The study, fully retracted in 2010, was later characterised as "perhaps the most damaging medical hoax of the 20th Century". Although subsequent large epidemiological research found no link between vaccines and autism, the study contributed – in the following years and decades – to a sharp drop in vaccination rates and the resurgence of measles in several countries. Now known to be full of data manipulation, the study was instantly controversial and fueled the nascent anti-vaccination movement. A study led by Andrew Wakefield is published in The Lancet suggesting an alleged link between MMR vaccine and autism.A massacre in Likoshane, FR Yugoslavia starts the Kosovo War.Secretary General Kofi Annan, allowing weapons inspectors to return to Baghdad, preventing military action by the United States and Britain. February 20 – Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraqi President Saddam Hussein negotiates a deal with U.N.
February 7– 22 – The 1998 Winter Olympics are held in Nagano, Japan.
With up to 4,000 killed, and 818 injured, damage is considered extreme. February 4 – The 5.9 M w Afghanistan earthquake shakes the Takhar Province with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII ( Very strong).February 3 – Cavalese cable car disaster: a United States military pilot causes the deaths of 20 people near Trento, Italy, when his low-flying EA-6B Prowler severs the cable of a cable-car.President Bill Clinton's alleged affair with Monica Lewinsky, which would lead to the House of Representatives' impeachment of him. January 17 – The Drudge Report breaks the story about U.S.January 14 – The World Trade Center is robbed by Mafia Member Ralph Guarino.January 12 – Nineteen European nations agree to forbid human cloning.January 11 – Over 100 people are killed in the Sidi-Hamed massacre in Algeria.January 8 – Ramzi Yousef is sentenced to life in prison for planning the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993.January 6 – The Lunar Prospector spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently shadowed craters near the Moon's poles.Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1998.ġ998 ( MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1998th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 998th year of the 2nd millennium, the 98th year of the 20th century, and the 9th year of the 1990s decade. Establishments and disestablishments categoriesġ998 in various calendars Gregorian calendar
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