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MMR Doctors Reject Own Autism Link Report |
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| UK: March 5, 2004 | ||
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LONDON - Ten doctors who co-authored a controversial study in Britain that suggested a link between childhood vaccinations and autism said this week there was not enough evidence to draw that conclusion.
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The release of the report in 1998 led parents to reject a combined vaccine for mumps, measles and rubella because of possible links to autism and bowel disease, even though the study never proved a definite link. Fears over the single inoculation commonly known as MMR led to a steep drop in the number of British children being vaccinated and has been blamed for outbreaks of measles. The doctors said in a statement to be carried in the medical journal The Lancet: "Consequent events have had major implications for public health. We consider now is the appropriate time that we should together formally retract the interpretation placed upon these findings in the paper." "We wish to make it clear that in this paper no causal link was established between MMR vaccine and autism as the data was insufficient," they added. Two of the co-authors of the study did not sign the retraction.
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