India, Nov. 21 -- The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has updated its official website to recast its long-held assertion that "vaccines do not cause autism," declaring instead that this claim is not evidence-based.

The revision was made public on November 19, marking a departure from the agency's decade-old public health messaging and aligning with United States Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

The CDC admits under the new language that "studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism." They have added that certain studies suggest a link between vaccination and autism, which has been "ignored by health authorities."

The agency had previously maintained a fir...