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June 24, 2005

Tim

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Gibson

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Dear Mr and Mr Gibson:

Your piece on ABC TV on June 22, 2005 regarding thimerosal and autism missed the

point about the dangers of mercury being injected in babies. If that isn't

dangerous then mercury in fish and broken thermometers are safe. Also the MMR

vaccine is dangerous. On January 17, 1985, my son, was born normal. While

was in the hospital with my wife, she was given the live virus rubella

vaccine. He was normal at birth but regressed into autism after receiving the

measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine on April 28, 1986. In an Internet article by

F. Yazbak, MD (TLAutStudy@...) titled, " Autism: Is There A Vaccine

Connection? " Part 1 (there is also Part 2 and 3), Case 3 is about my wife, Helen

and . See....

(http://www.garynull.com/Article.aspx?article=Issues/Index.aspx & Head=Issues)

In 1995, Vijendra Singh, PhD. of Utah State University did blood work on

and found that he tested positive for myelin basic protein antibodies indicating

an autoimmune dysfunction. That same year Oleske, MD of UMDNJ, Newark, NJ

who is a world famous pediatric immunologist who specializes in AIDS, found the

following in blood tests done on . " His measles antibody titers were

extremely high, in fact, the highest I have ever encountered. This marked

elevation of measles titers, despite normal Ig levels, further supports an

immune dysregulatory disorder that has been associated with either debilitating

neurological disorders such as sub-acute sclerosing panencephalitis. " Dr. Singh

later tested for the measles antibody titers and came up with the same

results. Looking back at home video-tapes, I could see what happened before and

after the MMR vaccine was given to . His speech was progressing and then

after, nothing.

In April 1995, September 1997 and November 2001 I went to the National

Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, land and asked for immunology

funding for autism looking into the MMR vaccine link. To date nothing has been

done. In October 1998, I started The Autism Autoimmunity Project (TAAP) to fund

independent research. To date we have raised over $130,000.00 to fund such

researchers as Dr. Vijendra Singh, Dr. Oleske and Dr. Wakefield. In

2002, we took to see Dr. Arthur Krigsman, a gastroenterologist. Dr.

Krigsman found that had colitis and a very painful, quarter-size stomach

tissue in 's throat.

In 2002, started to develop aggressions where he would bite, head-butt,

kick, scratch and pull hair. Up to February 2004, we had to call the police

numerous times and had to be taken to the hospital. He was on various

anti-depressant medications over those two years and in February 2003,

broke my left index finger with his teeth almost amputating it off. grew to

be 6'2 " tall and I am 5'10 " so he was a handful. We received no respite care

from 's school or any state agency. We lived a life of hell and we were

under siege during that time. When had an aggression, we would have to go

behind our bedroom or bathroom doors and lock them so couldn't hurt us.

broke two bedroom doors by kicking on them and we had to replace them with

stronger doors that were kick-proof.

had aggressions at school and was suspended various times. In February

2004, was terminated from school and when I took to the store he had

another aggression. The police were called and was taken to the hospital

where he was born and put in their psychiatric unit. After a couple of weeks, we

were told by the hospital that he would either have to be taken home or put in

Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital and if we didn't do this we would be sued.

So we took him to Greystone. The staff and patients took good care of him and

they said that Greystone wasn't the appropriate place for . had been on

a waiting list for Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore, land so they

finally had an opening in March 2003. He was released and taken to Kennedy

Krieger Institute where they treated him for his aggressions.

In August 2004 he was released from Kennedy Krieger Institute and was placed in

an out-of-state residential school. Since that time he has gotten better but he

is on heavy duty medication such as haldol and adivan. It takes us 2 and ½ hours

to drive one way to see so we only see him every other weekend. In January

2005, another patient punched in the eye giving a black eye. was

on a couch and pushed the other patient and the patient took exception and

punched . I worry about constantly and at times I wonder what his and

our lives would be like if he wasn't damaged by the MMR vaccine. Many a time, I

shed a tear for him. In particular, Helen and I had to make funeral arrangements

for because the state said they had money for this. It was very morbid and

stressful for Helen and I to do this. One person asked me why couldn't the state

do this and not cause us more grief. I had no answer for them.

Basically, the state, the education system and the medical community want our

children vaccinated. When something goes wrong then none of these organizations

are there to help. They leave it in the parent's hands. It isn't their problem,

it is the problem for the families involved.

Over the years I have followed the US Department of Education figures on autism.

I have compared them to the 1992/1993 figures and the 2003/2004 figures show an

increase of 1,055% overall

See.....

http://www.taap.info/epidemic.asp

I don't see this decreasing or remaining the same unless the issue of

autoimmunity and autism is dealt with. is on SSI and Medicare and being

taken care of by NJ state taxes. Multiply the costs for by the number of

children nationwide with autism. Who will pay for all these children over the

years? Wouldn't it be better to find out what we can do to make these kids

healthy and productive? Or do we want to put our heads in the ground and ignore

the costs in financial terms and human suffering.

The most telling part of this controversy is how three researchers who have

looked into the autoimmune, MMR vaccine link to autism have been dealt with.

This is what has actually happened.

Vijendra Singh, PhD of Utah State University has found it difficult to get

funding for any studies related to autoimmunity and autism after he discovered

and perfected tests that proved an MMR autism connection. Prior to that, funding

was easily available to him including from NIH sources.

Famed researcher Wakefield, MD of London, England, the author of over a

hundred scientific articles (and his organization, Visceral

(http://www.visceral.org.uk) ) encountered worse persecution. His research was

closed down and he was told that he had to leave the Royal Free Hospital in

London, England because he found evidence of measles in the gut of children with

autism. His career came to a screeching halt in the UK. His phone was

electronically bugged and his attackers are still after him, even now that he is

in the US. Recently Dr. Wakefield has reported evidence of vaccine-strain

measles virus genomic RNA in the cerebrospinal fluid of children with autism.

This only accentuated his enemies' attacks. Obviously all governmental funding

had stopped years ago.

Arthur Krigsman, MD of Long Island, New York has replicated Dr. Wakefield's

research in the US. After doing some 250 ileal biopsies of children with autism

at Lenox Hill Hospital, he was not allowed to have them further tested for viral

genomic RNA. Dr Krigsman was then so restricted that he also had to leave his NY

hospital base. The reason is obvious, he was replicating Dr. Wakefield's

clinical science and the powers that be weren't happy with this. Congressman

Weldon (who is also an MD) asked that the NIH fund Dr. Krigsman's research. To

date, the NIH has not honored Congressman's request.

Anybody looking at what happened to these researchers can see the obvious. Why

do this to these men if people were not afraid of the research they were doing?

It basically is a vaccine/autism Watergate cover-up perpetrated by the enemies

of these excellent researchers. In the end as time goes on, people will be held

accountable for this autism epidemic.

Sincerely,

Ray Gallup, parent and Founder

TAAP (The Autism Autoimmunity Project)

800-939-TAAP (8227)

PO Box 293144

Davie, FL 33329

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