how many babies did they test to see if they got autism after the mmr vaccine?
how many babies did they test to see if they got autism after the mmr vaccine?
starrfyrre
I believe it was 12, but is has recently come to light that the doctor who did the study not only falsified the data, but was working on his own vaccine with a pharmaceutical company and was stripped of his medical license in Great Britain. His whole study turned out to be one big failure.
Maggie May
i think the first answer is correct. really, autism is something you are born with. i don’t think it’s contagious. It’s not like you sit next to a person with diabetes then the next day you wake up and have diabetes. it is 12.
please answer mine http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110121101432AAk02xN
Lisa
Here is Wakefield, et al. 1998 case series I think you are referring to. They did not test babies or children to see if they got autism after the MMR vaccine. http://www.generationrescue.org/pdf/wakefield2.pdf
Wakefield was not working on his own vaccine, as “starrfyrre” claims. The hospital Wakefield worked for, the Royal Free, was the owner of a patent on a measles virus transfer factor, which would be used to help the body fight chronic measles infection in the gut in people with bowel disease. A transfer factor is not a vaccine. The transfer factor did not work as they had hoped, and it was never put on the market.
At a press conference after the case series was published, Wakefield shared his personal opinion that it would be wise to play it safe and give the separate measles, mumps, and rubella vaccines instead of the combined MMR until further research was done. At the time he suggested that, the National Health Service in the U.K. did provide the separate vaccines to people who wanted them. Later, the U.K. government stopped making the separate vaccines available, so concerned parents had the choice of the MMR or nothing. Some chose nothing, and Wakefield was blamed, even though it was the government’s choice to take the separate vaccine option away from parents.
The 1998 case series was not fraud. That is the claim of a reporter, Brian Deer, who was leaked confidential patient medical records by a hospital employee. Since the medical records are confidential, there is no way for anyone to investigate Brian Deer’s claims. That Deer’s accusations were printed in the British Medical Journal does not change this fact. The editors of the BMJ would not have looked over the stolen patient records–they could get into a lot of trouble for that. There is no way to verify Deer’s accusations.
The Lancet’s retraction of the case series did not mention fraud, or that there was anything wrong with the science. Here is their retraction statement. http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(10)60175-4/fulltext#article_upsell
Rhianna does Medicine Year 1
Are you talking about Wakefields study? It was a pilot study that focused on tests carried out on 12 children. He suggested there may be a link between MMR and autism and bowel disease.
Just to point out, his research was fraud and his results have never been replicated.
Edit: @ Lisa: The point is there was no reason for Wakefield to suggest the vaccines should be given separately. The suggestion was an irresponsible one.
There was never any evidence to show the combined vaccine was unsafe. The combined vaccines are preferable as having single vaccines puts the child at risk of catching the diseases in the gaps between vaccines.
Additionally, In the UK, the 3 measles, mumps and rubella vaccines were never split and given separately in infancy.
Before the introduction of the MMR in ’88, the measles vaccine was given to infants from the age of one. And until approx 1995, the rubella vaccine was given to girls at age 10 -13 years.
The separate mumps vaccine was never routinely given. So the fact the government withdrew the single vaccines (due to valid concerns about them ) isn’t the main reason the uptake dropped. It was due to his paper and the media furor that ensued.
Edit: No, he distorted/falsified data.
The data did not match the original hospital patient records.
lioness
The whole study was flawed and false. So unless you’re project is on how not to carry out scientific research I suggest picking a new paper to work from.
Nate
8 of 12 children were said to have had behavioral issues associated with a measles protein in inflamed lymphoid tissue; although a former graduate student of Wakefield’s testified that he had told Wakefield he was unable to find any measles virus in the samples from the 12 children, and had discovered multiple instances of contamination. He was ignored, obviously.
Lisa, it does make a difference when it’s published in the BMJ. It means that it’s no longer just a lone reporter saying it. The BMJ have looked over the evidence and came to the same conclusions, that Andrew Wakefield committed fraud.
The editor of The Lancet, Dr Richard Horton said: “If we had know the conflict of interest Dr. Wakefield had in his work, it would have been rejected.”
You remember that big load of money Andy was paid to find “evidence of harm?” I think he’s talking about that.
Flizbap 2.0
I’m pretty sure it was twelve, but the entire study was a pile of drek.
Weise Ente
That wasn’t the actual finding of Wakefield’s paper, which including 12 patients. Although he did claim that in the news media afterward.
The entire study was fraudulent, so it’s a moot point.
Note that the defenders of Wakefield are getting even more desperate to save their hero. He’s scum who falsified data for money.
For example, the actual reason Brian Deer got access to the medical records was due to the libel trial against him that Wakefield filed. Wakefield lost that case, even in the very plaintiff friendly UK.
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