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There is no link between the MMR vaccine and autism, according to the largest ever published study about this controversial issue. The study appears in the Archives of Disease in Childhood and was led by Gillian Baird, a pediatrician at the Newcomen Centre for Child Development. Almost 250 children aged 10 – 12 and born between July 1990 and December 1991 in the south Thames area of England were studied. 98 of the children had an autism spectrum disorder, 52 had learning difficulties, and 90 were developing normally. All the volunteers had received the MMR vaccine but not everyone had gotten both the doses needed for maximum immunity. From Reuters:
The researchers took blood samples from the children and found no abnormal immune response in any of them marked by higher antibody levels or presence of a measles virus still left in the body from the shot, Baird added.
[Dr. Andrew] Wakefield, whose research has been widely discredited, had pointed to these two factors as a way to explain the link but the latest findings do not back up that case, Baird said. Wakefield said in a newspaper interview last year he believed it was biologically plausible the shot could cause autism.
“There was no difference across any of the groups no matter how you cut them up,” Baird said in a telephone interview. “The response to the MMR vaccine was the same in every group.”
Before Wakefield’s study, more than 90 percent of British children received the vaccination, a figure that dropped to 80 percent before recovering to a current 85 percent, according to government figures.
The Herald also notes that the study found that special needs children and autistic children tended to not receive the second dose of the MMR, “perhaps because their parents refused the second dose after their child developed abnormal symptoms.” No evidence of bowel symptoms (enterocolitis) was found in the autistic children, either, whether or not the children had had a regression (one of Wakefield’s claims was that the measles virus in the MMR caused bowel disorder and autism).
Further coverage is in The Guardian; in DrKoop.com; in Scientific American, and many more.
Other studies published in 2007 2008 that refute a link between autism and a vaccine (such as the MMR) or something in vaccines:
Health officials from San Diego County have confirmed that three siblings, none of whom were vaccinated, have been diagnosed with measles. Two of the siblings attend the San Diego Cooperative Charter School in Linda Vista, which (according to the Union-Tribune)) ” the highest percentage of students not vaccinated for measles among any campus in the city”: 10 percent of the school’s 380 students are not vaccinated. According to county health officials,
one of the three children traveled to Switzerland with his or her family and was the first to become ill. That child likely transmitted the virus to the two siblings, said Dr. Wilma Wooten, the county’s public health officer.
Officials from the county health department met Monday with parents of the non-vaccinated children at Cooperative charter school, and four agreed to have their kids inoculated.
Students not vaccinated will be barred from attending the school until Feb. 21 – after the infection period for the current outbreak has passed.
Many parents with children at Cooperative are particularly concerned about shielding their kids from exposure to harmful chemicals, such as pesticides and paint, said school principal Wendy Ranck-Buhr.
But what about shielding them from infectious, and potentially fatal, diseases?
Just to state it again: There is no link between the MMR vaccine and autism.
I remain amazed, and yet not, at the way discussion about this topic has yet to change.
This article by Chew is filled with the same lying rhetoric Pig pHarma plays out all over the world, trying to save their piles of wealth from paying for the damage they are doing to our children
Their is no better correlation to the meteoric rise in autism than the increase in vaccines and their for-profit toxins over the past 20 years.
Genetics CANNOT cause an increase in the % of kids affected, only environmental factors can. This is a simple fact
Dr Bernadine Healy, in a 2008 CBS interview said “Vaccines may cause autism. It’s inexcusable that the proper research has not been done”. Dr Healy is a former Director of the NIH, Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins, Chair of The Cleveland Clinic’s Research institute, harvard Med graduate (cum laude)
Her opinion is relevant, expert and cannot be ignored
Clinical studies (studies of kids, vaccines and autism) are needed to get to the truth. But for 40 years the FDA and the CDC have resisted doing such studies instead opting for epidemiology (the statistical study of records), which always finds “no evidence” of a connection without making any effort to identify the role of the only obvious correlation, vaccines.
And for those that dismiss intelligent design, you don’t have to view it as a science, it is simply common sense. Some parts of the anatomy like the eye have irreducible complexity. Why would evolution produce a lens and without the muscles to focus your lens. Evolution can not explain the complexity.
Government admits link and loses lawsuit. For those who doubt the causal link go to:
http://www.ajc.com/search/content/health/stories/2008/03/06/autism_0306.html
Mac
1466 days ago
[...] On the controversy about Wakefield and his theories about autism causation and the misconduct charges against him in the UK, go here, here, and here. [...]
1503 days ago
[...] signs of autism after receiving the MMR. (A link between the MMR and autism has been disproven; see this study and also this study.) One would not wish to take issue with Dr. Wakefield for feeling he had to [...]
1542 days ago
[...] Further: More and more evidence is being found that rejects the hypothesis that there is a link between autism and mercury; more and more evidence is also being found that rejects the hypothesis that there is a link between autism and the MMR vaccine. [...]
1543 days ago
[...] Surprise Surprise: No link between the MMR and autism A study in the Archives of Disease in Childhood shows that there is no link between the MMR vaccine and autism. Repeat: There is no link between the MMR vaccine and autism. [...]
I wish we could take all that collective energy focused on pointing at vaccines and start putting pressure to look at other scientific possibilities.
FYI – In a recent case against vaccine manufacturers, expert witnesses for the plaintiff were found not qualified for reasons of expertise, knowledge, skill, experience, training or education using the Frye-Reed test, a test used to determine the admissibility of scientific evidence and expert scientific testimony in Maryland courts.
http://neurodiversity.com/weblog/article/140/
1547 days ago
[...] Five children aged 1 to 9 years old in San Diego County have been diagnosed with measles, and five more are suspected to have measles, today’s SignOn San Diego reports. All of the children were not vaccinated due to their age, or because their parents did not want them to be vaccinated, perhaps because of fears about a link between vaccines and autism, despite more and more evidence countering such a link. [...]
Myth has co-existed with science since the ancient Greeks, and the vaccine-autism link is one of the latest incarnations of myth “versus” science, as a way to explain the world. Best wishes—-
What is annoying about the “it can’t be the vaccine crowd” is the unwillingness to seriously consider the possibility that there can be a correlation between autism and vaccines for many children. Obviously this is not case for all children … as with my son who is autistic and was never vaccinated. However, I am willing to consider the possibility that it may the case for many … despite what any “scienctific” study reveals either way. It is arrogant to believe that we can fully understand all aspects of any disease or disability or to believe that “science” can explain or disapprove all things. So called science has always lagged behind and sometimes eventually supported what was considered to be anecdotal evidence in the past.
1551 days ago
[...] Surprise Surprise: No link between the MMR and Autism at Autism Vox [...]
Great to hear from you Gerard—-hope you and yours are well and I completely agree with you.
I said it a while ago on this blog and I say it again. I do not believe there is a link between autism and vaccines. We should be directing our limited resources in other areas.
Gerard Petillo
Parents of ANGELS
Bronx NY
http://www.bxangels.org
There are indeed many parents who have gotten their stories out regarding a vaccine-autism correlation; interesting too to note would be accounts of their children prior to diagnosis. What kinds of play did they have? Interests? Joint attention?
There is ample empirical evidence that vaccines are the cause. There are an amazing number of parents who noticed significant regressions immediately after vaccinations. It’s simple cause and affect since. Not all parents noticed this, but there is a large number who have.
This study does not prove vaccines are not the cause. At best it removes some factors as the cause (it didn’t touch on heavy metals). It also needs to be repeated for verification.
I’m not making a claim one way or another. Just pointing out that this is not conclusive. The best conclusive test would be to stop giving vaccines. Not saying that is what should be done, only pointing out that from a scientific/logic view, that would be conclusive results, not this or even a battery of trials.
Logic isn’t as simple as it’s being portrayed here.
Emily,
What effective rate for a medical procedure would make science a pseudoscience?
‘Translating Autism’s’ post on genetic environment interactions on hypothetical vaccine induced ‘autism’ makes an excellent point. No such studies have ever been attempted but there is research in other vaccines that demonstrate how genetics may determine individual susceptability to adverse vaccine reactions..
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/06/070613114124.htm
It is interesting that this study found genetic variants on chromomes 2 and 11 were associated with increased susceptability to an adverse reaction to samllpox vaccine since it was only two months prior to that that the Autism Genome Consortium reported genetic variants on the same chromosome 2 and 11 in the AGRE database of multi incidence families.
The tools for associating specific genetic variants to specific environmental insults are in their infancy and remain relatively crude.
” yhe government would never admit if it did Those shots are dangerous and Im tired of the US governemnt covering it up…”
See hallmarks of pseudoscience, above.