Is Autism caused by the Measles Vaccine?
West Palm Beach, Florida (JusticeNewsFlash.com – Health Report) – Recent research in the Public Library of Science Journal found that there is no link between the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine (MMR) and autism. There has been no evidence found to suggest that the ‘gastrointestinal pathology consistently preceded autism, or that MMR preceded either autism or GI pathology.’ Researchers from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Massachusetts General Hospital and Trinity College Dublin in Ireland set out to test the relation found in a 1998 small British study. The current research uses tissue biopsies taken from the bowels of children with autism and GI problems and compared them to age-matched control children who had no developmental delays, but were undergoing bowel biopsies for GI disturbances. In addition, researchers analyzed the theory that the measles RNA could grow in the intestinal tract and cause inflammation
