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t. e. Claims of a link between the MMR vaccine and autism have been extensively investigated and found to be false. [1] The link was first suggested in the early 1990s and came to public notice largely as a result of the 1998 Lancet MMR autism fraud, characterised as "perhaps the most damaging medical hoax of the last 100 years". [2]
v. t. e. The Australian Vaccination-risks Network Inc., formerly known as the Australian Vaccination-Skeptics Network ( AVsN ), and before that known as the Australian Vaccination Network ( AVN ), is an Australian anti-vaccination pressure group [16] registered in New South Wales. As Australia's most controversial anti-vaccination organisation ...
The Lancet MMR autism fraud centered on the publication in February 1998 of a fraudulent research paper titled "Ileal-lymphoid-nodular hyperplasia, non-specific colitis, and pervasive developmental disorder in children" in The Lancet. [1] The paper, authored by now discredited and deregistered Andrew Wakefield, and twelve coauthors, falsely ...
The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System ( VAERS) is a United States program for vaccine safety, co-managed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). [1] VAERS is a postmarketing surveillance program, collecting information about adverse events (possible harmful side effects) that ...
Thiomersal and vaccines. Thiomersal (or thimerosal) is a mercury compound which is used as a preservative in some vaccines. Anti-vaccination activists promoting the incorrect claim that vaccination causes autism have asserted that the mercury in thiomersal is the cause. [1] There is no scientific evidence to support this claim. [2]
2000 Simpsonwood CDC conference. The 2000 Simpsonwood CDC conference (officially titled Scientific Review of Vaccine Safety Datalink Information) was a two-day meeting convened in June 2000 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), held at the Simpsonwood Methodist retreat and conference center in Norcross, Georgia.
The MMR vaccine is a vaccine against measles, mumps, and rubella (German measles), abbreviated as MMR. The first dose is generally given to children around 9 months to 15 months of age, with a second dose at 15 months to 6 years of age, with at least four weeks between the doses.
Following the belief that individual vaccines caused autism was the idea of vaccine overload, which claims that too many vaccines at once may overwhelm or weaken a child's immune system and lead to adverse effects. Vaccine overload became popular after the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program in the United States accepted the case of nine-year ...