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Autism rises with childhood vaccines
http://www.roanoke.com/editorials/commentary/wb/154898
Autism rises with childhood vaccines One of Ellen DeGeneres's recent talk show guests was a young girl who raised a large sum of money selling bracelets to benefit autism treatment. She was motivated by having an autistic brother. At one point, the mother of the girl spoke, saying something I've heard other parents say over and over. She told the audience that her son had been happy and normal, meeting every developmental milestone, but a few days after receiving a round of vaccinations, he regressed into autism. The shocking rise of autism correlates with the rising number of immunizations that the majority of children are now getting. I was suspicious of the three that were recommended when my sons were young, knowing they contained thimerosal, formaldehyde, aluminum, ethylene glycol and a host of other suspect ingredients. Currently, there are at least 12 compulsory childhood immunizations, and because many are given twice, most children have had 20 or more shots before the age of 2, and new vaccines are being developed all the time. With one in every 150 children being diagnosed with autism, we should be talking about the cumulative effect that so many vaccines could be having on our children. We know antibiotics save lives, but their overuse has created resistant super bugs and the emergence of deadly infections like MRSA. Why is there no public debate about the overuse of immunizations? Why are parents who are reporting that their previously healthy children descended into autism after a round of vaccines being taken less seriously than the drug companies who sell vaccines for profit? Not only are they not required to prove that vaccines are safe, new rules made by President Bush-appointed FDA officials in 2006 protect pharmaceutical companies from private liability litigation. The drug companies' poor safety records are regularly revealed, as drugs on the market have proven to be harmful and are pulled from distribution. Why were vaccines containing mercury, one of the most poisonous elements on the planet, ever given to babies? Only after public outcry was the mercury removed. (It is still in most flu shots.) Sometimes the side effects of a drug treatment are worse than the disease being treated. In the case of immunizations, they don't treat disease but are supposed to be a preventative measure in case our children contract an illness. Back in 1979, Dr. Robert Mendelsohn said in his book "Confessions of a Medical Heretic," "If this is prevention, I'll take my chances with disease." I wonder what he would say today. Recent headlines have announced that vaccines don't cause autism, but these headlines are misleading because they reflect a conclusion based on the assumption that because autism has not declined since mercury was taken out of vaccines, they must be safe. As toxic as mercury is, it may not be the primary culprit linking autism and vaccines. A 2002 study published in Pediatric Neurology revealed that elevated levels of measles antibodies exist in autistic children, suggesting that autism could be an autoimmune disease triggered by the measles virus in vaccines. Evidence suggests a genetic predisposition to autism. It seems obvious that a round of vaccinations containing a number of viruses and neurotoxins could be enough of an assault on a child's body to push the susceptible ones over into this illness. In the case of the MMR vaccine (measles, mumps and rubella), children are exposed to a mixture of three live viruses at one time, something that would never happen in nature. It's understandable that some parents choose to protect their children against disease by strengthening their immune systems through health-giving practices and that they would reject over-relying on the recommendations of government experts with alliances to the profit-driven medical establishment. The least I hope for is that doctors and parents begin to take a cautious approach to the practice of immunization, such as delaying shots until an infant is older, administering one shot at a time, and picking and choosing which ones are given. I hope they keep in mind that some of the diseases children are immunized for were considered normal childhood illnesses that strengthened children's immune systems when I was growing up. I hope they remember that it took decades before big-profit cigarette companies were forced to concede that their products were dangerous. Smoking one cigarette won't hurt anyone, but regular use can kill. When it comes to man-made inventions and interventions, more is hardly ever better. |
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