CDC Planning Large Study Into Potential Link Between Vaccines, Autism: Reuters
Two sources familiar with internal plans at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told Reuters the agency is planning to conduct a "large study" into potential links between vaccines and autism, a pet theory of new Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that lacks any supporting evidence.
The push comes amid a large -- and growing -- measles outbreak in Texas that's infected more than 150 people, most of whom are unvaccinated children.
In 2019, a decade-long study following 657,461 children in Denmark concluded that the vaccine that protects against measles does not increase children's risk of autism, invalidating a pervasive theory among vaccine skeptics. The study was one of many that failed to show any link between vaccine use and autism.