CDC awards contract to RPI to study link between vaccines and autism

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has awarded a $362,493 contract to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute to investigate any links between vaccinations and autism spectrum disorder.

The definitive contract, awarded Tuesday just before the government shutdown, tasks the New York research university with an “investigation of the association between vaccinations and autism prevalence,” as the award description reads.

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