Autism, ADD, ADHA - Vaccine Related?

According to the most recent estimates by the CDC,
about 1 in 150 children in the US suffers from an
autistic disorder. Recent 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.

Thimerosal is a vaccine preservative that was
developed in the 1930s by Eli Lilly, and has been used
in vaccines since that time. It contains 49.5%
mercury. The amount of mercury considered safe for
adults, by the EPA and FDA, is 0.1 microgram per
kilogram of weight.

As a neurotoxin, thimerosal, has been linked to the
depletion of the protective anti-oxidant, glutathione,
which helps rid the body of mercury. Certain
individuals, like people with autism, seem to be more
susceptible to this effect. Most people with autism
have low levels of glutathione, and therefore have
difficulty excreting mercury.

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

A few months ago, the group, Health Advocacy in the
Public Interest (HAPI), sent four separate vials of
vaccines to be tested by Doctor's Data, an independent
lab, which specializes in heavy metal testing.

The testing revealed that all four of the vials
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 in causing neuronal death in the brain.

In fact, during further investigation of the matter,
HAPI discovered that mercury-based thimerosal was
still being used to produce most vaccines. The drug
makers claimed that after production, they use a
process to filter the preservative out of the final
vaccines.

However, Scientist, Boyd Haley, Phd, who is the
Chemistry Department Chair at the University of
Kentucky, told HAPI that its not possible to filter
out all of the thimerosal because mercury binds to the
antigenic protein in the vaccine and therefore, cannot
be completely filtered out 100%.

We are not going to see a drastic decline in autism
due to the fact that we have been misled about when
thimerosal was actually eliminated from vaccines.
Because the FDA has never forced drug makers to recall
all the vaccines previously manufactured and shipped
to health care providers, several different
mercury-containing vaccines remain in the inventories
of health care facilities with expiration dates as
late as September, 2005.

In addition, pregnant women and their unborn infants,
are still being injected with thimerosal in flu
vaccines, and a shot to combat the RH negative factor.
The FDA and CDC have ignored the tremendous amount of
scientific evidence of injury from these vaccines
discovered by all the various studies, and have
continued to recommend flu vaccines for pregnant women
and certain children.

Most flu vaccines recommended for pregnant women
contain 25 micrograms of mercury. Which means a
fetus, through vaccination of its mother, receives a
dose of mercury that exceeds the Federal guidelines
several hundred-fold.

Experts Weigh In

To what degree of scientific certainty can the
epidemic of autism be blamed on mercury in childhood
vaccines? David Ayoub, MD, answered this question for
Independent Media TV, “I can state that the certainty
of the Science supporting mercury as a major cause of
autism is probably more overpowering than the science
behind any other disease process that I studied dating
back to medical school,” he said.

In 2002, the scientific research team of David and
Mark Geier, released a study based on tens of millions
of doses of vaccines given to children in the US
during the 1990s, that presented the first
epidemiologic evidence that associated the increase in
thimerosal from vaccines with neurodevelopmental
disorders.

Specifically, the Geier analysis of the Federal
government's Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System
(VAERS) 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 DTaP vaccines.
The VAERS database has only been maintained by the CDC
since 1990.

According to the Geiers, the usual course of DTaP
vaccine consists of primary immunizations administered
at 2, 4, and 6 months, followed up by booster doses at
18 months and at 5 years.

Using the database, the Geiers determined that there
were a total of 6575 adverse reaction reports after
thimerosal-vaccines, compared to only 1516 adverse
reactions reported after thimerosal-free vaccines.

Lisa Blakemore-Brown, a Psychologist in the UK, also
maintains that thimerosal is the cause of autism, and
suspects it is also the culprit involved in a wide
variety of other health problems showing up in
children these days.

"The epidemic of health and developmental problems in
so called advanced countries is now undeniable,"
Blakemore reports, "1 in 10 children suffer from
gastrointestinal disorders, 1 in 4 have asthma."

According to Blakemore, the current autism epidemic
did not occur earlier because children "were given
single vaccines with single amounts of mercury,” she
says, “but with the introduction of triple vaccines
the amount of mercury contained within the
preservative was multiplied and the cumulative effects
are only just now being discovered by the public," she
adds.

Thimerosal is also now being blamed for Attention
Deficit Disorder (ADD) and Attention Deficit Disorder
with Hyperactivity (ADHD), which affect millions of
children and their families. Currently statistics
suggest that as many as 10% of the school-aged
children have ADD and another 20% exhibit symptoms of
ADHD.

Since they believe vaccines are to blame in the first
place, many parents have come to resent the fact that
the pharmaceutical industry is now raking in huge
profits from its successful manufacturing and
marketing of drugs to treat disorders caused by the
very drug companies that caused the injury.

Number Of Vaccines Too High

The number of recommended vaccinations for children up
to 24 months has nearly tripled since 1988, according
the CDC, which currently recommends vaccination
against 12 diseases. Because some vaccines must be
given more than once, a child could get as many as 23
shots by the age of 2.

Under the CDC immunization schedule, here are the
vaccines recommended for children before two years of
age.

Birth-6 months: Hepatitis B: 2 doses; Diphtheria,
Pertussis (DPT), Tetanus: 3 doses; Haemophilus
influenzae type B (Hib): 3 doses; Inactivated
poliovirus: 2 doses; Measles, mumps, rubella (MMR):
not recommended; Varicella: not recommended;
Pneumococcal conjugate: 3 doses. Total 13 doses

12-24 months: Hepatitis B: 1 dose; Diphtheria,
Pertussis (DPT), Tetanus: 1 dose; Haemophilus
influenzae type B (Hib): 1 dose; Inactivated
poliovirus: 1 dose; Measles, mumps, rubella (MMR): 1
dose; Varicella: 1 dose; Pneumococcal conjugate: 1
dose; Pneumococcal polysaccharide*: 1 dose; and
Influenza: 1 dose

Hepatitis A*: 1 dose; Total 10 doses

* Vaccines recommended in selected states and regions
and for certain high-risk groups.

The worst example of administering unnecessary
vaccines is the injection of Hepatitis B into
newborns. Vaccinating an infant to prevent an adult
lifestyle disease makes no sense and is done solely to
boost profits. Plain and simple, drug companies
needed a market for a new vaccine, so they targeted
infants and children.

Even in adults, the incidence rate of Hepatitis B has
always been very low. In 1991, for instance, there
were only 18,003 cases within an estimated total
population of 248 million.

Prior to the introduction of the vaccine, Hepatitis B
among children was almost unheard of. According to
the Guide to Clinical Preventive Services, in 1986,
there were only 279 cases reported in children under
the age of 14.

The recommendation by the FDA and CDC to include the
Hep B vaccine in the immunization schedule is probably
the most blatant example of the underhanded efforts by
employees within those agencies to increase profits
for the pharmaceutical industry through the vaccine
program, to the detriment of our children.

Dr Jay Gordon is a pediatrician who was named CBS TV's
Medical Consultant for Children's programming. He
also worked for 5 years on ABC TV as the on-air
medical correspondent and has appeared on "Good
Morning America" to discuss vaccinations.

On his website, Gordon says, "I also don't like the
financial ties that vaccine researchers have to the
manufacturers because some of these same experts help
make the official decisions about which shots will be
approved and/or required."

He is also concerned about the number of needless
vaccines given to children. “The diseases against
which we vaccinate used to be much more common,”
Gordon says, “but we are now down to an average of one
case of diphtheria (the "D" of the DPT) per year in
the US, a few thousand cases of Pertussis ("P"), and
30 or so cases of Tetanus each year,” he explains.

“We have not had a case of "wild" polio in America
since 1979 and the entire Western Hemisphere has been
free of the disease for some years,” Gordon adds. He
claims “it's highly unlikely that a young child would
contract hepatitis B; there are only a few dozen cases
of tetanus in this country each year.”

"In my opinion, we vaccinate in an unscientific and
potentially dangerous way," Gordon says. He believes
it would be better to vaccinate children later and
slower, “The expedient and economically superior
method, doesn't serve our babies well,” he warns.

When I was a kid I got a few vaccines. And my
children (now 33 & 36) got a few during their school
years. Due to the fact that no one from those 2
generations got the 3 dozen or so vaccines currently
mandated, one question has me stumped. If 3 dozen
vaccines are really needed to fight off these dreadful
contagious diseases, in the 54 years I’ve been on this
earth, why hasn’t a single person I know ever caught
one of them?

Evelyn Pringle
e.pringle@sbcglobal.net
Miamisburg OH

(Evelyn Pringle is a columnist for Independent Media
TV and an investigative journalist focused on exposing
government corruption)

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Autism, ADD, ADHA - Vaccine Related?

According to the most recent estimates by the CDC,
about 1 in 150 children in the US suffers from an
autistic disorder. Recent 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.

Thimerosal is a vaccine preservative that was
developed in the 1930s by Eli Lilly, and has been used
in vaccines since that time. It contains 49.5%
mercury. The amount of mercury considered safe for
adults, by the EPA and FDA, is 0.1 microgram per
kilogram of weight.

As a neurotoxin, thimerosal, has been linked to the
depletion of the protective anti-oxidant, glutathione,
which helps rid the body of mercury. Certain
individuals, like people with autism, seem to be more
susceptible to this effect. Most people with autism
have low levels of glutathione, and therefore have
difficulty excreting mercury.

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

A few months ago, the group, Health Advocacy in the
Public Interest (HAPI), sent four separate vials of
vaccines to be tested by Doctor's Data, an independent
lab, which specializes in heavy metal testing.

The testing revealed that all four of the vials
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 in causing neuronal death in the brain.

In fact, during further investigation of the matter,
HAPI discovered that mercury-based thimerosal was
still being used to produce most vaccines. The drug
makers claimed that after production, they use a
process to filter the preservative out of the final
vaccines.

However, Scientist, Boyd Haley, Phd, who is the
Chemistry Department Chair at the University of
Kentucky, told HAPI that its not possible to filter
out all of the thimerosal because mercury binds to the
antigenic protein in the vaccine and therefore, cannot
be completely filtered out 100%.

We are not going to see a drastic decline in autism
due to the fact that we have been misled about when
thimerosal was actually eliminated from vaccines.
Because the FDA has never forced drug makers to recall
all the vaccines previously manufactured and shipped
to health care providers, several different
mercury-containing vaccines remain in the inventories
of health care facilities with expiration dates as
late as September, 2005.

In addition, pregnant women and their unborn infants,
are still being injected with thimerosal in flu
vaccines, and a shot to combat the RH negative factor.
The FDA and CDC have ignored the tremendous amount of
scientific evidence of injury from these vaccines
discovered by all the various studies, and have
continued to recommend flu vaccines for pregnant women
and certain children.

Most flu vaccines recommended for pregnant women
contain 25 micrograms of mercury. Which means a
fetus, through vaccination of its mother, receives a
dose of mercury that exceeds the Federal guidelines
several hundred-fold.

Experts Weigh In

To what degree of scientific certainty can the
epidemic of autism be blamed on mercury in childhood
vaccines? David Ayoub, MD, answered this question for
Independent Media TV, “I can state that the certainty
of the Science supporting mercury as a major cause of
autism is probably more overpowering than the science
behind any other disease process that I studied dating
back to medical school,” he said.

In 2002, the scientific research team of David and
Mark Geier, released a study based on tens of millions
of doses of vaccines given to children in the US
during the 1990s, that presented the first
epidemiologic evidence that associated the increase in
thimerosal from vaccines with neurodevelopmental
disorders.

Specifically, the Geier analysis of the Federal
government's Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System
(VAERS) 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 DTaP vaccines.
The VAERS database has only been maintained by the CDC
since 1990.

According to the Geiers, the usual course of DTaP
vaccine consists of primary immunizations administered
at 2, 4, and 6 months, followed up by booster doses at
18 months and at 5 years.

Using the database, the Geiers determined that there
were a total of 6575 adverse reaction reports after
thimerosal-vaccines, compared to only 1516 adverse
reactions reported after thimerosal-free vaccines.

Lisa Blakemore-Brown, a Psychologist in the UK, also
maintains that thimerosal is the cause of autism, and
suspects it is also the culprit involved in a wide
variety of other health problems showing up in
children these days.

"The epidemic of health and developmental problems in
so called advanced countries is now undeniable,"
Blakemore reports, "1 in 10 children suffer from
gastrointestinal disorders, 1 in 4 have asthma."

According to Blakemore, the current autism epidemic
did not occur earlier because children "were given
single vaccines with single amounts of mercury,” she
says, “but with the introduction of triple vaccines
the amount of mercury contained within the
preservative was multiplied and the cumulative effects
are only just now being discovered by the public," she
adds.

Thimerosal is also now being blamed for Attention
Deficit Disorder (ADD) and Attention Deficit Disorder
with Hyperactivity (ADHD), which affect millions of
children and their families. Currently statistics
suggest that as many as 10% of the school-aged
children have ADD and another 20% exhibit symptoms of
ADHD.

Since they believe vaccines are to blame in the first
place, many parents have come to resent the fact that
the pharmaceutical industry is now raking in huge
profits from its successful manufacturing and
marketing of drugs to treat disorders caused by the
very drug companies that caused the injury.

Number Of Vaccines Too High

The number of recommended vaccinations for children up
to 24 months has nearly tripled since 1988, according
the CDC, which currently recommends vaccination
against 12 diseases. Because some vaccines must be
given more than once, a child could get as many as 23
shots by the age of 2.

Under the CDC immunization schedule, here are the
vaccines recommended for children before two years of
age.

Birth-6 months: Hepatitis B: 2 doses; Diphtheria,
Pertussis (DPT), Tetanus: 3 doses; Haemophilus
influenzae type B (Hib): 3 doses; Inactivated
poliovirus: 2 doses; Measles, mumps, rubella (MMR):
not recommended; Varicella: not recommended;
Pneumococcal conjugate: 3 doses. Total 13 doses

12-24 months: Hepatitis B: 1 dose; Diphtheria,
Pertussis (DPT), Tetanus: 1 dose; Haemophilus
influenzae type B (Hib): 1 dose; Inactivated
poliovirus: 1 dose; Measles, mumps, rubella (MMR): 1
dose; Varicella: 1 dose; Pneumococcal conjugate: 1
dose; Pneumococcal polysaccharide*: 1 dose; and
Influenza: 1 dose

Hepatitis A*: 1 dose; Total 10 doses

* Vaccines recommended in selected states and regions
and for certain high-risk groups.

The worst example of administering unnecessary
vaccines is the injection of Hepatitis B into
newborns. Vaccinating an infant to prevent an adult
lifestyle disease makes no sense and is done solely to
boost profits. Plain and simple, drug companies
needed a market for a new vaccine, so they targeted
infants and children.

Even in adults, the incidence rate of Hepatitis B has
always been very low. In 1991, for instance, there
were only 18,003 cases within an estimated total
population of 248 million.

Prior to the introduction of the vaccine, Hepatitis B
among children was almost unheard of. According to
the Guide to Clinical Preventive Services, in 1986,
there were only 279 cases reported in children under
the age of 14.

The recommendation by the FDA and CDC to include the
Hep B vaccine in the immunization schedule is probably
the most blatant example of the underhanded efforts by
employees within those agencies to increase profits
for the pharmaceutical industry through the vaccine
program, to the detriment of our children.

Dr Jay Gordon is a pediatrician who was named CBS TV's
Medical Consultant for Children's programming. He
also worked for 5 years on ABC TV as the on-air
medical correspondent and has appeared on "Good
Morning America" to discuss vaccinations.

On his website, Gordon says, "I also don't like the
financial ties that vaccine researchers have to the
manufacturers because some of these same experts help
make the official decisions about which shots will be
approved and/or required."

He is also concerned about the number of needless
vaccines given to children. “The diseases against
which we vaccinate used to be much more common,”
Gordon says, “but we are now down to an average of one
case of diphtheria (the "D" of the DPT) per year in
the US, a few thousand cases of Pertussis ("P"), and
30 or so cases of Tetanus each year,” he explains.

“We have not had a case of "wild" polio in America
since 1979 and the entire Western Hemisphere has been
free of the disease for some years,” Gordon adds. He
claims “it's highly unlikely that a young child would
contract hepatitis B; there are only a few dozen cases
of tetanus in this country each year.”

"In my opinion, we vaccinate in an unscientific and
potentially dangerous way," Gordon says. He believes
it would be better to vaccinate children later and
slower, “The expedient and economically superior
method, doesn't serve our babies well,” he warns.

When I was a kid I got a few vaccines. And my
children (now 33 & 36) got a few during their school
years. Due to the fact that no one from those 2
generations got the 3 dozen or so vaccines currently
mandated, one question has me stumped. If 3 dozen
vaccines are really needed to fight off these dreadful
contagious diseases, in the 54 years I’ve been on this
earth, why hasn’t a single person I know ever caught
one of them?

Evelyn Pringle
e.pringle@sbcglobal.net
Miamisburg OH

(Evelyn Pringle is a columnist for Independent Media
TV and an investigative journalist focused on exposing
government corruption)