Federal officials said on Friday that the centers of diseases control and prevention are planning to conduct a large -scale study to re -examine whether there is a link between vaccines and autism.
Dozens of Scientific studies I failed to find evidence of a link. But the Disease Control Center is now under the scope of the Minister of Health and Humanitarian Services Robert F. Kennedy Junior, who has long expressed doubts about the safety of vaccines and pledged to reconsider data.
As President Trump said in his common speech to Congress, the rate of autism in American children has increased. Andrew Nixon, a spokesman for the Ministry of Health and Humanitarian Services, said in a statement on Friday that the Center for Disease Control will not leave any stone without being lost on its mission to find out exactly what is happening.
Mr. Nixon did not provide details about the project’s scope or methods. The study news was reported on Friday morning for the first time Reuters.
In the follow -up of the study, the Center for Disease Control challenges the desires of the Chairman of the Senate Health Committee, Senator Bill Cassidy, who said this week that more research on any assumed link between vaccines and autism will be a waste of money and distraction from research that may shed light on the “real cause” of high autism rates.
“It has been studied comprehensively,” Mr. Cassidy, a doctor, said during the assertion session of Dr. Jay Bahtasharia, President Trump’s candidate for the leadership of the National Institutes of Health. “The more we demonstrate such a problem, the more we have children who die from diseases that can be aimed at vaccines.”
While Dr. Bhatershaya said that he was “convinced” of the current research that there is no connection between vaccines and autism, he suggested that more research may calm the nervous parents’ concerns. Mr. Kennedy and allies praised the movement “Make America healthy again” the management decision.
“Trump and Kennedy keep their speech,” said Zain Hanikot, the founder of non -profit mothers throughout America. “We hope that the previous administration has made health and autism a priority.”
The news of the plan to control the planned diseases comes in the midst of the rapidly spreading measles in West Texas, driven by low vaccination rates, which were ranked Almost 200 people Two were killed. Last year, about 82 percent of kindergarten residents in the most affected province received the measles vaccine, which is much lower than 95 percent needed to avoid the outbreak of the disease. According to Texas’s health officials, 80 of the injured were not vaccinated and 113 have “unknown vaccination.”
He was asked in an interview about the plans of the Disease Control Center to re -examine whether autism is linked to vaccination, such as Zafel Bikira, Minister of Health for President Joseph R. Biden Junior, He said, “All I will say is that the center of diseases control can do many things. They can walk and chew gum, but I hope that the Disease Control Center will be used to help us get a fist on measles before another life dies unnecessarily, and he perished.”
The average autism diagnosis in the United States is in an undeniable rise. on 1 out of 36 children Get one, according to the data collected by CDC recently from 11 states, compared to 1 in 150 children In 2000, the researchers attribute most of the boom to raising awareness of turmoil and changes in how to classify it by medical professionals. But scientists say that there are other factors, genetic and environmental, which can also play a role.
“There are many promising threads for the cause or causes of autism,” said Dr. Paul Ofit, a pediatrician who specializes in infectious diseases at the Children’s Hospital in Philadelphia, in an email on Friday. “The vaccines are not one of them. Given that there are limited resources from the Center for Disease Control, this is a sad day for children with autism.”
Like Mr. Kennedy, Mr. Trump has long adopted the idea that vaccines are in one way or another to the increasing rates of autism; He first raised the idea in 2007 and returned to it as a presidential candidate in 2015. He also said that he would support Mr. Kennedy to re -examine the case, and recently indicated the rate of autism diagnosis during his speech to Congress on Tuesday.
“We will discover what it is, and no one is better than Bobby and all the people who work with you,” he said. “Bobby, good luck. It is very important.”
Mr. Kennedy won the Senate as Minister of Health with the narrowest margins. In the end, he greatly prevailed over Mr. Cassidy, a Republican in Louisiana, who specialized in liver diseases as a strong doctor and supporter of vaccines. During the second day of confirmation sessions, Senator Cassidy expressed his deep concern about Mr. Kennedy’s last interrogation of vaccines, and pointed to a study of 1.2 million children who did not find any link between vaccines and autism.
Mr. Kennedy led, saying that a new study “showed the opposite.” The New York Times’s review of this study found that it was funded, composed and published by a network of skeptics in vaccines near Mr. Kennedy. When the study was rejected by the various prevailing medical magazines, Andrew Wickfield, author of a study that was now restored in 1998 that binds the vaccines to autism, helped find a house in a magazine published by many vaccine critics.
After his confirmation, Mr. Kennedy’s first letter to his employees included a pledge to study the rise in chronic diseases in the United States, including with a vaccine schedule, or a set of immunization granted to young children.
Christina Gyeet The reports contributed.