vaccines...just a thought

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hi group...i saw all the messages about vaccines and i just wanted to put this out there...i dont know if vaccines cause Autism or not because there is no research that says so...but then again, there is no research that says they dont. as a matter of fact there isnt much research at all on the subject. I am writing this from the perspective of a new mom, not as a behavior analyst. ive heard so much from other parents about mercury and thimerosol. honestly, i havent heard parents questioning thew fact that vaccines contain formaldehyde (embalming fluid), borax (ant killer), aluminum, and so many other toxins that i dont remember off the top of my head. in addition, they contain substances that can produce fatal allergic reactions if an individual is allergic to eggs. if you read the labels on those things, they are not to be administered to individuals with compromised immune systems. last time i checked, infants and

children definitely have compromised immune systems. why take the time to buy your kids organic baby foods when you are pumping them full of harmful chemicals against their will 18 times (if not more) before their third birthday. while i was pregnant, my midwife asked me if i wanted the 'vitamin k' and hepatitis b shots for my son, and the erythromycin in the eyes. when i asked what they were for she blessed me with the knowledge that the "vitamin K" (which by the way is vitamin k and additives) is given to prevent a treatable condition in infants which occurs in one out of like 44,000. babies produce thier own vitamin k on the 8th day of life and after that, they can not develop the condition (infant hemmhoragic disease). Hepatitis B- this one is too bizarre and in my opinion, a way to increase your hospital bill. Hepatitis B is ONLY contracted through sexual contact, IV drug use and mother to baby. I dont have

Hep. B ( i was tested during pregancy along with all the other tests), and my baby will not be having sex or using drugs, will yours? why expose them to this vaccine? its completely unecessary. the erythromycin in the eyes is to prevent the baby from contracting STD's that the mother may have...for no other reason. my son is 4.5 months and is completely free of immunizations other than his own natural immunities and those that i am passing to him. my pediatrician stands behind me. I know this is an autism group, I'm not saying that any of the above cause autism, but I wanted to pass along the conciousness. from one parent to another. and for the grown-ups: if you get 5 consecutive flu shots, you are 10 times more likely to get alzheimers. Karp wrote: SAR "Healing Autism:Schafer Autism Report No Finer a Cause on the Planet"________________________________________________________________Tuesday, November 14, 2006 Vol. 10 No. 196>> PROMOTE YOUR WINTER EVENTS NOW - FREE <<Conferences * Presentations * Parent MeetingsDEADLINE FOR DECEMBER SAR AUTISM CALENDAR ISNOVEMBER 24!Submit listing here:http://www.sarnet.org/frm/cal-frm.htmPUBLIC HEALTH* Anti-Vaccine Group Challenges CDC's Flu Shot Guidelines for

Infants* Oregon Contamination Controversy: Mercury and Arsenic in the RoadTREATMENT* Treating Root Cause of Autism Offers HopeCOMMENTARY* Anti-Vaccination Hysteria - Undoing ProgressEDUCATION* Autism Surging; Funding Falling in Indiana* Medicaid Cuts for Autism Treatment Threatened in South CarolinaFORENSIC* Autistic Man Gets 5 Years In Prison For Kidnapping 7-Year-Old BoyCARE* Autistic Boy Helps Other Children With Special-NeedsPUBLIC HEALTHAnti-Vaccine Group Challenges CDC's Flu Shot Guidelines for InfantsBy Dr. Manny Alvarezhttp://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,229156,00.htmlFears over pandemic flu collided with growing concerns over thesafety of childhood vaccinations Monday when a parents group challenged theCenters for Disease Control's recent recommendation that infants andpregnant women receive flu shots this

year.PutChildrenFirst.Org, a parent-led group working to increase awarenessof the dangers of mercury in flu shots, held a teleconference Monday inopposition to the CDC's new flu shot campaign that says flu shots containingthimerosol, a preservative containing mercury, are safe.Over the past few years, the debate over the link between childhoodimmunizations and autism has grown increasingly contentious. While there isno debate over the dangers of mercury exposure, the question has beenwhether the amount of mercury present in vaccinations poses a health risk.Government studies have failed to establish a relationship between thedevelopmental disorder and vaccinations, while parents and other groups havecome to increasingly believe that immunizations - specifically thethimerosol used to preserve the vaccines - triggers autism.However, according to PutChildrenFirst.Org, many people do not thinkof flu shots as

part of the schedule of childhood vaccines and are not awarethat most flu shots contain thimerosol. While the CDC does report severalstudies warning about the dangers of mercury exposure, these reports do notmention that flu shots contain mercury.PutChildrenFirst.Org is part of a public health movement that hasemerged over the past few months that has raised doubts about thegovernment's ability to objectively evaluate vaccine safety, given itsinterest in immunizations, and calling for the establishment of anindependent body to evaluate vaccine and thimerosol safety,Mercury is an extremely dangerous neurotoxin, which can cause seriousimpairments of cognitive thinking, memory, attention, language, and finemotor and visual spatial skills.A survey of 9,204 people conducted by Zogby International, a publicopinion group, between Oct. 27-30 of this year, found that many people areuninformed about vaccinations, but have

strong opinions when provided withinformation. According to the survey, when asked what they knew about flushots:- 74 percent of respondents were unaware that most flu shots containedmercury.- After learning this fact, 74 percent said they were less likely toget a flu shot and 86 percent of parents w/children (17 or younger living athome) said they were less likely to have their children get the flu shot.- 78 percent agreed that mercury should not be an ingredient in flushots given to pregnant women and children- 73 percent said that the government should warn pregnant women notto get a flu shot if it contains mercury.- More than 70 percent said Congress, doctors, and medical groups suchas the American Academy of Pediatrics should take the responsibility toensure that vaccines do not contain mercury.- 80 percent of respondents and 82 percent of parents said they arewilling to pay additional cost to receive flu

shots that do not containmercury.In public opinion polling, results over 70 percent can be categorizedas "striking" or "remarkable" results, according to Fritz Winzel of ZogbyInternational.Thimerosol-free flu shots do exist, but patients must specificallyrequest them. Additionally, patients should be prepared to pay more forthese vaccines and that their doctors may not have them.Thimerosol-free vaccines are in short supply and some doctors who haveordered them have not received them.Activists are calling on the CDC to establish a panel to monitor thesafety of flu vaccines.PutChildrenFirst.Org full press release can be read here:http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/061113/nym036a.html?.v=2EVIDENCE OF HARM DISCUSSION LIST HEATS UPAS MERCURY LINK TO AUTISM QUESTION SPREADS>> PAPERBACK BOOK NOW OUT - CHECK AMAZON.COMAn Evidence of Harm email discussion

list hasbeen created in response to the growing interestin the book and the issues it chronicles. Now over1,400 subscribers. Here is how to subscribe(no cost): EOHarm-subscribe . . .Oregon Contamination Controversy: Mercury and Arsenic in the Road Localfamily says its own Red Rock Road may have caused children's disordersBy Adam Pearson http://tinyurl.com/y28vqcSutherlin - For years, the Tenbrooks searched for clues that mightanswer why so many of the family's children suffer from neurologicaldisorders.Many of the family's youngsters of the past two generations sufferfrom a mild form of autism known as Asperger's Syndrome, and some alsosuffer from disorders such as fibromyalgia, cerebral palsy, bipolardisorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or a combination ofthem."Everyone of my brother's and sisters' kids have

neurologicalproblems," says Tenbrook, "and we didn't know why."But then Tenbrook read an October News-Review article and learned thatSutherlin's Red Rock Road, which was built with tailings from the nearbyBonanza mine, is a public health risk because of arsenic and mercury in thetailings.Tenbrook, 44, who now lives in Eugene and is the mother of three boys- all of whom have Asperger's Syndrome or multiple disorders - suddenly hadan epiphany: Her family home's driveway on Nonpareil Road was built withBonanza mine's tailings. Was she contaminated with mercury and arsenic byplaying on the driveway? And did she pass the contaminants down to herchildren?"It's my belief that I had the poison in me and passed it on when Iwas pregnant," she said. "Our driveway was built with the same stuff RedRock Road was."Tenbrook shares her conviction with other family members. Her26-year-old niece, Rena Bjerke, grew up in the

same house, played in thesame red dirt on the same long, circular driveway, and has children withneurological disorders.Bjerke's four boys, who range from 7 years of age down to 18 monthsold, either have Asperger's Syndrome or are suspected of eventually beingdiagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome. The older two, , 7, and ,6, have cerebral palsy. All of Bjerke's sons - who share her and herhusband's last names, -Bjerke - were born premature.Bjerke suffers from fibromyalgia - a painful muscular condition causedby a lack of dopamine in the central nervous system - and lupus, a chronicinflammatory disease that mainly affects the joints and skin. She said shealways suspected other reasons besides genetics for her and her children'sdisorders. Her mother's generation only had one family member who sufferedfrom a neurological disorder, a second cousin with fibromyalgia, whosemother also grew up in the same

house on Nonpareil Road as Bjerke's mother,Debra Hash.+ Read more: http://tinyurl.com/y28vqc-- > DO SOMETHING ABOUT AUTISM NOW < --SUBSCRIBE. . . !. . .Read, then Forward the Schafer Autism Report.To Subscribe http://www.SARnet.org/ $35 for 1 year - 200 issues, or No Cost Review Sub.!. . .TREATMENTTreating Root Cause of Autism Offers Hope By Ottar Grundvig for The Epoch Times.http://www.theepochtimes.com/news/6-11-13/48039.htmlNew theories on the causes of autism seem to sprout up on a monthlybasis of late. Some are weeds; others resemble bulbs ready to bloom.A significant study arrived this September when epidemiologist AviReichenberg of the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine had sifted through thehistorical data on "more than 300,000 parent-child records, and found thatmen older than 40 were nearly six

times more likely to have children withautism than fathers under 30 years old" (as reported onwww.sciencentral.com, from a study published in Archives of GeneralPsychiatry.) I was 39 years old when my son Fridrik was conceived. In 2003,he was diagnosed with Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD), a prevalentform of autism. Although I didn't quite fit the bill, having been on thecusp of the vulnerable age, I see the logic behind the theory.Male sperm deteriorate as they get older. Therefore, the weakeningstrands of DNA are more likely to produce some sort of congenital diseasewhen men hit their forties. The same applies to women in the same agebracket.For autism and its epidemic, the Old Dad Theory explains an olderparent's greater likelihood of having a child born with the disorder. Butthe study is silent on the root cause.It does not explain how the bulk of autism spectrum disorder (ASD)children end up with

heavy metal contamination in their systems, inparticular lead and mercury. The theory explains how babies of older dadsmight be born with latent triggers to get some form of autism, but itdoesn't begin to tackle the much bigger and more elusive question: What setsoff the autism trigger in the first place? Wacky Theory In strong contrastto the fine detective work in the Old Dad Theory is a new study that claims"TV Triggers Autism." In this wacky article-which I would dismiss out ofhand, if it didn't come from Cornell University-an economics professorstudied TV viewing habits in three northwest states. He found that the sharprise in watching television, which spiked in the 1980s, had a directcorrelation with more children getting autism.I know for a fact that I watched far more TV in the 1960s than my boywatched four decades later. If this new theory had any validity, then myyounger brother and I would have gotten autism,

which was extremely rare inthose days, and my son should have been normal.Over the decades, television has been blamed for many societal ills,from the erosion of morals, to copycat violence, to ruining one's eyesight.TV doesn't cause autism. Not a chance. For parents who are dealingwith this devastating disorder, whose family relationships are often tornapart and family finances ruined, the last thing we need is an outlandish,unquantifiable, and impossible-to-prove theory.There are many things that have increased since 1980. The populationof the United States crossed the 300 million threshold in October 2006. Thenumber of vaccines given to babies in the first two years of their lives hasgone up four times. In many of those vaccines, the amount of thimerosal-themercury-based preservative used to keep vaccines free of bacteria duringproduction and add to their shelf life-increased tenfold.Since the rate of autism

has outstripped the growth of the populationover the past quarter of a century, we know that genetics alone can't causean epidemic. So there has to be a biomedical element, something outside thechild's body that works in concert with the latent environmental triggersthat set babies on a path that leads to autism.Heavy Metals-and Hope Many ASD children like my son lack a normalchild's ability to excrete the heavy metals that poison their bodies. Theinjecting of thimerosal into my baby began when he was only two to threehours old, when his brain and nervous system were still developing.Heavy metals contamination also explains the recent behavior ofFridrik as he recovers from this disease. For a little more than a year, mywife and I put him through a rigorous chelation therapy that bound andexcreted the toxins out of him. Fridrik re-experienced the first days whenhe fell prone at two years old-lost his appetite and ability

to use hisfingers, and became mute with PDD.His many episodes of regression followed the chelation treatments thatpurged the mercury and other heavy metals from his body. Now two monthsafter stopping chelation therapy, Fridrik's regressions have all butvanished.At six years old, he now reads at an eight-year-old level. His mathhas come a long way, too, since last spring, when he couldn't grasp simpleaddition. He sees a speech therapist after school and she has identified hismute problem. The non-verbal autism is now nothing more than an oral muscleproblem, one he will overcome on his way to being a normal child one day.That is happening because we identified and tackled the environmentalaspects of our son's problem early, often, and head-on. Parents of ASDchildren who haven't gone down this path should do some research on theirown and then go after the root cause of autism. An educated parent is thebest defense

against the disorder stealing a child's potential.The father of an autistic child, Ottar Grundvig lives and worksin New York City.. . .COMMENTARYAnti-Vaccination Hysteria - Undoing ProgressBy D. Shawhttp://healthnewsdigest.com/news/article_4805.shtmlOne of the greatest triumphs of preventive medicine-not to mentionpublic health policy-is the overwhelming effectiveness of vaccinationprograms. Tens of millions of children in the United States alone, and evenlarger numbers of individuals throughout the world, will never know theterror of polio, measles, smallpox, whooping cough, diphtheria, tetanus, andother diseases-all because of regular vaccinations. Despite all of this, asmall but increasingly vocal minority of parents and politicians are leadinga campaign against the wholesale use of vaccinations. By alleging a dubious-and absolutely unproven-link between

vaccinesand isolated cases of meningitis and even autism (a claim that stretchescredulity), these activists threaten to undo over a half-century of medicalprogress, exposing children to deadly diseases that, at least in the thirdworld, were only recently vanquished or contained. This course of action isa death sentence for millions and is a clarion call for better education athome and abroad. It also indicates what can happen when people have it toogood, have way too much time on their hands, and have very selectivememories.And, it must be said, this is just what can happen when sciencebecomes politicized, and is offered up to a public not well-versed inmatters scientific.By the time a child reaches a year and a half, a pediatrician willprobably recommend a total of 16 doses of six different vaccines-hepatitisB, DTP (diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis), Hib (Haemophilus Influenza Type ,polio, MMR (measles, mumps,

rubella), and chickenpox. A seventh-thepneumococcal vaccine, which prevents bacterial meningitis and earinfections-is now on the list of recommended vaccines within weeks. The MMRvaccine, which may contain trace elements of thimerosal, is a favoritetarget of criticism because of its purported link to autism.But these claims-despite the fervor with which adherents state themand the eagerness with which some irresponsible individuals echo them-lackany evidentiary support. In fact, rates of autism and related disorders haveincreased as thimerosal has been removed from vaccines. Moreover, proventoxic effects of methyl mercury are far greater than what has been shown forthe ethyl mercury present in thimerosal. No autism effect has ever beenproven or even hinted at from actual data, and any analogies in effectsbetween the two forms of mercury are not appropriate. For more information,refer to this link from the National

Institutes of Health.http://www.niaid.nih.gov/factsheets/thimerosalqa.htmIn a study of nearly 28,000 children born between 1987 and 1998, theprevalence of pervasive developmental disorders was greater in thosechildren vaccinated AFTER thimerosal was completely eliminated from vaccinesin Canada, reported Fombonne, M.D., of McGill University in Montreal.Still, some extremists refuse to accept these facts.Consider measles, not quite the benign childhood affliction somepeople think it is. Six to 20 percent of the people who contract the diseasewill get an ear infection, diarrhea, or even pneumonia. One out of 1000people with measles will develop inflammation of the brain. For every 1,000children who get measles, one or two will die from it.+ Read more: http://healthnewsdigest.com/news/article_4805.shtml. . .EDUCATIONAutism Surging; Funding Falling in Indiana Lawmakers

Fail To Make The GradeFor Special EducationaBy Brown http://tinyurl.com/y26mzvThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this year declaredautism an urgent public health issue, concurring with major studies showingautism is on the upswing.Major studies have shown two to six children per 1,000 suffer fromAutism Spectrum Disorders, or ASD.That translates to a low of one child in 500 to a high of one child in166.The condition is chronic, has no known cure and is more common thanchildhood cancer.In Indiana, a child data survey has put the figure at one child in143.While ongoing nationwide studies are finding more children than everwith autism, families and educators say they are struggling with woefullyinadequate funding to help care for them.Such children require long-term care and services. Special educationcosts run at more than $8,000 a year. Some specially structured

programscost about $30,000 a year. Care in residential schools is priced from$80,000 to $100,000 a year.While the number of children diagnosed with autism is rising, fundingis declining."The reality is we have been dealing with decreased funding forsending people to training events," said Pratt, director of theIndiana Resource Center for Autism at Indiana University in Bloomington."The education budget has really gone down, whether it's in general orspecial education," she said.Exact comparisons are hard to come by because of changingclassifications of autism, but Pratt estimated that 10 to 15 years ago onlyone child in 5,000 would have been diagnosed with autism.There are plenty of theories as to why the numbers are rising, but nodefinitive answer, Pratt said.Whatever the reason, educators agree the increase is straining schoolbudgets."The real need is in early intervention, but funding (in Indiana)

hasnot increased since the early '90s," she said.There is no certification process in Indiana, though special educationteachers are licensed in intense or mild intervention, and a professionalstandards board has established clear parameters for teachers who work withvarious disabilities, she said."Every child with autism is so different," Pratt said. "It oftenrequires teachers get support to work with that child. The tools that workwith one child may not work with another child."When the landmark federal legislation known as IDEA, or the=== message truncated === Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta.

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