The Economist writes how a single published case series in Lancet in 1998 was ballooned by media hype and stirred doubt among Britons on MMR vaccine effectivity. In the following years, cases of measles and mumps spiked in England. After a decade, the link between MMR vaccination and behavioral disorder has not been proven, and Dr. Wakefield was struck off the UK medical register in May 2010.
read full Lancet report: Wakefield, et al. 1998. Lancet; 351: 637–41.
read full Economist article: A nasty rash: The epidemiology of health scares
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