Fear of health hazards from vaccines containing mercury have caused many parents to stop innoculating their children for various diseases.
Although there is still a great deal of controversy over this point, at least one clinical study has shown no connection between vaccines containing mercury and autism or other developmental disorders.
Researchers at McGill University in Montreal studied nearly 28,000 children born between 1987 and 1998 and found that as the mercury-containing preservative thimerosal was removed from vaccines, and as fewer children received the mumps-measles-rubella vaccine, the rates of autism and related disorders rose among Canadian school children.
[Editor's Note: For a story suggesting an opposite point of view, go to http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/dailymail/home.html?in_page_id=1766. In the advanced search box in the blue band at the top of the page, type in "Trapped in bed for 14 years," then click on the link to that story. It is not clear from this story whether or not the TB vaccine the young woman received at age 14, which may have triggered her total disability, had mercury in it.]
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