Measles Cases, and Fear of Autism, on the Rise
August 22, 2008 by Kristina Chew, PhD
Filed under Health
Measles cases are at their highest level in a decade, and is looming dread of autism at least partially responsible for this?
There is a myth about vaccines and autism out there; the myth arose after a certain British doctor published a certain study linking the MMR vaccine to autism. A number of the authors of this study have since signed a formal retraction about the results of the study and the doctor is now accused of alleged ethical violations regarding his research and faces being struck off the registry to practice medicine in the UK. It was also found that …read more




