Childhood Immunization

Have parents behaved irrationally towards MMR?

Published in Vaccine Weekly, October 22nd, 2003

Parents seem to neglect a real risk to their children (injuries from road crashes) but amplify an insignificant risk (autism caused by MMR vaccine), argues a senior researcher. But does this suggest that parents are irrational'

Paul Bellaby of Salford University, writing in the British Medical Journal, considered the public perception of three risks to children: an insignificant risk (autism from vaccination), a real but probably small risk (variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease [vCJD] from bovine spongiform encephalopathy), and a real and demonstrably larger risk (injuries from road crashes).

Although injuries from road crashes carry by far the...

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Source: Vaccine Weekly (2003-10-22)

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