For anyone wondering about the preference of a dead child with measles versus a live child with autism, see the first letter here http://www.spiked-online.com/Articles/00000002D41B.htm . Here is the text:

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Until further research is done, please may I let my children catch measles, mumps, and rubella, rather than risk developing autism. When my eldest child developed autism, maybe after the MMR jab, I felt that it would have been better if she had caught measles and died. The grief of living with a child with autism is worse than normal grief, because autism seems at times like a living death, with no hope offered, no cure, no sympathy offered to parents, and no understanding shown by GPs generally. If my child had been brain damaged after a measles infection, it would be easier to accept, than to think that I allowed a vaccination to damage my child.

Karen Angela Richardson, UK

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This parent's overwhelming concern for her own well-being speaks for itself.