Sep 04 2008
Vaccines and autism, part 4980530498563.2334
A new study that demonstrates continued lack of association between the MMR vaccine and autism. This particular study is essentially a repeat of one down several decades ago. One of the co-authors on that old study is also a co-author on this study, and one of the labs used in that first study was also used in this study, to try to give it some credibility as truly trying to repeat the original study.
The original hypothesis was that the inactivated virus from the vaccine made its way to the gut, and caused a breakdown of some sort in the natural barrier that the gut is, and that something makes it way across the gut into the bloodstream, triggering/contributing/setting off autism.
This study appears to show no association between the MMR vaccine and anything in the gut or the onset of autism.