3. Public opinion about childhood vaccines for measles, mumps and rubella
Public debate over the safety of childhood vaccines, particularly the vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella, is typically linked with a 1998 research study – later discredited – that suggested that the MMR vaccine was associated with autism.9 Seth Mnookin’s book, The Panic Virus, suggests that media reporting of the study coupled with the 12 years […]