Rob Stein
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The CDC's change is alarming public health experts.
They are already worried about a drop in childhood vaccination, which has led to a resurgence of dangerous childhood diseases like measles and whooping cough.
The CDC's website now says a link between vaccines and autism cannot be ruled out.
That's a sharp reversal from the CDC's stance that there is no link.
The change comes even though a connection between vaccines and autism has long been debunked by a large body of high-quality research.
But Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
has long promoted the discredited claim.
The CDC's change is alarming public health experts.
They are already worried about a drop in childhood vaccination, which has led to a resurgence of dangerous childhood diseases like measles and whooping cough.
The CDC's website now says a link between vaccines and autism cannot be ruled out.
That's a sharp reversal from the CDC stance that there is no link.
The change comes even though a connection between vaccines and autism has long been debunked by a large body of high-quality research.
but Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
has long promoted the discredited claim.
The CDC's change is alarming public health experts.
They are already worried about a drop in childhood vaccination, which has led to a resurgence of dangerous childhood diseases like measles and whooping cough.
This year's flu season is just getting going, but there are already signs that it may be a nasty one.
The southern hemisphere just ended a long, intense flu season, and what happens in the southern hemisphere often predicts what's in store for the northern hemisphere.