A MOTHER who believes her son became autistic because of the controversial MMR vaccine has called on the Prime Minister to give parents the choice of single jabs for their children.
Mandy Brunskill, of Clifton Moor, York, said nine-year-old Liam was diagnosed with autism at the age of two after receiving the MMR vaccination.
She is now claiming damages of £50,000 in the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court against American company Merck and Company for personal injury to her son.
In a letter to Tony Blair, she says: "Please do not undermine the general public by trying to brainwash them with propaganda publicity.
"Spend the taxpayers' money by offering choice to those parents who want the single vaccines and into research on why a minority of children are suffering for the safety of the majority."
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