Guest guest Posted December 22, 2011 Report Share Posted December 22, 2011 Pink Disease Lessons not learned BMJ 15 Feb 1947 Review by T N Fisher of pink disease patients in Manchester, England. Today, we know mercury from many sources and often ingested was the cause of this dangerous, epidemic and often fatal disease. An illness that no longer troubles children. Each single researcher on this illness found good and bad points and putting them together today leads to frightening conclusions about the tens of millions of autism children in 2011 around the world. Doctors are RESPONSIBLE. History does help us understand today's mystery illnesses. The 1947 article indicates an almost total ignorance of the disease after 40 years of its known existence which almost certainly goes back much further than the date given for its commencement. Another researcher puts a start date of around 1903 which coinicides ominously with the discovery of Alzheimer's Disease which could have an identical cause. Fisher does not give us a breakdown of the boy to girl ratio but it appears not to follow that of autism. There is limited evidence of an excess of boys but not so skewed as for autism. In this study there was an excess of girls even. Why is this? The sudden deaths might give a clue and here we speculate that boys died in greater numbers thus reducing the male to female ratio in survivors and even throwing it into reverse. We need to know much more of this obselete illness and learn from its consequences. The age of onset was at a minimum of four months which did not alert anyone. Also it died out, those that survived by the age of one year. Again people did not reflect on obvious things that occurred in the child's life at this time. Not at birth and normally not a concern for the four year olds and older. There was no sign of any infectious cause: Correct. There was no sign of any dietary deficiency: Correct. Fisher notes that children who were walking lost their ability to walk showing at least here developmental problems. There are some similarities to today's illnesses. Deaths could be sudden. Post-mortem examination revealed nothing. Swelling was a big problem and that reminds us of head swelling after mercury vaccines at birth from Hep B that was an occurrence from 1991 to 1999. Swelling is put today at abuse: CORRECT but the finding of this swelling then from an unknown cause but now known to be heavy metal poisoning shifts blame from those who are CARERS: Parents. The blame now moves over to those who use extremity swelling compounds: Mercury compounds. Neurotoxic compouns such as THIMEROSAL. The following year, 1948, saw the research of f Warkany and Hubbard proving these children had an excess of mercury. But in this paper nothing hints of any idea except that of despair for these children. The thought of hopsital care was even put forward as the worst option for the children: CORRECT. In effect and with hindsight, we see the doctors at a total loss for this ailment after it had been researched for more than 40 years and the true cause turns out to be medical interventions to a previously HEALTHY CHILD. We can give them credit for not shifting the blame to CARERS. If we learn one thing from the history of pinks disease it is this. WE LEARNED NOTHING. WE LEARNED LESS THAN NOTHING. Today, when we are ignorant, we continue with dangerous treatments and prove harm by others, while still resting on the BASE of – WE DON'T KNOW. Today we have watched over 40 years of sudden death, 75 years of autism. I suspect that medical interventions are 100 per cent responsible. Medical expertise has ABSOLUTELY no idea of the causes for these illnesses but DO KNOW it is not medical intervention and certainly not the continued use of THIMEROSAL that was agreed by all to be removed in 1999. And countries that have long since abandoned mercury vaccines have rates of autism ten times less and general health at the top and not the bottom of modern societies. USA is hiding behind a lot of avoided guilt for the lack of health and abundant childhood illnesses. Lessons not learned Pink Disease Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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