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Community child health, public health, and epidemiology
Evidence for autism in folklore?
  1. J Leask1,
  2. A Leask2,
  3. N Silove3
  1. 1National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance of Vaccine Preventable Diseases, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead and the University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
  2. 2Wentworth Area Health Service Population Health Unit, Penrith, New South Wales, Australia
  3. 3Child Development Unit, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead and the University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
  1. Correspondence to:
    Dr J Leask
    National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance of Vaccine Preventable Diseases (NCIRS), Locked Bag 4001, Westmead, NSW 2145, Australia; JulieL3chw.edu.au

https://doi.org/10.1136/adc.2003.044958

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    “The girl I gave birth to has been stolen, she’s gone.” (Mother, A Current Affair, Vaccination: a stab in the dark? 30 January 2001)“So the goblins came. They pushed their way in and pulled baby out, leaving another all made of ice.” (Maurice Sendak, Outside over there. Puffin Books, Middlesex, UK, 1981)

    In the wake of the now settled MMR controversy and attempts to link the vaccine with autism, there has been widening interest in whether autism has increased in incidence over the past two decades.1,2 While …

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    • Competing interests: none declared