The World Health Organisation (WHO) has dismissed US President Donald Trump’s claims that vaccines and the use of paracetamol (acetaminophen) during pregnancy are linked to autism in children.

Speaking at a press briefing in Geneva, WHO spokesperson Tarik Jasarevic clarified that existing scientific evidence does not support a causal relationship between paracetamol use during pregnancy and autism.

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“I can tell you what we know about acetaminophen, which we know here as paracetamol. So there were some observational studies that have suggested a possible association between prenatal exposure to acetaminophen or paracetamol and autism, but the evidence remains inconsistent. Several studies that have done after that have found no such relationship, and if the link between acet

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