U.S. Physicians Buffer Effect of MMR Vaccine-Autism Debate

Courtesy MedPage Today Infectious Disease  Mon, 04/07/2008 - 12:04

PHILADELPHIA -- American physicians may have been initially seduced by a 1998 British report linking vaccines and the risk of autism, but once the report was refuted doctors quickly closed ranks and defended immunization's value effectively.

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