THERE IS NO PROOF THAT VACCINES ARE SAFE

This is a great article that sums up so many things and gives great information regarding vaccines and their connection to Autism as well as just being generally harmful.

*** There are so many unanswered questions - I just hate that this is all going on right now and I ache for those of you that are trying to decide what to do about vaccinations for your precious children. I will just give my 2 cents quickly and then let you read this article:

1. As this article mentions, there are NO studies that have been done to prove that it is safe to give multiple vaccines at a time. The CDC and most in the medical community LOVE to tell everyone that "there is no proof, or no studies to show that vaccines are linked to Autism". However, we now know that the courts have conceded that a little girl's autism was caused by her shots.... She had multiple in one day..

My point: They can tell me all day long that there is "no proof" that vaccines aren't safe...(although there are tens of thousands of parents that will tell you otherwise...) But I think they should be determined, required, demanded to prove that they ARE safe, especially when they are giving them to newborn babies and then 6 at a time to 2 month old babies. ... (and then again at 4 mos, 6 mos, 12 mos, 18 mos, 2 years, the list goes on...)

2. Read the articles re: waiting until 2 to vaccinate your child. There are some links in here and they are all over the internet. They are written by doctors - not just parents. The risks are too high and they have not proven that it is safe to do it the way they are doing it. They also have not removed the VERY harmful ingredients in them. The big push is to vaccinate by 2. why? We won't give our children Milk, eggs, peanut butter, honey, etc. before they are 1 year old, yet we can inject them with live viruses, aluminum, formaldehyde, mercury, etc. etc. 6 shots at a time? That does not make sense. You can read stories all over the place of families that have multiple children with Autism or other related neurological disorders but then have other children that they do not vaccinate and they are completely healthy and develop normally. This is not a coincidence. The statistics used to show that your chances of having more than one child with autism was almost nothing. Now, if you have one, you have another (or one with a related disorder..) There is a family in Utah with 6 children - they all have Autism.

3. Decide for yourself what is right for your child. Do not get pushed into vaccinating by your doctor, your friends, your family, etc. These are YOUR precious children. We are SO careful not to let our children get sick or harmed. If there was a new drug on the market, we wouldn't just inject it into our children. We would want to know if it was harmful, if it had side effects, what it's benefits were and we would then decide if it was right for our child. We need to do the same here. Please don't let me influence you either. (Although I would love to influence you because I want to protect you from the heartache that so many parents feel these days....) However, please just use this information to help you gather MORE information and to help you make a decision for your family.

Please post any comments or questions that you may have.

PS. If there is anyone out there with a child who has already been injured by vaccines or has Autism or something else on the spectrum, I would love to share thoughts, hopes, ideas and successes for the treatment of these disorders. We have seen GREAT improvements in our little one over the past 8 months and can't wait to see more. I am always interested in what has worked for other children and also would love to share what we have done with anyone who is interested!

Please click on photos to make them bigger and look at the difference in his eyes. Kids with autism are described as being "not there". The parents say that they know their child is in there, but they just can't see them anymore. Their eyes change. The sparkle is gone. I don't really understand why it happens, but it does. Their eyes just seem darker and like they have more of a "blank stare". It is hard to describe...

My Little guy before his 12 month vaccine (MMR plus chicken pox - that is 4 live viruses...)

One year after that..... Notice, he is still a darling kid, but there is something different about him. His sparkle is gone.

After only 2 months of biomedical treatment (Gluten free, dairy free diet only at this point). Later we started vitamin and mineral supplements, B12, etc.
Almost 2 years after MMR and after 6 months of biomedical treatment and 3 months of ABA behavioral therapy. His sparkle is coming back!


Now the Article!!

If you want to read the link on the actual website (the format might be better) here is the link:

http://www.generationrescue.org/vaccines.html

They have tons of other great information on their site as well.

Also, at the bottom of the article, there are quite a few links to other great articles, books, etc. but those do not show up in my post. If you would like to read them, please click on the link above and read the article on their website.

Treatment: On Vaccines
Our message to the CDC and AAP: "Green our vaccines, and administer them with greater care."

Questioning the safety of vaccines is a taboo topic in the United States and many other countries. The pressure is on most pediatricians to always counsel that the "benefits outweigh the risks" when it comes to vaccinating children. Yet, most parents have heard about the legitimate concerns many parents have that vaccines may have triggered their children’s autism or other neurological disorders ("NDs").
The growth in the number of vaccines given to our children in the last 20 years is rarely discussed in the media, despite a stunning chart like this one that shows a 260% increase in vaccines administered (were millions of children dying from deadly diseases 25 years ago? No, they weren’t.) Parents should know that vaccines are never tested for their "combination risk", despite the fact that children may get as many as 6 vaccines in a single visit to the doctor. And, when it comes to vaccines, how can it be possible that one size fits all? What may present as no risks for one child may present enormous risks for another.
As a parent contemplating vaccinating their child, we would offer the following 3-point plan to try to minimize the potential risks from vaccines. (Please note that we are parents, not doctors. What follows is not medical advice, it is the opinion of parents. Anything written here should be reviewed with a qualified physician. We are not giving you medical advice nor are we qualified to do so.)

1. Take Precaution
• Consider delaying vaccines until your child is 18-24 months old.
• Do not vaccinate if your child is taking antibiotics.
• Consider no more than one vaccine per doctor’s visit.
• If you plan to get the MMR vaccine, ask your doctor to give it in three separate vaccines for measles, mumps and rubella.
• Consider giving high doses of Vitamin C (3,000-5,000 mg per day) on the day before, of, and after vaccination.
• With the measles vaccine (MMR), consider high doses of Vitamin A (5,000 IU or more) on the day before, of, and after vaccination.
• If your child experiences any developmental delays, stop vaccinating until you learn more.
• If your child has an adverse reaction to a vaccine, stop vaccinating until you learn more.
• Always ask to see the vaccine insert, and never accept a vaccine that uses the preservative Thimerosal (mercury). For a complete list of vaccines with Thimerosal, see the FDA’s website here. Note: most flu shots today still contain Thimerosal.

2. Consider delaying vaccines
In our favorite article on vaccines, A User-Friendly Vaccine Schedule, written by University of Washington surgeon Donald Miller, M.D., Dr. Miller makes a number of interesting observations including:
"Public health officials, however, have not proven that it is indeed safe to inject this many vaccines into infants. What's more, they cannot explain why, concurrent with an increasing number of vaccinations, there has been an explosion of neurologic and immune system disorders in our nation’s children."
And:
"New knowledge in neuroimmunology (the study of how the brain’s immune system works) raises serious questions about the wisdom of injecting vaccines in children less than two years of age."
Dr. Miller’s recommendation: don’t start vaccinating your child until they turn two years old.

3. Consider an alternative schedule to the CDC’s current schedule
It really is shocking to look at the 1983 recommended vaccine schedule and compare it to 2008. Does a child really need so many more vaccines today? Quiz your doctor by asking them how many vaccines were on the schedule in the 1980s. We have found that most have no idea. Three potential alternative schedules to consider:

I. Listen to the Doctor (Our favorite)
Comment: Donald Miller, M.D., is a surgeon at the University of Washington. His article, A User-Friendly Vaccine Schedule, is summarized into this schedule.
II. Turn back the clock

Comment: This is the schedule from 1983. If it worked for kids then, why doesn't it work for kids now?
III. Go Danish

Comment: Denmark is a first world country based in Western Europe. Their schedule appears far more reasonable than ours. They have also been reported to have a much lower rate of autism than the U.S. Do they know something we don't?
A second disclaimer: Please note that we are parents, not doctors. What precedes is not medical advice, it is the opinion of parents. Anything written here should be reviewed with a qualified physician. We are not giving you medical advice nor are we qualified to do so.

Final thoughts and resources
The parents of Generation Rescue were once just like you. We trusted our pediatricians. We vaccinated our children according to the latest schedule from the CDC. Then, often times immediately following a vaccine visit, we watched our children change and descend into autism. The reason this organization and website exists is because we don’t want the same thing to happen to you and your child. Some things that we have learned that we want you to know include:

1. Vaccines are big business
As this recent Wall Street Journal article reported, Merck stands to generate as much as $2 billion in revenues per year for their new Gardasil vaccine for girls targeting Cervical cancer. For a company beaten down by the Vioxx scandal, Gardasil’s success is a very important initiative, which according to the article has caused the company to push the vaccine out the door using questionable marketing techniques while legitimate concerns about safety and efficacy still exist. (A January 2008 story that made headlines across Europe reported on the deaths of two teenage girls immediately after getting the Gardasil vaccine -- we couldn’t find any U.S. media outlets that covered the story.)
Vaccine manufacturers are no different from other corporations: they want to sell more of whatever it is they make. Unfortunately, there is a revolving door between the policy-makers who determine the vaccine schedule and the pharmaceutical companies who make vaccines, as our own Congressional Committee on Government Reform reported in this document titled Conflicts of Interest in Vaccine Policy Making.

2. Vaccines have real documented risks and the U.S. Government knows this.
Vaccines have risks and parents are rarely told about these risks. Any pediatrician who represents that vaccines are "completely safe" is not presenting the facts. Many vaccines contain other toxic substances including ethylene glycol (antifreeze), phenol (a disinfectant dye), benzethonium chloride (a disinfectant), formaldehyde (a preservative and disinfectant), and aluminum (another known neuro-toxin). Further, some viruses used in vaccines are cultured in animal tissue including chicken albumin and monkey liver. Click here for a complete list of the foreign substances found in vaccines, and here for a poster summarizing vaccine ingredients.
The CDC maintains a database called the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System or VAERS. This database keeps track of publicly reported adverse reactions to vaccines. In a ten year period (1991-2001), VAERS received 128,717 reports of adverse events, of which 14% were described as "serious" which means "death, life-threatening illness, hospitalization or prolongation of hospitalization, or permanent disability."
The Federal Government maintains a National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP). Between 1990-2004, the VICP paid more than $900 million in restitution to persons injured by vaccines, and they provide a list of possible injuries by type of vaccine.
3. There are legitimate concerns over the efficacy of some vaccines.
Consider the flu vaccine as just one example of where there may be evidence that the vaccine does not work:
A recent study was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association touting the safety of flu vaccine. Nine of the studies authors had stated financial ties to vaccine manufacturers, and an additional four authors worked for the CDC. The study also stated: "It is also important to note that there is scant data on the efficacy and effectiveness of influenza vaccine in young children."
On October 27, 2006, the British Medical Journal published an article also questioning the efficacy of the flu vaccine. The article noted: "Evidence from systematic reviews shows that inactivated vaccines [flu vaccines] have little or no effect on the effects measured. Little comparative evidence exists on the safety of these vaccines. Reasons for the current gap between policy and evidence are unclear, but given the huge resources involved, a re-evaluation should be urgently undertaken...The optimistic and confident tone of some predictions of viral circulation and of the impact of inactivated vaccines, which are at odds with the evidence, is striking."

4. You can't be forced to vaccinate your child or follow the CDC's recommended immunization schedule.
Parents are often told that vaccinating their child is "required by law". It is important for parents to understand what their rights are as all states offer either a philosophical or religious exemption from vaccinations. You have the right to design a vaccine program that is right for you and your child. Click here for more information.
Articles:
1. Attempts At Eradicating Infectious Diseases Are Putting Our Children At Risk
National Vaccine Information Center
By Barbara Loe Fisher, President, National Vaccine Information Center
2. MMR and the Simple Truth about Autism
Age of Autism Blog
By Dan Olmsted
February 7, 2008
3. What Did the CDC Know and When Did They Know It?
Age of Autism Blog
By Mark Blaxill
December 13, 2007
4. The Age of Autism: Pox -- Part 1
By Dan Olmsted, UPI
April 19, 2006
5. In the Wake of Vaccines Mothering
By Barbara Loe Fisher
September-October 2004
6. Vaccines: The Overlooked Factors
Autism Research Institute
Bernard Rimland, Ph.D., President, Autism Research Institute
7. DAN! Vaccine Guidelines
Autism Research Institute
8. Putting Toddlers At Risk With Mandated Vaccines
American Association of Physicians and Surgeons Online
By Jane Orient, M.D., Executive Director, American Association of Physicians and Surgeons
Books
1. What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Children's Vaccinations
By Stephanie Cave
2. A Shot In The Dark
By Harris Coulter
3. The Vaccine Guide: Risks and Benefits for Children and Adults
By Randall Neustaeder
Links
1. National Vaccine Information Center
2. Vaccination News
3. Vacinfo.org

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VACCINE RALLY PHOTOS

OKAY, SO I took a bunch of photos at the rally, but it was impossible to get photos of everything. There were so many people and so much going on! I just found this blog with 140 photos! It shows signs that families had made, parents, children with Autism, Jenny McCarthy and Jim, etc. etc. It brought me to tears to read all of these signs again. I am sorry, but this debate has been going on since I think 1991 - but to me the debate is over. These people are living proof and I was there as one of them. The sad thing is, there are thousands and thousands more.... Please PLEASE go and scroll through these and send the link on to others you care about. I will try to post videos as well.

http://adventuresinautism.blogspot.com/2008/06/it-was-good-day-in-dc.html

Robert F Kennedy, Jr. Speech at Vaccine Rally, Plus ENTIRE Rally Video!

I am going to post some links to videos from the Rally. This first one is of Robert F Kennedy, Jr. I am also going to post a link that actually has video of the entire rally from start to finish so if any of you want to see the whole thing you can. I would STRONGLY suggest that you at least watch the press conference with the amazing speakers. The Rally was awesome and if you viewed the photos I posted, you have already seen the heart wrenching photos and posters. But what I would like is for all of you to hear the data, the evidence, the doctors and other speakers that show that there is undeniable evidence that vaccines are doing harm to our children. Autism, ADHD, Aspergers, Asthma, Allergies, learning disabilities, and even death.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rW3FH9BF9NI

Entire Rally!!!! - Worth watching...
http://www.autismone.org/radio/video/greenrally.cfm?v=11

More RFK, JR

Here is a video from October of an interview discussing the evidence that Mercury (which is STILL in vaccines) causes autism. Below I am posting the link to his famous article regarding the same issue and the Government's cover up of it....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrIM2hwrLoc

http://robertfkennedyjr.com/articles/2005_june_16.html

MEDICAL MISTAKES THROUGH THE AGES...

This is a great blog post. It is VERY long and I don't really read all of the text. Some of it is great, but I mostly like the pictures showing that "More Doctors Smoke Camels than any other Cigarette"....

You get the picture. You may have to scroll down through some of the beginning info to get to all of the good stuff. Please read!

http://kimstagliano.blogspot.com/2008/03/medical-mistakes-throughout-ages-thank.html

VACCINE/AUTISM/ALLERGY/ASTHMA/BRAIN DAMAGE CONNECTION AND RELATED ARTICLES...

Please click on any quote to make it larger...

I know I haven't posted in ages and I haven'tposted any info regarding the vaccine rally in DC (which was awesome, by the way...) I will do that soon, I promise. In the meantime, please read these quotes and then my ranting below and then the articles I have posted and then go to the website and read more! (only if you want to, of course....)

Here are multiple different quotes - most from actual doctors. There are a lot more where these came from..

I am no longer "trying to dig up evidence to prove" vaccines cause autism. There is already abundant evidence,...... This debate is not scientific but is political. --- [July 9, 2006 Blog/letter] Discovering the causes, treatment of autism ----David Ayoub, MD

"Some will have you believe that autism is some medical mystery that's always been around, one that we just have managed to get a handle on. So, show me the 30-year-olds with autism, the 40-year-olds with autism, and the 50-year-olds with autism. Guess what? They aren't there for the most part. The explosion in the number of children with autism is real, but most of the scientific community has ignored this. Let's face it: they have been encouraged to ignore it, and anyone getting close to the truth finds that they get their NIH research grants pulled. That's right…science is being manipulated, so that a big lie can stay alive, and those culpable can remain unaccountable. Throwing Children into Oncoming Traffic: The Truth about Autism by Kenneth Stoller, MD, FAAP with Anne McElroy Dachel

"The Federal Government recently conceded a real vaccine-autism lawsuit in a real court and will soon pay a real (taxpayer-funded) settlement to a real American family and a very real child with autism......If I were the AAP, or ABC for that matter, I would feel downright silly stating that "no scientific link exists," so soon after the Journal of Child Neurology published a study titled, "Blood Levels of Mercury Are Related to Diagnosis of Autism: A Reanalysis of an Important Data Set." I would also worry about parental reaction to learning that researchers had done due diligence and reanalyzed data from a prior, hugely influential study that (erroneously) found zero connection between mercury levels and autism......
Another study, freshly out of Harvard, likewise shows a potential link between mercury and the autopsied brains of young people with autism. The American Journal of Biochemistry and Biotechnology reports that a marker for oxidative stress was 68.9% higher in autistic brain issue than controls (a statistically significant result), while mercury levels were 68.2% higher. ....
In the article, "Delay in DPT vaccination is associated with a reduced risk of childhood asthma," Anita Kozyrskyj, an asthma researcher at the University of Manitoba, and other scientists combed the medical records of 14,000 children born in Manitoba in 1995 (when many Canadian shots still contained mercury, by the way). They found that children who received the DPT (diphtheria, pertussis and tetanus) vaccine at two months of age were 2.63 times more likely to develop asthma (at a rate of 13.9%) than children who were not given the shot until after four months of age (5.9%)."

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(Quotes are over, this is just me now...)

I was just searching for some gluten free food for my kids when I stumbled upon a great site with a TON of information, articles, studies, etc. regarding the vaccine/autism link. It also talks a lot about allergies and asthma and the connection to vaccines. The thing that surprised me the most (and at the same time didn't surprise me) was that there were so many articles dating back to 1990 (and earlier I think). Anyways, I will post the link below so you can all go and read for yourselves, but here are a few articles that I thought were very interesting.

I had heard that there could be some connection between the MMR (specifically) and autism over 5 years ago. I asked my dr. and was reassured that there was no connection. Again, 3 years ago when I took Wyatt in, I was assured that there was no connection. However, now I know better. I then read these articles that I wish I would have seen and that every person should see. PLEASE READ THEM!

This is happening all over the world, there were articles written about children damaged by vaccines in japan, uk, us, etc. The articles talk about kids that were brain damaged, went deaf, got epilepsy, cerebral palsy, autism, etc. etc. etc.

I will not tell any of you to not vaccinate your child, I only BEG you to please read the information on this website and read the articles and studies. There is enough information in this site alone (not to mention the other millions of sites and millions of parents that will tell you the same thing...) to at least delay the vaccine schedule. Split up the vaccines. Don't give more than one at a time. Wait until your child is older. DON'T GIVE THEM TYLENOL WITH A VACCINE! You are the parent. the CDC (center for disease control) gives a RECOMMENDED schedule. It is NOT required. You do NOT HAVE to give your child so many vaccines. You do not have to give them together. You do not have to feel bad when your dr. tries to tell you that you are wrong and that there is no connection.

When even ONE person dies from some other prescription drug, etc. The drug is recalled, pulled off the market and the law suits are immediately filed. Yet, when hundreds of thousands of parents in America (and other countries) watch their child regress, become autistic, become brain damaged, etc. etc. etc. after their vaccines, nothing happens. Please be informed. Please do what YOU think is best for your child, not what your doctor says, not what your neighbor says, not what the CDC says.

I know I can be a bit much, but one of my worst fears was that I would have a child with autism. I don't know why it scared me so bad. My son is an absolute genius - not just compared to other children with special needs, but an actual genius. Every day I see more things that amaze me. Other children with autism have become amazing musicians, artists, runners, etc. However, it is a long, hard road and most of us do it alone with almost no help from doctors, insurance coverage, etc.

I have other great things to post, so check back and don't give up on me!

You can read the few that I have posted here or go to this website yourself and read whatever you want. http://www.whale.to/vaccines.html

Mary Robinson's six babies were perfect when they were born. So why are the five who had the MMR jab autistic?
Daily Express Feb 2, 2001.

From a Telegraph article:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=002549632124328&rtmo=fsMqvqas&atmo=rrrrrrrq&pg=/et/01/2/1/tlaut01.html

MARY ROBINSON likens the mayhem in her home to wartorn Beirut; it continues from early morning until late at night. "The children don't play together. They all want to be the centre of attention and they fight."

Any parent with young children might be tempted to describe their home like that, but this is different. Five of Mary's six children, aged between three and 13, aren't just difficult and demanding - they are autistic.

She takes it for granted that, every week, she must change wet beds, put radiators back on the walls, repair the loo, retouch the paintwork, explain the children's black eyes to teachers and apologise to other parents if her children have bitten or kicked theirs. "What else can I do?" she shrugs.

The one thing she cannot do is relax. Thirteen-year-old Claire could be wandering off, oblivious to danger; 11-year-old Tyson might be trying to hatch raw eggs by sitting on them and Jordan, 10, could be in one of his violent moods. Hayden, nine, who cannot speak, will be screaming for her while three-year-old Leah is showing her a toy for the millionth time.

We meet while the children are at school, otherwise conversation would be impossible. Looking at the prominently displayed photographs of their angelic faces, the perfect order into which Mary has the sitting-room by mid-morning and her calm exterior, it is hard to credit the chaos she describes - or that she has a child who tells her: "When you are asleep, I'm going to stab you with a bread knife."

Nights are hellish, with the children bouncing off the walls and swinging from light-fittings. Weekends offer no respite: whereas other children go to the park or play with friends, hers can't. "It's like running a care home here," says her husband, John, "except we don't get any time off."

But they do insist on escaping to the amusement parks and animal sanctuaries near their home in Hayle, Cornwall. Such expeditions call for steely nerves as, wherever she takes the children, Mary hears people tutting about their behaviour and saying: "Why did that woman go on having children if they are all handicapped?"

Had those women time to listen to her story - or she to explain it - they would learn that none of Mary's children started off autistic; they were developing perfectly normally until something caused them to regress. Far from being someone to criticise, Mary Robinson deserves infinite sympathy. She allowed her case to be made public last week and now is at the centre of The Great MMR Scare.

"I want to protect the children from too much attention," she says, "but I could not believe it when I read that the Government is spending £3 million on a campaign to make out that MMR is 'safe'. No one I know will allow their child to have the triple vaccine, and since single vaccines are not available, there will be epidemics of measles, mumps and rubella - and children will die.

"It's all because of money. For the Government, it is cheaper to give the immunisations together, so they aren't offering people a choice. When a manufacturer is shown a single contaminated can of beans, the whole batch is recalled yet, with MMR, the Government is quoting some questionable research and not giving parents the benefit of the doubt."

As for the claims that autism has not increased, they leave her speechless. "I was once a nanny and I used to work in a nursery. I know that there are more autistic children around. When we go to special centres, I meet parents who talk about their children behaving normally and then changing - and some haven't even heard of the concerns over MMR."

Mary hadn't either when she had her children vaccinated. The triple vaccine was introduced in 1988, so her eldest, Donna, who lives with her grandparents, never had it; she is not autistic. The rest were immunised and from that moment, in each case, she charts the onset of their problems.

In fact, only three of her children are included in the legal action being brought by solicitors Alexander Harris against the five drug companies that supply the vaccine. Claire had MMR too long ago to be admissible and Jordan's case is complicated by prematurity, but Tyson, Hayden and Leah have all had their medical records checked and legal aid has been provided to bring their cases.

Other possible causes of autism can be ruled out. Mary was so anxious not to have another problem child after Jordan that she had his genes tested and later her own. No problems were found. Nor was any autism found in their families - only asthma, often involved when MMR appears to have caused problems.

Significantly, Hayden was given a brain scan as a baby - before he had the MMR jab - and found to be normal. "Until he was 18 months, Hayden was a lovely, placid child. At that age, he was saying: 'Oook, doggie'. But within nine weeks of the vaccination, he had lost his speech and wouldn't let me look at him; his whole personality changed."

Although reassured by the genetic tests, Mary was still keen to have another girl when pregnant with Leah as Claire's problems seemed so much less acute than those of the boys (although that could be because of her high intelligence). When the longed-for girl was born, Mary was overjoyed and everything went well until, two years ago, Leah had her MMR.

"By that time, there were rumours. Knowing that I had three sons registered as autistic, no one in the medical profession drew my attention to the idea that there was some concern. They said nothing. I find that unforgivable."

So Mary went ahead and allowed Leah to have the jab and history, heartbreakingly, repeated itself.

"You feel you've lost your child; it's just like a bereavement," she says.

By this stage in our conversation, Leah has reappeared from her special needs nursery. She is a charming child but her words come out strangely and she rushes around frantically.

Mary was as baffled by the early signs of these changes in her hitherto normal daughter as she had been by the onset of autism in her other children. Then she picked up a magazine containing an article about a woman with three autistic sons - and read about the concerns over MMR.

Immediately, she contacted Jabs, an organisation run by affected parents, and was put in touch with the legal action group. "How likely is it that I could have had five naturally autistic children?" she asked. The chance was infinitesimal, she was told.

But Mary is not a campaigner. She doesn't have time for that, any more than she can go to church to please the Mormons who keep coming round to pray for her, or find time to train to be a social worker: "I couldn't find anyone to look after the children, so I gave up."

All her considerable practical skills are devoted to giving her damaged children as enjoyable a life as possible. "I told them all, early on, that they are autistic and that everything they feel is normal for the way they are. It's not fair, I tell them, that you have to try harder than other children, but you'll get there."

She feeds them an additive-free diet and refuses to drug them to make them more controllable. Nor will she take anti-depressants herself; when she tried, she was shocked by the feeling of swimming through treacle.

Rather than spending the children's disability allowances on running the house, she saves the money up for special toys - light pillars that produce mesmerising bubbles, computers on which they can express themselves, projectors that make patterns on the walls. Leah's room is a child's dream, crammed with play equipment, none of which can be kept downstairs, as the boys would destroy it.

And, despite the dents on the ceilings, the touched-up paint and scribble on the walls, the house has a warmth to it. So does the garden, with its aviary, rabbits and guinea pigs, trampoline and slides, all of which take the edge off the hyperactivity that comes with autism.

Although she looks young for 38, the past few years have been gruelling for Mary. Claire and Tyson's father left her when she was seven weeks pregnant with Tyson; Jordan and Hayden's father left her when she refused to put the boys in a residential home. Then she made an unsuccessful marriage: "In a situation like mine, you are so glad of help, so desperate for company"

To escape her husband and find a home large enough for the children, she and John, whom she married two years ago, have moved twice in quick succession. John, I say, must be a saint taking on all these children as well as his own daughter, Leah.

"He isn't," she replies. "He has a bad back, which means he can't work or run after them and he can't stand it for long. But he does watch them for 20 minutes while I eat my dinner in the bedroom."

Since she began eating in peace, Mary has put on a stone and given up smoking. She's pleased. "The stronger I am, the longer I can keep my children at home."

Helping them is her over-riding concern and, every year, it gets more difficult. "Jordan broods on his disabilities; Tyson has terribly low self-esteem; Hayden I now accept will never talk. I just live each day at a time," she says - never planning anything, her head constantly full of a dialogue between the "angel" voice that encourages her to be patient and understanding, and the "devil" which makes her want to scream and give up.

The future looks bleak. Claire, she hopes, will be able to get a job but Tyson, she fears, will be in constant trouble as he has no notion of property. She doubts if Jordan will be able to leave home and Hayden may have to live in an institution. As for Leah, Mary won't know for several years whether, like Tyson, she will develop Asperger's syndrome.

When things get too much, she turns on pop music and fantasises. "I would love to go on a holiday without losing one of them, to be able to communicate with Hayden, and have Leah get no worse.

"Above all, of course, I want to have my children back as they were - but I know that can't happen."

Revealed, most compelling evidence yet of MMR danger

Sunday Express 6 October 2002 Exclusive by Lucy Johnston, Health Editor

A 13-year-old boy brain damaged after the controversial MMR jab still has remains of the vaccine in the injured area of his brain.

The alarming news is being seen as the most compelling evidence yet of a link between the triple measles, mumps and rubella jab and autism.

The boy's case will form a central plank of a forthcoming legal action by 600 autistic and brain-damaged children against vaccine manufacturerers.

Jackie Fletcher of support group Jabs, which highlights the risks of MMR, said: ''This is devastating news. What on earth is the vaccine doing in the brain? It should not be there.''

Mrs Fletcher, whose own son, Robert, 10, developed autism from the vaccine, added: ''This is the strongest evidence yet showing it causes brain damage.''

The 13-year-old, who has not been named, was developing normally until being given the MMR jab at 15 months. Days later a rash broke out, his development stopped and he began to have violent seizures. These became more frequent - sometimes every few minutes. In one month his mother, Verity, 46, from Sussex, counted 135. When he was nine, he was admitted to Southampton General Hospital's intensive care unit where doctors twice tried to break the cycle of convulsions with an anaesthetic. But each time they brought him round the fits started again.

Eventually he was transferred to London's Great Ormand Street Children's Hospital for brain surgery.

Verity arranged for the brain sample to be analysed and the results - seen by the Sunday Express - showed the sample contained traces of the measles virus ''consistent'' with the vaccine rather than the ''wild'' strain. Tissue from the boy's intestine also showed the vaccine.

The boy is now making progress and goes to a special school. But he shows symptoms of autism, memory loss and still has fits.

Verity said: ''The Department of Health has written off children like my son by refusing to acknowledge any link between brain damage and MMR.

''Because of this they are not being given appropriate treatment. They should be under the care of specialists.''

Experts say the boy's case is a minor victory for those fighting to get more recognition of the risks of MMR. Robert Sawyer, chief executive of the charity Visceral, which funds research by MMR opponent Dr Andrew Wakefield, said: ''The world must pay immediate attention to this evidence, especially when the Government is not taking the issue seriously.''

And Paul Shattock, head of the Autism Research Unit at the University of Sunderland, said: ''This is powerful. I don't know how the Government will talk its way out of it.''

An unpublished study strongly supports the new findings. Pathologists from Utah State University, US, and Trinity College, Dublin, have discovered the vaccine strain of the measles virus in the spinal fluid of 40 autistic children.

The link between MMR, autism was first proposed by Dr Wakefield in 1998. He discovered many children with late onset autism also had intestinal damage.

He believes the vaccine leaks through the gut wall into the central nervous system and into the brain, causing damage.

The Department of Health said it could not comment on an individual case pending legal proceedings. But it stressed that tests to identify vaccine strains in gut samples were unreliable.

Sunday Express Comment

Act on MMR evidence

Today this newspaper publishes a shocking report that every parent and grandparent must read. We present the most compelling evidence yet of the link between late onset autism and the measles, mumps and rubella injections. We believe that the Government can no longer insist that the jab is safe. To do so is to wilfully put the lives of our children at risk.

The Government has consistently said that the triple jab is safe. It wants to believe this is so because it seems to be the most effective way of stopping these life-threatening disease in their tracks. During the waiting time between separate jabs children can contract one of the conditions and some might not receive all three injections. But the Government has not conducted a through examination of children whose parents believe they were sticken by the MMR jab. This must be done now.

Without proper research we cannot know how many children's lives have been blighted. Neither will we know how to identify and exclude children who could be affected or exactly how to treat them. Moreover, the way is barred to those who deserve compensation. Children must not be sacrificed for the sake of dubious herd immunity

The Age of Autism: The Amish anomaly

By Dan Olmsted

UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL

Lancaster, PA, Apr. 18 (UPI) -- Part 1 of 2.

Where are the autistic Amish? Here in Lancaster County, heart of Pennsylvania Dutch country, there should be well over 100 with some form of the disorder.

I have come here to find them, but so far my mission has failed, and the very few I have identified raise some very interesting questions about some widely held views on autism.

The mainstream scientific consensus says autism is a complex genetic disorder, one that has been around for millennia at roughly the same prevalence. That prevalence is now considered to be 1 in every 166 children born in the United States.

Applying that model to Lancaster County, there ought to be 130 Amish men, women and children here with Autism Spectrum Disorder.

Well over 100, in rough terms.

Typically, half would harbor milder variants such as Asperger's Disorder or the catch-all Pervasive Development Disorder, Not Otherwise Specified -- PDD-NOS for short.

So let's drop those from our calculation, even though "mild" is a relative term when it comes to autism.

That means upwards of 50 Amish people of all ages should be living in Lancaster County with full-syndrome autism, the "classic autism" first described in 1943 by child psychiatrist Leo Kanner at Johns Hopkins University. The full-syndrome disorder is hard to miss, characterized by "markedly abnormal or impaired development in social interaction and communication and a markedly restricted repertoire of activities and interests," according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.

Why bother looking for them among the Amish? Because they could hold clues to the cause of autism.

The first half-dozen articles in this ongoing series on the roots and rise of autism examined the initial studies and early accounts of the disorder, first identified by Kanner among 11 U.S. children born starting in 1931.

Kanner wrote that his 1938 encounter with a child from Mississippi, identified as Donald T., "made me aware of a behavior pattern not known to me or anyone else theretofore." Kanner literally wrote the book on "Child Psychiatry," published in 1934.

If Kanner was correct -- if autism was new and increasingly prevalent -- something must have happened in the 1930s to trigger those first autistic cases. Genetic disorders do not begin suddenly or increase dramatically in prevalence in a short period of time.

That is why it is worth looking for autistic Amish -- to test reasoning against reality. Largely cut off for hundreds of years from American culture and scientific progress, the Amish might have had less exposure to some new factor triggering autism in the rest of population.

Surprising, but no one seems to have looked.

Of course, the Amish world is insular by nature; finding a small subset of Amish is a challenge by definition. Many Amish, particularly Old Order, ride horse-and-buggies, eschew electricity, do not attend public school, will not pose for pictures and do not chat casually with the "English," as they warily call the non-Amish.

Still, some Amish today interact with the outside world in many ways. Some drive, use phones, see doctors and send out Christmas cards with family photos. They all still refer to themselves as "Plain," but the definition of that word varies quite a bit.

So far, from sources inside and outside the Amish community, I have identified three Amish residents of Lancaster County who apparently have full-syndrome autism, all of them children.

A local woman told me there is one classroom with about 30 "special-needs" Amish children. In that classroom, there is one autistic Amish child.

Another autistic Amish child does not go to school.

The third is that woman's pre-school-age daughter.

If there were more, she said, she would know it.

What I learned about those children is the subject of the next column.

PART 2: The Age of Autism: Julia

UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL

Leola, PA, Apr. 19 (UPI) -- Part 2 of 2.

Three-year old Julia is napping when I arrive at the spare, neat, cheerful house on Musser School Road near the town of Leola in Lancaster County.

She is the reason I have driven through the budding countryside on this perfect spring day, but I really do not need to meet her.

In the last column, I wrote about trying to find autistic Amish people here in the heart of Pennsylvania Dutch country, and noted there should be dozens of them -- if autism occurs at the same prevalence as the rest of the United States.

So far, there is evidence of only three, all of them children, the oldest age 9 or 10. Julia is one of them. I found out about her through a pediatrician in Richmond, Va., Dr. Mary Megson. I had been asking around for quite some time about autism and the Amish, and she provided the first direct link.

Megson said she would give my name to this child's mother, who could call if she chose. A few days later the phone rang. It was Stacey-jean Inion, an Amish-Mennonite woman. She, her husband Brent and their four children live simply, but they do drive a vehicle and have a telephone. After a few pleasantries, I told her about my trying to find autistic Amish.

Here is what she said, verbatim:

"Unfortunately our autistic daughter -- who's doing very well, she's been diagnosed with very, very severe autism -- is adopted from China, and so she would have had all her vaccines in China before we got her, and then she had most of her vaccines given to her in the United States before we got her.

"So we're probably not the pure case you're looking for."

Maybe not, but it was stunning that Julia Inion, the first autistic Amish person I could find, turned out to be adopted -- from another country, no less. It also was surprising that Stacey-jean launched unbidden into vaccines, because the Amish have a religious exemption from vaccination and presumably would not have given it much thought.

She said a minority of Amish families do, in fact, vaccinate their children these days, partly at the urging of public health officials.

"Almost every Amish family I know has had somebody from the health department knock on our door and try to convince us to get vaccines for our children," she said. "The younger Amish more and more are getting vaccines. It's a minority of children who vaccinate, but that is changing now."

Did she know of any other autistic Amish? Two more children, she said.

"One of them, we're very certain it was a vaccine reaction, even though the government would not agree with that."

Federal health officials have said there is no association between vaccinations and autism or learning disabilities.

"The other one I'm not sure if this child was vaccinated or not," she added.

During my visit to their home, I asked Stacey-jean to explain why she attributed the first case to vaccines.

"There's one family that we know, their daughter had a vaccine reaction and is now autistic. She was walking and functioning and a happy bright child, and 24 hours after she had her vaccine, her legs went limp and she had a typical high-pitched scream. They called the doctor and the doctor said it was fine -- a lot of high-pitched screaming goes along with it.

"She completely quit speaking," Stacey-jean said. "She completely quit making eye contact with people. She went in her own world."

This happened, Stacey-jean said, at "something like 15 months." The child is now about 8.

For similar reasons, Julia Inion's Chinese background is intriguing. China, India and Indonesia are among countries moving quickly to mass-vaccination programs. In some vaccines, they use a mercury-based preservative called thimerosal that keeps multiple-dose vials from becoming contaminated by repeated needle sticks.

Thimerosal was phased out of U.S. vaccines starting in 1999, after health officials became concerned about the amount of mercury infants and children were receiving. The officials said they simply were erring on the side of caution, and that all evidence favors rejection of any link between Autism Spectrum Disorders and thimerosal, or vaccines themselves.

Julia's vaccinations in China -- all given in one day at about age 15 months -- may well have contained thimerosal; the United States had stopped using it by the time she was born, but other countries with millions to vaccinate had not.

Stacey-jean said photographs of Julia taken in China before she was vaccinated showed a smiling alert child looking squarely at the camera. Her original adoptive family in the United States, overwhelmed trying to cope with an autistic child, gave Julia up for re-adoption. The Inions took her in knowing her diagnosis of severe autism.

I tried hard -- and am still trying -- to find people who know about other autistic Amish. Of the local health and social service agency personnel in Lancaster, some said they dealt with Amish people with disabilities, such as mental retardation, but none recalled seeing an autistic Amish.

Still, I could be trapped in a feedback loop: The Amish I am likeliest to know about -- because they have the most contact with the outside world -- also are likeliest to adopt a special-needs child such as Julia from outside the community, and likeliest to have their children vaccinated.

Another qualifier: The Inions are converts to the Amish-Mennonite religion (Brent is an Asian-American). They simply might not know about any number of autistic Amish sheltered quietly with their families for decades.

It also is possible the isolated Amish gene pool might confer some kind of immunity to autism -- which might be a useful topic for research.

Whatever the case, Stacey-jean thinks the autistic Amish are nowhere to be found.

"It is so much more rare among our people," she said. "My husband just said last week that so far we've never met a family that lives a healthy lifestyle and does not vaccinate their children that has an autistic child. We haven't come across one yet."

"Everywhere I go (outside the Amish community) I find children who are autistic, just because I have an autistic daughter -- in the grocery store, in the park, wherever I go. In the Amish community, I simply don't find that."

UPI researcher Kyle Pearson contributed to this article.

This ongoing series on the roots and rise of autism aims to be interactive with readers and welcomes comment, criticism and suggestions. E-mail:

Were all of these children killed by the triple MMR jab?
13/1/02 Sunday Express

Focus By Lucy Johnston
Health Editor

AT LEAST 26 families claim their children died as a result of the controversial measles, mumps and rubella jab, the Sunday Express can reveal.

In some cases the Government has awarded parents up to £100,000 under its 1979 Vaccine Damage Payment Act. In others, post mortem reports concluded the jab was the most likely cause of death. Despite this, the Department of Health insists no child has ever died from MMR.

This assertion is a key aspect of its £3 million publicity drive to persuade parents the vaccine is entirely safe.

It contradicts the view of the US Government, which accepts children die from MMR and awards compensation as a result. Most children do not react to the jab, but medical literature supports the view that MMR can occasionally kill.

The parents are now demanding an official inquiry into the deaths. Julie Roberts, 40, whose daughter Stacey died, said: "The Government should take responsibility. It has never given proper warnings of the risk and still doesn't despite the evidence. Tony Blair can see his children at home. I have to visit my daughter at her grave."

Experts writing in the Journal of Pediatrics concluded that of 48 children who reacted to the measles component of the jab, eight died and the rest had seizures or brain damage. And a recent study on 1.8 million children by the Finnish Health Board linked neurological reactions, allergic attacks, epilepsy and meningitis to the vaccine. Our research follows speculation over whether Tony Blair's 19-month-old son Leo has had the MMR jab. The Prime Minister has said he fully supports the vaccine but will not say if Leo has had it.

Many of the families of children who have died have taken legal action. Richard Barr, of solicitors Alexander Harris, has details of 24 cases. He said: "It is widely acknowledged in medical literature and by the American government that the triple vaccine can, on rare occasions, kill, yet this Government won't accept it."

Jackie Fletcher, of the pressure group Jabs, which is trying to highlight the potential dangers, said: "The Government should be giving people full and accurate information about health risks."

But a Department of Health spokesman insisted: "Parents who received payments after their children died following MMR would not get the money now as science has moved on. MMR protects against death and we stand by the fact that no child has died as a result of MMR."

Wendy Francis's son, Robert, began behaving abnormally two years after he had MMR in January 1990. He lost control of his movements and slept for 18 hours at a time. Within months he fell into a coma and died in December. Robert, then seven, had developed a degeneratative brain condition called SSPE (sub-acute sclerosis pan encephalitis), linked to the measles component.

The disease can have a long incubation period and Mrs Francis, 40, an auxillary nurse and Robert's consultant think the vaccine was the only way Robert could have developed it. The family, from Easington, north Yorkshire, are taking legal action against the vaccine's manufacturer.

Ashley Shipman was born in 1985 and was a healthy three-year-old when he received the MMR vaccine. When he was nine his parents Elaine and Andrew of Eastwood, Nottingham, noticed he was having problems with his balance and co-ordination. He too was diagnosed with SSPE and died in June 1999, aged 14. They received £30,000 compensation.

His father, a lorry driver, said: "We took Ashley into hospital in October 1994 and by Christmas he was in a wheelchair. We were told by the consultant who treated him that his condition was caused by his vaccination."

In 1995 the Government's vaccine damage tribunal paid £30,000 compensation to James Smith, of Gateshead, for brain damage after he was given MMR at the age of four. James died nine years later aged 13. Biopsy material taken from his brain and intestines will form a central plank of the scientific evidence in support of a legal case due to be heard in October next year. Up to 300 cases relate to this brand of vaccine - Pluserix - which was banned by the Department of Health in 1992 after being linked with meningitis. This was two years after an identical vaccine was banned in Canada.

John and Faye Smith say the jab transformed their healthy, intelligent son into a child needing round-the-clock care. It took them six years and four hearings, however, to persuade the vaccine damage tribunal of this.

Faye, 59, said: "It's not about money, but truth. It's diabolical that the Government refuses to acknowlege the risks of MMR."

Judith Dwyer, 45, of Tongwynlaif, near Cardiff, received a payment after her four-year-old daughter Chloe died following a "booster" jab in 1989. She too was given a version later banned because of its dangerous side effects. Chloe developed pins and needles in her legs, then paralysis and problems breathing. She was rushed to hospital but it was too late.

After an eight-year fight Judith, an intensive care technician, persuaded a tribunal the jab was the likely cause of Chloe's death. In September 1996 it accepted this and paid out.

Mother of two Judith said: "Health visitors called me a scare mongerer and laughed. But we fought to raise the profile of vaccine damage."

Stacey Berry, of Atherton, Manchester was 13 when she had a booster jab in November 1994. Days later she started having fits, "stopped smiling, and stared into space."

She was diagnosed with the brain disease SSPE and given two years to live. She died in November 2000, aged 19. A post mortem examination concluded the disease was a "rare complication" of the vaccine".

Christopher Coulter was 15 when he suffered a fit and died in his sleep 10 days after being vaccinated. He had an unblemished health record and no history of epilepsy but no explanation has been offered other than the statement on his death certificate - "asphyxiation due to severe epileptic seizure". His mother Anne of Hillsborough, northern Ireland said: "Nothing would replace Christopher, but I want answers. I want peace of mind for my daughters should they ever have children."

Hannah Buxton was 18 months old when she reacted to her first MMR jab. She started having fits and died 18 months later in February 1992.

Parents Carol and Tony of Towcester, Northants, did not know Hannah had been given the strain of vaccine later withdrawn after it was deemed unsafe. In March that year a tribunal blamed the vaccine for her death.

Nicola Gentle, 29, of Plymouth, Devon, is convinced her 15-month-old baby Emma Jane died because of the triple vaccine she was given in September 1998. Within six hours she was on a life-support machine. Three days later she was brain dead but a coroner said he could not say for certain whether or not MMR had killed her.

Shirley Fitzgerald's son Kieren was given the MMR jab in June 1991 when he was 14 months. He reacted within days. "He stopped smiling, laughing and crying and became frightened of his toys," said Shirley.

Kieren also developed bowel problems - linked to MMR by some scientists. In July 1992, he died, aged two.

Toddler Harriet Moore died following an MMR vaccination in 1998. Six weeks later she suffered fits and died in her parents arms. Sarah and Pat Moore, of Peasedown St John, near Bath, took the case to tribunal.

Jade Scrimger was vaccinated with MMR at 17 months and died from meningitis three days later in October 1998. Her mother Sheena has since discovered the drug used on her daughter was later banned by the Department of Health because it caused meningitis.

She has abandoned the idea of taking legal action against the vaccine manufacturers, however, because lawyers say it is not worth it. In Britain the maximum award for a child's death is £7,500.

Five days after Elaine Adam's 16-month-old son Stevie was given the MMR vaccine 1991 he too developed meningitis and died.

Elaine and her husband Robert, of East Kilbride, were convinced MMR was to blame but their fears were dismissed by doctors. Mrs Adam has refused to allow her second child, Terry, six, to have the jab.

13/1/02 Sunday Express
OPINION

Vaccination vacillation

WE REPORT today on the families who have lost babies, they believe, due to the MMR vaccination. Their claims add further confusion to the debate about this injection, yet Tony Blair has still not offered reassurance on the matter by telling us that his son Leo has had this vaccination. It means thousands of parents are paying doctors to give their child these three inoculations separately. Mr Blair must explain where he stands on this. Only then will parents feel more confident.

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Gone to DC for the "Green Our Vaccines" Rally!

I will not be posting until next Thursday because we will be in DC for the Rally! I assume there will be news coverage, so be watching. The rally is on Wednesday June 4th and will be led by Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey. It should be pretty interesting..

This is Why I am going...... And for ALL the little children who's parents will be taking them into their doctors for their vaccines! They should not be getting so many! They should not be given so soon! They Should not be given together! Okay, I am done now.

Isn't he cute?

Here is a press release regarding the Rally

Green Our Vaccines Rally
With Jenny McCarthy & Jim Carrey

News Release

NEW YORK, May 27, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ ----Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey will lead the Green Our Vaccines march, rally and press conference on Wednesday June, 4th at the Capitol Building, West Capitol Grounds in Washington, DC. The sponsored event has been organized by Talk About Curing Autism (TACA), Generation Rescue, Healing Every Autistic Life, and Moms Against Mercury.

McCarthy, author of the best-selling book Louder Than Words: A Mother's Journey in Healing Autism, and Carrey have joined forces with national advocacy organizations in the battle to eliminate toxins from children's vaccines and to encourage national health agencies to reassess mandatory vaccine schedules. While they do support immunization, like many parents and experts in the medical community, McCarthy, Carrey and their many allies feel that children are receiving too many vaccines, too soon, many of which are toxic. Their goal is to demand a safer vaccine supply and schedule for children.

"This day will go down in history as a time when parents' voices and their message to change the vaccine program was finally heard and acted upon," said Jenny McCarthy.

Families from across the U.S. are already committed to marching for safe vaccines and the numbers are growing. "Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey are heroes to hundreds of thousands of families who love a person with autism and for all families who want safe vaccines that are toxin free. Their desire to help and be a vocal instrument of change are warranted and greatly appreciated," said Lisa Ackerman, TACA Executive Director.

Participants will gather at 9 am at the Capitol Building, West Capitol Grounds. The march will promptly begin at 10 am with a Press Conference immediately following.

Sponsors & volunteers of the rally include: Generation Rescue, Healing Every Autistic Life, Moms Against Mercury & TACA. Over 39 other autism and environmental groups have signed on showing their support for the Green our Vaccines march & rally.

About TACA

Talk About Curing Autism (TACA) provides support, education and information, and resources to more almost 9,000 families across the United States who are touched by autism. One in every 150 children in the United States has autism. TACA provides the largest national telephone and email response team for parents who have a child affected by autism. 95 percent of TACA's programs and services are provided at no charge and include education and support meetings, parent mentoring, and the Autism Journey Guide. TACA helps to strengthen the autism community by connecting families with professional assistance and serves to bridge the gap between diagnosis and effective treatment.

http://www.tacanow.org

Hopefully a lot will change after this rally and SOON!
Tammy

Questions:

Okay, so since no one usually reads follow up comments, I have decided that when people ask me questions, I will just do a post answering them to the best of my ability. Please note that I do NOT know the perfect answer for anything. I can tell you what I have read, what my doctors have told me, and what I have learned from other parents like me. I also went to a DAN conference in California last year where Doctors and others lectured for 3 days with actual medical information regarding Autism and autism treatments. Many people think that Autism, ADHD, Aspergers, etc. are just neurological disorders, but that is not the case. All of these children also have medical conditions that contributed to their neurological conditions. We will get into this at a later date.

So these are the questions I have been asked:

Question #1: Do you know at what age it is safe to give a child vaccines? Many people have given their children all of their vaccines, yet now in light of new information (not without controversy) are afraid to give them anymore. Some haven't given their children any and wonder when it is okay to start doing it. This is the information I have on the subject. It is only information, so you must do with it what you feel is best:

• If you have a new baby, there are lots of ways you can go about vaccines. Here are your choices:

1. Some doctor's suggest not doing any vaccines until your baby is at least 2 and their brain has finished developing. At that point, you can do some vaccines if you choose, but with a revised schedule (I will post more below)
2. If you don't feel comfortable eliminating ALL vaccines, I would definitely go by a revised schedule and some strict guidelines. I will post an article here that I think is really good. It gives a lot of good information and is really worth reading. This is the very short summary, but I think you should all read the whole thing...

In summary, this is a vaccination schedule that I would recommend:

1. No vaccinations until a child is two years old.
2. No vaccines that contain thimerosal (mercury).
3. No live virus vaccines (except for smallpox, should it recur). (this means NO MMR or chicken pox)
   
4. These vaccines, to be given one at a time, every six months, beginning at age 2:
1. Pertussis (acellular, not whole cell)
2. Diphtheria
3. Tetanus
4. Polio (the Salk vaccine, cultured in human cells)

American children are the most highly vaccinated kids in the world. This schedule is an alternative to the one that rules our "vaccine nation" (as the Village Voice terms it). In contrast to the CDC’s immunization schedule, it is user-friendly.

December 10, 2004

Donald Miller (send him mail) is a cardiac surgeon and Professor of Surgery at the University of Washington in Seattle and a member of Doctors for Disaster Preparedness

Copyright © 2004 LewRockwell.com

Notice that this article was written in 2004. This information is not new. This has been a problem for awhile and is only getting worse.

Here is the link: http://www.lewrockwell.com/miller/miller15.html

Notice he again says to split the vaccines up. That one will not be easy either, but you can read my earlier post re: splitting up vaccines and that may help.

If you do choose to vaccinate, PLEASE follow these guidelines - (contrary to what your doctor may say...) Not that I know more than doctors, but there is actual medical evidence to support these things....

• Split up the vaccines only done ONE every six months. (Even though your doctor and the CDC may say it is safe to give multiple together). Please read earlier post re: Information from CDC's website...
  
• Don't give vaccines with live viruses (Chicken Pox, MMR, etc)
  
• NEVER, EVER give your child a vaccine when they are sick. I know that people say that if you wait until your child is healthy, they will never get their shots. However, I would keep waiting until they are at least 99% healthy. Even the slightest weakened immune system could cause their body to not be able to handle the vaccines.
• DO NOT give your child the chicken pox vaccine at all! If they are 10 years old and have not gotten chicken pox, then you can vaccinate them at that point, until then, do not do it. Especially in light of the fact that vaccinated children are getting chicken pox anyways....
• DO NOT GIVE YOUR CHILD TYLENOL BEFORE OR AFTER A VACCINATION! (I would wait months...) I HAVE ALSO RECENTLY JUST READ TO NOT GIVE THEM IBUPROFEN EITHER. Your doctor will tell you to do it because of pain/fever, but there are other ways to take care of that. Plus, just recently Tylenol baby products were taken off the market because they were not helping anyways and some children had died from overdoses. There is good reason for this. It is a medical fact:

The body uses glutathione to remove toxins. Acetaminophen (Tylenol) depletes the body of glutathione. Therefore, giving tylenol before and after vaccines limits the body's ability to remove the toxins from the vaccines. Tylenol should never, ever be given before or after vaccines. Ibuprofen (Motrin) should also never be used, as it inhibits the production of glutathione. So, acetaminophen burns it up and ibuprofen prevents the body from making it. Either way, you're left with not enough of what you need to eliminate the toxins from the body.


Part 2 of Question #1:

If a child has already had one or more doses of a certain vaccine (which they get most of them 4 times...) there is a 95% chance that they are already immune. The CDC is now giving these "boosters" which we didn't use to have "just in case" that %5 were not immune after the 1st shot. I don't know about you, but I don't want to inject my child with anymore diseases or toxins if I don't have to. So, you have 3 choices:

1. You can ask your doctor to check your child's titers. (tigh-ters). They will have to do a blood test, but the results will let you know if your child is already immune. If they are, you do not need any more shots. If they are not (which will be rare) you can decide if you want to give them the vaccine or risk getting the disease or virus. I would do that by weighing the likely hood of them getting that disease as well as how serious the disease is. I know that none of us would want our child to get chicken pox, however, we probably all had it as children and we are fine. If you look at the side effects of the chicken pox vaccine, you will see that it is one of the very worst vaccines. I would not risk giving my child such a harmful vaccine to prevent against such a mild disease. I say that especially in light of how many children are being harmed by vaccines. At this point - in my (and MANY other mothers' opinions) you have a much higher chance of your child getting Autism, ADHD, Sensory Processing Disorder, or some other neurological disorder than you do them getting measles, etc. etc.
   
   

Your Doctor will probably think you are being a pain and that this process is not necessary, however, if you feel strongly about this and are as worried as most mothers are, don't let your doctor push you into doing something that you don't feel good about. I have nothing against doctors, however, if they have not seen personally what the vaccines can do, they do not believe it to be true. I have met many doctors who did not believe it until they saw it happen to their own child. They have now changed their views....

I also know it will be hard to make your poor child get a blood test. That is never fun. However, because my son is completely deficient in B12, we have to inject him every 3 days with a b12 shot. I am not trying to scare anyone, but until you are on the other side of the situation, you realize that if you could go back, you would do any blood test or anything else you could do to prevent the current situation. The problem is, you just never know if it is going to happen to your child until the damage is done.... It can be undone, but it is very hard, very expensive, etc. etc.


2. You can just risk your child getting the disease and not check to see if they are immune. Again, if they have had at least one round of the particular vaccine, chances are, they are immune. Most all of these diseases are treatable with modern medicine. That being said, if everyone stops vaccinating, these disease could come back. We do NOT want that. We just want to not give our kids more than they need and revise the schedule so we can all go back to the way things were...

3. You can just go ahead and give them the vaccines. This is a choice, but would not be my recommendation. There is just such a small chance that your child is not already immune and such a big chance of the vaccine causing damage. Even if it doesn't trigger Autism or autism like behaviors, it can still do damage to the neurological system. If you go read the side effects in my earlier post, you can see that the main ones almost all say that they can cause fever seizures, brain damage, etc. My 5 year old has what is called "Sensory Processing Disorder" It is a disorder on the same spectrum which I have seen get worse (in retrospect) after each vaccine.

My son is starting kindergarten and I was not about to give him any more shots. My school just required a note from his doctor stating that he wasn't getting his shots for medical reasons. My sister had to go to the health department for her county and fill out a few documents and that was it. You DO NOT have to give your child shots. You are their parent. If you do not want to give them any, or just not anymore, that is your choice. I have a few friends who have never given their kids any shots and they are all healthy as can be. Not to say that they will not ever get sick, but there are huge outbreaks of chicken pox right now where most of the kids have already been vaccinated. Vaccines are not an absolute that your child will not get the disease.

Okay, so I think that was really only 2 main questions, but I answered a lot of little ones in between. I am sorry I can't ever do a short post, but I just have too much information and I just can't stop....

One last tid-bit. A friend of mine has children with a serious blood disorder. After a year of being in the hospital and a surgery (or maybe more than one) they are finally in recovery. I won't name names, but since she posted this comment on my other blog, I am hoping she won't mind that I copied it here....
"The Doctors want to re-introduce vaccinations once the boy's immune systems are strong enough to handle it. We are VERY leery and leaning toward doing some, but not all. Even now, we have to keep the boys away from other kids who have just had the MMR - for 2 months. "

So, these children are not even supposed to be AROUND a child who has received an MMR shot! If a vaccine can hurt a child with a poor immune system just from being in the same room with someone who has had it, should we really be injecting it into our children?

The end.
Please post comments or questions and I will try to answer them.

Thanks!

Head of CDC Admits that Vaccines Trigger Autism

Here is the link to a video on youtube. It was filmed on World Autism Day in April. The maker of the video added some commentary in between frames. It is VERY interesting. The Video is 10 minutes long, but worth watching. The CDC (Center for Disease Control) used to say there was "no link" and now they have changed their statement. They still try to cover themselves, but she actually states that the Vaccines CAN trigger autism.

Again, not saying we shouldn't vaccinate, we just need a new schedule with not so many, not so soon and not so many toxins....


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dh-nkD5LSIg

Vaccine Information - Straight from CDC's Website

My doctors have always told me that vaccines are safe. I know that most everyone has heard the same thing. They sometimes tell you that there are some risks, but no one had ever explained what kinds of risks. I think we have all just trusted our doctors and our government that if they said something was safe, then it was.

I read information on their website about most of the vaccines that are given. All of them mentioned a few side effects, but the MMR, DTaP and the chicken pox vaccine had the most side effects and the worst side effects. When it came to the Hepatitis B, polio and Hib side effects, there were few and they were not as serious.

This will be a lot of info, but I am going to paste them below so you can read them. I will highlight the bad side effects..

MMR vaccine side-effects
(Measles, Mumps, and Rubella)

A vaccine, like any medicine, is capable of causing serious problems, such as severe allergic reactions. The risk of MMR vaccine causing serious harm, or death, is extremely small.


Most people who get MMR vaccine do not have any problems with it.

Mild Problems

* Fever (up to 1 person out of 6)
* Mild rash (about 1 person out of 20)
* Swelling of glands in the cheeks or neck (rare)
If these problems occur, it is usually within 7-12 days after the shot. They occur less often after the second dose.

Moderate Problems

* Seizure (jerking or staring) caused by fever (about 1 out of 3,000 doses)
* Temporary pain and stiffness in the joints, mostly in teenage or adult women (up to 1 out of 4)
* Temporary low platelet count, which can cause a bleeding disorder (about 1 out of 30,000 doses)

Severe Problems (Very Rare)

* Serious allergic reaction (less than 1 out of a million doses)
* Several other severe problems have been known to occur after a child gets MMR vaccine. But this happens so rarely, experts cannot be sure whether they are caused by the vaccine or not. These include:
o Deafness
o Long-term seizures, coma, or lowered consciousness
o Permanent brain damage

So, notice that it says that these severe problems have been known to occur after child gets MMR. It then says that they believe it is rare (are they calling every parent after there child gets a shot to find out if there was a reaction?). Then it says experts CANNOT BE SURE whether these serious side effects including permanent brain damage are caused by the vaccine or not. So what is all this I hear about there being no link between neurological disorders (Autism, ADHD, Aspergers, etc)? It looks to me like they are NOT SURE.

So then, it has this little note at the bottom:

Note: The first dose of MMRV vaccine - - - (that is MMR + chicken pox)
has been associated with rash and higher
rates of fever than MMR and varicella
vaccines given separately. Rash has been
reported in about 1 person in 20 and fever
in about 1 person in 5.
Seizures caused by a fever are also reported
more often after MMRV. These usually
occur 5-12 days after the first dose.

Okay, so if it states right here that seizures occur more often when MMR and chicken pox are given together and that the rates of fever and rashes are higher when they are given together, why is it that we keep hearing that it doesn't make a difference if you give multiple shots at the same time? I have heard that dozens of times - yet this clearly states that there are worse reactions when they combine these vaccines!

Also notice that it says that the FIRST DOSE of these vaccines are associated with these problems. So the first does is given to our kids at 12 months - where pretty much EVERY doctor in the nation is giving the MMR and chicken pox on the same day. If that is the case, 1 in 5 of those children get a fever after the shots. That is a very high number if you ask me. If you look up information about fevers, it will tell you that if they get too high, they can cause seizures and brain damage.

Now, lets look at the chicken pox vaccine:

Varicella (Chickenpox) vaccine side-effects
What are the risks from chickenpox vaccine?

Getting chickenpox vaccine is much safer than getting chickenpox disease. Most people who get chickenpox vaccine do not have any problems with it. (How do they know that? Have they done a study on the whole nation?)

However, a vaccine, like any medicine, is capable of causing serious problems, such as severe allergic reactions. The risk of chickenpox vaccine causing serious harm, or death, is extremely small.

Mild Problems

* Soreness or swelling where the shot was given (about 1 out of 5 children and up to 1 out of 3 adolescents and adults)
* Fever (1 person out of 10, or less)
* Mild rash, up to a month after vaccination (1 person out of 20, or less). It is possible for these people to infect other members of their household, but this is extremely rare.

Note: MMRV vaccine has been associated with higher rates of fever (up to about 1 person in 5) and measles-like rash (about 1 person in 20) compared with MMR and varicella vaccines given separately. (Here is that same note again.....)

Moderate Problems

* Seizure (jerking or staring) caused by fever (less than 1 person out of 1,000).

Severe Problems

* Pneumonia (very rare)

Other serious problems, including severe neurological problems (brain reactions) and low blood count, have been reported after chickenpox vaccination. These happen so rarely, however, that experts cannot tell whether they are caused by the vaccine or not. If they are, it is extremely rare.

Okay, so let's sum up:

1. MMR vaccine has been known to cause:

• Fever
• Seizures
• bleeding disorder
• Serious allergic reaction
• Deafness
• Long-term seizures
• coma
• lowered consciousness
• Permanent Brain Damage

2. Chicken Pox Vaccine has been known to cause:

• Seizure (Jerking or Staring - caused by fever)
• pneumonia
• Severe neurological problems (brain reactions)
  
• Low blood count
  

3. The first (12 month) dose of these two vaccines if given together has been shown to cause higher rates of children to get a rash (1 in 20), a fever (1 in 5) and seizures CAUSED BY A FEVER. If it increases seizures then that, in turn, can increase brain damage and neurological disorders such as ADHD, Aspergers, Autism and other spectrum disorders.

So, I am wondering why EVERY doctor (there may be a few that don't...) gives EVERY 12-15 month old baby both of these vaccines on the SAME DAY!!!???

Does the CDC and the doctors not even read what they post on their website? Why do so many doctors say that it doesn't matter if you give multiple shots on the same day, when they KNOW that there are worse effects when they are given together? That being said, how many other vaccines have worse effects when given together? We know that Hannah Poling received 9 shots on the same day and the courts have conceded the fact that those vaccines were what "triggered" her autism.

So, how can anyone say that there is no harm in giving multiple shots on the same day? Also, some effects may not show until later when people notice that their child has regressed, stopped talking, stopped responding or changed or have more health problems than they used to. There are no studies done in the months or years later to see if these children are okay. The studies consist of parents writing down if there child gets a fever, gets a rash, gets red around the injection site, etc. during the 1st month after the vaccine (I know, because Wyatt was in one).... No one except the parents of 1 in 150 kids knows what happens later...

It looks as though the other really bad one is the DTaP (which is given at 2, 4, 6 and 15 months as well as at 4-6 years old...) Each of those times, it is given at the same time as 4-6 other vaccines.

DTaP vaccine side-effects

Getting diphtheria, tetanus or pertussis disease is much riskier than getting DTaP vaccine.

However, a vaccine, like any medicine, is capable of causing serious problems, such as severe allergic reactions. The risk of DTaP vaccine causing serious harm, or death, is extremely small.

Mild Problems (Common)

* Fever (up to about 1 child in 4)
* Redness or swelling where the shot was given (up to about 1 child in 4)
* Soreness or tenderness where the shot was given (up to about 1 child in 4)

These problems occur more often after the 4th and 5th doses of the DTaP series than after earlier doses.

Sometimes the 4th or 5th dose of DTaP vaccine is followed by swelling of the entire arm or leg in which the shot was given, for 1 to 7 days (up to about 1 child in 30).

Other mild problems include:

* Fussiness (up to about 1 child in 3)
* Tiredness or poor appetite (up to about 1 child in 10)
* Vomiting (up to about 1 child in 50)

These problems generally occur 1 to 3 days after the shot.

Moderate Problems (Uncommon)

* Seizure (jerking or staring) (about 1 child out of 14,000)
* Non-stop crying, for 3 hours or more (up to about 1 child out of 1,000)
* High fever, 105 degrees Fahrenheit or higher (about 1 child out of 16,000) - that will cause seizures!

Severe Problems (Very Rare)
Serious allergic reaction (less than 1 out of a million doses) Several other severe problems have been reported after DTaP vaccine. These include:

* Long-term seizures, coma, or lowered consciousness
* Permanent brain damage.

These are so rare it is hard to tell if they are caused by the vaccine.

So - again - lots of bad side effects from a vaccine that is given with multiple other vaccines that cause similar side effects.

So - if we give our little babies anywhere from 4-6 of these "harmless" vaccines with these side effects at the same time at such young ages you are telling me that nothing is going to happen? It is simple math to me. If each of these vaccines causes a fever (which they all d0) and can cause seizures and even permanent brain damage, then wouldn't giving someone 4 vaccines at the same time that can cause all of those things triple the chances of them having some of those bad side effects? And for that matter, wouldn't that cause the side effects to be more harmful as well?

Okay, so I will quickly show a few other vaccines and their side effects:


Hepatitis B vaccine side-effects

Most people who get hepatitis B vaccine do not have any problems with it.

Mild problems

* soreness where the shot was given, lasting a day or two (up to 1 out of 11 children and adolescents, and about 1 out of 4 adults)
* mild to moderate fever (up to 1 out of 14 children and adolescents and 1 out of 100 adults)

Severe problems

* serious allergic reaction (very rare)

Not too bad....

Hib vaccine side-effects


Most people who get Hib vaccine do not have any problems with it.

Mild Problems

* Redness, warmth, or swelling where the shot was given (up to 1 out of 4 children)
* Fever over 101 degrees Fahrenheit (up to 1 out of 20 children) (That is better than 105!)

If these problems happen, they usually start within a day of vaccination. They may last 2 to 3 days.

Again, not so bad...

So, because it is 1:00 in the morning and I still have a lot of work to do, I will stop for now... (I know you are all disappointed....)

But just a few notes to leave with you:

Vaccines still have bad ingredients in them: Chick Embryo Fibroblasts, Human
Serum Albumin, Aluminum Phosphate, Ammonium Sulfate, Formaldehyde, etc. etc. (again, from CDC website..)

Autism and related disorders were almost non -existent 20 years ago, yet now they are everywhere. 1 in 150 children are diagnosed with Autism - but how many kids don't they know about? There is no documentation as to Wyatt's condition and I can bet that there are thousands of children that are undiagnosed - especially all of those children who can't afford to be evaluated in the first place. I know many mothers that have waited for 2 years to even see a doctor that could officially "diagnose" their child. So if that is the case, how many children are on that waiting list? It is safe to assume that there are quite a few (personally I think there are a lot) of undiagnosed children out there. So, what does that make the rate? 1 in 100?

Currently, ASA estimates that the lifetime cost of caring for a child with autism ranges from $3.5 million to $5 million. WOW - that is crazy! If that is true, how can anyone afford to care for their child? And what about the families that have 3, 4, 5, and even 6 kids with Autism? Also, this says "cost of caring", it does not specifically state that this figure includes actual treatments - behavioral, medical, etc. etc.

How is all of this for depressing?

Again, this is why we are going to D.C. Vaccines are a problem. There are too many. They should not be given together, they should remove harmful ingredients, blah blah blah... you know the rest.

For those of you that don't know, Wyatt was given the "proquad" shot which was MMR and chicken pox in the same needle when he was 14 months old. Shortly after his shots he broke out in a rash all over his body and had a fever. Within 2 months, he stopped waiving and saying "bye", he stopped saying ma ma, he lost eye contact, he stopped responding to his name, he just stopped. He was NOT born with Autism. He was a typically developing little boy who met all of his milestones, had great eye contact, was social, and was learning as he should. His story is the same as tens of thousands of parents that say the same thing happened to their child. This is NOT a coincidence. This did NOT happen 20 years ago. This is NOT okay.

Now, 2 years later, after a lot of treatment (40 hours a week of therapy, 8 or more supplements a day, a VERY restrictive diet, etc. etc.) he can waive and say bye, he has started to respond to his name and he can even give kisses (rarely). He still only has about 3 words - only one of which he uses in the proper context. He should be getting ready to start preschool, he should be potty trained, he should be speaking in sentences.

I know I ramble for hours, but I just can't bare these things happening to even ONE More child or ONE more family. It breaks my heart everyday to think about how many families are out there that don't know what to do to help their child or don't have the money or resources to do so. I want to help every one of them. I will if I can.

I do not know everything, but I have researched, read, attended conferences and medical lectures, etc. etc. etc. I believe the things that I have written to be true. If any of you want more information or need help learning about the treatments and ways to help children with Autism, please ask. I will give you all of the information I have and will continue to research and learn as long as I have to. I will NEVER give up on my child.

Please comment if you read this so that we can all share our information and opinions. (Heaven knows I have already shared mine.....)