WHO refutes Trump's claim linking paracetamol use in pregnancy to autism

ANI: The World Health Organisation (WHO) has dismissed US President Donald Trump's claims that vaccines and the use of paracetamol (acetaminophen) during pregnancy are linked to autism in children.

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Speaking at a press briefing in Geneva, WHO spokesperson Tarik Jasarevic clarified that existing scientific evidence does not support a causal relationship between paracetamol use during pregnancy and autism.

"I can tell you what we know about acetaminophen, which we know here as paracetamol. So, there were some observational studies that have suggested a possible association between prenatal exposure to acetaminophen or paracetamol and autism, but the evidence remains inconsistent. Several studies that have done after that have found no such relationship, and if the link between acetaminophen and autism were strong, it would likely have been consistently observed across multiple studies. So this lack of replicability really calls for caution enduring causal conclusions about the role of acetaminophen in autism," Jasarevic said.