Public health officials say the recent measles outbreak in Waikato can be linked in part to a since discredited 1998 research paper by British doctor Andrew Wakefield linking the MMR vaccine to autism. Helen Petousis-Harris is the director of Research at the Immunisation Advisory Centre. Anita Bell is the Waikato Medical Officer of Health.
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