It has been confirmed by one more study that the measles vaccine given alone or as part of MMR vaccine has no link with increase in autism. This study was revealed a week after The Lancet apologize for a 1998 study that pointed out the autism risk to be associated with the MMR vaccine.

In this recent study, 96 children with autism and 192 children who did not have the disorder were monitored by Polish researchers. It was then concluded in the study that no such evidence occurred that children who were vaccinated for measles vaccine probably developed autism.

The team, led by Dorota Mrozek-Budzyn, of Jagiellonian University Medical College, in Krakow wrote, "For example, health-care workers or parents may have noticed signs of developmental delay before the actual autism diagnosis and, for this reason, have avoided vaccination”.

The May print issue of the Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal will publish this study.

Paul Offit, a vaccine researcher at Children's Hospital in Philadelphia said, "We've reached the many hundreds of thousands mark of children who did or didn't receive MMR to see whether risk of autism was greater in the vaccinated group and it wasn't; consistently, reproducibly, redundantly. I think that the problem is there are people who simply don't believe the science”.