MMR Vaccination

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Does MMR Vaccination Cause Autism? Recently there have been a growing number of people diagnosed with the neurological defect called autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Since the 90’s people have begun to notice something about ASD and the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine, which is usually administered to infants once at age one and then once again at age four or five (CDC Measles, Mumps, and Rubella (MMR) Vaccine 1). As the use of the MMR vaccine became more widespread and common, so did the number of autism cases. In fact, most babies began to show signs of autism very shortly after their MMR vaccination. This started to cause much speculation, causing people to wonder if it was the MMR vaccine, which was supposed to protect them from…show more content…
However, most all credible studies touching on this topic tend to coincide with these findings. It is now generally accepted among scientists that there is no relationship between MMR vaccination and autism spectrum disorder. Autism most likely develops during the embryonic stage in an infant’s development. Defects just begin to show at around one year of age, which is the same time that the MMR vaccine is administered (DeStefano & Chen Negative association between MMR and autism 1987-1988). Nevertheless, there are still studies being done to find a possible link between ASD and the MMR vaccine. The National Institutes of Health (NIH), NICHD, and the CDC have had major roles in this research despite their stand against any…show more content…
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