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Haemophilus influenza type B vaccine was given to infants starting in 1991. Hepatitis B vaccination was gradually introduced in late 1992. Although autism admissions continued to increase after 1994, when the state completed the expansion of its developmental services, the biggest increase occurred in the cohort born between 1987 and 1992—that is, mostly before the additional thimerosal entered the vaccines babies were getting.

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