Donald Trump was still an aspiring Republican presidential candidate when he spoke about vaccines. In a Republican debate, the candidates weighed in on the importance of vaccines. Donald Trump was caught saying that if vaccinations were given time, there would be a big impact on autism. His opponent then was Ben Carson, a surgeon. He completely disagreed and pointed out that there is no proof that vaccines and autism are linked. Carson added that vaccines should be given more time.

Research actually reveals that vaccines will not cause autism; in fact it could even prevent millions of people from dying year after year, CNN reported. Spreading vaccines out in long periods will even make children more exposed and vulnerable. But despite these bogus claims there are still myths that still persist over vaccinations and these often hinder parents from getting their children vaccinated.

Other than the fear of developing autism, other myths that surround vaccines include the actual vaccine having mercury that could poison children, doctors and drug manufacturers profit from vaccines, vaccines could be too much for a child to handle and the disease that vaccines fight are eradicated anyway. All these false claims continue to hinder children from receiving life-saving vaccines all around the world, year after year.

National Geographic has recently published an article highlighting the strange history of vaccines and why do people actually fear getting vaccines and it showed that vaccine scare was not just limited in the United States. Pakistan and Afghanistan folks actually think that vaccines are a Western plot to make Muslim people infertile.

Still the post also featured Trump's innocent fear that vaccines do cause autism. Quite recently, he asked Robert Kennedy Jr. to head a commission on vaccines but soon enough, a spokeswoman for the president stated that Kennedy's appointment was not final and that this was actually an autism committee.

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