Do Vaccines Cause Autism

1 Would you give your child vaccines even with the theory that they cause autism spectrum disorder? Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a development disorder that weakens the ability to communicate and interact from a young age. That sounds scary for parents, which is understandable, but what about your child getting sick or worse because the child did not get the vaccines they needed. Vaccine controversy started in 1998 (Radford), and the author of that data, Andrew Wakefield was found guilty of manipulating the research and info about it (PlotKin). Vaccines do not cause autism, because studies show that the main cause is either from their brain structure, vaccines, and genetic system. Vaccines can cause a bigger issue if not given to kids

Researchers say there are many risk factors to what causes ASD, like environmental, parental ages, birth problems, prenatal vitamins, hereditary, etc. The big issue is that Andrew Wakefield who started the theory that vaccines cause autism. This got many parents scared to give their children vaccines. A study showed how cancer biology with mutations in tumors and other cells would make a good model to find out more about how autism is caused. Jason Wolff says “There are over a hundred studies about if vaccines cause autism and they all show no relation of vaccines causing autism” (WFMY).
3 Studies show different structures of the brain of children without and with ASD. Brain scans were done on children with and without ASD and the scans show different sizes and shapes of the brain. The structure of the nervous system, and everything connected is different (“Causes”). The center of the brain which is the Limbic system, where info is sent to be sorted from taste, sight, sound, and touch, and smell. Studies show that Autistic kids, Limbic System is immature and not fully gone through the stages that the brain needs to go through

Another study shows the number of antigens from vaccines in the first to second years of life when MMR Vaccine is given, and it showed the same amount in ASD kids, and non-ASD kids. Some of the babies in the study showed signs of autism, but it wasn't from the vaccines, symptoms were already apparent. A study, done in Denmark, called Retrospective Cohort Study, that studied children born from January 1991 to December 1998, that got the MMR vaccine, or not and if it was related to autism. The study showed 537,303 children in all and 440,655 got the MMR Vaccine and 96,648, didn't get the MMR Vaccine. Out of the total of kids 738 kids were diagnosed with ASD or with a different type of ASD (“ A Population”). Another study shows that thimerosal and mercury based vaccines can not cause autism, those vaccines and products were removed, but the autism epidemic did not