Donald Trump has been accused of “fearmongering” and spreading “incessant misinformation” after he claimed there is a link between using paracetamol in pregnancy and autism.

The US president provided no evidence to back up his assertion, which he made while standing alongside his anti-vaccine health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr.

Trump said there had been a “meteoric rise” in cases of autism and suggested that paracetamol – which is called Tylenol n the US – is a potential cause.

“There are certain groups of people that don’t take vaccines and don’t take any pills, that have no autism,” the president claimed.

Turning to Kennedy, he said: “Is that a correct statement.”

Trump said the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) would be notifying all US doctors with new guidance advising mot

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