According to Kate Kelland, writing a special report for Reuters, the repercussions of the false-alarm vaccine scare inflicted on the world courtesy of Andrew Wakefield go beyond suppressed vaccine uptake rates. They also extend to inhibiting dissemination of important adverse-event-related findings about other vaccines. Thanks to the fact that the MMR scare proved to be a lot of sound and fury, signifying nothing, scientists are wary of other reports of vaccine-related problems, concerned that they, too, might be another cry-wolf tale.