Today, the infamous study that claimed to link the MMR vaccine to autism, published in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet in 1998, is exactly twenty-five years old. What have we learned since it was published? 🔎 Analysis by StuartJRitchie
The LancetThe study, led by the British doctor Andrew Wakefield, was a report of twelve children aged 3-10 years who’d shown regressions in their social and language skills – characteristics of. Eight of them had apparently displayed these symptoms just after being given the MMR – the vaccine against Measles, Mumps, and Rubella. The children also had a variety of gut-related complaints.
An investigation by the journalist Brian Deer showed that Wakefield had misstated the medical history of several of the children, who had begun to show symptoms before their MMR vaccine, or a long time afterwards .
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