'Vaccines do not cause autism': WHO

GENEVA — A new analysis by the World Health Organization reaffirmed there is no link between vaccines and autism — contrary to theories being propagated in the United States. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) last month revised its website with language that undermines its previous, scientifically-grounded position that immunisations do not cause the developmental disability autism. Years of research demonstrate that there is no causal link between vaccinations and autism or other neurodevelopmental disorders. But Robert F. Kennedy Jr, the nation's health chief, has long voiced anti-vaccine rhetoric and inaccurate claims connecting the two. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a press conference in Geneva that autism was not a side-effect of vaccines. "Today, WHO is publishing a new analysis by the Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety that has found, based on available evidence, no causal link between vaccines and autism," the U.N. health agency chief said. The committee looked at 31 studies in multiple countries over 15 years relating to vaccines co

'Vaccines do not cause autism': WHO