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Parents follow pediatrician advice on administering MMR vaccinations
Date:4/6/2008

PHILADELPHIA, April 7, 2008 News stories about an allegedly harmful link between the mumps, measles and rubella vaccine and the onset of autism had little effect on whether U.S. parents immunized their children, according to a review of immunization records and news stories. Parents decisions were more likely influenced by recommendations from their childs pediatrician, the researchers said.

Researchers from The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and The University of Louisville School of Medicine report on the review of data in the April issue of the journal Pediatrics. The data was collected from public-use files of the National Immunization Survey from 1995 to 2004. It compared immunization records of 215,643 children ages 19 months to 35 months with spikes in news stories about the MMR vaccine and autism. The news accounts were gathered from a database known as LexisNexis, which tracks newspaper, television and radio news.

The number of children not receiving the mumps, measles and rubella vaccine (known as MMR) increased after February 1998, when a scientific study proposing a link between the MMR vaccine and autism appeared in the British journal The Lancet. After two years, the U.S. numbers of unvaccinated children then declined and did not rebound when the MMR-autism link started to receive widespread coverage in the mainstream press, suggesting a limited influence of news media on MMR immunization rates in the U.S.

If providers become more cautious during a period of controversy, then public health officials should insure providers are given timely advisories and access to credible recommendations, said Michael J. Smith, M.D, lead author of the study while formerly at Childrens Hospital. Smith is now a pediatric infectious disease specialist at the University of Louisville School of Medicine. Our findings suggest that physicians may have been an important buffer against the potential negative impact of media coverage of immunization co
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Contact: Juliann Walsh
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Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
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