[E. Pluribus Unum]

Maybe Jenny McCarthy wasn't crazy after all.

[petercooper]

9 shots in one day? Jeesh.

[Vaquero]

I had a flu vaccination...my first....in 1999....two weeks later I got guillain-barré and am still have the chronic form....CIDP....to say it sucks is a massive understatement.

when they told my kids they MUST get flu vaccinations in college they refused and explained why. that was the end of it...the schools let it go.

but how many kids just got the shots and got very sick.

I had survived being sick from various flu viruses for 50 years...and was felled by 1 flu vaccine shot.

[Crazieman]

Hmm... “Autism” or Measles, Mumps, Rubella, Polio, Diphtheria, Pertussis, Tuberculosis, Tetanus...

Such a hard choice.

[IYAS9YAS]

Maybe Jenny McCarthy wasn't crazy after all.

No, she's still a loon. She may, or may not, be proven right over time in this particular area, but she's still a loon.

[Boogieman]

Well, since we don’t know what causes autism, there is a “theoretical possibility” that nearly anything might cause it. That’s not really much of an admission, and it certainly doesn’t support the claims the anti-vaxxers like to make.

[Clara Lou]

Yes, she is.

[TheThirdRuffian]

There’s a possibility that my anti-hippo whistle works.

I use it every am and there had been no hippo sightings here in the New Mexico mountains.

[goodwithagun]

Let’s not forget the vaccines made with tissue from murdered babies: http://www.cogforlife.org/vaccineListOrigFormat.pdf

[logi_cal869]

The government and pharmaceutical industry have said evidence shows babies’ systems can easily handle the immune boost.

Telling statement, given his admission of he & his colleagues' 'omission'.

The issue is endemic; THAT is the real problem. Show me a true government statistic & I'll show you a bridge at a bargain deal.

[sten]

they’re not sure which it will effect... but i’d guess it’s 1 in 68

[Smokin' Joe]

Ping....

[samtheman]

Our baby was vaccinated according to the local pediatric schedule, and received all prescribed vaccinations. But they were fairly well spread out, at least in the doctor’s office we went to. There was never “9 in one day”... it seems common sense to avoid that.

[RinaseaofDs]

Why isn’t this woman working for Fox? Lord knows they need all the journalism help they can get.

[exDemMom]

This article is *extremely* dishonest and irresponsible. Baby Hannah did *not* become autistic, and there is no indication whatsoever that vaccines cause autism, or that there is any mechanism possible by which a vaccine can cause a genetic disease.

Baby Hannah has a mitochondrial disorder--another genetic disease. From the description of her symptoms, it sounds like she may have a form of Leigh's disease. It is possible that vaccines triggered its onset, because the body sees vaccines the same way it sees active pathogens. Since the body always responds more drastically to an actual pathogen than it does to a vaccine against that pathogen, the mitochondrial disorder would almost certainly have manifested after *any* febrile infectious disease.

Wikipedia excerpt:
The symptoms of Leigh's disease typically begin within a year of a child's birth and lead to death within a span of several years,[1] though symptoms can appear anytime between the ages of three months and two years or very rarely in adolescence or adulthood.[3] Occasionally, Leigh syndrome can begin to develop in utero. Symptoms are often first seen after a triggering event that taxes the body's energy production, such as an infection or surgery. The general course of Leigh's disease is one of rapid developmental regression.

Unfortunately, posting this article has led the uninformed antivaxxers to fill this thread with all kinds of unscientific nonsense. It would take all day to go through and post corrections to the nonsense.

[azkathy]

Thanks for posting this. It has some good info and anytime the government settles and says shut up, makes you say hmmmm.