In 1998 British doctor Andrew Wakefield published a fraudulent article in a prominent medical journal linking the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccination to autism. Both mainstream and social media allowed this to become a popular modern myth and it fed conspiracy theories and subsequently led to a decrease in the number of parents allowing their children to be vaccinated. This caused outbreaks of measles and mumps in many countries across the world, and became endemic in certain regions, for example with measles in the UK in 2008. A growing amount of genetic evidence is increasingly pointing toward an inherent genetic cause for autism, and public confidence in vaccines has started to recover. What do you think about modern vaccines linkages to Autism ?
