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Childhood leukaemia may be preventable by exposure to infections in early life

BMJ 2018; 361 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.k2246 (Published 21 May 2018) Cite this as: BMJ 2018;361:k2246

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Re: Childhood leukaemia may be preventable by exposure to infections in early life

Rather than face the issues which I have raised Dr Geerts seems to resort to rank, emphasising apparently my status as "mister" and invoking SCI ranking, but that obviously does not answer the question and it seems to me there is an awful lot about the fall out of the extended vaccine programme that we do not know, while at the same time convincing studies are not being funded by the major global institutions - which are anyhow conflicted as often the promoters of the vaccines in the first place. In most cases, however, licensing information about individual vaccines state that they have not been tested for cancers. I m afraid we are left with the old adage that absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

At the same - in view of the title of the article - it is reasonable to point out that we do a lot to intervene with and suppress childhood infection. Nor is child health generally good in the countries with the longest vaccine schedules and the highest uptake i.e. the US and the UK. Unfortunately, it may be easier for someone outside the system to point this out.

Competing interests: No competing interests

25 May 2018
John Stone
UK Editor
AgeofAutism.com
London N22