The nonsense about vaccines causing autism began with a now - discredited 1998 paper by British physician Andrew Wakefield that linked the disorder to the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine.

关于疫苗会导致孤独症的胡说是从一篇现在已经丧失名誉的1998年的英国内科医生Andrew Wakefield的论文开始的，他认为精神失常是与麻疹、腮腺炎和风疹的疫苗有关。

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The measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine is an established vaccine also quite expensive.

麻疹、腮腺炎以及风疹三联疫苗是一种成熟且相当昂贵的疫苗。

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The author and British medical doctor Andrew Wakefield claimed to have found a link between the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine and an autismlike disorder.

作者兼英国医学博士安德鲁·韦克菲尔德声称发现了麻疹-腮腺炎-风疹 (MMR) 疫苗和自闭症之间的联系。

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Last month, they lost the final battle in one effort, which claimed that the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine causes autism.

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The ruling came from a panel of "special masters" who began hearing three test cases in 2007 involving children with autism -- a disorder that their parents contend was triggered by the vaccine against measles, mumps and rubella combined with vaccines containing thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative.

CNN: Vaccines didn't cause autism, court rules

Speaking on Wednesday, Mr Blair urged parents to ignore media "scaremongering" as he repeated government advice that the vaccine against measles, mumps and rubella - which has been linked to autism - is safe.

BBC: Blair signals support for MMR