Recent comments on autism risk hampering efforts to encourage families to reach out, an expert says. Photo: Joe Castro/AAP PHOTOS

Australia's health minister has rapped Donald Trump over the knuckles for spreading "worrying" unproven claims on autism.

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Flanked by Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr, the US president baselessly linked autism to the use of paracetamol by pregnant women and childhood vaccines.

Health Minister Mark Butler said he was "really worried" the comments would leave more than 200,000 pregnant Australian women unsure or afraid of what to do when they become sic

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