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Retarded people who believe vaccinations are in any way linked to Autism....

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I've never heard anyone give some babble of how they think it's related to autism. Oh well, chalk up one more moronic thing said by people about vaccinations.

http://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/Vaccines/MMR/MMR.html

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- A September 2008 case-control studypublished in Public Library of Science (PLoS) was conducted in 2004-2008 to determine whether results from an earlier study that claimed to find measles virus RNA in the intestinal tissue of a specific group of autistic children could be confirmed. The results could not be confirmed, and no link between MMR and autism was found.

- An April 2006 study conducted by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) of NIH and the CDC assessed data from 351 children with autism spectrum disorders and 31 typically-developing children. The study did not find a link between MMR vaccination and autism. The results were published in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.

- November 2002 study by CDC and the Danish Medical Research Council that followed more than 500,000 children over 7 years and found no association between MMR vaccination and autism. The results were published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

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25 studies that refute a connection between MMR vaccine and the development of autism

http://www.immunize.org/catg.d/p4026.pdf

Lack of Association between Measles Virus Vaccine and Autism with Enteropathy: A Case-Control Study. Hornig M et al. PLoS ONE 2008; 3(9): e3140 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0003140 (Subjects: 25 children with autism and GI disturbances and 13 children with GI disturbances alone (controls)

Measles Vaccination and Antibody Response in Autism Spectrum Disorders. Baird G et al. Arch Dis Child 2008; 93(10):832-7. (Subjects: 98 vaccinated children aged 10-12 years in the UK with autism spectrum disorder (ASD); two control groups of similar age: 52 children with special educational needs but no ASD and 90 children in the typically developing group)

MMR-Vaccine and Regression in Autism Spectrum Disorders: Negative Results Presented from Japan. Uchiyama T et al. J Autism Dev Disord 2007; 37(2):210-7 *Subjects: 904 children with autism spectrum disorder (Note: MMR was used in Japan only between 1989 and 1993.)

No Evidence of Persisting Measles Virus in Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells from Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. D'Souza Y et al. Pediatrics 2006; 118(4):1664-75 *Subjects: 54 children with autism
spectrum disorder and 34 developmentally normal children

Immunizations and Autism: A Review of the Literature. Doja A, Roberts W. Can J Neurol Sci. 2006; 33(4):341-6 *Literature review

Pervasive Developmental Disorders in Montreal, Quebec, Canada: Prevalence and Links with immunizations. Fombonne E et al. Pediatrics.
2006;118(1):e139-50 *Subjects: 27,749 children born from 1987 to 1998 attending 55 schools

Relationship between MMR Vaccine and Autism. Klein KC, Diehl EB. Ann Pharmacother. 2004; 38(7-8):1297-300 *Literature review of 10 studies

Immunization Safety Review: Vaccines and Autism. Institute of Medicine. The National Academies Press: 2004 (www.nap.edu/books/030909237X/
html) *Literature review

MMR Vaccination and Pervasive Developmental Disorders: A Case- Control Study. Smeeth L et al. Lancet 2004; 364(9438):963-9 *Subjects:
1294 cases and 4469 controls

Age at First Measles-Mumps-Rubella Vaccination in Children with Autism and School-Matched Control Subjects: A Population-Based Study in Metropolitan Atlanta. DeStefano F et al. Pediatrics 2004; 113(2): 259-66 *Subjects: 624 children with autism and 1,824 controls

Prevalence of Autism and Parentally Reported Triggers in a North East London Population. Lingam R et al. Arch Dis Child 2003; 88(8):666-70 *Subjects: 567 children with autistic spectrum disorder

Neurologic Disorders after Measles-Mumps-Rubella Vaccination. Makela A et al. Pediatrics 2002; 110:957-63 *Subjects: 535,544 children vaccinated
between November 1982 and June 1986 in Finland

A Population-Based Study of Measles, Mumps, and Rubella Vaccination and Autism. Madsen KM et al. N Engl J Med 2002; 347(19):1477-82 *Subjects: All 537,303 children born 1/91-12/98 in Denmark

Relation of Childhood Gastrointestinal Disorders to Autism: Nested Case Control Study Using Data from the UK General Practice Research Database. Black C et al. BMJ 2002; 325:419-21 *Subjects: 96 children
diagnosed with autism and 449 controls

Measles, Mumps, and Rubella Vaccination and Bowel Problems or Developmental Regression in Children with Autism: Population Study. Taylor B et al. BMJ 2002; 324(7334):393-6 *Subjects: 278 children with
core autism and 195 with atypical autism

No Evidence for a New Variant of Measles-Mumps-Rubella-Induced Autism. Fombonne E et al. Pediatrics 2001;108(4):E58 *Subjects: 262 autistic children (pre- and post-MMR samples)

Measles-Mumps-Rubella and Other Measles-Containing Vaccines Do Not Increase the Risk for Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Case-Control
Study from the Vaccine Safety Datalink Project. Davis RL et al. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 2001;155(3):354-9 *Subjects: 155 persons with IBD with up to 5 controls each

Time Trends in Autism and in MMR Immunization Coverage in California. Dales L et al. JAMA 2001; 285(9):1183-5 *Subjects: Children born in 1980-94 who were enrolled in California kindergartens (survey
samples of 600-1,900 children each year)

Mumps, Measles, and Rubella Vaccine and the Incidence of Autism Recorded by General Practitioners: A Time Trend Analysis. Kaye JA et al. BMJ 2001; 322:460-63 *Subjects: 305 children with autism

Further Evidence of the Absence of Measles Virus Genome Sequence in Full Thickness Intestinal Specimens from Patients with Crohn's Disease.
Afzal MA, et al. J Med Virol 2000; 62(3):377-82 *Subjects: Specimens from patients with Crohn's disease

Autism and Measles, Mumps, and Rubella Vaccine: No Epidemiological Evidence for a Causal Association. Taylor B et al. Lancet 1999;353 (9169):2026-9 *Subjects: 498 children with autism

Absence of Detectable Measles Virus Genome Sequence in Inflammatory Bowel Disease Tissues and Peripheral Blood Lymphocytes. Afzal MA et al. J Med Virol 1998; 55(3):243-9 *Subjects: 93 colonoscopic biopsies and 31 peripheral blood lymphocyte preparations

No Evidence for Measles, Mumps, and Rubella Vaccine-Associated Inflammatory Bowel Disease or Autism in a 14-year Prospective Study. Peltola H et al. Lancet 1998; 351:1327-8 *Subjects: 3,000,000 doses of
MMR vaccine

Exposure to Measles in Utero and Crohn's Disease: Danish Register Study. Nielsen LL et al. BMJ 1998; 316(7126):196-7 *Subjects: 472 women with measles

Immunocytochemical Evidence of Listeria, Escherichia coli, and StreptococcusAntigens in Crohn's Disease. Liu Y et al. Gastroenterology 1995; 108(5):1396-1404 *Subjects: Intestines and mesenteric lymph
node specimens from 21 persons from families with a high frequency of Crohn's disease

The scientific debate has been over for almost 10 years. Vaccines are not casually linked to autism.

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