Jenny McCarthy has claimed that a government agency tried to lubricate her after she suggested that her son's autism was caused by a vaccine.
The Hollywood actress, now 52, revealed the diagnosis of her son Evan in 2007 and said it came after he received the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine and then suffered from epileptic attacks that could not breathe him.
She went to the Oprah Winfrey show with the claims in 2008 and wrote four books about fighting her son's condition – which means that problems with others communicate.
But now McCarthy has said that after submitting the claims she was approached by a Public Relations employee warned that a publicly US government agency wanted to hire him as part of a campaign to try to discredit her accusations.
Speaking on the podcast of Maria Menounos, McCarthy said that the man warned that the desk would “come behind you with everything they have.” He added that he could not accept the job because his own child suffered complications from a vaccine.
In the months after interaction, McCarthy said that she was dropped off by companies and was taken from advertising campaigns.
McCarthy did not mention the person who approached her with the warning or revealed which company they were working.
Despite the warning, she continued to speak about the diagnosis of her son – and still says that she now believes that his autism is linked to the vaccine.
Despite her claims, tHe CDC And several large meta-analyzes have failed to make a connection between the MMR vaccine and autism.
But secretary of human and health services Robert F. Kennedy Junior has previously claimed that there is a link and has now informed the CDC to investigate it again.
Jenny McCarthy, 52, is depicted above with her son Evan. She believes that his autism was caused by the MMR vaccine
On the podcast, McCarthy said that after she started to pronounce, she just had huge amounts of parents for about six months, “thanks, I didn't look crazy now, people kept saying that I was crazy”.
'And then I let someone come to my organization, generation salvation, and say to me:' Listen, I was approached by, let's just say a government agency, to be hired, and what I do is set up PR campaigns to go against the story.
'[He added]: “And I tell you private life because I give them up, but I wanted to give you carefully that it happens because they are going to hire someone else.
“” The only reason I said no is because my child has experienced the same thing and I didn't want to be part of it. “
'And I said: “Well, how are they going to do that if I have clearly said in every interview that I am not an anti-vaccine? Like, I just tell the story of my child [and] of what happened. “
“And he said:” It doesn't matter, they come after you with everything they have – and they have the media by their side, so this is just a heads -up. '
She said she followed this, she noticed that she was drawn jobs and campaigns in the midst of public controversy about her claims.
McCarthy has said earlier that her son was healthy, but that after receiving the MMR vaccine, which is given to protect against measles, to suffer from epileptic seizures, to stop breathing and turn blue.
Jenny McCarthy, now 52, is shown above in the podcast of Maria Menounos
He was rushed to the hospital and diagnosed with encephalitis – a kind of brain inflammation.
McCarthy is convinced that the vaccine caused brain inflammation that she says later led to the autism diagnosis of her son.
It was expressed concern that the MMR vaccine could cause autism in February 1998, after the Lancet article had published a study by discredit scientist Andrew Wakefield that suggested a link.
It took 12 years before the magazine finally withdrew the newspaper in February 2010, and said that the children studied in the newspaper 'were selected carefully' and not the result of a random sample.
The investigation also turned out to be partly financed by lawyers who act for parents involved in lawsuits against vaccine manufacturers.
More than 20 important studies with more than 10 million children in several countries have been conducted since the claims emerged, but no one has linked the MMR vaccine to a higher risk of autism.
There have been three published reports of encephalitis that emerged in people aged about four to nine months after their MMR vaccination, with one linked to the measles stem used in the vaccine.
People who catch measles are known to run the risk of developing this complication.
Dr. Jess Steier, an expert in the field of public health in Massachusetts who assessed the studies, said: 'Parents may be convinced that vaccinating their children protects them against serious diseases without increasing the risk of autism.
“The scientific evidence about this question is not only suggestive – it is overwhelming and convincing.”
It comes in the midst of an important outbreak of measles in West-Texas, where 422 people are infected and the state saw his first measles dead in a decade in a six-year-old girl.
The measles vaccine is 97 percent effective in preventing an infection with the disease, one of the most infectious in the world.
About one to three infections with the virus with every 1,000 children who are not -vaccinated, is fatal, suggesting estimates.
