Danish researchers who studied more than 650,000 babies are hoping to end 'the anti-vax myth' saying there's no link between autism and the mumps, measles and rubella vaccine.
A major study has ruled out any link between the mumps, measles, and rubella vaccine and autism.
The decade-long study analysed all children born in Denmark to Danish-born mothers between 1999 and 2010 - a cohort of well over 650,000 children.Published in the Annals of Internal Medicine journal, the study reveals the MMR vaccine does not increase the risk of autism, even for high-risk children. "The most important thing to say from this study, and from the almost dozen other studies, is that it's not vaccines.
"It was retracted in 2010 but unfortunately I think its impact was already felt quite significantly," she said.The World Health Organisation has previously warned that the growing anti-vaccine movement was threatening to undo decades of work to prevent or limit the damage caused by measles. "Obviously we are going to report on these studies that come out but in a way, you know, by talking about these issues, it's really bringing this debate back into the public eye again and unfortunately it seems that although we are showing that there is no link, it's still causing people to talk about this debate and get engaged with this debate.
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