While thanking Dangote for the donation, Gough promised that the money will be used to procure 1.7 million doses of measles vaccine and will go a long way in supporting the measles campaign which the Nigerian government is championing through its Ministry of Health and the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA).
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In May 2010 in a study involving 275 children vaccinated with the MMR vaccine, who demonstrated regressive autism and bowel disease, the Wake Forest University School of Medicine reported that of the 82 so far tested 70 proved positive for measles virus all of which was the vaccine measles strain none were wild measles strains.
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There are still many people who believe that vaccines and, in particular, the measles vaccine, is linked to autism.
The measles vaccine is mandatory for all children entering school in the U.S., but it isn't mandatory in many countries.
She is calling for parents to have the option of choosing a single measles vaccine instead of the combined MMR jab.
Poonawalla eventually got a loan (which he's long since paid off) from an Indian bank, to launch a measles vaccine in 1989.
And officials are emphasising that there is no evidence to suggest that the single measles vaccine is any safer than the combined MMR.
There has been a campaign to make the single measles vaccine more freely available to parents concerned about the safety of the MMR.
She said 1, 800 children were believed to have been damaged by MMR in the 12 years it has been in used, compared to 27 affected in around 20 years of the use of a single measles vaccine.
At Michelle Cedillo's hearing last year, Dr. Marcel Kinsbourne, a pediatric neurologist who is a professor at The New School in New York, testified that he thought the measles vaccine was a "substantial factor" in causing the girl's autism.
Have any studies been done in France in relation to a rise in autism among children who received measles-only vaccine at the age of about 12 months, followed later by the MMR vaccine?
Doctors have to spend more time educating parents about the tremendous benefit of vaccines, about the very strong evidence (based on tens of millions of doses) for vaccine safety, and about the frightening consequences of infection with meningitis, hepatitis, measles, polio, and other vaccine-preventable diseases.
Dr Troup defended the policy of giving children a combined vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella.
Dr Rosy McNaught, from the South Yorkshire Health Protection Agency, urged parents to let their children have the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine.
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Conservative MP Julie Kirkbride MP is trying to force the government to introduce a single vaccine for measles by introducing a Private Member's Bill.
Speaking on Wednesday, Mr Blair urged parents to ignore media "scaremongering" as he repeated government advice that the vaccine against measles, mumps and rubella - which has been linked to autism - is safe.
The ruling came from a panel of "special masters" who began hearing three test cases in 2007 involving children with autism -- a disorder that their parents contend was triggered by the vaccine against measles, mumps and rubella combined with vaccines containing thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative.
At least 6, 000 children have still not had the MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccine in the Swansea area.
Our oldest got both rounds of the MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccine so he could start kindergarten but what about our youngest?
In Britain a doctor was banned from practising after falsely claiming that the triple vaccine used against measles, mumps and rubella might cause autism.
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Dr Kaplan and his team demonstrated the effectiveness of their new technique by trying it out on the MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccine.
With all the irrational talk about the MMR (Measles, Mumps, Rubella) vaccine containing mercury (thimerosal) and being a potential cause of autism (disproven in multiple large clinical trials), there is a far greater risk of measles itself.
"As the scientific community has been saying for a long time, there is no good, credible, reproducible research that supports the hypothesis that MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccine causes autism, " said Dr. Max Wiznitzer, an autism expert at Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio.
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Last month, they lost the final battle in one effort, which claimed that the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine causes autism.
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According to the NHS, the first dose of the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine should ideally be given to babies who are between 12 to 13 months old.
The origins of autism are still controversial, with a small number of scientists suspicious about the role of a combined measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine, usually given at approximately 16 months of age.
And make no mistake about it: if measles, whooping cough, polio, and other vaccine-preventable diseases return, children will die.
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The widespread rise in measles across Britain followed now discredited research suggesting the triple MMR vaccine could have been linked to autism.
The anti-vaccine movement is not helping the fight against measles in Europe.
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