WHO responds Trump claims on paracetamol use in pregnancy causes autism, vaccines
By Anjali Sharma
UNITED NATIONS – World Health Agency on Tuesday has responded to remarks made by President Donald Trump in Washington, suggested that paracetamol use in pregnancy may cause autism.
WHO Spokesperson Tarik Jasarevic said that while some observational studies had raised questions many others found no such link, and the evidence overall remains inconsistent. If there were a strong connection, he said, it would have been seen consistently across multiple studies.
Mr. Jasarevic stressed that medicines in pregnancy should always be used cautiously and under medical supervision, particularly in the first trimester.
He also rejected suggestions that routine childhood vaccines cause autism, noted that WHO’s immunization schedules are based on decades of evidence and have saved more than 150 million lives over the past 50 years.
