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Hello there! It is completely natural to have questions about your child's health, but you can rest easy knowing that vaccines do not cause autism 1, 4, 12. While there was a recent, highly publicized change to the CDC website in late 2025 that suggested the evidence was inconclusive 8, leading experts from Johns Hopkins, the Mayo Clinic, and the Autism Science Foundation have clarified that this change was not evidence-based 2, 3, 9. In fact, scientists and health officials have rebuked these messaging changes as a distortion of decades of established science 10, 11. The original 1998 report that first suggested a link was found to be based on fraudulent data and was retracted long ago 1, 13. Extensive studies have shown that any perceived connection is usually due to the fact that the timing of autism symptoms often coincides with the standard childhood vaccination schedule 5, 14. Vaccines remain a safe and essential way to keep our communities healthy 1, 4.