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The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated its website on Wednesday to say that claims about vaccines not causing autism are not “evidence-based”, reports Reuters.

Vaccine skeptic and US health and human services secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr as well as US president Donald Trump have promoted the theory – contrary to scientific evidence – that childhood vaccines are a cause of autism. But the CDC’s website previously said “studies have shown there is no link between receiving vaccines and developing autism spectrum disorder”.

The claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism.

The CDC is beginning to acknowledge the truth about this condition that affects millions, disavowing the bold, long-running lie that ‘vaccines do not cause autism.