(Resending) - Congressional Briefing on Autism - 7/17

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consider contacting your members of Congress about attending or sending a staff

member to the briefing

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Kirby

Rep. Maloney and Rep. To Host A Second

Autism Congressional Briefing An Update On

Federal Autism Research And Treatment Initiatives

PLEASE CONTACT YOUR US SENATORS (HERE) AND MEMBERS OF CONGRESS (HERE) AND URGE THEM TO ATTEND OR SEND A STAFF MEMBER TO THIS IMPORTANT

AUTISM-VACCINE BRIEFING ON CAPITOL HILL

Friday, July 17 at 9:30 AM

210 Cannon House Office

Building

Independence Avenue, Washington, DC.

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY)

is hosting a special briefing for Members of Congress and their Staff to

discuss issues related to autism research and treatment.

We hope that you will attend the briefing to learn about the changing dynamics

of the autism debate, as you will find many in government and science believe

this debate is far from settled.

Kirby, investigative journalist and author of The New York Times bestseller Evidence of

Harm, Mercury in Vaccines and the Autism Epidemic – A Medical

Controversy, will inform

Members and their staff about developments regarding environmental factors in autism and the “Seven

Studies to Watch” – Plus, changing ASD demographics post-thimerosal

reduction. Mr. Kirby will also be joined by Mark

Blaxill, Editor-at-Large of Age of Autism,

Director of the Coalition for SAFE MINDS and co-author

of a forthcoming book on the roots of the autism epidemic, who will address the

policy and public health implications of the autism crisis.

Among the issues to be discussed are:

The unanimous

endorsement by the National Vaccine Advisory Committee to look at the

feasibility of a large vaccinated-unvaccinated study, with autism as an

outcome.

The NVAC

endorsement of three other vaccine-autism investigations, including

children with mitochondrial dysfunction, children with regressive autism,

and vaccine injury as a risk factor for ASD.

Recent

Vaccine Court decisions finding

the MMR and Hep B vaccines caused injuries that led to

autism and MS.

The NIH Early

Autism Risk Longitudinal Investigations EARLI study and the HHS/EPA

National Children’s Study, both of which are looking at vaccination

and mercury exposures, with autism as a possible outcome.

The

CDC’s Centers for Autism and Developmental Disabilities Research and

Epidemiology (CADDRE) Network, whose five-year goal includes studying

" specific mercury exposures, including any vaccine use by the mother

during pregnancy and the child's vaccine exposures after birth.”

Cleveland

Clinic – A recent article in PLoS Online by authors from the Cleveland Clinic, Harvard

and s Hopkins

University reported that,

" Large, population-based studies will be needed to identify a

possible relationship of vaccination with autistic regression in persons

with mitochondrial dysfunction.”

Recent

statements by Federal health officials such as Dr. Duane ,

Director of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver Institute of Child Health and Human

Development (NICHD), who said it was “legitimate to ask”

whether vaccines can trigger autism, and Dr. Fauci,

Director of NIAID, who said in a US News and World report article,

“we may want to screen everyone prior to vaccination (for)

undetectable diseases like a subclinical mitochondrial disorder. "

The U.C.

M.I.N.D. Institute study which found, that the seven- to eight-fold

increase in the number children born in California with autism since 1990

cannot be explained by either changes in how the condition is diagnosed or

counted — and the trend shows no sign of abating. This as young

adults begin to flood the social services system

Reports of

reduced Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) severity among the youngest

children, following reduction of thimerosal in childhood vaccines.

Please contact your elected representatives

and urge them to attend.

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