Vaccine Safety

No Association Found Between MMR Immunization And Increasing Occurrence Of Autism

Published in Vaccine Weekly, March 21st, 2001

An analysis of data involving young children in California does not suggest an association between measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) immunization and an increase in the occurrence of autism, according to an article in the March 7, 2001, issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association.

Loring Dales, MD, and colleagues from the Immunization Branch, California Department of Health Services, Berkeley, conducted a retrospective study to determine if a correlation exists in secular trends of MMR immunization coverage among young children and autism occurrence. They examined MMR immunization coverage rates among children born between 1980-1994 who were enrolled in...

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Source: Vaccine Weekly (2001-03-21)

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