The MMR coffee morning
Cerys2001: How old do kids have to be to have MMR?
Dr Howard Lee: Usually at 12 months and again at 4-6 years.
cl- juliekduncan: Just what does Dr Wakefield suggest in his paper? Was the study aiming to find a link between MMR and Autism (or similar conditions) or was it looking for something else? How many children did he study? Was this an adequate sample size? When the vaccine was registered there must have been several clinical trials run - have these ever been re-examined to see if any of the participants have developed autism?
Dr Howard Lee: Dr Wakefield was trying to state that he had found a link between MMR and autism - he wasn't however able to really show exactly what this link was. In this country nearly 500 records of autistic kids were looked at in one trial - no relationships between the appearance/onset of autism and the giving of MMR could be found.
Yes, extensive trials - lasting over several years are/were carried out with regard to MMR and any vaccine - and yes these records were reviewed by various agencies - no links found to be useful pointers.
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