Vaccine Safety

Gait Disturbance after MMR Vaccine Interpreted as Cerebellar Ataxia

Published in Vaccine Weekly, March 22nd, 2000

A follow-up study determined that gait disturbance noted after measles-mumps-rubella vaccination at 15 months of age can be interpreted as cerebellar ataxia, reported researchers from Denmark.

"Measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccination was included in the Danish childhood vaccination program in 1987," stated A.M. Plesner and colleagues, National Board of Health, Denmark. "During the following 10-year period, 550 notification records of adverse events after MMR vaccination at 15 months of age have been registered, and a total of 41 notifications have included 'gait disturbance.'"

Plesner et al. published the results of their study in the journal...

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