The suggestion that the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine cause autism, was first published in 1998 by Wakefield
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Epidemiologist James Kaye and colleagues from Boston University School of Medicine used the UK general practice research database to evaluate the temporal relationship between MMR vaccine and autism. In an annual birth cohort analysis of 114 boys born 1988–93, they found that the four-year cumulative risk of a diagnosis of autism at age 2–5 years increased nearly fourfold over time. It increased from 8...