Jeffrey Gerber Vaccine And Autism

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connections, concentrating on certain activities and ignoring the others.( Gerber, Offit) Another major sign of an autistic child is they tend to do things in a repetitive pattern. (Gerber, Offit) In the article “Vaccines and Autism: A Tale of Shifting Hypotheses” by Jeffrey S. Gerber and Paul A. Offit it describes the three hypotheses that are proposed by Wakefield. First one being the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccines, “Although no data supporting an association between MMR vaccine and autism existed and a plausible biological mechanism was lacking, several epidemiologic studies were performed to address parental fears created by the publication by Wakefield.” (Gerber, Offit) There has been 22 studies all over the world regarding the

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