Studies in 1998 states, some vaccines cause autism is suspected in infants who get it. One that was mentioned is the MMR vaccination to prevent mumps, measles, and rubella. But lately, the results menelitian was withdrawn by the agency to investigate them.
Recently, the British Medical Journal said that research results as a "complex fraud". According to them, many conflicts of interest in the research and unethical treatment of patients.
'The study was actually an elaborate fraud, "said an editorial in the BMJ. He accused the main researcher Andrew Wakefielddan consultant in gastro-enterology experimental at London's Royal Free Hospital as the party most responsible.
Wakefield and his team said they had found a 'new syndrome' autism and bowel disease among 12 children. They proved to have a link with MMR vaccine, which they said had been given to eight children long before symptoms appear.
Other scientists warn that the study only among a small group, and research conducted without a control sample for comparison. In addition, the date when symptoms appear is based on parental recall, which of course is not scientifically reliable. In addition, the results of the study was never replicated.
But the controversy has led many parents boycott MMR vaccinations for children. Not only in England, anxiety is also echoed in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Hundreds of thousands of children in the UK are now unprotected from the three diseases can be prevented with proper vaccination, says the BMJ. In the same year with the release of the study, stated endemic measles in the UK, or present in the wider population, such as chicken pox in England and Wales.
'The study was actually an elaborate fraud, "said an editorial in the BMJ. He accused the main researcher Andrew Wakefielddan consultant in gastro-enterology experimental at London's Royal Free Hospital as the party most responsible.
Wakefield and his team said they had found a 'new syndrome' autism and bowel disease among 12 children. They proved to have a link with MMR vaccine, which they said had been given to eight children long before symptoms appear.
Other scientists warn that the study only among a small group, and research conducted without a control sample for comparison. In addition, the date when symptoms appear is based on parental recall, which of course is not scientifically reliable. In addition, the results of the study was never replicated.
But the controversy has led many parents boycott MMR vaccinations for children. Not only in England, anxiety is also echoed in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Hundreds of thousands of children in the UK are now unprotected from the three diseases can be prevented with proper vaccination, says the BMJ. In the same year with the release of the study, stated endemic measles in the UK, or present in the wider population, such as chicken pox in England and Wales.
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