Are autism vaccinations?

On the sites of anti -Vaccinators there are constantly allegations that vaccinations can cause autism. Check if this is so.

In 1998, the authoritative medical journal of The Lancet published a scientific article by the English doctor Andrew Waykfield, in which the author and his two co-authors showed that the triple vaccination from measles, parotitis and rubella (in English MMR), which was now accepted in the whole world, could cause autism in her children vaccinated. The results of the study were sensational, and Wakefield performed with them on television and conferences around the world.

The study included 12 children suffering from autism and autism -like conditions. The authors associated the autism of the subjects with this vaccination, since the inclusions of the measles virus were found in the intestines in the intestines.

In addition, the sites of anti -inferiorities are replete with stories of specific parents with names and surnames, sometimes recorded on the video, that the problems of their children began immediately or shortly after the next vaccination calendar. The worst thing to listen to about one and a half to two-year-old children, who, due to the outcoming autism, lost their speech and other communicative skills already acquired.

The medical community immediately after the publication of the Wakefield article expressed a skepticism to her. Scientists noted that out of 12 people are not enough for any serious conclusions. However, reality was even worse.

A few years later a medical journalist Brian Dir I decided to take a closer look at the methodology and data of the study, as well as interview parents of all 12 children who participated in it. As a result, it turned out that the work did not comply with any scientific and ethical principles, and the results were simply falsified.

In parallel in different countries of the world, large -scale studies were conducted to search for communication between MMR vaccination and autism in children. In one of these studies there were Analyzed The data of more than half a million Danes, where the majority received vaccination, and a control group of more than 90,000 people is not. There was no statistically significant difference in the percentage of patients with autism in these two groups. As a result, in 2010, The Lancet magazine officially recognized his mistake and I recalled article.

Well, the parents of sick children are lifting? No, do not lie. But they make a common logical mistake. “After” does not mean “as a result”. The fact is that among many varieties of auto spectrum disorders (correctly so) doctors identify the so-called regressive autism, when in the first year of the child’s life there are no signs of deviations, and in one and a half to two years they suddenly appear, speech skills begin to be subjected to regression and need to work again to restore them. This age coincides in many children with the age of receiving mmr vaccinations and ADD. But statistics show that regressive autism with equal frequency is found in both vaccinated and unvaccinated children.

Doctors admit that they still know very little about autism. They know that autism is a multifactorial state, but it is not known exactly how it begins. However, there is one aspect that the scientific community, thanks to the Wakefield article, has studied very carefully, and, perhaps, this is the only thing we know about autism is absolutely certain: it is in no way connected with vaccinations.

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Read on the topic:

1. https://medSpecial.ru/for_patients/7/13680/
2. https://takiedla.ru/news/2017/10/10/privivki-i--utizm/
3. https://meduza.io/feature/2016/02/06/privivki-vyzyvayut-autizm