US President Donald Trump intends to require manufacturers to split childhood vaccines into five separate doses to reduce autism cases. This was reported by Qazaqyia.kz citing Kursiv Media.
He did not specify which particular vaccines he was referring to, Reuters writes.
"We will recommend that they make five doses. (…) and administer them at six-month intervals so that a small amount of the vaccine enters the body," the publication quotes Trump as saying.
In August, Trump already signed an executive order providing for a review toward reducing childhood vaccination. In particular, the US administration proposed reducing the number of recommended childhood vaccinations from 18 to 11, and splitting the combined measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine into three separate shots.
Experts note that measles, mumps and rubella vaccines are not licensed in the United States, and it could take years before any of them become available in split form.
The publication notes that Trump's order supports a long-standing aspiration of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. He is known as an activist who fights against vaccination and claims that shots cause autism, although the scientific community has repeatedly proven this link false.
Kursiv previously wrote that Trump's order on reducing vaccinations does not mean that all children in the US will immediately stop receiving some vaccines. The point is that vaccination requirements for school entry are set by individual states, not the federal government.
Kursiv Health also reported on which vaccinations a child needs from birth to 16 years of age in Kazakhstan.
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