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Draft: Last updated – January 30, 2009 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Immunization Safety and Autism Thimerosal and Autism Research Agenda Study Description Study Estimated Study Design Publication Objective(s) Date Autism and This study was prompted by findings reported to the Institute of Medicine by Blaxill in Ecological Published in Autism Thimerosal- July 2001, which showed increases in autism incidence in California in association Cohort American Containing Vaccines: with increases in the use of thimerosal-containing vaccines during the 1990s. To Journal of Lack of Consistent further examine the plausibility of this finding, this study took advantage of the Preventive cessation of thimerosal use in Denmark and Sweden in 1992 to conduct a before and Evidence for an Medicine, after comparison of the incidence or case numbers of autism. In both countries, autism Association August 2003 increases throughout the years 1987-1999, contrary to the decrease in autism that would be expected after 1992 if thimerosal exposure was rela