Vaccine scares |
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| Authors: | Nick Andrews |
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| Institution: | Deputy Head of the statistics unit at the Health Protection Agency, Centre for Infections. |
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| Abstract: | Vaccination has been one of the great success stories. It has eradicated smallpox; it has greatly reduced polio and measles; it has hugely improved the health of children and adults throughout the globe. But when a single study linked the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine with autism some parents refused to have their children vaccinated. Despite scientific refutation, a major public scare, lasting for years, has resulted. Nick Andrews looks at what went wrong. |
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