Wednesday, April 20, 2005

The Amish, China Adoption, Vaccinations, and Autism

In this part of an ongoing series on the roots and rise of autism, a reporter investigates the link between autism and vaccination by looking for autism in the Amish community. The one case of autism he finds turns out to be girl that was adopted from China.

Julia's vaccinations in China -- all given in one day at about age 15 months -- may well have contained thimerosal; the United States had stopped using it by the time she was born, but other countries with millions to vaccinate had not.

The article is interesting on many different levels.

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