Today marks a very special day for me, Texas Children's and the whole Houston community. Forty years ago, a boy was born whose life and death would impact millions of lives throughout the world.
September 21, 2011 | Dr. William T. Shearer, Chief Of Allergy & Immunology
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In 1998, Andrew Wakefield and 12 other co-investigators published a paper in the prestigious British medical journal, the Lancet, and asserted that the MMR vaccine was linked to autism. The small study of merely 12 children set off a national firestorm in the U.K. and suddenly thousands of British patients were refusing to vaccinate their children with the MMR vaccine which protects against measles, mumps and rubella.
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