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by Dawn Prate
November 17, 2007
from
Rense Website
Spanish version
You have probably seen
your nurse insert a syringe into a large vial, extract some liquid,
and then leave a substantial amount of vaccine in the original
container.
If you've witnessed this seemingly benign procedure,
you've seen how vaccine manufacturers are saving money at the
expense of public health. In order to store larger
amounts of vaccine at a lower cost, companies began offering
"multi-dose units" while adding preservatives to prevent
contaminations.
That way doctors can open and close a vaccine
container, inviting germs into the once-sterile solution, while
assuring the public that those contaminants are quickly killed by
the preservative.
Sound familiar?
It's the same story of
corporate America's love affair with preservatives. It saves them
money, while posing an undue risk to your health.
But like many
toxic preservatives found in food, a vaccine preservative kills more
than just bacteria and fungi; it can lead to extensive neurological
damage in your children, and has even been implicated in autism.
Thimerosal
Thimerosal is the preservative of choice for vaccine manufacturers.
First introduced by Eli Lilly and Company in the late 1920s and
early 1930s, the company began selling it as a preservative in
vaccines in the 1940s. Thimerosal contains 49.6 percent mercury by
weight and is metabolized or degraded into ethylmercury and
thiosalicylate. Mercury, or more precisely, ethylmercury, is the
principle agent that kills contaminants. Unfortunately, mercury also
kills much more than that.
The Department of Defense classifies mercury as a hazardous material
that could cause death if swallowed, inhaled or absorbed through the
skin. Studies indicate that mercury tends to accumulate in the
brains of primates and other animals after they are injected with
vaccines.
Mercury poisoning has been linked to cardiovascular disease, autism,
seizures, mental retardation, hyperactivity, dyslexia and many other
nervous system conditions. That's why the FDA rigorously limits
exposure to mercury in foods and drugs. Some common sources of
mercury include dental amalgam fillings, various vaccines and
certain fish contaminated by polluted ocean waters.
The toxicity of mercury has never been in question. The real
question is precisely how much mercury-laced thimerosal is toxic,
and what are the possible consequences for our children at low
doses?
Eli Lilly and Co. supposedly answered this question for us back in
1930. Concluding thimerosal to be of "a very low order of toxicity... for man," the company hired its own doctors to perform thimerosal experiments in Indianapolis City Hospital on meningitis
patients during a severe outbreak in 1929. This 60-year-old evidence
was still quoted on the company's brochures as recently as 1990.
Andrew Waters,
who is involved in a lawsuit against Eli Lilly, claims that most
critical studies on the toxicity of thimerosal were suppressed by
the company until now.
Banned Around
The World - But Not In The US
That might explain why thimerosal was eliminated in many countries
20 years ago. In 1977, a Russian study found that adults exposed to
ethylmercury, the form of mercury in thimerosal, suffered brain
damage years later.
Studies on thimerosal poisoning also describe
tubular necrosis and nervous system injury, including obtundation,
coma and death. As a result of these findings, Russia banned
thimerosal from children's vaccines in 1980. Denmark, Austria,
Japan, Great Britain and all the Scandinavian countries have also
banned the preservative.
Eli Lilly stuck to its "scientific" facts, but the truth began
slipping between the cracks in 1999. After the number of
immunizations rose to 12 to 15 per child, the public finally became
privy to the possible dangers of thimerosal. One 1999 study revealed
that some infants, due to a genetic or developmental factor, lack
the ability to eliminate mercury. Trace amounts of mercury in these
infants, when accumulated over several vaccines, could pose a severe
health risk.
Some vaccines, such as vaccines for hepatitis B, contained as much
as 12.5 micrograms of mercury per dose. That's more than 100 times
the EPA's upper limit standard when administered to infants.
Hepatitis B vaccines aren't the only immunizations under suspicion.
According to Burton Goldberg in Alternative Medicine,
scientists are finding stronger and stronger links between
thimerosal and neurological damage. One report by Dr. Vijendra
Singh of the Department of Pharmacology at the University of
Michigan found a higher incidence of measles, mumps and rubella
vaccine (MMR) antibodies in autistic children.
The National Vaccine Information Center in Vienna, Virginia, has
noted a strong association between the MMR vaccine and autistic
features. Reporting similar findings, the Encephalitis Support
Group in England claims that children who became autistic after
the MMR vaccine started showing autistic symptoms as early as 30
days after vaccination. The diphtheria, pertussis and tetanus
vaccine (DPT) given at two, four and six months has
triggered autistic symptoms, as well.
When the FDA finally formally released this information in 1999, the
news came too little too late for some parents. The damage had
already been done.
Links Between
Autism And Thimerosal
Autism affects 500,000 to 1.5 million Americans and has grown at an
annual rate of 10 to 17 percent since the late 1980s. California
found a 273 percent increase in autism between 1987 and 1998.
Maryland reported a 513 percent increase in autism between 1993 and
1998 and several dozen other states reported similar findings. Some
scientists say the estimated number of cases of autism has increased
15-fold 1,500 percent since 1991, when the number of childhood
vaccinations doubled. Whereas one in every 2,500 children was
diagnosed with autism before 1991, one in 166 children now have the
disease.
This increase in reported autism cases eerily parallels the increase
in the number and frequency of thimerosal-containing vaccinations
administered to infants. As of today, children are given as many as
21 immunizations in the first 15 months of life. After a number of
scientists and concerned activists noticed the correlation, an
investigation was launched to get to the heart of the matter.
Statistical evidence links thimerosal with nervous system disorders.
In June 2000, federal officials and industry representatives were
assembled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to
discuss the disturbing evidence.
According to Tom Verstraeten,
an epidemiologist who had analyzed the data on the CDC's database,
thimerosal appeared to be responsible for a dramatic increase in
autism and other neurological disorders. Verstraeten told those at
the meeting that a number of earlier studies indicate a link between
thimerosal and speech delays, attention-deficit disorder,
hyperactivity and autism.
Verstraeten offered no possible cause for this correlation, but held
that the statistical evidence linking vaccines and neurological
disorders was strong. Dr. Bill Weil, a consultant for the American
Academy of Pediatrics, and Dr. Richard Johnston, an
immunologist and pediatrician from the University of Colorado,
presented similar concerns to the group. However, given no causal
relationship, the CDC and industry representatives were quick to
discredit the evidence.
Consequently, the CDC paid the Institute of Medicine (IOM)
to conduct another study on thimerosal.
According to Robert F.
Kennedy Jr., this study was fixed in order to "whitewash"
previous findings. In its 2001 report, the IOM's Immunization Safety
Review Committee did conclude that the link between thimerosal and
neurodevelopmental disorders was biologically plausible, though the
evidence neither proved nor negated it.
The Committee stated that
phasing out thimerosal from vaccines was,
"a prudent measure in
support of the public health goal to reduce mercury exposure of
infants and children as much as possible."
However, these findings offered no imperative. The data presented at
the 2000 meeting was withheld from publication and the link between thimerosal and autism remained "inconclusive."
But what does "inconclusive" mean? Well, that depends on who you
talk to.
According to the FDA
(Food & Drug Administration), these "inconclusive" findings negate
the risk of a causal relationship between thimerosal and autism.
Even Tom Verstraeten, one of the presenters of epidemiological
evidence at the CDC meeting, seemingly changed his tune a bit. In
2000, Verstraeten vigorously campaigned against thimerosal based
upon his "inconclusive" correlation, but after he was hired by
GlaxoSmithKline, the doctor changed his position.
The same evidence from
2000, in Verstraeten's eyes, became "neutral" in 2003. After
criticism for this apparent flip-flop, Verstaeten wrote a letter to
the editor of Pediatrics in 2004 backing the CDC's actions and his
own research methods. Merck continues selling vaccines with thimerosal.
Without an imperative to eradicate thimerosal immediately, vaccine
manufacturers like Merck & Co. seemingly took their time in reducing
thimerosal levels in vaccines. After a large public outcry in 1999,
Merck & Co. began decreasing or eliminating the amount of thimerosal
in its vaccines.
In September 1999, Merck announced that its new
line of vaccines were preservative-free, but still continued to
distribute the remainder of thimerosal-preserved vaccines until
2001. Only after a congressional inquiry in 2002 did they stop
distributing their stockpile. Rep. Dave Weldon, R-Fla.,
called Merck's actions "misleading."
While officials at the Center for Disease Control claim
evidence is lacking to support the possible risks of thimerosal, Dr.
Mark Geier, a Maryland geneticist and vaccinologist, along
with his son and research partner David Geier, says the CDC has
chosen to ignore the science. According to Dr. Geier, more than
5,000 articles have been published that question the safety of thimerosal in vaccines.
The Geiers analyzed the data and determined that the more thimerosal
a child receives, the greater his or her chances are of being
autistic. The CDC says the Geiers misused information from a CDC
database that was not intended to help prove theories. Given no real
causal mechanism linking thimerosal and autism, the game seems to
have become one of slanting the data to suit the needs of government
and industrial interests.
Even Verstraeten has
admitted that these "inconclusive" findings certainly don't rule out
the possibility of finding a link in the future.
Grassroots
Action Against Vaccine Manufacturers
Given the dearth of health organizations owning up to the dangers of
thimerosal, many parents followed their gut instincts and took legal
action against vaccine manufacturers.
More than 4,200 families have
filed lawsuits claiming thimerosal caused injuries to their
children.
These lawsuits often have two goals:
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First, to seek
reparations for the loss of consortium (basically meaning that an
autistic child creates emotional and psychological burdens on their
family life)
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Second, to ensure that these companies exercise
more concern for public health and less concern for their own bottom
line
The lawsuits are slow in producing results. The first constraint on
these lawsuits is the National Childhood Vaccine Act of 1986.
This act stipulates that victims cannot seek redress in the courts
without first filing a claim for recovery in the federal Vaccine
Court.
The statute of limitations for this is within three years of,
"the first symptom
or manifestation of onset or of the significant aggravation of a
[vaccine-related] injury."
In the cases of many
thimerosal victims, the link between autism and vaccines didn't
appear until six years after the first vaccine was administered.
While this statute has stopped some claims against vaccine
manufacturers, including such big firms as Aventis, GlaxoSmithKline,
Merck and Johnson & Johnson, many judges are now allowing suits
against Eli Lilly, the maker of thimerosal, to stand. While the
Vaccine Act shields vaccine manufacturers, one judge reasons that
the legislation does not protect the production of thimerosal
because it is a "component."
The burden of proof in court is also extremely problematic for most
of these suits. Given the supposed lack of scientific data, lawyers
are hard-pressed to prove the link between thimerosal and autism. In
what seems like an underhanded move, the CDC sold its data to a
private company, ensuring that lawyers could not access it under the
Freedom of Information Act.
In the past five years, Congress has also aided vaccine
manufacturers, supposedly for "security" reasons.
In 2002, a
mysterious piggyback on the 2002 Homeland Security bill freed drug
companies of liability in lawsuits regarding thimerosal. Called the
"Eli Lilly Protection Act" by outraged parents and activists, the
then-House Majority Leader Dick Armey told CBS News he snuck
the amendment in to keep vaccine-makers from going out of business.
Armey claimed it was a
matter of national security.
"We need their
vaccines if the country is attacked with germ weapons."
Ironically, foreign
biological terrorism hasn't been a big problem for American
citizens, but those whose lives (and the lives of their children)
have been affected if not ruined by the harmful effects of
thimerisol would undoubtedly say these potentially harmful vaccines
are indeed a problem.
Armey's piggyback bill was repealed in 2003,
but that didn't stop lawmakers from continuing to protect the
vaccine industry.
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is no stranger to the
thimerosal debate, having received $873,000 in contributions from
the pharmaceutical industry and $10,000 from Eli Lilly. Frist's
position allowed him to attempt to help the industry from the
inside, according to Kennedy. Kennedy reports that on five
occasions, Frist tried to seal the government's vaccine-related
documents and shield Eli Lilly from subpoenas.
Frist also introduced a
provision in the 2005 Senate Bill S-3 called the "Protecting America
in the War on Terror Act," that would effectively insulate the
pharmaceutical industry from liability for thimerosal poisoning.
Pharmaceutical manufacturers, including Merck, GlaxoSmithKline,
Aventis, Weyeth and Eli Lilly, can basically get off scot-free for
their actions, even as more and more evidence suggests that top
company officials were aware of the possible dangers and did
nothing.
A secret memo leaked to the Los Angeles Times reportedly implicates
one vaccine manufacturer, Merck & Co., for knowing that thimerosal
could pose serious threats to infants. Allegedly, Dr. Maurice
Hilleman, one of Merck's top scientists, warned the president of
Merck of a possible threat as early as 1991. Dr. Hilleman told
executives that six-month-old children receiving regular
immunizations frequently received mercury doses 87 times higher than
guidelines for the maximum consumption of mercury. Given today's
more prudent mercury standards, those thimerosal doses would be 400
times that of safe levels.
Dr. Hilleman recommended in the memo that thimerosal be
discontinued. Not only do government and industry officials seem to
be trying to downplay the possible harms of thimerosal; the media is
also denying the issue coverage. Just recently, ABC flip-flopped on
whether it will air interviews with Robert Kennedy Jr., a leading
critic of thimerosal.
ABC has been accused of
suppressing the interviews because of its ties to the pharmaceutical
industry.
The Thimerosal
Debate Continues
Along with the enormous amount of controversy surrounding this
issue, the five-year-old plea for "more research" may have finally
produced some results.
Burton Goldberg notes that a defect in the
myelinization process (insulation of nerve fibers) could explain
mercury's propensity to cause autism and neurological damage. This
may also account for the frequent development of epilepsy in older
autistic children.
Scientists are also working on biological links that support the
strong correlations. Researchers at Northeastern University, working
with scientists from the University of Nebraska, Tufts and Johns
Hopkins University, may have recently found the mechanism by which
thimerosal interferes with brain activity. If these researchers are
right, vaccine manufacturers could do little to keep the damaging
effects of thimerosal hidden.
Pharmacy professor Richard Deth and colleagues found that
exposure to thimerosal potently interrupts growth factor signaling,
causing adverse effects on the transfer of carbon atoms. These
carbon atoms play a significant role in regulating normal DNA
function and gene expression and are critical to proper neurological
development.
Additionally, the
scientists recently obtained more insight into the mechanism by
which thimerosal interferes with folate-dependent methylation. The
mechanism inhibits the biosynthesis of the active form of vitamin
B12 (methylcobalamin), a vitamin now being administered to autistic
children.
Video
Mainstream news
talking about how mercury is good for your children's
behavior.
Obviously this is not true because mercury is a
known neurotoxin. Rolling Stone Magazine did an
article about mercury containing vaccines.
http//www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/7395411/deadly_immunity
"According to a
CDC epidemiologist named Tom Verstraeten, who had
analyzed the agency's massive database containing the
medical records of 100,000 children, a mercury-based
preservative in the vaccines - Thimerosal - appeared
to be responsible for a dramatic increase in autism and a
host of other neurological disorders among children."
This video shows
cooperation between the mainstream
media, big pharma, and the federal government. This
gives a window into the interlocking corporate control
structure that has become much more than a "military
industrial complex".
The Experts
Speak On Mercury, Vaccines And Thimerosal
All childhood vaccines now have at least one mercury-free version,
and I urge parents to ask for those versions if they choose to
vaccinate their children.
Injecting mercury into
children, especially infants whose immune systems are still
underdeveloped (hepatitis B shots are typically given at birth,
before the immune system has developed), can be an assault to the
immune system.
What Your Doctor May Not
Tell You About Autoimmune Disorders
by Stephen B Edelson MD
page 65
In 1999, studies began to surface showing that multi-dose vial
vaccines, such as the MMR and hepatitis B vaccines, contained
enough thimerosal to expose vaccinated children to 62.5 ug of
mercury per visit to the pediatrician. This is one hundred times
the dose considered safe by the Federal Environmental Protection
Guidelines for infants!
Worse yet, some
infants will receive doses even higher; because thimerosal tends
to settle in the vial. If it is not shaken up before being
drawn, the first dose will contain low concentrations of mercury
and the last dose will contain enormously high concentrations.
If your baby is the
unlucky one that gets the last dose, serious brain injury can
result
Health And
Nutrition Secrets
by
Russell L Blaylock MD,
page 166
Thousands of families say they can demonstrate with videotapes
and photos that their children were normal prior to being
vaccinated, reacted badly to the vaccines, and became autistic
shortly thereafter.
The number of
vaccines given before age two has risen from 3 in 1940, when
autism occurred in perhaps one case per 10,000 births, to 22
different vaccines given before the age of two in the year 2000.
Building Wellness
With DMG
by Roger
V Kendall PhD
page 104
We know that certain forms of mercury, such as methylmercury and
phenylmercury, are highly lipid soluble, which makes the brain
especially susceptible to mercury accumulation. These forms of
mercury are found in vaccines as the preservative thimerosal.
Once in the brain, it tends to attach itself to protein
structures, especially to the cell membrane, where it can
disrupt membrane functions.23 By binding to the cell membrane,
mercury changes the membrane's fluid-like quality, making it
stiffer and causing the cell to age faster.24
The brain is unique
in that neurons depend on special microscopic tube-like
structures within the cell, appropriately called neurotubules,
for their function. These neurotubules are manufactured by the
cell from a substance called tubulin. We know that mercury
interacts with tubulin causing it to unravel.
Studies in rats have
shown that doses of mercury corresponding to those seen in
humans can cause a 75 percent increase in tubulin inhibition.
Health And
Nutrition Secrets
by
Russell L Blaylock MD
page 53
In the case of the susceptible newborn infant and toddler,
multiple exposures to mercury-containing and multiple antigen
vaccines are highly suspect in the causation of multiple organ
injury (Bernard et al. 2000). The GI tract, the liver, the
pancreas, the kidneys, the immune system, and the brain are
major sites of mercury absorption.
Researchers have
clearly shown a chronic inflammatory bowel disease due to
vaccine strain measles in a subset of children with autism
(Thompson et al. 1995; Wakefield et al. 1995, 1999, 2000a,b;
Kawashima et al. 2000; Pardi et al. 2000; Uhlmann et al. 2002).
Disease Prevention
And Treatment
by Life
Extension Foundation
page 153
Studies of autistic children have frequently shown very high
levels of mercury, with no other source but vaccines found for
the exposure. These levels are equal to those seen in adults
during toxic industrial exposures. Several autism clinics have
found dramatic improvements in the behavior and social
interactions in children from whom the mercury was chelated.
Results depended on how soon the mercury was removed following
exposure, but permanent damage can be caused if the metal is not
chelated soon enough.
Still, even in cases
of severe damage, because of the infant brain's tremendous
reparative ability, improvements are possible. The problem of
autism involves numerous body systems including the
gastrointestinal, immune and nervous systems; as a result we see
numerous infections and magnified effects of malnutrition.
Intrepid workers in the shadows, that is outside the medial
establishment, have worked many miracles with these children
using a multidisciplinary scientific approach completely ignored
by the orthodoxy.
Some children have
even experienced a return to complete physiological normalcy.
Health And
Nutrition Secrets
by
Russell L Blaylock MD
page 166
Mercury and autism mercury toxicity is a suspected cause of a
steep rise-a tenfold increase between 1984 and 1994-in diagnosed
cases of autism in children around the world, according to some
scientists. Specifically, the culprit is thimerosal, a
mercury-based compound used as a preservative in vaccines
commonly administered to babies and infants. Thimerosal-free
vaccines are available.
If you have a child
who will be receiving vaccinations, ask for and make sure
thimerosal-free vaccines are used.
Kelp, with its essential
minerals (especially calcium and magnesium), helps remove
unwanted metal deposits.
Prescription For
Dietary Wellness
by
Phyllis A Balch
page 198
The pertussis vaccine (DPT) may cause 45,000 cases
of autism per year in America, affecting 15 cases out of 10,000
vaccinations; also caused by the measles-mumps-rubella
vaccine (MMR) that causes mental impairment,
gastrointestinal damage, and increased mortality in 6-12 months
from impaired immunity; 9 out of 10 cases were not breast-fed;
eating dairy products caused parasites in the autistic (take
Vermex; contact Dr. Nelson in Mexico for control of parasites in
children with autism). There are now over 500,000 victims of
autism residing in the United States, in 1994. The pertussis
vaccination is not used in Sweden, which has virtually 0 cases
of autism, as does Holland.
This mental illness afflicts environmentally and socially
non-reactive persons, of withdrawn personality; with inability
to speak, violent tantrums, insomnia, actions such as bolting
across a road with no regard for the dire consequences. May be
caused infant antibiotic use in ear infections with subsequent
yeast overgrowth, by cumulative genetic Brain damage, Vitamin
deficiencies, or milk and additives allergies.
Immune disorders in
autism include white blood cellneutrophil Myeloperoxidase enzyme
deficiency for insufficient hypochlorite ions to kill yeast -
genetic type from Chromosome 17 mutation or biotinidase
deficiency, or acquired type from lead poisoning, Folic acid or
B-l 2 deficiency, infection or leukemias
Anti-Aging Manual
by Joseph
B Marion
page 450
Multiple vaccinations, especially in newborns, are another major
source of childhood mercury exposure because of the
mercury-containing thimerosal preservative. Over twenty-two
vaccinations are now recommended for children before the age of
two!
Health And
Nutrition Secrets
by
Russell L Blaylock MD
page 64
In addition, there is some anecdotal evidence that autism may be
tied to diet. One theory is that, in very rare cases, a child's
immune system could be weakened by the measles-mumps-rubella
vaccination (MMR), which is usually administered
before a child turns 2. As a result of this weakening, the
theory goes, the child's digestive system is unable to break
down certain food proteins, leading to abnormal brain
development.
Proponents of this
theory believe that putting the child on a diet that eliminates
certain foods, such as wheat and dairy products, could in
certain cases reverse the course of the disease. This theory
remains speculative, however, and research needs to be done to
determine its validity. In fact, a 2001 report issued by an
Institute of Medicine committee examining studies about the
health effects of the MMR vaccine in young children suggests
that there is no proven link between the vaccine and autism.
The committee
recommends that there be no change in immunization practices
that require children to be immunized during early childhood.
The Immune
Advantage
by Ellen Mazo and
Keith Berndtson MD
page 292
Rather than calling for an all-out immediate ban on thimerosal-containing
vaccines, they suggested that parents continue to have their
children vaccinated with mercury-contaminated vaccines until new
stocks of uncontaminated vaccine could be made available.
Here
are two doctors' unions that had to be beat over the head with
an overwhelming amount of data that mercury-contaminated
vaccines were harming children far worse than the actual
diseases against which the vaccine was intended to protect them,
only to have them suggest that parents continue to harm their
children just to satisfy their vaccination obsession.
Are you surprised to discover that recent investigations have
found that several doctor-members of vaccine boards were either
receiving grants from vaccine manufacturers or held stock in the
companies? They were willing to sacrifice the health of millions
of children just to fill their pockets with cash.
These people should
be looking through bars, not serving on boards.
Health And
Nutrition Secrets
by
Russell L Blaylock MD
page 167
Vaccines may afflict 45,000 cases of autism per year in America,
which afflicts 15 victims in every 10.000 births: there are now
5 00,000 of these victims in the U.S.
In Sweden not using
the pertussis vaccine, there is virtually no autism (and
likewise in Holland).
Anti-Aging Manual
by Joseph
B Marion
page 600
Many symptoms of autism are similar to those of mercury
poisoning. Immune dysfunction, visual disturbances, and motor
dysfunction are seen in both.
Treating autistic children for
removal of mercury and other heavy metals has shown significant
improvement in their autistic symptoms. Most autistic
individuals have poor liver detoxification, low antioxidant
levels, and low levels of glutathione. Vaccines are effective,
but the production and use of vaccines should proceed more
cautiously. Currently manufactured vaccines still contain
harmful substances like mercury.
The link between
vaccines and autism is far stronger than the medical community
is willing to admit, and more research in this area should be an
urgent priority.
Building Wellness
with DMG
by Roger
V Kendall PhD
page 105
Studies indicate that autism may be the result of adverse
reactions to childhood vaccinations. Dr. Alan Cohen, an
environmental physician from Connecticut, notes that high levels
of autism and attention deficit disorder (ADD) did
not occur until the mandatory use of childhood vaccinations, and
suggests that there may be a connection between certain vaccines
and the onset of these conditions.
Complete Encyclopedia Of
Natural Healing
by Gary
Null PhD
page 46
Almost from the inception of vaccination programs, manufacturers
added a mercury preservative called thimerosal to vaccines. The
practice continued until recently, and was stopped only because
of the outcry from thousands of concerned parents and numerous
experts in the field.
The American Academy of Pediatrics and the
American Academy of Family Practice did not warn parents or
pediatricians that the mercury was dangerous until they were
forced to.
That mercury was
toxic to cells had been known for over sixty years, but
manufacturers apparently were more worried about lawsuits
Health And
Nutrition Secrets
by
Russell L Blaylock MD
page 165
In fact, a 2001 report issued by an Institute of Medicine
committee examining studies about the health effects of the MMR
vaccine in young children suggests that there is no proven link
between the vaccine and autism. The committee recommends that
there be no change in immunization practices that require
children to be immunized during early childhood.
Another disorder
affecting the brain, Alzheimer's disease, may also have an
immune connection. Alzheimer's is a degenerative disease that
slowly attacks nerve cells in the brain. It eventually results
in the loss of all memory and mental functioning. Scientists are
currently investigating the role that the immune system plays in
producing an overabundance of the amino acid glutamate, a
powerful nerve-cell killer.
Another immune
connection that researchers are investigating is the idea that
Alzheimer's might be triggered, in part, by a virus.
The Immune
Advantage
by Ellen Mazo and
Keith Berndtson MD
page 292
In the past 10 years, the number of autistic children has risen
between 200 and 500 per cent in every state in the U.S. This
sharp increase in autism followed the introduction of MMR
vaccine in 1975. Representative Dan Burton's healthy grandson
was given injections for 9 diseases in one day.
These injections
were followed by autism.
A Physicians Guide
To Natural Health Products That Work
by James Howenstine MD
Page 267
"Probably 20% of American children, one in five, suffers from a
"development disability'," according to Harris Coulter,
Ph.D., Founder and Director of the Center for Empirical
Medicine, in Washington, D.C. "This is a stupefying figure and
we have inflicted it on ourselves. 'Development disabilities'
are nearly always generated by encephalitis.
And the primary
cause of encephalitis in the U.S. and other industrialized
countries is the childhood vaccination program. To be specific,
a large proportion of the millions of U.S. children and adults
suffering from autism, seizures, mental retardation,
hyperactivity, dyslexia, and other branches of the hydra-headed
entity called 'development disabilities' owe their disorders to
one of the vaccines against childhood diseases."
Alternative
Medicine
by Burton
Goldberg
page 1101
Martin noted that the increased incidence of chronic fatigue
syndrome, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, autism, and
other behavior-linked illnesses "may be an inadvertent
consequence of stealth virus vaccine contaminants."
AIDS And Ebola
by
Leonard Horowitz PhD
page 493
Just for perspective if we go back to 1971 up to 1980, we see
that California consistently added 100 to 200 new cases a year;
but in the year 2002, California added 3,577 new cases.
Since
1980, the documented start of California's autism epidemic, the
number of new cases has steadily increased. If we break down
those statistics it means that from 1994 to 1995, California
only added on average 2 new autistic children a day into its
system. In 2001, it was a rate of 8 new autistic children added
a day; in 2002, it jumped up to 10 children a day.
Mercury-containing
vaccines are still in use today, including the most recently
recommended addition to the childhood immunization schedule, 2
shots of flu vaccine for infants, bringing the total number of
vaccines up to 41 in California that a child will receive before
the age of two. It will take a few years to start seeing the
effect of the phasing out of the mercury-containing preservative
thimerosal from childhood vaccines on this autism epidemic.
Many symptoms of autism are similar to those of mercury
poisoning. Immune dysfunction, visual disturbances, and motor
dysfunction are seen in both. Treating autistic children for
removal of mercury and other heavy metals has shown significant
improvement in their autistic symptoms.
Most autistic
individuals have poor liver detoxification, low antioxidant
levels, and low levels of glutathione.
Building Wellness
with DMG
by Roger
V Kendall PhD
page 105
Since the 1990s, there has been a tenfold or 1000-percent
increase in autism, an increase which has been linked by some
researchers to the organic mercury preservative commonly found
in baby vaccines. A greatly increased incidence of juvenile
diabetes has been correlated to specific vaccination sequences
and to the number of vaccines given.
In some Australian
Aboriginal communities, every second child died shortly after
vaccination.
The Natural Way to
Heal
by Walter
Last
page
309
The best current estimates are that autism occurs in 40 to 67
children per 10,000 live births. This means that the prevalence
of autism has increased 1,000 percent in the last decade.
According to the
latest figures just released in January 2003 by the California
Department of Developmental Services, California experienced an
astounding 31 percent increase in the number of new children
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