Heavy price to pay for the spin on vaccinations

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The Scotsman

Wed 20 Apr 2005

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Heavy price to pay for the spin on vaccinations

Margaret Cook

THE furore over the MMR vaccine and its putative association with autism,

which " trampled a ... destructive path through the fields of childhood

vaccination policy " (British Medical Journal, 27th March, 2004) is likely

to be swamped into insignificance by a burgeoning new vaccine row.

The evidence linking autism to the toxic heavy metal, mercury, is strong

and growing. Thiomersal, a compound containing almost 50% mercury, has been

used for 66 years as a preservative in vaccines. Since then, serious,

incurable, behavioural disorders such as autism and

hyperactivity-attention-deficit-disorder (HADD), rare or non-existent prior

to 1939, have been increasing exponentially. A parallel increase does not

of itself indicate cause, but there are many factors that increasingly

support that conclusion.

As long ago as 1999, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) found that

accumulated mercury in infants under 6 months, mainly from vaccines,

exceeded safety limits set by the Environmental Protection Agency.

Researchers then reported a statistically significant, epidemiological

association between thiomersal-containing vaccines and childhood

neuro-developmental disorders - a biologically plausible link. Alarm bells

rang around the world. Medicine regulators in America and Europe promptly

recommended the phasing out of thiomersal in vaccines for infants and

toddlers, " in the shortest possible time frame " .

Some 14 months later, in August 2000, an announcement in the UK that all

new vaccines would be thiomersal-free was clearly window-dressing. In fact,

the mercury-containing DTP triple vaccine (diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis)

continued to be used, simply to use up existing stocks. This was the first

vaccine infants received, in 3 doses at monthly intervals, the first at 2

months of age. It was phased out eventually in mid 2004, and as usual the

introduction of a replacement vaccine was turbulent.

The health authorities had stood up to a man and brazenly declared the old

mercury injections safe. No evidence proves the link between autism and

thiomersal, they said. They even claimed the new injection was free of

thiomersal for other reasons (it would interfere with the polio component

of the new jab). They unwisely urged parents and GPs to continue to use the

old vaccine even when the new one was only a month or two away, on the

grounds that children would otherwise be at risk from the three diseases.

An outbreak of whooping cough or diphtheria in the UK? When did anyone last

see a case?

Meanwhile, although a House of Commons Health Committee recommended in 1997

an urgent gathering of information and monitoring of autism, the Department

of Health has done nothing so far. But health authorities have painted

themselves into a corner with misinformation, because if the link between

mercury and autism is proved beyond all doubt - which the accumulating

evidence suggests it will be - the capacity for litigation, certainly in

the US, would possibly be sufficiently seismic to destroy the

pharmaceutical industry as we know it.

Mercury has been known to be poisonous for decades, but like many toxins,

it can be tolerated by adults in minuscule doses. But the same is

emphatically not true of infants. 25 per cent of American children have

excessive heavy metal exposure early in life, even prenatally from the

mother’s dental amalgam fillings and environmental pollution, as well as

from vaccines.

The infant blood-brain barrier is not fully developed until about 6 months

old. The developing brain is particularly susceptible to tiny amounts of

toxic metals, which disrupt chemical messages and alter essential

transmitters such as serotonin. Mercury used as an antiseptic in teething

powder in the 1940s caused a condition known as " pink disease " with skin

inflammation and behavioural problems similar to autism. The metal was

removed from teething powder and pink disease disappeared from the medical

textbooks. How appalling that the metal continued to be used for vaccines,

at the most vulnerable time of life.

Autism in the UK increased tenfold among children between 1984 and 1994. In

the US, the increase over the last two decades is about sixty-fold. One

child in 166 is autistic, the third most common childhood complaint.

The current most plausible theories, in which there is a consensus of

several groups of researchers from Scandinavia and the US, is that the

cause is multifactorial. The first factor is a genetic predisposition, for

only some children appear to be at risk from heavy metals. They lack a

protein called metallothionein which detoxifies and protects against heavy

metals. In these children, the toxicity of the mercury on brain, gut and

immune system is unopposed; and it is proposed the MMR can then act as a

trigger to precipitate autism. MMR does not contain mercury, but it does

consist of live viruses, which a damaged immune system cannot handle.

Thiomersal is no longer present in infants’ vaccines in the UK. But parents

and politician-watchers do not forget past spin, and are all too aware of

outsize conflicts of interest in the establishment. The new infant

pentavalent vaccine contains other toxins, aluminium and formaldehyde, with

long-term effects unknown.

The thinking public is mystified at the urgency with which they are pressed

to accept vaccination, when the diseases these medicines are designed to

defy are virtually banished from the world. In the days when vaccines were

designed to protect against rampant and potentially fatal disease like

smallpox and polio, they were indeed an unqualified good. Now, it is

difficult for even professionals to be sure.

If I were a new parent today, I would be reluctant to accept the present

received wisdom on vaccination.

• Margaret Cook is a retired consultant.

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