article_snippet.sent: Yet another scientific study has found no link between autism and the vaccine against measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) - even among high risk children.
article_snippet.sent: Some of the elder children had autism and some did not.
article_snippet.sent: Numerous studies over the last 15 years have ruled out a link between the MMR vaccine and Autism .
article_snippet.sent: Since autism can run in families, researchers decided to look at whether vaccines could make autism even more likely in children who had siblings with autism.
article_snippet.sent: researchers found that vaccines had no effect on autism risk, whether or not a sibling in the family was diagnosed. '
article_snippet.sent: Autism is on the rise, and affects as many as one in 68 children in the United States, but Autism causes remain poorly understood.
article_snippet.sent: Fears about vaccines and autism began to spread after the publication in 1998 of an article by Andrew Wakefield.
article_snippet.sent: Fears about vaccines and autism began to spread after the publication in 1998 of an article by Andrew Wakefield that purported to find a link between the MMR vaccine and autism in 12 children.
article_snippet.sent: But concerns over vaccine safety, particularly in the Internet age, have proven difficult to quell. '
article_snippet.sent: Children who have an older sibling with autism are less likely to get vaccinated, the JAMA study found.
article_snippet.sent: The only conclusion that can be drawn from the JAMA study is that there is no signal to suggest a relationship between MMR and the development of autism in children with or without a sibling who has autism,' King wrote. '
highlights_snippet.sent: Some children in a study of about 95,000 young people had elder siblings with autism .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: But researchers found vaccines had no effect on autism risk, whether or not a sibling in the family was diagnosed .