Royal Free researchers were swamped with new subjects after attacking MMR shots

This page is research from an investigation by Brian Deer for the UK's Channel 4 Television and The Sunday Times of London into a campaign linking the MMR children's vaccine with autism. | Go to part I: The Lancet scandal | Go to part II: The Wakefield factor

In the months after a premeditated attack on the triple measles, mumps and rubella vaccine, MMR, by Andrew Wakefield in 1998, his department was inundated with inquiries from anxious parents of autistic children. With the reputation of the medical school of the Royal Free hospital behind him, these parents believed that Wakefield might have answers for their families' tragedy. Eighteen months after the coupon below was issued, he was departed from his post at the medical school "by mutual agreement"