Not so new - from 2006 New findings link MMR to autism: study at Wake Forest University School of Medicine

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this is from 2006, it appears on further looking at it

but still valid

Scientists fear MMR link to autism

By SALLY BECK, Mail on Sunday

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-388051/Scientists-fear-MMR-link-autism.html

New American research shows that there could be a link between the

controversial MMR triple vaccine and autism and bowel disease in

children.

The study appears to confirm the findings of British doctor

Wakefield, who caused a storm in 1998 by suggesting a possible

link.

Now a team from the Wake Forest University School of Medicine in North

Carolina are examining 275 children with regressive autism and bowel

disease - and of the 82 tested so far, 70 prove positive for the measles

virus.

Last night the team's leader, Dr , said: 'Of the handful of

results we have in so far, all are vaccine strain and none are wild

measles.

'This research proves that in the gastrointestinal tract of a number of

children who have been diagnosed with regressive autism, there is

evidence of measles virus.

'What it means is that the study done earlier by Dr Wakefield and

published in 1998 is correct. That study didn’t draw any conclusions

about specifically what it means to find measles virus in the gut, but

the implication is it may be coming from the MMR vaccine. If that’s the

case, and this live virus is residing in the gastrointestinal tract of

some children, and then they have GI inflammation and other problems, it

may be related to the MMR.'

The 1998 study by Dr Wakefield, then a reader in gastroenterology at the

Royal Free Hospital in North London, and 12 other doctors claimed to have

found a new bowel disease, autism enterocolitis.

At the time, Dr Wakefield said that although they had not proved a link

between MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) and autism, there was cause for

concern and the Government should offer the option single vaccines -

instead of only MMRs - until more research had been done.

The paper - and the confused interpretation of its findings - caused

uproar and led to many parents withdrawing their co-operation for the

triple jab. Ten of the paper's authors also signed retractions on the

interpretation but stood by the science.

This is the second independent study to back up Dr Wakefield. In 2001

O'Leary, Professor of Pathology at St 's Hospital and Trinity

College, Dublin, replicated his findings.

Last night Dr Wakefield said: 'This new study confirms what we found in

British children and again with Professor O'Leary. The only exposure

these children have had to measles is through the MMR vaccine.

'They were developing normally until they regressed. They now suffer

autism and bowel disease.

'The Department of Health and some of the media wanted to dismiss our

research as insignificant. The excuse was that no one else had the same

findings as us. What they didn't say is that no one else had

looked.'

A spokesman for the Department of Health said they had not read the

American report, but added: 'MMR remains the best form of protection

against measles, mumps and rubella.'

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