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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Jasmine Fernández

RFK Jr’s team quietly updates CDC website to say science doesn’t know if vaccines cause autism

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its official guidance regarding autism and vaccines, replacing long-standing assurances that immunizations do not cause autism with claims that scientific research has not definitively ruled out a connection.

But the website still suggests a link between vaccines and autism, after President Donald Trump’s Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. directed the agency to revise the website’s language last year to dispute long-held conclusions from large-scale medical studies.

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