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His limb-lengthening surgery is " desperately needed " because his " rare form

a [sic] dwarfism painfully stunts his growth " ?

Wow. Really raises a lot more questions than answers, doesn't it? Thanks,

. Hope you're able to find a better story on this case -- and I know you

will if if there is one!

Dan

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> His limb-lengthening surgery is " desperately needed " because his " rare

form

> a [sic] dwarfism painfully stunts his growth " ?

I wanna know how his dwarfism stunts his growth:-)

Is there anyone on here who's dwarfism has stopped them reaching their full

genetic height?????? Like, do we have any dwarf dwarfs on here??????

Fred

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Roxanne Przybysz

Founding Director

Autism Canada Foundation

http://www.autismcanada.org/home.htm

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Autism linked to preservative in common childhood vaccines

Alarmed U.S. researchers peg mercury-based chemical as 'smoking gun'

Sharon Kirkey

CanWest News Service

Thursday, February 05, 2004

OTTAWA -- Scientists have found what they believe could be a " smoking gun "

linking vaccines to autism and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder in

children.

In a study that was rushed to print online today -- two months ahead of its

scheduled publication in the journal Molecular Psychiatry -- U.S.

researchers have discovered an apparent link between thimerosal, a

controversial mercury-based preservative once commonly used in childhood

vaccines, and an increased risk of neurological disorders such as autism and

ADHD.

While most vaccines distributed in Canada have been thimerosal-free since

the late 1990s, the preservative was used in the annual flu shot that

doctors recommended this year for even healthy children.

The study could account for the rising rates of autism since the early

1980s, when more thimerosal-containing shots were added to a child's vaccine

schedule, says investigator Dr. Deth, a professor of pharmacology at

Northeastern University in Boston.

A recent review of vaccine-related " adverse events " in the U.S. found a

" significant correlation " between shots containing thimerosal and autism,

the researchers report.

The new study is " the first to offer an explanation for possible causes of

two increasingly common childhood neurological disorders, " the medical

journal said in a statement.

But one of Canada's leading experts in vaccination says large studies have

repeatedly failed to find any association between brain damage and vaccines

that do, or don't, contain thimerosal.

" What [the researchers] are doing in the test tube may or may not have any

relationship to what happens in the body, " said Dr. Gold, professor

emeritus of pediatrics at the University of Toronto and author of Your

Child's Best Shot: A Parent's Guide to Vaccination.

There's no evidence that the low doses of thimerosal that the researchers

tested would even cross a child's blood-brain barrier, Gold said.

But Deth thinks there may be a link, and he believes thimerosal may play a

role for the one out of 200 children who will experience some kind of

developmental disorder.

" I don't want to impair the public-health importance of vaccine programs.

It's not the vaccines that are the problem -- it's the additives that are

the problems.

" Some would consider [thimerosal] a smoking gun, " Deth said.

" I think it is. "

THE TARGET

WHAT IS THIMEROSAL?

Thimerosal had been used to prevent the growth of bacteria or fungi in

multi-dose units of vaccines for diseases such as hepatitis and diphtheria,

pertussis (whooping cough) and tetanus, or DPT.

Ontario, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and P.E.I have not used childhood

vaccines containing thimerosal since the early 1960s, when the provinces

switched to a DPT vaccine that was combined with the killed polio vaccine.

(Thimerosal couldn't be used with the combined shot because it destroyed the

efficacy of the polio vaccine.)

All other provinces, including B.C., began to move to thimerosal-free

vaccines starting in 1997. As of March 2001, all vaccines for routine

immunization of children in Canada have been available without thimerosal.

But the annual flu shot -- which Canadian doctors this year began pushing on

even healthy children over six months of age -- contains the preservative.

And thimerosal is still found in larger, multi-dose vaccines shipped to

Third World countries.

Dr. Laszlo Palkonyay, medical-

scientific adviser for Quebec-based flu-vaccine maker Shire Biologics, said

a study published in the journal Pediatrics last September, which was based

on a registry of all psychiatric admissions in Denmark between 1971 and

2000, found no trend toward an increase in autism rates during the period

thimerosal was used in vaccines in that country.

In fact, Palkonyay said, the incidence of autism increased after the

preservative was removed from vaccines in 1990.

Ran with fact box " The Target " , which has been appended to the story.

© The Vancouver Province 2004

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