekly, April 13th, 1998

Recently published work of the Royal Free Hospital Inflammatory Bowel Disease Study Group on measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine, Crohn's disease, and autistic spectrum disease has prompted anxiety among parents in the United Kingdom due to present their children for MMR vaccine.

Writing in the March 26, 1998, edition of Eurosurveillance Weekly ("MMR Vaccine Is Not Linked to Crohn's Disease or Autism"), Stuart Handysides, of the PHLS Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre, wrote that England's chief medical officer (CMO), Sir Kenneth Calman, convened a meeting of experts in virology, epidemiology, immunology, pediatrics, child psychiatry, autism,...

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