MMR fears gain support | Krigsman in DC

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By JAMES CHAPMAN, Daily Mail

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-124886/MMR-fears-gain-support.html

The safety of the MMR vaccine was again called into question yesterday

after American research appeared to back the British doctor who first

linked it to autism and bowel disease.

Dr Wakefield was vilified after claiming to have identified a

combined syndrome of autism and bowel disease in children who had been

given the measles, mumps and rubella injection.

Government scientists and the Department of Health dismissed his

findings as flawed and insisted the MMR jab was safe.

Critics claimed that not a single piece of research by Dr Wakefield and

his colleagues had been replicated elsewhere.

But now experts at New York University School of Medicine have reported

the first independent corroboration of the findings that first sparked

concern.

Dr Arthur Krigsman, a consultant paediatric gastroenterologisthas

observed serious intestinal inflammation in 43 autistic children.

At a U.S. Congressional hearing on the safety of MMR last week, he said

his patients had inexplicably deteriorated, losing language and other

skills at around 12 to 18 months of age....