MMR and autism

Mike Adams at Natural Health News is one of these over the top, instant hysteria advocates for natural health – some caution always needs to be paid to his views. However, he provides an excellent information service. here is an extract from a recent article on the MMR controversy containing some useful links:

You can watch a full interview between Dr. Wakefield and Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, in which Dr. Wakefield shares his side of the story concerning his study here:
http://tv.naturalnews.com/v.asp?v=608256A446123276E4E72A5351322186

If this is not enough, an IOM report released last year openly admits that MMR can cause vaccine-induced measles, febrile seizures, anaphylaxis, and transient arthralgia in women and children, which make it far from the safe vaccine that authorities claim it is. (http://www.naturalnews.com/033447_Institute_of_Medicine_vaccines.html). And an Italian court recently ruled that MMR indeed triggered autism in a young boy who developed severe bowel problems and various autism spectrum disorders, including the inability to speak, after receiving the MMR. (http://www.naturalnews.com/036255_MMR_autism_court_case.html)

The full article caqn be found at http://www.naturalnews.com/036801_free_speech_autism_website.html

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/036801_free_speech_autism_website.html#ixzz2nKjeIKLD

Diet, Mental Health, and Madness in the medical and Educational Systems

The rise in autism and the associations with diet suggest – to me at least – that as soon as a woman finds herself pregnant she should only eat organic foods and drink only filtered water. I believe a lot of the damage occurs in the womb. Here is a link to Mercola’s take on the problem – and it’s worth reading the comments too (below the article)

http://bit.ly/13UEkXJ

Here is another interesting link suggesting that, as far as our kids are concerned the world has gone out of control: https://mail.ntlworld.com/mail/?AuthEventSource=SSO#inbox/13f33b9a10d2c204

New Evidence for vaccination-autism link?

Copied from Ingrid Naiman’s mailing (see www.bioethika.com)

Infant Primates Given Vaccines On U.S. Children’s Immunization
Schedule Develop Behavioral Symptoms Of Autism

20 May 2008

A primate model for autism using the U.S. children’s immunization
schedule was unveiled at the International Meeting For Autism Research (IMFAR)
this weekend. The research underscores the critical need for studies into
vaccine safety and the immune and mitochondrial dysfunction of autistic
children. The National Autism Association (NAA) questions why the government
hasn’t undertaken these vital studies and why researchers have had to depend
on private money to perform this critical science that will surely
impact the health of millions of children worldwide.

While the authors and organizations associated with this study are withholding comment until p! ublication, University of Pittsburgh’s Dr. Laura Hewitson, Ph.D., described at the IMFAR meeting how vaccinated animals, when compared to unvaccinated animals, showed significant neurodevelopmental deficits and “significant associations between
specific aberrant social and non-social behaviors, isotope binding, and
vaccine exposure.”

Researchers also reported at the scientific meeting that “vaccinated animals exhibited progressively severe chronic active inflammation whereas unexposed animals did not” and found “many significant differences in the GI tissue gene expression profiles between vaccinated and unvaccinated animals.” Gastrointestinal issues are a common symptom of children with regressive autism.

NAA calls for the NIH to conduct large scale, non-epidemiological studies into the biomedical symptoms surrounding young children and all vaccines, including those containing the mercury-based preservative thimerosal and other additives like aluminum.

This request for further research echoes that of Dr. Bernadine Healy, Former NIH Director in a CBS interview earlier this week. “I think public health officials have been too quick to dismiss the hypothesis as ‘irrational,’ without sufficient studies of causation… without studying the population that got sick,” Healy said. “I have not seen major studies that focus on 300 kids who got autistic symptoms within a period of a few weeks of the
vaccines.”

Recently the government’s vaccine court conceded the case of Hannah Poling, admitting that vaccines triggered her regression into autism by exacerbating mitochondrial dysfunction. “The recent Poling case and this new research provide further evidence that the CDC has fallen down on their job to protect children from harm. The biomedical research to date suggests that parental reports of regression following vaccination is not only plausible, but likely in certain individuals,” said Scott Bono, NAA Chairman.
“To date, the CDC has conducted no safety testing on the possible harmfu! l
effects of simultaneously administering multiple vaccines to infants, and has
steadfastly refused to state a preference for mercury-free vaccines to be given to children and pregnant women. It’s time for HHS and Congress to step in and take vaccine safety away from the CDC.”

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