DOHA: Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) has scotched rumours circulating on social networking sites that vaccines administered to children here contain hazardous mercury.
Rumours went viral on social media with some commentators claiming that cases of autism among children in Qatar were related to the vaccines, according to Al Sharq.
HMC said the vaccines currently used in Qatar are free from mercury contents and imported from well-known international companies specialising in vaccines, said the daily, adding autism in Qatar has no connection with the vaccines. The Peninsula
