"Mark Probert" wrote in message
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Mark Probert wrote:
Vaccines and Autism
By Ari Brown
927 words
27 October 2007
The Wall Street Journal

Dangerous vaccines that harm kids. An epidemic of disabled children,
hurt by an uncaring medical establishment.

That's the only true part in this whole article!

Sounds like a B-grade Hollywood thriller. But this is supposedly a
true story as told by actress Jenny McCarthy, author of the best
seller, "Louder Than Words: A Mother's Journey in Healing Autism."

When I heard Ms. McCarthy tell Oprah and Larry King that vaccines
caused her son's autism, I had a flashback to a cold winter's night,
13 years ago. I was the senior pediatric resident on call in the
Intensive Care Unit. Cradled in the arms of her parents, a seven-year-
old girl was brought to the emergency room at Children's Hospital
Boston. The girl had come down with chickenpox a few days earlier --
she had a fever and hundreds of itchy skin lesions. That night, she
had taken a turn for the worse. Her fever shot up to 106 and she
became confused and lethargic. She was unresponsive and limp in her
mother's arms.

The ER doctors suspected that her open sores allowed Strep bacteria to
get under her skin and rage through her bloodstream. Now she was in
"multiple system organ failure" -- every square inch of her body was
shutting down all at once. IVs were placed into her veins to start
fluids, antibiotics and medications to stabilize her heart and blood
pressure. She was placed on a ventilator machine to breathe. Then she
was brought to the Intensive Care Unit.

By the time I met my patient, she had tubes coming out of every
opening and weeping skin lesions all over her body. I was used to
blood and gore, but it was hard to look at her and not cry. Imagine
how her parents felt when they saw their once-beautiful little girl in
this grotesque state, struggling to survive.

My attending physician told me to grab dinner. This child would need
me for the rest of the night. I returned to the ICU to find that my
patient had gone into cardiac arrest and died. I watched, helplessly,
as the nurses placed the little girl into a body bag.

A nice sob story... Pull on those heart-strings...

But meanwhile, don't say a word about those hundreds of thousands of kids
that you doc, and your kind, have crippled with your vaccines.


Fast forward five months: The first chickenpox vaccine was approved.
That day, I vowed never to let a child on my watch suffer from a
disease that was preventable by vaccination.

Chickenpox was never a real threat to children in the first place...

That's a story that doesn't grab headlines or guest shots on Larry
King. Vaccines are one of mankind's greatest scientific achievements.

The opposite is true.

This year alone, they prevented 14 million infections, $40 billion in
medical costs, and most important, 33,000 deaths.

Phoney stats...

Yet vaccines are
victims of their own success. Today's parents are unfamiliar with the
diseases they prevent, but these diseases are alive and well in the
U.S. -- I have personally seen children suffer from them.

Call it the New McCarthyism: Who cares about 100 years of scientific
research? Vaccines are evil, because the Internet says they are.

No, because _real_ scientific research says they are useless.

When
a well-meaning parent like Ms. McCarthy blames vaccines for her
child's autism, it's dangerous.

Yes, it's dangerous to your bottom line, doc. That's why you're worried.

Yuri.

Yuri Kuchinsky -- http://www.globalserve.net/~yuku

The conclusion of the research report was: Children who received all of the
AAP recommended vaccinations were 14 times more likely to become learning
disabled and 8 times more likely to become autistic compared with children
who were never vaccinated. -- Donald Meserlian, P.E., VOSI Chairman & ASTM
Member March 2002
http://www.whale.to/a/vosi.html