The Age of Autism: Anna's last days -- 1

The Age of Autism: Anna's last days -- 1
By Dan Olmsted
UPI Senior Editor

Washington, July 6 (UPI) -- On April 26 a Scottish child named Anna Duncan attended a party where two children had chickenpox. Nine days later she got her routine measles-mumps-rubella vaccination. Four days after that she developed classic chickenpox symptoms -- spots and fever.

One week later, on May 14, Anna was dead from an apparent seizure. She was 17 months old.

Now her father, John, is struggling with the sudden loss of a bright, lively child -- and increasingly suspicious that the MMR shot during an apparent chickenpox infection triggered her death.

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