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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Dr Kaplan and his team demonstrated the effectiveness of their new technique by trying it out on the MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccine.
"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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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.
Dr Troup defended the policy of giving children a combined vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella.
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.
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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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.
"Measles, mumps and rubella are highly infections conditions which can be life threatening, and the MMR vaccine is the safest and most effective way to ensure protection, " he said.
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