By Brian Carnell

Thursday, June 20, 2002

A British review of research into the MMR vaccine from 180 countries has found that the vaccine is in fact dangerous -- at least to the measles virus. In humans, though, it is safe.

Dr. Anna Donald and Dr. Vivek Muthu could find no evidence of any link between MMR and autism or bowel disease. They did find that children were likely to develop a minor fever up to 3 weeks after the vaccination as well as finding strong evidence that the MMR vaccine had been instrumental in wiping out measles throughout most of the world.

Donald and Muthu also criticized the research of Dr. Andrew Wakefield -- who started the anti-MMR hysteria in 1998 -- buy pointing out that his research relied on examining just 12 ill children and not using any healthy controls.

Source:

'No evidence' MMR jab is unsafe. The BBC, June 12, 2002.

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