YET another study has found no evidence of a link between the measles, mumps
and rubella vaccine (MMR) and autism.
The finding comes just after Scottish members of the British Medical
Association called for separate vaccines to be made available for the three
diseases, amid continuing concerns about a possible link with autism.
Case studies published in 1998 by Andrew Wakefield of the Royal Free Hospital
in London triggered the controversy. He described 12 children who had all
apparently developed autism within weeks of receiving the MMR vaccine.
This claim led Elizabeth Miller of the Public Health Laboratory Service in…
