Andrew Wakefield's anti-vax followers continues to grow

Andrew Wakefield speaking during anti-vaccine march organizes by STOP NOP in Warsaw, 2019. The 61-year-old was struck off the UK medical register in 2010 for ‘serious professional misconduct’. The British Medical Journal described Wakefield's work as an "elaborate fraud". Subsequent reporting by Deer revealed that Wakefield had planned to capitalize on the MMR vaccination scare provoked by his paper by forming a corporation that would profit from "litigation-driven testing" Wakefield's study and his claim that the MMR vaccine might cause autism led to a decline in vaccination rates in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Ireland, and a corresponding rise in measles and mumps infections, resulting in serious illness and deaths. His continued claims that the vaccine is harmful have contributed to a climate of distrust of all vaccines and the reemergence of other previously-controlled diseases. Wakefield has continued to defend his research and conclusions, saying there was no fraud, hoax or profit motive.