Are Vaccines To Blame For New Autism Cases?
Federal health experts say that over 80 percent of the nation’s toddlers are getting vaccinated on time. But as the rate reaches record levels, a debate over vaccination and autism is heating up. Recently, parents of autistic children staged a gathering in Washington D.C., and Robert Kennedy Jr. has since gotten involved. “These are people who have been through hell, literally,” Kennedy says Now, Kennedy and the parents have joined forces to push for a public health campaign. They say something in vaccines is triggering autism and ADD epidemics. “The science connecting brain damage to Thimerosal is absolutely overwhelming,” Kennedy says. Thimerosal is a preservative that contains mercury. It is often used in vaccines. Critics say that when the government added more childhood vaccines in the 1990s, it created unsafe levels of mercury for children. At that same time, the number of autism cases skyrocketed. Leaders from several health agencies deny the link. “We want to discover the cause
