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After CDC Changes Messaging on Debunked Autism–Vaccine Link, Doctors Answer Parents’ Top Questions
Hundreds of scientific studies have found no link between vaccines and autism. But some doctors say they're fielding more and more questions from parents on the topic.
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CDC Website No Longer Rejects Autism-Vaccine Link
The phrase "vaccines do not cause autism" remained on the new CDC page, but a footnote noted the phrase had not been removed due to an agreement with Sen. Bill Cassidy, MD (R-La.), who heads the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee.
Last year’s outbreaks were the largest in a decade, fueled by an emerging variant of the highly contagious, hard-to-kill virus. What will this year look like?
A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention webpage that once stated unequivocally that vaccines do not cause autism has been rewritten, now suggesting without evidence that health authorities “ignored” possible links between the shots and autism.