Since 2001, thousands of parents of autistic children have filed suit and asked for damages through the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program at Health and Human Services Administration. They allege that the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine caused their child to develop autism.

Now special masters in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims ruled that three families cannot be compensated through this program because there is no scientific evidence that the MMR vaccine causes autism.

Despite this and previous court rulings based on similar scientific evidence, a recent study published in the journal Pediatrics found that about 25 percent of all parents still believe that vaccines cause autism, more than 50 percent worry when their child gets vaccinated, and 11.5 percent have refused at least one vaccine.

Labels: vaccines, autism

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