The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is planning a large study into potential connections between vaccines and autism, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, despite extensive scientific research that has disproven or failed to find evidence of such links.
It is unclear whether U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. who has long promoted anti-vaccine views, is involved in the planned CDC study or how it would be carried out. The CDC and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) were not immediately available for comment.
The CDC's move comes amid one of the largest measles outbreaks the U.S. has seen in the past decade, with greater than 200 cases and two deaths in Texas and New Mexico. The outbreak has been fueled by declining vaccination rates in parts of the U.S. where parents have been falsely persuaded that such shots do more harm than good.
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