Viral Video Says Bill Gates Vaccines Cause Autism

In practice, a viral clip claims autism did not exist in Vietnam until Bill Gates brought vaccines to the country.

Key points

• "There's no such thing as autism in 1975, year 2000, year 2001, there's no such thing, " he notes.
• It has circulated in English and Vietnamese on Facebook, TikTok, LinkedIn, and X since at least 2019.
• "There is no link between vaccination and autism in Vietnam or other countries, " Quyet Minh Nguyen, a psychiatrist at the Vietnam National Children's Hospital, informed AFP.
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• The footage carries a watermark from the anti-vaccine documentary "Vaxxed: From Cover-up to Catastrophe, " which was directed by Andrew Wakefield.

Meanwhile, the video resurfaced on Instagram on October 31, where the account mindsetofresistance shared it with the caption: "A doctor just put it plain: autism didn't exist in Vietnam in 1975. Not until Bill Gates introduced the vaccination program." The same clip was additionally shared widely on X earlier in October. Fact-checkers, community notes and Vietnamese experts say the claim is false. Bill Gates Wants to Dim the Sun. What Dr Anthony Phan Asserted.

In the clip, Phan notes Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and his foundation introduced a vaccination program in Vietnam, and that autism cases followed.

"There's no such thing as autism in 1975, year 2000, year 2001, there's no such thing, " he notes. "Now Vietnam has over a 300 percent rise in autism."

In practice, the video is not new. It has circulated in English and Vietnamese on Facebook, TikTok, LinkedIn, and X since at least 2019.

Notably, the footage carries a watermark from the anti-vaccine documentary "Vaxxed: From Cover-up to Catastrophe, " which was directed by Andrew Wakefield. Wakefield lost his medical license after falsifying data in a 1998 paper that linked autism to the MMR vaccine. The Lancet afterwards retracted that study.

Health experts in Vietnam have rejected the claim. "There is no link between vaccination and autism in Vietnam or other countries, " Quyet Minh Nguyen, a psychiatrist at the Vietnam National Children's Hospital, informed AFP.

Autism was only formally recognized in Vietnam in the late 1990s. That does not mean it did not exist before then. Diagnosing autism needs trained specialists and resources that were not widely available in the country at the time.

There are additionally no official nationwide statistics on autism rates in Vietnam that could back up the 300% figure. The first national survey, published by researchers at Hanoi University of Public Health in 2021, discovered that concerning 1 in 132 children had autism, a rate similar to other middle-income countries.

Meanwhile, the Gates Foundation has additionally denied the claim. "We can confirm that these claims are false, " the foundation remarked.

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This matters a great accord in Pakistan. Pakistan and Afghanistan are the only two countries where wild poliovirus is still spreading, and the WHO has extended travel restrictions on Pakistan over continued polio transmission. It remarked vaccine refusals remain a major obstacle to wiping out the disease.

Clips like this one, shared without context, can feed that hesitancy. So check whether health authorities back such claims.

Parents who notice signs of autism in their child should consult a pediatrician or developmental specialist. Backing is additionally growing in Pakistan, with Sindh opening the country's first residential autism center in Karachi this year. Stay Connected with ProPakistani.

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Taken together, the developments around viral Video Says Bill Gates Vaccines Cause Autism point to a situation that is still moving, and the coming days should bring more clarity.