In three states there are currently measles outbreaks that officials and medical professionals are working to get under control. That is, to put it lightly, pretty much a nightmare. Of course, it’s a mostly avoidable nightmare thanks to vaccines, but we live in 2019 and so thanks to the anti-vaxx movement, it’s a nightmare that’s very real.
For the life of me, I will never understand how the anti-vaxxer crowd got so big. I mean, for starters, you’d think by their very lifestyle they’d be a population under threat of constant decline. But apparently all anti-vaxxer memes about babies dying before they’re five aren’t quite working out because the anti-vaxx movement isn’t going away on its own.
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It’s because the anti-vaccination people are sticking around that we have to educate them as much and as often as possible. The New York Times reported today on a study conducted on over half a million Dutch children, and published in the Annals of Internal medicine. In what will likely not be a shock to any readers of this particular website, the study found there is no link between the measles vaccine and Autism.
In emphatic language, the researchers, who followed 657,461 Danish children born between 1999 and 2010,stated in the Annals of Internal Medicine: “The study strongly supports that MMR vaccination does not increase the risk for autism, does not trigger autism in susceptible children, and is not associated with clustering of autism cases after vaccination.” (The New York Times)
There were children within the test group that were at some point diagnosed as being on the autism spectrum. However, there was no increase in autism diagnoses among those who were vaccinated, or unvaccinated.