Reply #177: There is no evidence that the measles virus or MMR causes Crohns disease! [View All]

This is a hypothesis that was investigated, but not supported.

Children have been having Crohns since long before MMR was invented, but until the 1970s it was assumed that only adults could have Crohns; therefore children, who had it, were diagnosed as delicate, suffering from frequent infections, or just as the emotionally disturbed offspring of neurotic parents. I had the condition since at least the age of 5 (without any MMR vaccine!), but wasn't diagnosed for 11 years because of this assumption. Hence the apparent increase in diagnosis of childhood Crohns.

Blaming everything on vaccines is not only dangerous because it deters people from vaccinating their children, but also because it can divert attention and resources from studying the real causes of Crohns, autism, etc.