Facts of the Matter: Discredited vaccine study reverberates 27 years later

In 1998, a paper appeared in the respected medical journal The Lancet that sent shock waves through the public health world. The paper suggested a link between the MMR vaccine — measles, mumps and rubella — and autism. Parents were alarmed, vaccination rates dropped and outbreaks of measles surged.

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