The argument that vaccine can cause autism started in the year 1998, when a study was published by a researcher claiming that measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine increase the incidence of autism.
Various researches have been done since then by many institution in addition to World Health Organization researches which all lead that there is no relation between MMR vaccine and Autism, these researches and the revision of the of the published research in 1998 confirmed the false claims and the research have been withdrawn by the publisher and the researcher have been discredited.
On the other hand, others claim that MMR might not increase autism but affect those at higher risk. Researchers from Denmark carried a research on over half million children with a 10 year follow-up dismissed this claim even with high risk children. also, a 2019 US study concluded that MMR doesn’t increase risk of Autism or trigger it in susceptible children.
How this impact vaccination!
However, the consequences were dropping in vaccination and many parents hesitated or delayed their child vaccination leading to Measles outbreak which is uncommon. Hopefully with the high-quality evidence the fear of vaccination and its relationship to autism will disappear.
