A comprehensive study out Monday finds no link between the flu vaccine in pregnancy and autism spectrum disorder in children.
The study, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, followed nearly 70,000 infants born across seven healthcare regions in Sweden between October 2009 and September 2010. About 40,000 of them were exposed to the influenza A (H1 N1) vaccine in utero.
The researchers from Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, followed all the babies for an average of 6.7 years and found that 1% of those whose moms had received the vaccine and 1.1% of those whose moms didn't receive the vaccine had autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
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