A new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention statement retracted a longstanding statement on its website that vaccines do not cause autism. Local pediatricians and other experts said the new statement is "misleading," ignores decades of scientific research that has not shown a link between vaccines and autism, and omits how vaccines prevent children from dying or getting severely ill from diseases like measles, polio, whooping cough and diphtheria.

What does the new statement say?

The CDC updated its website Wednesday to say that "studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines contribute to the development of autism."

"It's simply misinformation," said Dr. Eve Meltzer-Krief, a pediatrician at Allied Physician Group’s Huntington Village Pediatrics and vice presiden

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