Vaccines and the changing epidemiology of autism

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What is even more scary is the fact that some people do not have the
ability to analyze anecdotes and see it is not proof.

What do you mean? I can separate anecdotes from proof but if you research
around you will see that it does happen a lot, even if the medical society
does not recognize this

You evidently have a lot to learn about Mark Probert.

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Govt Report: Autism Connected to Vaccines

http://www.rense.com/general32/mmr.htm

Bush Asks Court To Seal
MMR Vaccine Records
By Todd Zwillich
11-26-2

WASHINGTON (Reuters Health) - Attorneys for the Bush Administration asked a
federal court on Monday to order that documents on hundreds of cases of
autism allegedly caused by childhood vaccines be kept from the public.
Department of Justice lawyers asked a special master in the US Court of
Federal Claims to seal the documents, arguing that allowing their automatic
disclosure would take away the right of federal agencies to decide when and
how the material should be released.
Attorneys for the families of hundreds of autistic children charged that the
government was trying to keep the information out of civil courts, where
juries might be convinced to award large judgments against vaccine
manufacturers.
The court is currently hearing approximately 1,000 claims brought by the
families of autistic children. The suits charge that the
measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine, which until recently included a
mercury-containing preservative known as thimerosal, can cause neurological
damage leading to autism.
Federal law requires suits against vaccine makers to go before a special
federal "vaccine court" before any civil lawsuit is allowed. The court was
set up by Congress to speed compensation claims and to help protect vaccine
makers from having to pay large punitive awards decided by juries in state
civil courts. Plaintiffs are free to take their cases to state courts if
they lose in the federal vaccine court or if they don't accept the court's
judgment.
The current 1,000 or so autism cases are unusual for the court. Because it
received so many claims, much of the fact-finding and evidence-gathering is
going on for all of the cases as a block.
Monday's request by the Bush Administration would prevent plaintiffs who
later go to civil court from using some relevant evidence generated during
the required vaccine court proceedings.
Plaintiffs' attorneys said that the order amounted to punishment of the
families of injured children because it would require them to incur the time
and expense of regenerating evidence for a civil suit.
"Wouldn't it be a shame if at the end of the day our policy would be to
compensate lawyers," said Jeff Kim, an attorney with Gallagher Boland
Meiburger & Brosnan. The firm represents about 400 families of autistic
children who received the MMR vaccine.
Kim accused the government of trying to lower "a shroud of secrecy over
these documents" in order to protect vaccine manufacturers, who he said were
"the only entities" that would benefit if the documents are sealed.
While federal law clearly seals most documents generated in individual
vaccine cases, it has never been applied to a block proceeding like the one
generating evidence in the autism cases.
Administration lawyers told Special Master George Hastings that they
requested the seal in order to preserve the legal right of the Secretary of
Health and Human Services to decide when vaccine evidence can be released to
the public.
Justice Department attorney Vincent Matanoski argued that to let plaintiffs
use the vaccine court evidence in a later civil suit would confer an
advantage on plaintiffs who chose to forgo federal compensation.
"There is no secret here. What the petitioners are arguing for are enhanced
rights in a subsequent civil action," Matanoski said of the plaintiffs.
"They're still going to have unfettered use within the proceedings."
Hastings would not say when he would issue a ruling on whether to seal the
court documents, but did say that his decision would be "very prompt."
Copyright © 2002 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved. Republication or
redistribution of Reuters content is expressly prohibited without the prior
written consent of Reuters. Reuters shall not be liable for any errors or
delays in the content, or for any actions taken in reliance thereon.

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Autism and Mercury
by Tim O'Shea,DC

This article is excerpted from Dr. O'Shea's forthcoming revised edition of
The Sanctity of Human Blood.

Inquiry into vaccine safety is exploding like never before, even in the
popular press. Research coming from dozens of mainstream medical studies can
no longer be easily suppressed, as it has been in the past, especially with
the prevalence of online information exchange.

Last September, some 2,000 people, mostly MDs, assembled at the Town and
Country resort in San Diego to hear the latest research on autism. Following
the April 2000 Congressional hearings on autism and vaccines, this epidemic
can no longer be ignored.

The figure of one autistic infant for every 150 is now widely documented.

Dr. Stephanie Cave presented enlightening data on mercury toxicity, drawn
largely from the brilliant work of Sallie Bernard. Dr. Cave explained how:

By age two, American children have received 237 micrograms of mercury
through vaccines alone, which far exceeds current EPA "safe" levels of .1
mcg/kg. per day. That's one-tenth of a microgram, not one microgram.

Three days in particular may be singled out as spectacularly toxic for
infants:

Day of birth: hepatitis B-12 mcg mercury

30 x safe level

At 4 months: DTaP and HiB on same day - 50 mcg mercury

60 x safe level

At 6 months: Hep B, Polio - 62.5 mcg mercury


78 x safe level

At 15 months the child receives another 50 mcg

41 x safe level

These figures are calculated for an infant's average weight in kilograms for
each age.

These one-day blasts of mercury are called "bolus doses". Although they far
exceed "safe" levels, there has never been any research conducted on the
toxicity of such bolus doses of mercury given to infants all these years.

Inconceivable

Historically, the toxicity of mercury has been known for more than a
century. The Mad Hatter was more than a fantasy character from Alice in
Wonderland. Mad Hatter's disease became well known in England in the
mid-1800s, when hat-makers were subject to inhaling the vapors from the
mercury-based stiffening compound they used on felt to make top hats.

Sources of Mercury

It is interesting to learn that common household remedies that were used up
into the 1960s like mercurochrome and "teething powder" were often the cause
of acute mercury poisoning and disease.

In the U.S., EPA mercury toxicity studies have involved contamination from
fish, air, and other environmental sources. This is inorganic mercury
(methylmercury).

Methylmercury has long been associated with serious neurological disorders,
demyelinating diseases, gut disease, and visual damage.

The mercury in vaccines, however, is in the form of thimerosal, which is 50
times more toxic than plain old mercury (methylmercury).

Reasons for this include:



Injected mercury is far more toxic than ingested mercury.

There's no blood-brain barrier in infants.
Mercury accumulates in brain cells and nerves.

Infants don't produce bile, which is necessary to excrete mercury.




Thimerosal is organic mercury

Once it is in nerve tissue, converted irreversibly to its inorganic form.
Thimerosal is a much more toxic form of mercury than one would get from
eating open-sea fish; it has to do with the difficulty of clearing
thimerosal from the blood.

Thimerosal is converted to ethylmercury, an organic form that has a
preference for nerve cells.

Without a complete blood-brain barrier, an infant's brain and spinal cord
are sitting ducks. Once in the nerve cells, mercury is changed back to the
inorganic form and becomes tightly bound. Mercury can then remain for years,
like a time-release capsule, causing permanent degeneration and death of
brain cells.

Bernard also notes that the body normally clears mercury by fixing it to
bile, but before six months of age, infants don't produce bile. Result:
mercury can't be excreted.

Four separate government agencies have set safe levels for methylmercury,
but no safe levels have ever been set for thimerosal, because thimerosal
isn't included in toxicity studies.

Theoretically, that means that the above excesses of safe levels of mercury
on the single days listed above are actually 50 times higher.

Does the fact that the mercury is accompanied by a vaccine somehow place it
above scrutiny? The Sallie Bernard study of vaccines and mercury toxicity
was probably the main reason Congress began to see the obvious correlation.

Mercury And Vaccines

Here's a curious "coincidence." In the late 1930s, Leo Kanner identified
autism as a new type of mental disorder. So when was thimerosal introduced
into vaccines?

The 1930s

A few years ago, Bernard and her associates began to notice a striking
similarity between the symptoms of autism and the symptoms of mercury
poisoning. The more research she did, the more it seemed that these two
diseases were virtually identical.

Autism and mercury poisoning damage the: brain/nerve cells; eyes; immune
system; gastrointestinal system; muscle control; and the speech center.

Although mercury toxicity has been studied for decades, and EPA safety
levels have been set, during all that time a child's greatest exposure to
mercury - thimerosal in vaccines - was never even included in the toxicity
studies!

The talk has always been about methylmercury from seafood and the
environment, totally ignoring the two most toxic sources of mercury for
children: vaccines and dental amalgams.

The EPA has no jurisdiction over drugs.

That's the FDA's job. This is why vaccines and amalgams don't even figure
into the equation when it comes to setting "safe" levels of mercury.

But the FDA does have jurisdiction over drugs and drug companies, right? And
over drug company publications, like the Merck Manual, the standard cookbook
for drugs and diseases found in every doctor's office in the world.

Surely the FDA, as the government agency charged with safeguarding the
nation's health, would want the section on mercury toxicity to warn doctors
about the two biggest sources for children: thimerosal and dental amalgams,
wouldn't you think?

Yet looking at the Merck Manual (1999), in the section on mercury poisoning
(p. 2636), thimerosal and dental amalgams again are not even mentioned!


How can this be, when mercury is widely acknowledged as the third most
deadly toxin in the world and thimerosal and amalgams dwarf the trace
amounts of mercury from fish and other environmental sources of mercury?

Only one thing can a blackout information over an entire area of study for
years at a time in this way - big money.

Such an omission probably wouldn't have anything to do with the revolving
door that exists between the FDA; the EPA; the NIH;

"and the sweet positions held by their members before and after those
grueling years of public service; or with the 800 waivers of the conflict of
interest rule that the FDA has granted in the past two years to "experts,"
who are paid consultants to the drug companies-consultants who are also
members of the FDA advisory committees that make decisions about whether or
not to approve vaccines and drugs..." (USA Today, Sept. 25, 2000)

No, of course not.

Soaking up the Mercury

In the San Diego conference on autism, Dr. Amy Holmes gave perhaps the only
lucid presentation about treatment. She explained how chelating drugs alone,
which go through the blood like Pac Man munching up mercury, don't do much
good for autism.

That's because most mercury clears from the blood very soon. Mercury in
thimerosal is stored in the gut, liver and brain, and as previously
mentioned, becomes very tightly bound to the cells. Once inside those cells,
or inside the blood-brain barrier, the mercury is reconverted back to its
inorganic form.

Locked into these cells, the mercury can then do either immediate cell
damage or become latent and cause the onset of autism, brain disorders, or
digestive chaos years later.

Dr. Holmes reported success using alphalipoic acid as an agent to cross the
blood-brain barrier to soak up mercury. Once the mercury is brought back
into the bloodstream, standard chelators like DMSA can then take it out.

Dr. Holmes has used her protocol on about 300 autistics so far, and shows
consistent increases in IQ scores.

FDA: Protector of Whom?

In the face of all this new awareness, it was astounding that in July 2000
the FDA came out with the "parallel-universe" pronouncement that "vaccines
have safe levels of mercury."

Especially after their 1998 position:

"... over-the-counter drug products containing thimerosal and other mercury
forms are not generally recognized as safe and effective."

As if there were any doubt as to who's really running the show,
inconceivable also is the impotence of FDA's request to the vaccine
manufacturers to discontinue the use of thimerosal in vaccines (LINK TO
ARTICLE ON SITE) The same month that MMWR published this, the CDC made the
same milquetoast request.

It's a bit like saying: "Hey guys, since all these kids are turning into
vegetables and most of our researchers know it's the mercury, would you mind
not putting any more thimerosal in your vaccines, please?
No hurry, though. Whenever you're ready. No need to dump all those batches
of vaccine just because people are finding out it's the mercury that's
destroying children's brain cells."

The members of the FDA who decide which vaccines get approved make up the
advisory board. In his recent House investigation on vaccines, Rep. Dan
Burton found out that financial statements of advisory board members are
"incomplete."

Noting that this is the only branch of government that allows incomplete
financials, in September 2000, Burton called the advisory board's sweetheart
arrangements with the vaccine manufacturers a "violation of the public
trust."

This includes 70 percent of advisory board members owning stock in vaccines,
owning patents on vaccines, and accepting salaries and benefits as employees
of the drug companies.

A Matter of Trust

Still think you can trust the government or your physician with your
children's blood? Despite the facts and events cited above, consider this
joint statement of the U.S. Public Health Services and the American Academy
of Pediatrics:

"There is a significant safety margin incorporated into all the acceptable
mercury exposure limits. There are no data or evidence of any harm caused by
the level of exposure that some children may have encountered in following
the existing immunization schedule ... Infants and children who have
received thimerosal-containing vaccines do not need to be tested for mercury
exposure" (TRY TO REPLACE THIS WITH LINK FROM SITE MMWR, vol. 45, 1999).

These are blatant Orwellian distortions. No harm?

What about the autism epidemic and all the evidence linking it with
mercury cited above?




What about the single day doses of mercury cited above that are dozens
of times in excess of the EPA's own safety levels?




If everything is so safe, then why did they ask the vaccine pushers to
kindly discontinue thimerosal from vaccines as soon as possible at the end
of this same statement?




It is beyond the scope of this paper to really go into the politics of
mercury. In researching mercury toxicity, a whole area of "dry rot" has been
unearthed that deserves its own story. This is the shocking story of how the
American Dental Association and the California Dental Association have been
systematically hiding the truth about mercury toxicity in fillings for
decades.

Silver fillings aren't just silver. They're 50 percent mercury and extremely
toxic; every dentist knows it (www.altcorp.com,http://www.amalgam.org/).

In a ludicrous blast of irony, both the ADA and the CDA have inserted into
their "code of ethics" strict commandments forbidding dentists from ever
revealing to patients the realities of mercury toxicity.

No dentist is allowed to recommend removal of mercury amalgams for health
reasons, nor may tell the patient about mercury toxicity even if the patient
asks. This gag order has been in place for since the beginning of American
dentistry. Exaggeration? Check their websites out:

www.amalgam.org/#anchor69176 www.amalgam.org/#anchor69541

Do you think dentists put mercury into their own families' teeth? Ask them.
Anyone who is not a dentist is not constrained by the gag order, imposed on
American dentists by the ADA, against telling patients what many perceptive
researchers in the field of mercury toxicity already know: that no children
should ever get mercury amalgam fillings.

Laughingstock of the West

Researchers across Europe are generally appalled at the massive amounts of
vaccines given to American children under two years old. Although Europeans
are not as obsessed with vaccines as we are, they do vaccinate.

But most of Europe gives very few vaccinations to children under two years
old, primarily because of the unformed gut, immune system, and blood-brain
barrier.

This intellectual isolation of ours regarding vaccines is a testimony to the
suffocating "brain control" exerted on us by the popular press and all
media. Like sheep to the slaughter, we don't know enough to be appalled by
our own ignorance.

Autistic Gut

Headlining the September 2000 San Diego Conference was Andrew Wakefield, the
British surgeon whose shocking new discoveries show that mercury toxicity
alone is not the only factor linking vaccines with the autism epidemic. Dr.
Wakefield's research centers around the MMR vaccine -
measles/mumps/rubella - which does not contain thimerosal.

Expanding on his presentation at the April 2000 Burton hearings, Dr.
Wakefield explained how at least three-quarters of autistics have
pathologically blocked bowels, due to the huge swelling of the tissue lining
the intestine.

In virtually every autistic patient they examined, this nodular hyperplasia
is both an immune response and an autoimmune response that Wakefield and
O'Leary have clearly linked to the presence of measles virus from the MMR
shot. No other virus was found in those cells.

It is a new bowel pathology.

Wakefield showed graphs of the U.S. and U.K. 10 years apart that were
identical in tracing the skyrocketing incidence of autism just after the MMR
vaccine was introduced.

He also showed how the incidence of measles had dropped over 85 percent on
its own before the MMR was introduced.

One incredible study cited by Wakefield showed how 76 percent of children
whose mothers were exposed to atypical measles became autistic after the MMR
shot! He called this a "background susceptibility" or predisposition to
autism.

Wakefield reminds us that in neither country have there ever been
comparative studies on giving multiple vaccines (polyvalent) on the same
day.

This custom of ours, with both the DPT and the MMR, is not scientific by any
stretch, and is primarily for the convenience of those administering the
shots, and those being paid per vaccine. As a result, there is a good chance
of geometric ill effects.

Then Wakefield cited the original MMR study (Buynak, Journal of the American
Medical Association 1969, vol. 207).

Not only was the safety of multiple vaccines never mentioned, there was no
follow-up to the study to see if their conclusions were correct.

In the usual manner of testing vaccines on the live population, MMR was
simply tacked onto the mandatory schedule, and we've never looked back.

Despite studies in 1981 on Air Force personnel showing major synergistic
adverse effects in the gut from the combination of measles and rubella
vaccines, the mandatory schedule went unchanged.

A Glimmer of Hope

Despite these formidable obstacles, doubts are creeping into the overall
public "consciousness" about the safety of vaccines. At one in 150, the fact
of autism as an epidemic can no longer be covered up.

The work of Wakefield, O'Leary, Megson and Bernard is getting more and more
difficult to explain away. Rep. Dan Burton seems relentless in his efforts
to acquaint Congress with the meretricious relationship between the FDA
Advisory Committee and the vaccine manufacturers.

The massive advertising campaign about the safety of vaccines in the popular
media, which is certain to be stepped up in the next few months, is going to
look very hollow in the light of clean, unbiased research that is not funded
by parties who stand to make billions from certain predetermined results.

And the internet makes this well-referenced, scientific work accessible to
the public without the usual monodimensional smokescreen from the popular
press.

Ultimately, the value of the San Diego "Conference on Autism" was its signal
that autism will not be allowed to slip from the public awareness, like so
many other feature stories that come and go. The simple truth has been
unveiled, and anyone who looks can see it clearly: our prime question should
not be asking how we can cure autism once it occurs. The evidence is now
overwhelming that in most cases, this new epidemic that we call autism is a
preventable disease.







DR. MERCOLA'S COMMENT:

Congratulations to Dr. O'Shea for an excellent review of this important
topic.

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http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi...4.2006.00655.x

Child: Care, Health and Development
Volume 32 Page 511 - September 2006
doi:10.1111/j.1365-2214.2006.00655.x
Volume 32 Issue 5


Review Article
Vaccines and the changing epidemiology of autism
B. Taylor

Abstract

Background The epidemiology of autism has been rather confusing, with
very variable published prevalence figures and no clear incidence data.
The cause of autism is unclear; vaccines have been incriminated.

Methods Literature review and interpretation.

Results The recorded prevalence of autism has increased considerably in
recent years. This reflects greater recognition, with changes in
diagnostic practice associated with more trained diagnosticians;
broadening of diagnostic criteria to include a spectrum of disorder; a
greater willingness by parents and educationalists to accept the label
(in part because of entitlement to services); and better recording
systems, among other factors. The cause(s) of autism remains unclear.
There is a strong genetic component which, along with prenatally
determined neuro-anatomical/biochemical changes, makes any post-natal
'cause' unlikely.

Conclusions There has (probably) been no real increase in the incidence
of autism. There is no scientific evidence that the measles, mumps and
rubella (MMR) vaccine or the mercury preservative used in some vaccines
plays any part in the aetiology or triggering of autism, even in a
subgroup of children with the condition.

"Jan Drew" wrote:


http://poisonevercure.150m.com/autism.htm

http://www.ithyroid.com/autism.htm
Autism and Mercury
by Tim O'Shea,DC

This article is excerpted from Dr. O'Shea's forthcoming revised edition of
The Sanctity of Human Blood.

Bwawahahahahahah!!!

Please stop it, Jan. When I laugh this much it puts me at risk of a
hernia.

snip crap
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In article ,
Rich wrote:

"Jessica" wrote in message
...
Mark Probert ) wrote:


What is even more scary is the fact that some people do not have the
ability to analyze anecdotes and see it is not proof.

What do you mean? I can separate anecdotes from proof but if you research
around you will see that it does happen a lot, even if the medical society
does not recognize this

Of course it happens a lot. The age at which the symptoms of autism usually
first become apparent just happens to coincide with the age at which the MMR
is scheduled. You might as well claim that the MMR causes teething. The
motivation for seeing a causal relationship in a casual one if purely
financial; the parents of autism victims want someone to sue.

I don't entirely agree with that. I think what most of them want is
someone (or something) to blame. Some may be primarily motivated by
money, but I think that's more the fault of the lawyers.

I would bet that parents of autistic children would be particularly
resistant to the "it's genetic" idea. Nobody wants to think that they
were at least partly to blame for such a fate for their own child.

BTW, did you notice that Jessica is a USANA pusher?

-- David Wright :: alphabeta at prodigy.net
These are my opinions only, but they're almost always correct.
"If you can't say something nice, then sit next to me."
-- Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Jan Drew wrote:
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Here's a curious "coincidence." In the late 1930s, Leo Kanner identified
autism as a new type of mental disorder. So when was thimerosal introduced
into vaccines?

The 1930s

Have you ever read what Kanner said about this disorder, Jan? He didn't
say it was new, he said it was unreported:

"These characteristics form a unique "syndrome,"not heretofore
reported, which seems to be rare enough, yet is probably more frequent
than is indicated by the paucity of observed cases. It is quite
possible that some such children have been viewed as feebleminded or
schizophrenic. In fact, several children of our group were introduced
to us as idiots or imbeciles. One still resides in a state school for
the feebleminded, and two had been previously considered as
schizophrenic."


http://www.ama.org.br/kannereng11anddisc.htm#disc

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LOL! Poor David doesn't notice--Rich is A ragbags LIES + SPAM pusher.
A pusher of Quack Barrett. And a pusher of SPAM- SPAM- SPAM!

What a hypocrite and *gang* member.


"David Wright" wrote in message
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In article ,
Rich wrote:

"Jessica" wrote in message
.. .
Mark Probert ) wrote:


What is even more scary is the fact that some people do not have the
ability to analyze anecdotes and see it is not proof.

What do you mean? I can separate anecdotes from proof but if you
research
around you will see that it does happen a lot, even if the medical
society
does not recognize this

Of course it happens a lot. The age at which the symptoms of autism
usually
first become apparent just happens to coincide with the age at which the
MMR
is scheduled. You might as well claim that the MMR causes teething. The
motivation for seeing a causal relationship in a casual one if purely
financial; the parents of autism victims want someone to sue.

I don't entirely agree with that. I think what most of them want is
someone (or something) to blame. Some may be primarily motivated by
money, but I think that's more the fault of the lawyers.

I would bet that parents of autistic children would be particularly
resistant to the "it's genetic" idea. Nobody wants to think that they
were at least partly to blame for such a fate for their own child.

BTW, did you notice that Jessica is a USANA pusher?

-- David Wright :: alphabeta at prodigy.net
These are my opinions only, but they're almost always correct.
"If you can't say something nice, then sit next to me."
-- Alice Roosevelt Longworth

http://poisonevercure.150m.com/autism.htm

(Until recently, the FDA administration concealed their knowledge that
thimerosal has been known to cross through the blood-brain barrier and
concentrate in the brain). In a recent communication with Congressman Dr.
Weldon, CDC conceded that some of the routinely recommended vaccines
contained the full amount of thimerosal (25 mcg) as late as 2003. Those
are not to expire until towards the end of 2005. There is no existing
reason to believe that manufactures have it in mind to completely remove
thimerosal from childhood vaccines in the near future. Much to my alarm,
documents recently obtained from the World Health Organization (WHO)state
that their policy is to lobby strongly for maintaining thimerosal in
vaccines as they see it necessary to use childhood vaccines in third world
countries. The mentality is that if thimerosal is taken out of American
childhood vaccines, the third world countries will not accept
thimerosal-containing childhood vaccines. This seems to be a clear
disturbing indication that, for whatever reason, WHO desires to inoculate
third world country populations with thimerosal containing vaccines. This
is an agency that claims to have an interest in making sure that children in
developing countries have the best opportunities at life. How is that
possible when they are being deliberately poisoned with high concentrations
of a neurotoxins?
There exists many decades worth of peer-reviewed literature (literally
hundreds) on the dangers of thimerosal which include case-reports, animal
studies, tissues culture studies, genetic studies, toxicology studies, and
biochemical studies. According to the above article, CDC, HHS and AAP warns
that 1/166 children have autistic spectrum disorders and even more alarming,
1/6 children have developmental and or behavioral disorders.

The World Health Organization's (WHO) Expert Committee on Biological
Standardization acknowledges that thimerosal is essential during vaccine
production to inactivate certain pathogenic organisms and toxins and prevent
microbial growth during vaccine storage and use. (click here to view
document). Read the Eli Lilly's, manufacturer of thimerosal, safety data
sheet on thimerosal. According to this document, thimerosal will react with
strong oxidizing agents and one listed is peroxides. Another vaccine
component. Also listed are the effects, including signs and symptoms of
exposure such as topical allergic dermatitis, topical hypersensitivity
reactions. Early signs of mercury poisoning are noted as nervous system
effects which include narrowing of the visual field and numbness in the
extremities. "Exposure to mercury in utero and in children can cause mild
to severe mental retardation and mild to severe motor coordination's
impairment". Primary routes of entry are listed as inhalation and skin
contact. For shipping information, there's no question of the label:
POISONS accompanied by the skull and bones picture label.

Mercury over stimulates the brain's immune system. Over stimulation of the
brain results in activation of the microglia widely dispersed in the brain.
When the microglia are activated, they release toxins killing surrounding
brains cells. Prolonged stimulation of the microglia by too many vaccines
kills far too many brain cells.

Though, some may find the reasoning of this imitation form of immunization
to make sense and logic, studying the peer review, lab work and studies
conducting the safety of such the practice will encourage you to think
twice. The dangers of inoculating children and adults with vile
microorganisms is potentially fatal. World Health Organization is privy to
this information. Other material indicate they know that more children
would die and or die quicker without the thimerosal. Sounds insane, but a
fact worth keeping in mind and or researching on your own. So, in order to
inactivate these microorganisms something even more toxic is needed to do
just that. That's where the thimerosal comes in. These facts alone should
raise a few eyebrows. Remember, in the records of mercury toxicology, it
only takes 35 mcg to kill a rabbit. Now, think about how much is in each
vaccine. There's 25mcg in Hib, Pneumococcal (except for Prevnar), DTaP, all
Tetanus brands. Then there's 12.5 in the Hep b. How much thimerosal is
needed should be your other indicator of the dangers of vaccines. The next
indicator is how many doses children receive by school registration.



http://www.ithyroid.com/autism.htm
Autism and Mercury
by Tim O'Shea,DC

This article is excerpted from Dr. O'Shea's forthcoming revised edition of
The Sanctity of Human Blood.

Inquiry into vaccine safety is exploding like never before, even in the
popular press. Research coming from dozens of mainstream medical studies
can no longer be easily suppressed, as it has been in the past, especially
with the prevalence of online information exchange.

Last September, some 2,000 people, mostly MDs, assembled at the Town and
Country resort in San Diego to hear the latest research on autism.
Following the April 2000 Congressional hearings on autism and vaccines,
this epidemic can no longer be ignored.

The figure of one autistic infant for every 150 is now widely documented.

Dr. Stephanie Cave presented enlightening data on mercury toxicity, drawn
largely from the brilliant work of Sallie Bernard. Dr. Cave explained how:

By age two, American children have received 237 micrograms of mercury
through vaccines alone, which far exceeds current EPA "safe" levels of .1
mcg/kg. per day. That's one-tenth of a microgram, not one microgram.

Three days in particular may be singled out as spectacularly toxic for
infants:

Day of birth: hepatitis B-12 mcg mercury

30 x safe level

At 4 months: DTaP and HiB on same day - 50 mcg mercury

60 x safe level

At 6 months: Hep B, Polio - 62.5 mcg mercury


78 x safe level

At 15 months the child receives another 50 mcg

41 x safe level

These figures are calculated for an infant's average weight in kilograms
for each age.

These one-day blasts of mercury are called "bolus doses". Although they
far exceed "safe" levels, there has never been any research conducted on
the toxicity of such bolus doses of mercury given to infants all these
years.

Inconceivable

Historically, the toxicity of mercury has been known for more than a
century. The Mad Hatter was more than a fantasy character from Alice in
Wonderland. Mad Hatter's disease became well known in England in the
mid-1800s, when hat-makers were subject to inhaling the vapors from the
mercury-based stiffening compound they used on felt to make top hats.

Sources of Mercury

It is interesting to learn that common household remedies that were used
up into the 1960s like mercurochrome and "teething powder" were often the
cause of acute mercury poisoning and disease.

In the U.S., EPA mercury toxicity studies have involved contamination from
fish, air, and other environmental sources. This is inorganic mercury
(methylmercury).

Methylmercury has long been associated with serious neurological
disorders, demyelinating diseases, gut disease, and visual damage.

The mercury in vaccines, however, is in the form of thimerosal, which is
50 times more toxic than plain old mercury (methylmercury).

Reasons for this include:



Injected mercury is far more toxic than ingested mercury.

There's no blood-brain barrier in infants.
Mercury accumulates in brain cells and nerves.

Infants don't produce bile, which is necessary to excrete mercury.




Thimerosal is organic mercury

Once it is in nerve tissue, converted irreversibly to its inorganic form.
Thimerosal is a much more toxic form of mercury than one would get from
eating open-sea fish; it has to do with the difficulty of clearing
thimerosal from the blood.

Thimerosal is converted to ethylmercury, an organic form that has a
preference for nerve cells.

Without a complete blood-brain barrier, an infant's brain and spinal cord
are sitting ducks. Once in the nerve cells, mercury is changed back to the
inorganic form and becomes tightly bound. Mercury can then remain for
years, like a time-release capsule, causing permanent degeneration and
death of brain cells.

Bernard also notes that the body normally clears mercury by fixing it to
bile, but before six months of age, infants don't produce bile. Result:
mercury can't be excreted.

Four separate government agencies have set safe levels for methylmercury,
but no safe levels have ever been set for thimerosal, because thimerosal
isn't included in toxicity studies.

Theoretically, that means that the above excesses of safe levels of
mercury on the single days listed above are actually 50 times higher.

Does the fact that the mercury is accompanied by a vaccine somehow place
it above scrutiny? The Sallie Bernard study of vaccines and mercury
toxicity was probably the main reason Congress began to see the obvious
correlation.

Mercury And Vaccines

Here's a curious "coincidence." In the late 1930s, Leo Kanner identified
autism as a new type of mental disorder. So when was thimerosal introduced
into vaccines?

The 1930s

A few years ago, Bernard and her associates began to notice a striking
similarity between the symptoms of autism and the symptoms of mercury
poisoning. The more research she did, the more it seemed that these two
diseases were virtually identical.

Autism and mercury poisoning damage the: brain/nerve cells; eyes; immune
system; gastrointestinal system; muscle control; and the speech center.

Although mercury toxicity has been studied for decades, and EPA safety
levels have been set, during all that time a child's greatest exposure to
mercury - thimerosal in vaccines - was never even included in the toxicity
studies!

The talk has always been about methylmercury from seafood and the
environment, totally ignoring the two most toxic sources of mercury for
children: vaccines and dental amalgams.

The EPA has no jurisdiction over drugs.

That's the FDA's job. This is why vaccines and amalgams don't even figure
into the equation when it comes to setting "safe" levels of mercury.

But the FDA does have jurisdiction over drugs and drug companies, right?
And over drug company publications, like the Merck Manual, the standard
cookbook for drugs and diseases found in every doctor's office in the
world.

Surely the FDA, as the government agency charged with safeguarding the
nation's health, would want the section on mercury toxicity to warn
doctors about the two biggest sources for children: thimerosal and dental
amalgams, wouldn't you think?

Yet looking at the Merck Manual (1999), in the section on mercury
poisoning (p. 2636), thimerosal and dental amalgams again are not even
mentioned!


How can this be, when mercury is widely acknowledged as the third most
deadly toxin in the world and thimerosal and amalgams dwarf the trace
amounts of mercury from fish and other environmental sources of mercury?

Only one thing can a blackout information over an entire area of study for
years at a time in this way - big money.

Such an omission probably wouldn't have anything to do with the revolving
door that exists between the FDA; the EPA; the NIH;

"and the sweet positions held by their members before and after those
grueling years of public service; or with the 800 waivers of the conflict
of interest rule that the FDA has granted in the past two years to
"experts," who are paid consultants to the drug companies-consultants who
are also members of the FDA advisory committees that make decisions about
whether or not to approve vaccines and drugs..." (USA Today, Sept. 25,
2000)

No, of course not.

Soaking up the Mercury

In the San Diego conference on autism, Dr. Amy Holmes gave perhaps the
only lucid presentation about treatment. She explained how chelating drugs
alone, which go through the blood like Pac Man munching up mercury, don't
do much good for autism.

That's because most mercury clears from the blood very soon. Mercury in
thimerosal is stored in the gut, liver and brain, and as previously
mentioned, becomes very tightly bound to the cells. Once inside those
cells, or inside the blood-brain barrier, the mercury is reconverted back
to its inorganic form.

Locked into these cells, the mercury can then do either immediate cell
damage or become latent and cause the onset of autism, brain disorders, or
digestive chaos years later.

Dr. Holmes reported success using alphalipoic acid as an agent to cross
the blood-brain barrier to soak up mercury. Once the mercury is brought
back into the bloodstream, standard chelators like DMSA can then take it
out.

Dr. Holmes has used her protocol on about 300 autistics so far, and shows
consistent increases in IQ scores.

FDA: Protector of Whom?

In the face of all this new awareness, it was astounding that in July 2000
the FDA came out with the "parallel-universe" pronouncement that "vaccines
have safe levels of mercury."

Especially after their 1998 position:

"... over-the-counter drug products containing thimerosal and other
mercury forms are not generally recognized as safe and effective."

As if there were any doubt as to who's really running the show,
inconceivable also is the impotence of FDA's request to the vaccine
manufacturers to discontinue the use of thimerosal in vaccines (LINK TO
ARTICLE ON SITE) The same month that MMWR published this, the CDC made the
same milquetoast request.

It's a bit like saying: "Hey guys, since all these kids are turning into
vegetables and most of our researchers know it's the mercury, would you
mind not putting any more thimerosal in your vaccines, please?
No hurry, though. Whenever you're ready. No need to dump all those batches
of vaccine just because people are finding out it's the mercury that's
destroying children's brain cells."

The members of the FDA who decide which vaccines get approved make up the
advisory board. In his recent House investigation on vaccines, Rep. Dan
Burton found out that financial statements of advisory board members are
"incomplete."

Noting that this is the only branch of government that allows incomplete
financials, in September 2000, Burton called the advisory board's
sweetheart arrangements with the vaccine manufacturers a "violation of the
public trust."

This includes 70 percent of advisory board members owning stock in
vaccines, owning patents on vaccines, and accepting salaries and benefits
as employees of the drug companies.

A Matter of Trust

Still think you can trust the government or your physician with your
children's blood? Despite the facts and events cited above, consider this
joint statement of the U.S. Public Health Services and the American
Academy of Pediatrics:

"There is a significant safety margin incorporated into all the acceptable
mercury exposure limits. There are no data or evidence of any harm caused
by the level of exposure that some children may have encountered in
following the existing immunization schedule ... Infants and children who
have received thimerosal-containing vaccines do not need to be tested for
mercury exposure" (TRY TO REPLACE THIS WITH LINK FROM SITE MMWR, vol. 45,
1999).

These are blatant Orwellian distortions. No harm?

What about the autism epidemic and all the evidence linking it with
mercury cited above?




What about the single day doses of mercury cited above that are dozens
of times in excess of the EPA's own safety levels?




If everything is so safe, then why did they ask the vaccine pushers to
kindly discontinue thimerosal from vaccines as soon as possible at the end
of this same statement?




It is beyond the scope of this paper to really go into the politics of
mercury. In researching mercury toxicity, a whole area of "dry rot" has
been unearthed that deserves its own story. This is the shocking story of
how the American Dental Association and the California Dental Association
have been systematically hiding the truth about mercury toxicity in
fillings for decades.

Silver fillings aren't just silver. They're 50 percent mercury and
extremely toxic; every dentist knows it
(www.altcorp.com,http://www.amalgam.org/).

In a ludicrous blast of irony, both the ADA and the CDA have inserted into
their "code of ethics" strict commandments forbidding dentists from ever
revealing to patients the realities of mercury toxicity.

No dentist is allowed to recommend removal of mercury amalgams for health
reasons, nor may tell the patient about mercury toxicity even if the
patient asks. This gag order has been in place for since the beginning of
American dentistry. Exaggeration? Check their websites out:

www.amalgam.org/#anchor69176 www.amalgam.org/#anchor69541

Do you think dentists put mercury into their own families' teeth? Ask
them. Anyone who is not a dentist is not constrained by the gag order,
imposed on American dentists by the ADA, against telling patients what
many perceptive researchers in the field of mercury toxicity already know:
that no children should ever get mercury amalgam fillings.

Laughingstock of the West

Researchers across Europe are generally appalled at the massive amounts of
vaccines given to American children under two years old. Although
Europeans are not as obsessed with vaccines as we are, they do vaccinate.

But most of Europe gives very few vaccinations to children under two years
old, primarily because of the unformed gut, immune system, and blood-brain
barrier.

This intellectual isolation of ours regarding vaccines is a testimony to
the suffocating "brain control" exerted on us by the popular press and all
media. Like sheep to the slaughter, we don't know enough to be appalled by
our own ignorance.

Autistic Gut

Headlining the September 2000 San Diego Conference was Andrew Wakefield,
the British surgeon whose shocking new discoveries show that mercury
toxicity alone is not the only factor linking vaccines with the autism
epidemic. Dr. Wakefield's research centers around the MMR vaccine -
measles/mumps/rubella - which does not contain thimerosal.

Expanding on his presentation at the April 2000 Burton hearings, Dr.
Wakefield explained how at least three-quarters of autistics have
pathologically blocked bowels, due to the huge swelling of the tissue
lining the intestine.

In virtually every autistic patient they examined, this nodular
hyperplasia is both an immune response and an autoimmune response that
Wakefield and O'Leary have clearly linked to the presence of measles virus
from the MMR shot. No other virus was found in those cells.

It is a new bowel pathology.

Wakefield showed graphs of the U.S. and U.K. 10 years apart that were
identical in tracing the skyrocketing incidence of autism just after the
MMR vaccine was introduced.

He also showed how the incidence of measles had dropped over 85 percent on
its own before the MMR was introduced.

One incredible study cited by Wakefield showed how 76 percent of children
whose mothers were exposed to atypical measles became autistic after the
MMR shot! He called this a "background susceptibility" or predisposition
to autism.

Wakefield reminds us that in neither country have there ever been
comparative studies on giving multiple vaccines (polyvalent) on the same
day.

This custom of ours, with both the DPT and the MMR, is not scientific by
any stretch, and is primarily for the convenience of those administering
the shots, and those being paid per vaccine. As a result, there is a good
chance of geometric ill effects.

Then Wakefield cited the original MMR study (Buynak, Journal of the
American Medical Association 1969, vol. 207).

Not only was the safety of multiple vaccines never mentioned, there was no
follow-up to the study to see if their conclusions were correct.

In the usual manner of testing vaccines on the live population, MMR was
simply tacked onto the mandatory schedule, and we've never looked back.

Despite studies in 1981 on Air Force personnel showing major synergistic
adverse effects in the gut from the combination of measles and rubella
vaccines, the mandatory schedule went unchanged.

A Glimmer of Hope

Despite these formidable obstacles, doubts are creeping into the overall
public "consciousness" about the safety of vaccines. At one in 150, the
fact of autism as an epidemic can no longer be covered up.

The work of Wakefield, O'Leary, Megson and Bernard is getting more and
more difficult to explain away. Rep. Dan Burton seems relentless in his
efforts to acquaint Congress with the meretricious relationship between
the FDA Advisory Committee and the vaccine manufacturers.

The massive advertising campaign about the safety of vaccines in the
popular media, which is certain to be stepped up in the next few months,
is going to look very hollow in the light of clean, unbiased research that
is not funded by parties who stand to make billions from certain
predetermined results.

And the internet makes this well-referenced, scientific work accessible to
the public without the usual monodimensional smokescreen from the popular
press.

Ultimately, the value of the San Diego "Conference on Autism" was its
signal that autism will not be allowed to slip from the public awareness,
like so many other feature stories that come and go. The simple truth has
been unveiled, and anyone who looks can see it clearly: our prime question
should not be asking how we can cure autism once it occurs. The evidence
is now overwhelming that in most cases, this new epidemic that we call
autism is a preventable disease.







DR. MERCOLA'S COMMENT:

Congratulations to Dr. O'Shea for an excellent review of this important
topic.

Related Articles:

Autism and Mercury Detoxification

Autism: a Novel Form of Mercury Poisoning

Studies on the Effects of Secretin in Children With Autism

Single Injection Of Secretin Does Not Treat Autism

Objections to the Study That Showed Secretin Does Not Work for Autism

Short-Term Benefit In Treating Autism With Antibiotics

The Neurobiology of Lipids In Autistic Spectrum Disorder

Link Between Autism and Vaccination

Autism May Be Caused By an Immune System Response To a Virus

Vaccine - Autism Link Feared

Vaccine Induced Autism

Milk Link To Autism



"Mark Probert" wrote in message
...
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi...4.2006.00655.x

Child: Care, Health and Development
Volume 32 Page 511 - September 2006
doi:10.1111/j.1365-2214.2006.00655.x
Volume 32 Issue 5


Review Article
Vaccines and the changing epidemiology of autism
B. Taylor

Abstract

Background The epidemiology of autism has been rather confusing, with
very variable published prevalence figures and no clear incidence data.
The cause of autism is unclear; vaccines have been incriminated.

Methods Literature review and interpretation.

Results The recorded prevalence of autism has increased considerably in
recent years. This reflects greater recognition, with changes in
diagnostic practice associated with more trained diagnosticians;
broadening of diagnostic criteria to include a spectrum of disorder; a
greater willingness by parents and educationalists to accept the label
(in part because of entitlement to services); and better recording
systems, among other factors. The cause(s) of autism remains unclear.
There is a strong genetic component which, along with prenatally
determined neuro-anatomical/biochemical changes, makes any post-natal
'cause' unlikely.

Conclusions There has (probably) been no real increase in the incidence
of autism. There is no scientific evidence that the measles, mumps and
rubella (MMR) vaccine or the mercury preservative used in some vaccines
plays any part in the aetiology or triggering of autism, even in a
subgroup of children with the condition.

Jan Drew wrote:
LOL! Poor David doesn't notice--Rich is A ragbags LIES + SPAM pusher.
A pusher of Quack Barrett. And a pusher of SPAM- SPAM- SPAM!
snip

Jan's obviously still not getting any.

"cathyb" wrote:


Jan Drew wrote:
LOL! Poor David doesn't notice--Rich is A ragbags LIES + SPAM pusher.
A pusher of Quack Barrett. And a pusher of SPAM- SPAM- SPAM!
snip

Jan's obviously still not getting any.

Waste of a trip to Las Vegas, then.
--
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"Jan Drew" wrote:

(Until recently, the FDA administration concealed their knowledge that
thimerosal has been known to cross through the blood-brain barrier and
concentrate in the brain)

And when did they admit to this little-known "fact"?

snip lies about vaccines
--
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