No link between MMR vaccine and autism, say US court

An American court today ruled that there was no proven link between the MMR vaccine and autism.

The Special Court of Federal Claims, reviewing three test cases, said the petitioners had “failed to demonstrate” that the combined measles, mumps and rubella vaccine could contribute to autism.

Referring to one of the cases, special master George Hastings said the parents of a child with the disorder had been “misled” by physicians who were guilty in his view of “gross medical misjudgement”.

In another of the rulings, the theories of causation were described as “speculative and unpersuasive”.