The Los Angeles Times (9/29, Healy) reports in “Science Now” that a new study published in PNAS revealed that “multiple vaccines containing the preservative thimerosal…resulted in none of the key brain or behavioral changes linked to autism.” The study also “administered a wide range of vaccines including the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine – which never contained thimerosal – to rhesus macaques” and “found no evidence of changes in brains or behavior that would implicate either the much-maligned MMR vaccine or a combination of many vaccines as a cause of or contributor to autism.” The results cast further doubt on the supposed link between autism and vaccines, “which has fueled widespread resistance to vaccinations.”
Related Links:
— “Old-school and current vaccines have no link to autism (again), study says,” Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times, September 28, 2015.