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MMR letter
MJ http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/elett...7467/642#75038. The Bigger They Are. 20 September 2004 F. Edward Yazbak, Pediatrician, Director TL Autism Research, Falmouth, Massachusetts 02540, USA Send response to journal: The Bigger They Are. Email F. Edward Yazbak 1998: I. Andrew Wakefield publishes in the Lancet. The Public Health Officials: Only 12 cases II. Peltola and friends also publish in the Lancet; the study is funded by Merck. .. The Public Health Officials: This is a great study of 1.8 million individuals followed for 14 years vs. just 12 cases. MMR does not cause autism. .. Parents are not convinced. .. M. Kielinen (1) reports a striking increase in autism in Finland. .. The Peltola study and several others by the same group fade away. 1999: Taylor and friends publish in the Lancet; the study is supported by the MCA and PHLS. .. The Public Health Officials: This is a great study of almost 500 cases vs. Only 12 cases. MMR does not cause autism. .. Parents are not convinced. .. Taylor refuses to disclose his raw data. .. His conclusions are rejected by Roger at a meeting of the National Statistical Society on March 28, 2000 .. His methodology is criticized by Madsen in 2002 (NEJM). .. The Taylor study fades away. So does Taylor II. 2001: Kaye and friends publish in the BMJ. The study is not funded by anyone but the authors are employed by the Boston Collaborative Drug Surveillance Program which is supported by a dozen or more drug companies. .. The Public Health Officials say: This is a great study of hundreds of children over several years vs. Only 12 cases. MMR does not cause autism. .. Parents are not convinced. .. The study is criticized by researchers in the UK (including Liam Smeeth in the BMJ), US, Canada, Denmark and Sweden. .. The Kaye study fades away. 2002: Madsen and friends publish in the NEJM. The study is co-funded by the CDC and criticizes the studies by Taylor, Kaye and others. .. The Public Health Officials say: This is the best study ever and absolutely the "last word": 537,303 subjects and 2,129,864 person-years vs. Only 12 cases. MMR does not cause autism. .. Parents are not convinced. .. The study affects the MMR class action suit in the UK and a report by a special committee of the Institute of Medicine in the US. .. On September 1, 2004 both Goldman and Stott (2, 3) contradict Madsen and conclusively demonstrate that autistic spectrum disorders did significantly increase in Denmark after the introduction of the MMR. .. Madsen's study is fading. 2004: Smeeth and friends publish in the Lancet . Meanwhile, .. Hundreds of cases of autistic entero-colitis have been diagnosed in several medical centers .. Measles virus genomic RNA has been identified in the gut wall (vaccine strain-compatible) and recently in the CSF (4). .. Autism is now epidemic (5, 6) and the US Department of Health and Human Services, the CDC and the AAP have circulated an Autism A.L.A.R.M. reporting an incidence of 1 in 166. (7) .. The parents are still concerned, as they should be .. A whole generation has been lost. References: 1. Kielinen M, Linna SL, Moilanen I. : Autism in Northern Finland Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry 2000 Sep; 9(3):162-7. 2. Goldman GS, Yazbak FE: An Investigation of the Association between MMR Vaccination and Autism in Denmark. JAmPhysSurg 2004; 9(3):70-75 http://www.jpands.org/vol9no3/goldman.pdf 3. Stott C, Blaxill M, Wakefield AJ: MMR and Autism in Perspective: The Denmark Story. JAmPhysSurg 2004; 9(3):89-91 http://www.jpands.org/vol9no3/stott.pdf 4. Bradstreet JJ, El-Dahr J, Anthony A, Kartzimel JJ, Wakefield AJ: Detection of Measles Virus Genomic RNA in Cerebrospinal Fluid of Children with Regressive Autism: A report of 3 cases. JAmPhysSurg 2004; 9(2):38-45 http://www.jpands.org/vol9no2/bradstreet.pdf 5. Yazbak FE:Autism in the United States: A Perspective. JAmPhysSurg 2003; 8(4):103-107 http://www.jpands.org/vol8no4/yazbak.pdf 6. Yazbak FE: Autism seems to be increasing worldwide, if not in London. BMJ 2004 Jan 24; 328(7433):226-7. http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/conte...328/7433/226-c 7. Autism A.L.A.R.M., January 2004 http://www.medicalhomeinfo.org/scree...larmFinal1.jpg Competing interests: Grandfather of a child with autism and evidence of measles virus genomic RNA in the ileal wall |
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"john" wrote in message ... (....) 7. Autism A.L.A.R.M., January 2004 http://www.medicalhomeinfo.org/scree...larmFinal1.jpg Competing interests: Grandfather of a child with autism and evidence of measles virus genomic RNA in the ileal wall Just in case you are interested, the ilium is part of the intestines, not the brain. Several different groups have tried to find a link between autism and vaccines. They failed. Why: There is no link. Jeff |
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