Largest autism group urges parents to vaccinate their kids [View all]

[marym625]

After at least 107 confirmed cases of measles in the US, the most recent in daycare centers in both Illinois and California, autism groups are urging parents vaccinate their kids.


http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/02/advocacy-group-autism-speaks-urges-parents-to-vaccinate-their-kids/

Even autism advocacy groups are joining the chorus on urging parents to get their kids vaccinated for measles and other diseases like whooping cough. The recent measles outbreak, which started in California but has already spread to other states, has reopened an old wound of an argument over the link between vaccines and autism.

"Over the last two decades, extensive research has asked whether there is any link between childhood vaccinations and autism,” Rob Ring, the chief science officer of Autism Speaks, said in astatement. “The results of this research are clear: Vaccines do not cause autism. We urge that all children be fully vaccinated.”

According to 3catwoman3 in a reply to another post,

"The phone at our pediatric office, which is within easy...

...driving distance of Palatine, has been ringing off the proverbial hook. Some of our families live in that town. 

Just this afternoon, a mom of 3, who has followed her own modified immunization schedule and would not give MMR to her two older kids until they were 3, was in the office desperate to get her 17 month old daughter the MMR. 

I assured her that I thought she was doing the right thing"

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=1008309

I can't understand how anyone wouldn't protect their child from diseases that are so easy to protect against and so devastating if contracted. Makes zero sense to me.

Glad to see so many autism groups are speaking out with science and sense.