Single MMR – The Divisive Doctor
The doctor at the heart of the single MMR vaccination debate has been dubbed ‘divisive’ and is facing a disciplinary hearing.
Andrew Wakefield is the doctor at the heart of the single MMR vaccine debate. It’s a debate that began ten years ago when Dr Wakefield suggested a link to the single MMR vaccine and autism. The suggestion has since been dismissed as it has no scientific grounding; nevertheless, the harmful negative overtones still linger.
Single MMR vaccine: the disciplinary hearing
The single MMR vaccination combines three vaccinations in one. It protects against three of the most serious illnesses that threaten childhood – measles, mumps and rubella – and is considered crucial. But Dr Wakefield’s much publicised report caused widespread panic over the safety of the single MMR vaccine. As the doctor faces a disciplinary hearing, newspaper reports say his critics have dubbed him a “dangerous maverick” whose theories risked outbreaks of the diseases that are potentially fatal.
Immunisation rates fell
The fears began when Dr Wakefield suggested a link between the rise in autism, a bowel disorder in children and the single MMR vaccine. He felt the single MMR vaccine that administered three lots of immunisation could overwhelm the immune system leading children susceptible to Crohn’s disease, which he linked with autism. The media storm it caused triggered some parents to reject the single MMR vaccine. It’s thought there was a ten percent drop in immunisation rates after Wakefield’s research came out. And the World Health Organisation says that still not enough children are being given the single MMR vaccine today.
Single MMR vaccine ‘not dangerous’
It later emerged that Wakefield had been paid privately to write his controversial report into the single MMR vaccine – something that was considered a “fatal conflict of interest” by the editor of the Lancet that published the report. Now Wakefield is in court in the UK to answer charges of serious professional misconduct. If found guilty of the charges of acting unethically while carrying out his research into the single MMR vaccine, Wakefield could be struck off the medial register. Major scientific studies have since concluded that there is no link between the single MMR vaccine and autism and the single MMR triple jab is not dangerous.
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