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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Oliver Holmes

‘Pay no attention’: global health agencies dismiss false Trump claim on everyday painkillers

Donald Trump at the microphone with Robert F Kennedy Jr
The US president made his announcement on painkillers and vaccines alongside his health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr (left). Photograph: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters

Global health agencies and regulators have dismissed unscientific advice from Donald Trump that made an unproven link between autism and the use of everyday painkillers and vaccines.

In a sign of how worried foreign governments are about the US president’s comments, the health secretary of the UK, which is one the US’s closest allies, told the British public they should not “pay any attention whatsoever to what Donald Trump says about medicine”.

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