Could the mmr vaccine be linked to autism?

No: No scientific studies have shown any link between any immunization and autism. Thanks for trusting HealthTap!

No evidence : No reputable evidence exists to suggest that MMR vaccine alone causes autism. It is believed that a genetic predisposition combined with an environmental trigger(s) causes autism to develop.

No: In a word, No. We have had many studies showing no association between any vaccine and autism. Vaccines are highly recommended for all and especially the MMR one prevents severe medical complications from those diseases. Please make sure everyone in in you family has had their vaccinations so no one develops serious health problems.

MoreStudiesUnderway: Quote:"The CDC,the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services,the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development at the National Institutes of Health,the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Working Party on MMR Vaccine of the United Kingdom's Committee on the Safety of Medicines[and my grandmother!] have dismissed any correlation of MMR vaccination to autism as baseless." We'll see

ABSOLUTELY NOT: Not only is there no evidence, the most prominent scientist promoting this view has had his research completely discredited. The anti-vaccine movement has led to a disturbing increase in cases of measles, mumps and German measles.

No: part of the trouble is the delineation of the disease autism went so broad that brain damage from any cause may be called autism. http://www.nerdpocalypse.net/autism.html so, an allergic reaction to a drug or vaccine that causes brain damage such that the person can't talk or react normally, under age 3 or 5 but not age 74.. arbitrary.

No: There was a small study many years ago funded ( fraudulently not disclosed) by the anti vaccine lobbyist lawyers which resulted in some suggestion of this. It was later retracted by the Lancet when this was disclosed. Many subsequent years of global research has not shown any association. Many children have died from the devastating effects of this misinformation.

Link not = 2 cause: The biggest problem with this debate is a fundamental lack of understanding by the public at large of what science is and how it is done. Anything can be "linked" to anything, but that DOES NOT establish causality. Example water is found in every type of cancer, every child who develops autism was exposed to water, and every human who dies is exposed to water. Water is "linked" yet not the cause.

Probably sometimes: More research is needed There are cases where patients have been awarded compensation by the Federal Vaccine Court for autism that occurred after the MMR vaccine without other triggers. This isn't done without convincing evidence.Autism has multiple causes but in those with genetic predispositions the MMR vaccine may trigger it.CDC officials have recently admitted it's a "possibility."See comment: