New research supports previous findings on the idea that there could be a link between MMR vaccinations, autism and bowel disease in children.
The study appears to confirm the findings of British doctor Andrew Wakefield, who caused a storm in 1998 by suggesting a possible link.
Now a team from the Wake Forest University School of Medicine in North Carolina are examining 275 children with regressive autism and bowel disease - and of the 82 tested so far, 70 prove positive for the measles virus.
Last night the team's leader, Dr Stephen Walker, said: 'Of the handful of results we have in so far, all are vaccine strain and none are wild measles.
'This research proves that in the gastrointestinal tract of a number of children who have been diagnosed with regressive autism, there is evidence of measles virus.
'What it means is that Dr Wake-field's implication is it may be coming study is correct. That study from the MMR vaccine. If that's didn't draw any conclusions about the case, and this live virus is specifically what it means to find residing in the gastrointestinal measles virus in the gut, but the tract of some children, and then they have GI inflammation and other problems, it may be related to MMR.'
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Previously: April is Autism Awareness Month,
Teaching Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time,
Genetics and Autism,
Vaccines and Autism,
My Son Has Autism blog: Learning How To Learn,
My Son Has Autism Blog,
Link between certain birth factors and risk for autism?,
Charlie's World,
An Unexpected Childhood
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