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- Author
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McLaren, Leah
- Subjects
VACCINATION ,MEASLES vaccines ,DISEASE outbreaks ,VACCINES ,AUTISM causes - Abstract
The article looks at a 2013 outbreak of measles in Great Britain that health officials say is the result of a generation of children who were not vaccinated against the disease as infants in the 1990s. A paper published in 1998 by medical researcher Andrew Wakefield that linked the MMR (measles-mumps-rubellla) vaccine to autism, later found to be fraudulent, is noted as a main cause for parents choosing not to vaccinate their children.
- Published
- 2013