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Bulletin of the World Health Organization, April, 2004 by Fiona Fleck
Ten members of a team of 13 doctors who published a controversial study in the UK-based medical journal, the Lancet (1998;351:637), suggesting a possible link between the triple mumps, measles and rubella (MMR) vaccination and autism and bowel disease withdrew this interpretation of their findings last month--an interpretation which triggered a collapse in confidence in the UK's MMR programme and reduced immunization coverage to below WHO recommended levels by 2002.
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The move came after it emerged that the study's Senior Author failed to disclose a potential financial conflict of interest either to editors of the ...
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