CORRESPONDENCE
PREFACE
In the United Kingdom there are approximately 700,000 births per annum. Since the introduction of the MMR in 1988 over eight million children have been born who are now three years or older. By 1993 official figures indicated that MMR vaccination levels had fallen to 97%, since then the figure has fallen to around the low 80% region. In Westminster, Kensington and Chelsea it is about 64% (June 2002).
Over half a million young children have probably not received the MMR vaccination during this time.
Surely any link between MMR and vaccination in general and autism could be eliminated if it could be shown that the incidence of autism in this 500,000 + three years old and over group is the same as it is in the general population? Alternatively perhaps it can be shown that of the total population of autistic people a significant number were never vaccinated? Perhaps, but we have now stopped logging letters on this page dealing with this issue for the reasons described below.
Medical professionals, officials, medical researchers, and others do not seem willing to discuss this. Over 150 letters have now been written to these people asking for information about the incidence of autism amongst unvaccinated populations. Few responses are received. The question is never acknowledged, far from being answered. More worrying perhaps is the complete absence of even a single response that rejects the implication that there may be no unvaccinated individuals who are autistic (ASD) despite the presence in the population ofsome millions of unvaccinated people in Britain. Our work will continue to determine how many of the children who have featured in research studies were unvaccinated prior to diagnosis and how many, if any, unvaccinated autistic people there are in Britain.
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Published 24/12/01 |
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