Autism was not even known until vaccines were first introduced. Autism is now increasing in our children.

The first cases of autism in the United States occurred at a time shortly after the pertussis vaccine became available.

The same correlations between autism and childhood vaccination programs may be found in other countries as well. In Japan, the first autistic child was diagnosed in 1945.(15) When the United States ended the war and occupied Japan, a mandatory vaccination program was established. Hundreds of new cases of autism were being diagnosed annually in Japanese children shortly thereafter.(16)

Europe began promoting the pertussis vaccine in the 1950s; the first cases of autism began to appear there in the same decade. In England the pertussis vaccine wasn't promoted on a large scale until the late1950s. Shortly thereafter, in 1962, the National Society for Autistic Children in Britain was established.(17)

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