U.K. parents' decision-making about measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine 10 years after the MMR-autism controversy: a qualitative analysis.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Public concern about an unsubstantiated link between MMR vaccine and autism stemmed from a 1998 paper by Dr Andrew Wakefield and colleagues, and the substantial media coverage which that work attracted. Though the Wakefield paper is now discredited and an MMR-autism link...

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Main Authors: Brown, K, Long, S, Ramsay, M, Hudson, M, Green, J, Vincent, C, Kroll, J, Fraser, G, Sevdalis, N
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2012