Dr. Popovic is clear about some parents' dilemmas: "It's proven MMR vaccine has nothing to do with autism"

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Linking the MMR vaccine with autism is an increasingly common topic. There are parents who vaccinate their children without hesitation, but there are also those for whom such associations create dilemmas.

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The president of the Public Health Association and UNICEF's immunization adviser, Dr. Dragoslav Popovic, today Tanjug today that it has been proven the MMR vaccine has nothing to do with autism.

He says that what used to be the source of all this misinformation has been retracted and that the doctor who perpetrated the fraud has lost his license and the right to practice.

Popovic notes that what is important for parents today, especially those whose children have autism, is that they all need the MMR vaccine, which, he says, is absolutely safe and adds that vaccination is the only protection in this period when an epidemic threatens, which he hopes will stop.

"In the period from 2017 to 2019, we had 5,900 cases, and 2,000 hospitalized children. Measles is a serious disease. In most children, it passes relatively quickly, in about ten days, but 30 percent have some complications related to pneumonia, severe conjunctivitis, even brain inflammation.

We know that measles infection has long-term consequences that can expressed themselves several years after the child was sick. No one needs to get sick when they can protect their child very simply, and that is with two doses of this vaccine," said doctor Popovic.

(Telegraf.rs/Tanjug)