Abstract
On both sides of the Atlantic many people blame vaccines for causing autism. The curious thing is that they blame different vaccines. In the USA, parent activists point the finger at diphtheria, pertussis, and tetanus, and other vaccines containing the mercury-based preservative thiomersal (known over there as thimerosal). In the UK, they blame MMR. Because this vaccine is made up of live (attenuated) viruses, it cannot include thiomersal. Some campaigners, in a timely attempt to reduce Anglo-American tensions, have devised a theory that autism results from a combination of both types of vaccine.
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