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Article: Feds Again Dispute Vaccine-Autism Link
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- July 20, 2005
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LAURAN NEERGAARD, AP Medical Writer
AP Online
07-20-2005
Dateline: WASHINGTON
The government assembled some leading scientists Tuesday to try again to lay to rest public suspicions that a mercury-based preservative once used in childhood vaccines causes autism.
A day before parents who blame the chemical were to complain to Congress, federal health officials stressed that the only childhood vaccines that still contain the preservative are some, but not all, flu shots _ and that there's no credible evidence that it caused the brain disorder anyway.
But they brought no new data to the unusual gathering that might close the case on thimerosal.
"We don't know, unfortunately, for most kids with ...