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It seems like these days there is a vaccine for everything. From chicken poxs to typhoid, if theres a vaccine your new born is sure to get it, in an attempt to keep them as healthy as possible. Although vaccines do prevent you from getting some very serious diseases as well as preventing common infections, new research has shown that an increase in birth diffracts, Down Syndrome in particular, may be linked to this rush of vaccines. As the number of child vaccinations goes up each year, so does the amount of children with Down Syndrome One Ashland mom argues there must be a correlation. She states that she would rather her child get sick and fight through it then possible contract a birth defect. People across the globe are standing right by this moms side. Famous actress Jenny Mcarthy, had a child that was born perfectly healthy. After receiving his douse of vaccinations, the baby came down with Autism. Jenny concludes that it must be the shots that turned her sweet young child into the troubled kid he is today. All this begs the question, could vaccines really be the reason so many young people are getting birth defects?

"The Vaccine War." Frontline: PBS. WGBH Educational Foundation, 27 Apr. 2010. Web. 01 June 2014. .

Just as the Vaccine causing birth defects myth got started, experts started to shut it down. Although it is agreed that certain added ingredients in the vaccines may cause birth defects, the actual vaccine itself is not to blame. Experts have been testing this myth from as early as 1999, and over 22 studies show no correlation among birth defects and autism. The fact that birth defects occur after vaccinations is purely coincidence. Removing these bad ingredients, researchers now say they are confident in their studies, and confident that newborns around the world that take vaccines, will not contract autism or another birth defect, unless its in their genetics that is. For Mcarthy, she will be harder to convince.

Brink, Susan. "One Thing We Know About Autism: Vaccines Aren't to Blame." National Geographic. National Geographic Society, 16 July 2013. Web. 02 June 2014. .