Vaccine Tales

In an August 2005 Red Flags’ column, I commented on a mumps outbreak in the United Kingdom and how the Department of Health and the press suggested, as usual, that somehow it was caused by researcher Andrew Wakefield’s 1998 Lancet publication, in which he suggested that more investigation was indicated into the role of the MMR vaccine, if any, in regressive autism.

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