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3 News covers the formal retraction by prestigious journal The Lancet of Andrew Wakefield’s controversial paper claiming a link between the MMR vaccine and autism.
There are still concerns, however, that even this step will not convince parents that the vaccine is safe.
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China overtook the US in having the world's largest number of mobile phone users, with 120.6 million, at the end of July 2001.
