New York health officials denounced new wording on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website that suggested vaccines could be linked to autism.

The U.S. public health agency's website was changed on Nov. 19 to say that "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." It added that health authorities have "ignored" studies supporting the link between the two.

On Nov. 24, state health officials in New York, as well as the recently formed Northeast Public Health Collaborative, issued a statement that the CDC's stance was "inconsistent with decades of research and more than 40 carefully designed and scientifically sound studies involving 5.6 million people that show n

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