The CDC has changed a claim on its website about vaccines not causing autism. Photo: AP PHOTO

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recast the vaccine safety section of its website to align with the view of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that childhood vaccines cause autism, countering decades of science showing them to be safe.

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The US public health agency's website was changed to say, "The claim 'vaccines do not cause autism' is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism."

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