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Dr. Andrew Wakefield, Who Linked Vaccine to Autism, Falsified Data

Dr. Andrew Wakefield, Who Linked Vaccine to Autism, Falsified Data

McGrath's children do not have autism. But as preschool gucci bag teacher, she said she and her colleagues began wondering whether there was a connection between some of the children who were vaccinated and their subsequent diagnoses of developmental disorders.

So at the time, McGrath held off on giving her son, now age 9, the second of the two dose combination measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine. And now she says she does not plan on vaccinating either of her children against whooping cough. "I don't know if I did right or wrong,beach p90x or whether vaccinating them would make a difference," said McGrath. "But I'm taking precautions because of what I've researched and seen and heard from friends, teachers, and other parents." McGrath said "I felt sick to my stomach" when she heard that Wakefield's paper included skewed data. But she says she still believes the purported connection. "

Some of these kids [I saw] have been profoundly affected," she said.moncler jacket "He was presenting sick kids that were getting better. He was healing these kids and I don't understand why he was doing the wrong thing." Wakefield Culprit Public Health Outbreaks, Many Experts Say Although Wakefield's chanel bag report only highlighted a connection to autism with the MMR vaccine, implications have spread to nearly all other routine vaccines. "People are far more compelled by fear than reason," said Offit.

Over 90 percent of school-aged children are vaccinated against MMR in most gucci bag schools nationwide, according to a 2010 report by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Still, mumps cases are the second highest reported disease among all of the vaccine preventable diseases, according to the CDC.

Many experts said many parents more often question whether their children should receive other vaccines such as pertussis or whooping cough, or varicella, known as chicken pox. "There is no doubt that the unsubstantiated concern chanel bag regarding the MMR vaccine caused by Dr. Wakefield has resulted in many cases of vaccine preventable diseases," said Dr. Gary Freed, director of the division of pediatrics at the University of Michigan Health System.

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