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Dr. Michael Tosi: “U.S. Measles Cases Now Exceed 100: CDC”

  • Healthday
  • New York, NY
  • (February 02, 2015)

Many parents aren't getting their children vaccinated against measles, due largely to what experts call mistaken fears about childhood vaccines. A big contributing factor to the parents' continuing concerns about vaccine safety was a 1998 fraudulent paper published and later retracted in the medical journal The Lancet. Michael Tosi, MD, chief of pediatric infectious diseases at the Kravis Children's Hospital at Mount Sinai in New York City, said, "Any concerns or claims about a connection between measles vaccine and autism in young children have absolutely no scientific basis and have been entirely discredited." Learn more