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Article: Vaccine ruled out as autism cause
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- Oakland Tribune
- Article date:
- January 8, 2008
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The number of California children with autism continued to
increase years after a mercury-laden preservative feared to cause
the neurological disorder was eliminated from most childhood
vaccines, researchers reported today.
The findings are the latest blow to a hypothesis favored by some
parents and a minority of scientists that the preservative
thimerosal causes autism. Researchers say that if thimerosal was
linked to autism, cases of the disorder should have declined after
2001, when the preservative was eliminated from nearly all childhood
vaccines. The preservative is still present in some flu shots.
Researchers from the California Department of Public Health found