CDC will research the large -scale connection between vaccines and autism

Centers for disease control and prevention initiate extensive research to understand autism and its potential links with vaccines, a familiar source with CDC planning said.

CDC is one of the agencies operating under the umbrella of the Department for Health and Human Services, the Federal Agency that President Donald Trump has chosen Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Senate confirmed it to the post In a vote of 52-48 last month.

Was the possibility of a link between vaccines and autism repeatedly removed of hundreds of scientific studies. But Kennedy made a profile for him as an anti-vaccine crusade, criticizing the Covid-19 vaccine and Claiming childhood immunization are related to autism. He founded too The defense of children’s healthan anti-vaccine group.

Andrew Nixon, a HHS spokesman, said in a statement that the CDC “delivers” on “high quality research and transparency” that Americans are waiting for.

CDC’s research plans were First reported by Reuters.

Studies can often take several years. It is not clear what would be the methodology for such research, such as financed or when the results could be released or published.

About $ 419 million is spent for autism research in the US every year.

“As President Trump said in his common speech at Congress, the autism rate in American children has decreased. The CDC will not leave any uninterrupted stone in his mission to realize what is happening exactly, “said Nixon.

Talking on Tuesday with Congress, Trump said: “As an example, not long ago, and you can’t even believe these numbers, 1 in 10,000 children had autism. One in 10,000, and now is 1 in 36. There is something wrong. One in 36, think about it. So we will find out what it is, “he said, adding that there is no” better “than Kennedy to” find out what’s going on. “

World Health Organization appraisal That in the last 50 years, global immunization efforts have saved at least 154 million lives – the vast majority being infants.

The myth according to which childhood immunizations cause autism was first proposed 27 years ago by a British doctor who was later forbidden from the practice of medicine in the United Kingdom.

Kennedy’s anti-vaccine statements were part of his independent presidential candidacy in 2024. Finally, he gave up the race and supported Trump, who adopted some of Kennedy’s points in a “Make America Healthy Again” movement.

CDC director of entry, Dave Weldon and Kennedy Du -te back at least two decades in their common control of vaccines as a cause of autism.

In a Since 2005 Rolling Stone since 2005 The song that falsely binds the vaccines to neurological disorders, Kennedy mentioned Weldon, a Congressman since then, writing: “CDC officials are not interested in an honest search for the truth,” Weldon told me, because “an association between vaccines and autism would force them to admit that their policies irreparably. Who would like to make this conclusion about themselves? “

The news comes during The worst measles outbreak in the US in the last five years. The outbreak in Texas and New Mexico exceeded 200 cases, and at least 23 people – most unvaccinated children – were hospitalized. A 6 -year -old died in Texas last week, and health officials suspect an additional death of measles in an adult in New Mexico.