US Govt Investigation Admits Vaccines Behind Childhood disorders

Note from Ilena Rosenthal: No doubt the Church of Quackery True
Believers (including disbarred attorneys and never unrestricted
licensed Medical Deities) will pounce on this.

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To:
H E Sri A P J Abdul Kalam Azad,
Hon'ble President of India,
Rashtrapati Bhawan,
New Delhi.

Dt: 16.08.2006

Most Revered Sir,

Please accept my respectful pranam. I have been writing to you
regularly regarding our suspicion that vaccines, and their
ingredients, could be behind many of the autism related behavioral
disorders and also neurological problems in children. The vaccine
manufacturers as well as the US based CDC and FDA have been regularly
denying this link. Recently a CDC Official resigned presumably because
he did not support the coverup in this regard. And now the coverup has
been exposed. As per a US govt led investigation, as early as 1991
doctors have expressed that the vaccine ingredients are a probable
cause behind the many incurable illnesses that confront children
today.

Sir, even though we, the vaccine damage victims, have been very sure
about this coverup and have been pleading to our Health Ministry to
probe the vaccine - development disorders, autism link, and even
though we have always been cold shouldered, this report does shock us.
We can no longer have any faith upon the medical community now who
have kept quiet on facts that have harmed us and our children for the
last one hundred years or so.

In India too the doctors have often cautioned the Health Ministry
about the dangers of an indiscriminate mass vaccination procedure.
They have repeatedly pointed out that;

1. Vaccines are not the answers to epidemics,
2. Vaccines are an untested medical procedure,
3. Vaccine side effects have never been properly determined,
4. Vaccine ingredients are too toxic to be ignored,
5. Vaccines have caused the very disease they seek to prevent,
6. Vaccine may cause death and irreversible autoimmune disorders.
7. Pregnant women, sick children, underweight children, children of
parents
with autoimmune disorders, malnourished children should not be
vaccinated,
8. Mercury is not the only dangerous ingredient of vaccines, there are
other heavy
metals, carcinogenic compounds and other neurotoxins in vaccines
besides
the dangers of contaminated serum,
9. There should be a national database of vaccine damage victims,
10.Vaccine damage victims should be treated at government expenses, be
compensated and rehabilitated at government expense,
11.Doctors should be trained on how to treat vaccine damaged infants.
12. Vaccines should be given only in emergencies, to children in
immediate danger
and after obtaining the informed consent of parents.
13. Vaccines could be shifted to a more mature age to cause the least
possible
damage.
14. Vaccine advertisements should also specify the probable vaccine
after effects.

However, under pressure from the World Health Organisation, our Health
Ministry has never been able to really address these problems. The
attitude of the doctors who support vaccinations too is a factor that
has delayed a review of the vaccination policy.

Now that the truth stares us in the face I beg of you and appeal to
you on behalf of the millions of vaccine affected infants, and on
behalf of the future generation that will choose India as their
destination, to save us from this scourge. The children have no voice,
their parents are not educated on vaccine dangers, the doctors scare
those who are reluctant to vaccinate their children with imaginary and
implausible scenarios.

I feel our government can no longer remain silent on this issue, which
has even been taken up by some sections of the press, as the pressure
on them is mounting to reveal the truth. Therefore it will be better
if the government acts before it is put on the dock by the aggrieved
parents of the innocent victims.

I feel Sir, that you can do something to shake the government
machinery from its slumber. Otherwise we will no longer feel that we
are citizen of a democratic country, and that our leaders care for our
welfare.

Most respectfully yours,
Jagannath Chatterjee,
Vaccine damage victim,
Health Reform Activist.

encl: Article a,a.

cc: Sri Dr Manmohan Singh, Hon'ble Prime Minister,
Madam Sonia Gandhi, Chairperson UPA,
Sri Somnath Chatterjee, Hon'ble Speaker, Lok Sabha,
Sri L K Advani, Leader of the Opposition,
Sri Dr Anbumani Ramadoss, Hon'ble Union Minister for Health &
Family Welfare,
Smt Panabaka Laxmi, State Minister for Health,
Sri P K Hota, Secretary, Department of Health,
The Secreatary, Department of Family Welfare,
The Director General, Health Services,
Director, Department of AYUSH,
Director, Central Council for Research in Homeopathy,
Director, Central Council of Homeopathy,
Hon'ble Chief Justice, Supreme Court of India,
Chairman, National Human Rights Commission,
Hon'ble Members, AutismIndia & India Developmental Disabilities.
Dr Leo Rebello, Director, Natural Health Center, Mumbai.


August 13, 2006 at 07:10:23

Government Investigation Finds Autism Vaccine Related
by Evelyn Pringle

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According to the most recent CDC estimates, one in 166 children in the
US suffers from an autistic disorder. Twenty years ago, autism only
affected one in 10,000 children.

For years now, studies have shown that exposure to mercury in
childhood vaccines, not only causes autism but can also result in
immune, sensory, neurological, motor, and behavioral dysfunctions
similar to traits associated with autism.

On May 21, 2003, after a three year investigation, "The Mercury in
Medicine Report" was released by the House Committee on Government
Reform, and stated in part:

"Thimerosal used as a preservative in vaccines is likely related to
the autism epidemic. This epidemic in all probability may have been
prevented or curtailed had the FDA not been asleep at the switch
regarding a lack of safety data regarding injected thimerosal and the
sharper eyes of infant exposure to this known neurotoxin. The public
health agencies' failure to act is indicative of institutional
malfeasance for self protection and misplaced protectionism of the
pharmaceutical industry."

The Congressional report also said that the CDC, due to its "biases
against theories regarding vaccine-induced autism," had chosen to fund
researchers "who also worked for vaccine manufacturers to conduct
population-based immunologic studies. . ." and stated:

"The CDC in general and the National Immunization Program are
particularly conflicted in their duty to monitor the safety of
vaccines, while also charged with the responsibility of purchasing
vaccines for resale as well as promoting increased immunization
rates."

The autism epidemic cannot be denied. On February 15, 2005, the GAO,
released a Report titled, "Special Education Children With Autism,"
that revealed the number of children ages 6 through 21 diagnosed with
autism receiving special education services has increased more than
500% over the past 10 years.

In a transcript, obtained under the FOIA, of a secret meeting attended
by officials from the FDA and CDC in 2000, Pediatrician Bill Weil,
acknowledged the epidemic and stated, "There are just a host of
neurodevelopmental data that would suggest that we've got a serious
problem.... The number of kids getting help in special education is
growing nationally and state by state at a rate we have not seen
before."

Thimerosal is a mercury-based preservative that was developed in the
1930s by Eli Lilly, and has been used regularly in vaccines ever since
basically to boost vaccine maker profits by allowing drug companies to
package vaccines in large containers instead of a single dose.

However, years ago children only received a small number of vaccines
that were injected with a period of time in between and one dose at a
time. Since 1988, the number of vaccines given to children before the
age of two has tripled.

Lisa Blakemore-Brown, a psychologist in the UK, has been investigating
the vaccine-autism link for years and says the reason the epidemic in
autism did not occur sooner is because before the 1990s children "were
given single vaccines with single amounts of mercury."

"But with the introduction of triple vaccines," she explains, "the
amount of mercury contained within the preservative was multiplied and
the cumulative effects are only just now being discovered by the
public."

Once the cumulative amount of thimerosal that children were receiving
through injections of 30-some odd vaccines was finally measured in
1999, the FDA discovered that infants were receiving more than 100
times the EPA's safe limit for mercury by 18 months.

Internal documents from the FDA and CDC show public health officials
knew about the increased mercury they were receiving at least since
1999. A June 29, 1999, email from FDA scientist, Peter Patriarca, to
the head of the CDC office on vaccine safety, warned that the FDA was
going to be criticized for being "'asleep at the switch' for decades
by allowing a potentially hazardous compound to remain in many
childhood vaccines and not forcing manufacturers to exclude it from
new products."

Mr Patriarca also pointed out that calculating the cumulative amount
of mercury in vaccines was not "rocket science" and involved only
ninth-grade math. He also noted the questions that agency officials
would likely be asked as:

"What took the FDA so long to do the calculations? Why didn't CDC and
the advisory bodies do these calculations when they rapidly expanded
the childhood immunization schedule?"

An internal company memo that surfaced in a lawsuit against vaccine
maker, Merck, proves the company knew infants were being injected with
unsafe amounts of thimerosal back in 1991.

The memo says a 6-month-old baby receiving shots on schedule would
receive mercury 87 times higher than established safety guidelines:

"If eight doses of Thimerosal-containing vaccine was given in the
first six months of life (3 DTP, 2 HIB, and 3 Hepatitis B) the 200
micrograms of mercury given, say to an average size of 12 pounds,
would be about 87 times the Swedish daily allowance of 2.3 micrograms
for a baby of that size."

On September 8, 2004, Dr William Egan, then acting Director of the
FDA's Office of Vaccines Research and Review, told the House
Government Reform Committee that prior to the mercury reduction
initiative in vaccines, children may have received 187.5 micrograms of
mercury by 6 month's of age through routine childhood vaccinations.

People often ask why some children become autistic when so many do
not. As a neurotoxin, thimerosal, has been linked to the depletion of
the protective anti-oxidant, glutathione, which helps rid the body of
mercury. People with autism seem to be more susceptible to this effect
and most have low levels of glutathione. Therefore, their bodies have
difficulty excreting mercury.

A December 2004 report by the independent Environmental Working Group
determined that autistic children have less glutathione than normal
children. The study, led by Dr Jill James, a professor of biochemistry
and pediatrics at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences,
said a glutathione deficit "may contribute to the development and
clinical manifestation of autism."

In 1999, many drug companies claimed they were reducing the amount of
thimerosal in vaccines. Some even provided product inserts that
claimed that only a trace amount of mercury still existed in the final
product. Others even claimed to be producing vaccines that were
completely mercury-free.

For instance, a September 1999, press release by vaccine maker Merck
declared: "Now, Merck's infant vaccine line is free of all
preservatives."

However, On March 8, 2005, the LA Times reported that "Merck & Co
continued to supply infant vaccine containing a mercury preservative
for two years after declaring that it had eliminated the chemical."

In fact, Merck continued to distribute vaccines containing thimerosal
until October 2001, according to a June, 2003 letter from the FDA to
Congressman Dave Weldon (R-FL), a doctor by calling, in response to an
inquiry. Dr Weldon called what Merck did "misleading."

"You had people literally into 2002," he told the Times, "getting
shots with mercury, having been told it was all taken out in 1999."

To see if vaccines were indeed thimerosal free, last year the group,
Health Advocacy in the Public Interest (HAPI), sent four vials of
different vaccines to be tested for mercury content to Doctor's Data,
an independent lab, which specializes in heavy metal testing.

The tests found that all four contained mercury, despite the claim by
2 companies that their vaccines were completely mercury-free.
According to HAPI, all four vaccines also contained aluminum which
greatly increases the toxicity of mercury for causing neuronal death
in the brain.

In fact, during further investigation, HAPI discovered that thimerosal
was still being used during the production process for most vaccines.
The drug makers claim that after production, they filter the
preservative out of the final vaccines.

However, heavy metal expert, Dr Boyd Haley, PhD, the Chemistry
Department Chair at the University of Kentucky, told HAPI that its not
possible to remove all of the thimerosal because mercury binds to the
antigenic protein in the vaccine and cannot be filtered out
completely.

Experts says, a drastic decline in autism has not been seen due to the
fact that the drug makers misled the public about when thimerosal was
actually eliminated from vaccines. Because the FDA has never ordered a
recall of the vaccines previously manufactured and shipped all over
the country, many mercury-laced vaccines remained in the inventories
of health care facilities and some had an expiration date as late as
September, 2005.

In addition, pregnant women and their unborn infants, are still being
injected with a full dose of thimerosal in flu vaccines. The CDC has
ignored the tremendous amount of scientific evidence documenting the
injuries from mercury-laced vaccines and has continued to recommend
flu vaccines for all pregnant women and children over 6 months old.

Back in 2002, the research team of David and Mark Geier, released a
study based on an analysis of tens of millions of vaccines given to
during the 1990s, and presented epidemiologic evidence that
demonstrated the association of the increase in thimerosal in vaccines
with neurodevelopmental disorders.

The Geier's analysis of the government's "Vaccine Adverse Events
Reporting System" database showed statistical increases in the
incidence rate of autism, mental retardation, and speech disorders in
children receiving thimerosal-containing diphtheria, tetanus, and
acellular pertussis (DTaP) vaccines, when compared with those who
received thimerosal-free vaccines.

According to the Geiers, the usual course of DTaP vaccine consists of
primary immunizations administered at two, four, and six months,
followed up by booster shots at 18 months and five years.

By analyzing the database, the Geiers determined that there were a
total of 6575 adverse reaction reports with the DTaP
thimerosal-vaccines, compared to only 1516 adverse reaction reports
with thimerosal-free vaccines.

In one of their more recent studies in 2005, the Geiers assessed
thimerosal exposure in about 110,000 children and found a
statistically significant association between exposure to thimerosal
and a host of neurodevelopmental disorders including autism, tics,
attention deficit disorders, and speech and language delays.

The public remains largely unaware of the autism epidemic because
people hardly ever see autistic children out in the community. Aside
from taking the children to school, parents seldom take them anywhere
because of the difficulty of trying to control them outside of a
routine environment.

The increasingly number of children with this disorder is forcing
public school systems to provide more special education classrooms to
meet their needs. Autistics are the fastest-growing segment of special
ed students and schools lack the trained professionals with knowledge
of how to work with autistic children. Schools were caught completely
unprepared for this epidemic.

Unlike normal children, children with autism do not learn by watching
other people and must be taught even the simplest skills such as
making eye contact, waiting in line, following directions or how to
hold a conversation which often requires one-to-one mentoring.

Skills, behaviors and abilities vary with each child and about half of
autistic kids have few or no language skills. Some kids also suffer
from other problems that impair learning such as hearing loss or
epilepsy and many are not toilet trained.

In a program that serves Minneapolis students, each classroom usually
has 6 students and requires one licensed special ed teacher and two
special ed assistants. Toddler classrooms are smaller with 4 students
and require one licensed special ed teacher and one special ed
assistant.

Services by speech and language clinicians, occupational therapists,
social workers and adapted physical education teachers are also
available at each site based on student needs. And the educational
services reflect only part of the expense. Other costs include tuition
for summer school to help kids retain skills, transportation costs,
and psychological and behavioral evaluations.

In 2003, the California National School Board Association reported
that the number of autistic students in California had doubled over
four years and represented 13% of the state's student population of
20,377, at a cost of up to $60,000 per student.

In July 2005, a San Mateo County California civil grand jury released
a report warning that increasing numbers of autistic children and the
high cost of their education was causing a significant drain of
resources for school districts.

The report said the number of autistics in the San Mateo county had
doubled since 2000, to more than 5,000, and the county needed to find
cheaper special ed alternatives since federal and state funding had
not kept up with spending.

The grand jury pointed to a pilot project at a school in San Bruno,
that paired four aides and one teacher with a small class and said it
was cheaper than one-on-one mentoring, which could cost $50,000 per
student.

In one year, the number of children treated for autism at centers
operated by the California Department of Developmental Services
increased 13% between 2003 and 2004. Autism now accounts for more than
half of the new cases handled at the centers, which treats various
developmental disorders, with the vast majority of cases being kids 13
and younger. The number of autistics treated at the centers rose from
5,000 in 1993, to more than 26,000 in 2005.

And the numbers are the same all across the nation. The Kentucky
Cabinet for Health and Family Services estimates that in 2006, about
25,000 Kentuckians have autism spectrum disorders, an increase from
about 1,500 in 1990.

The US Department of Education all total spends about $53 billion a
year on grades K-12 education. If the government provides $60,000 per
year to educate the currently identified school-age autistics, the tab
will run about $7 billion a year, or 13% of its entire budget. And
each year the costs will rise as the number of autistics entering the
system increases.

On December 10, 2002, Dr David Baskin, a neurosurgeon and Professor of
Neurosurgery and Anesthesiology at the Baylor College of Medicine,
testified at a Congressional Hearing and told the panel that most
autistic children will grow up and require lifelong care because they
cannot live independently. He described what he referred to as a
"horrible" fact and said:

"Over one-half will never speak. Many of them will never be able to
look at their parents and tell them they love them. It's worse than
Alzheimer's Disease. There's been a tremendous focus on Alzheimer's
Disease, but these children never had a chance to enjoy life before
they lost it."

According to Dr David Ayoub, author of the report, "Pregnancy and the
Myth of Influenza Vaccination-Is it safe, is it effective, is it
necessary?" government officials and vaccine makers are working hard
to keep the truth about vaccines and autism hidden because if they
admit guilt, it would mean they "have taken part in the largest
iatrogenic epidemic known to man."

"The fallout over admission of causality would be unprecedented," Dr
Ayoub said.

Dr Mark Geier is probably the most credentialed expert on vaccines in
the US. When he was 23, he corrected a genetic disorder in a tissue
culture, gaining distinction as one of the founders of genetic
engineering, and earning him front-page articles in the New York Times
and London Times, and a call from President Richard Nixon.

He holds an MD and a PhD in genetics from George Washington University
and spent ten years at the National Institutes of Health. After
several more years as a professor at Johns Hopkins University, he
opened the genetic laboratory and clinical practice that he co-owns
today. He is also a court-certified expert on vaccines. Based on his
years of research on autism he makes a statement similar to Dr
Ayoub's.

"The current epidemic of autism may well be the greatest iatrogenic
epidemic in history. The damage already done to our society is already
in the trillions of dollars. The damage of the 9/11 terrorist attacks,
and that of the AIDS epidemic pale when compared to the current
epidemic of autism."

Eighty percent of autistics are under the age of 17. Soon states will
be forced to provide support for an enormous number of disabled
adults. Many autistics can not be left alone and must be looked after
non-stop. If the vaccine makers are not forced to pay for the damage
they caused, tax payers will be left to cover the entire expense of
daily care and housing as well as life-long medical treatment for this
generation of injured children.

As for the other reasons why officials within the FDA and CDC keep
denying the link between vaccines and autism, according to Congressman
Dave Weldon, "If it is eventually determined that an entire generation
of kids was essentially poisoned, a class-action suit against the
federal government could be on the order of hundreds of billions of
dollars, and so there's very good reason for them to try to cover this
up."

"And then when they appear as though they are covering it up," he
says, "it makes you suspicious that it's all true."

In the book, Evidence of Harm, award-winning author, David Kirby,
explains that "the stakes could not be higher. Perhaps billions of
dollars in litigation is pending against drug companies involved in
vaccine production. The deep pocketed pharmaceutical industry has
extended its financial largesse to politicians and scientists around
the country, in open pursuit of indemnity against lawsuits and, some
charge, in a darker effort to suppress evidence of thimerosal's
toxicity."

"The jury is still out on thimerosal, but deliberations are well under
way," Mr Kirby writes. "One side will emerge vindicated, and the other
will earn eternal scorn in the medical history books."

Evelyn Pringle
evelyn.pringle@...

Evelyn Pringle is a columnist for OpEd News and investigative
journalist focused on exposing corruption in government and corporate
America



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However, under pressure from the World Health Organisation, our Health
Ministry has never been able to really address these problems.

What, not even at plants set up by the Health Ministry to make vaccines in
India?