[NVIC]Mom's using common sense with vaccines.

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========== BL Fisher Note: Since 1982, the National Vaccine Information

Center, founded by parents of vaccine injured children, has been calling for

research into the biological mechanisms and genetic factors involved in

vaccine-induced brain and immune system dysfunction, including autism.

is right - the anti-autism research stance taken by the American Academy

of Pediatrics is shameful. The American Academy of Pediatrics and

Centers for Disease Control have a long history of taking the uncompromising

position that all

children should be forced to use multiple vaccines without individualizing

use to accomodate for biological differences. They embrace the utilitarian

" greater good " argument, which allows for sacrifice of the well being of a

minority of individuals in service to a majority of individuals. That stance

can lead to a tragic denial of the magnitude of the harm done by those

creating and implementing the policy resulting in that harm.

http://news.monstersandcritics.com/lifestyle/consumerhealth/article_1154848.

php/The_Age_of_Autism_Christian%60s_mom_speaks Monsters and Critics.com

Apr 12, 2006, 20:17 GMT The Age of Autism: Christian`s mom speaks By Dan

Olmsted WASHINGTON, DC, United States (UPI) -- A small earthquake rumbled

through the autism world shortly after 7:30 a.m. on April 11, and the

aftershocks are going to be felt for a long time. That`s when ,

daughter of NBC Universal Chairman Bob , said she is

concerned her young son Christian`s autism might be related to vaccines he

received, that he is getting better through treatments that include biomedical

interventions, and that it`s time for parents to follow their own 'common

sense' when they get their kids vaccinated. Big deal? Yes, big deal. It`s

hard to overstate the buzz circulating through the autism community over the

past few months as it became known that was among those with

concerns about vaccines playing a role in her child`s autism -- and that she

was trying to help him recover accordingly. 'I think it`s a huge story,' one

autism activist e-mailed me in February. 'This child triggered a weeklong

series on NBC and the most well-funded autism organization on the planet

(Autism Speaks),' not to mention the high-profile heft of the s in

lobbying for more money, more research and more awareness of a disorder that

afflicts 1 in every 166 American kids.

Thousands of parents with concerns just like `s have been all

but ostracized, as have the small but growing minority of doctors trying to

help them. I know two MDs who lost faculty appointments shortly after I wrote

about them, and I hear story after story about pediatricians rolling their

eyes when they hear vaccine-related health concerns of any kind from parents.

Many ban families who balk from their practices. Sitting right next to

on 'Imus in the Morning' on MSNBC was her father, who also is vice

chairman and executive officer of GE, one of the world`s biggest

corporations. His comments were understandably more general -- nobody knows

what causes autism, he said; vaccines are in the mix of possibilities that

need urgent research; as are other environmental issues, as are genetic

factors. But does anybody think he would have been there if he vehemently

objected to his daughter expressing her concerns? (For that

matter, does anybody think would have been there? After all, he

runs the joint.) After Christian`s diagnosis, Bob and his wife,

Suzanne, founded Autism Speaks, an advocacy group. Some longtime autism

activists consider it a bit namby-pamby, but after Tuesday that impression

may be due for an update. Regardless, what had to say extends a

thoroughly bad spell for the nation`s health bureaucrats and medical trade

associations in their efforts to stamp out discussion of a possible vaccine

link to autism. Major newspapers such as the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and

the Los Angeles Times, which has been the best by far on this topic, published

articles on such groups` relentless opposition to banning thimerosal -- the

mercury-based preservative some believe triggered a huge rise in autism

diagnoses in the 1990s -- from childhood vaccinations. Last week 22 health

organizations sent a letter to every member of the

U.S. Congress putting themselves on record that such bans are a danger to

public health -- yes, banning mercury from childhood vaccines is dangerous,

keeping it in is not. Several states have banned it anyway, including

heavyweights Illinois, California and New York. Meanwhile,

said, the American Academy of Pediatrics has not endorsed a pending bill in

Congress called Combating Autism -- backed by Autism Speaks and numerous

other organizations -- which includes funding for research into possible

causes of the epidemic, not excluding vaccines. Some apparently take that as

a threat to the third rail of public-health policy: the U.S. childhood

immunization schedule. zinged `em on that one -- she called the

AAP`s stance 'shameful and disgraceful.' And she said that whatever caused

Christian`s autism, she wishes she hadn`t let her doctor give him six

vaccines on one day at age 2 months. Parents need to use

'common sense,' she said -- would you, an adult, want six vaccines in one

day? Then she raised the stakes. Parents should insist that doctors

'separate the vaccines.' You know, give them over several office visits rather

than all at once to minimize chances of a bad reaction. That doesn`t sound

terribly threatening to public health, does it? Yet it`s heresy -- completely

contrary to the position of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

'Use of licensed combination vaccines ... is preferred to separate injection

of their equivalent component vaccines,' says the CDC`s authoritative Pink

Book of vaccine-preventable diseases. And they should all be administered 'as

soon as the child becomes eligible for vaccination.' And they should

contain mercury, if we say so. By putting her foot down, joins

thousands of other parents putting the 'father-knows-best' branch of medicine

on notice that it`s not nutty to use

common sense when your child`s health is at stake. Others will differ, but

that`s what I call a public service announcement. E-mail: dolmsted@...

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