Posted on 04/20/2005 6:47:12 PM PDT by fooman
A NEW book linking autism and infant vaccines could cost the pharmaceutical industry billions of dollars. In Evidence of Harm, US author David Kirby tells the story of parents who claim mercury in vaccines contributed to an "autism epidemic" in America.
Already, analysts are predicting the book could trigger a number of lawsuits against the pharmaceutical companies that made the vaccines.
As many as 1.5 million Americans have been diagnosed with some form of autism and a conservative estimate puts the cost of lifetime treatment, education and care at $2 million per person.
In the UK, campaigners blamed the vaccine MMR for causing autism after the incidence of the condition increased tenfold among children between 1984 and 1994.
Writing in The Scotsman today, Margaret Cook - a retired consultant haematologist - said the furore over MMR would be "swamped into insignificance" by new fears about mercury in the DTP triple vaccine (diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis).
She said: "If the link between mercury and autism is proved beyond doubt ... the capacity for litigation, certainly in the US, would possibly be sufficiently seismic to destroy the pharmaceutical industry as we know it."
Mercury has now been removed from DTP, but Ms Cook said there were still toxic metals in the new pentavalent vaccine.
"I would be very careful vaccinating because even these new vaccines include aluminium, which is not a heavy metal but is toxic."
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I'm sorry, which three do you mean (DTP?) ?
It is about the age the kids get the vaccine. AND the total vaccine load that caused the epidemic of autoimmune diseases.
The schedules of the 50s and even 60s have the risk reward profile that you remember. This profile has changed due to the massive schedule that is imposed.
rotavirus- not thoroughly tested. Blocked kids instestines- hundreds of kids. FDA pulled.
DTP, = Pertusis component contaminated. replaced with acellular (more pure form) pertusis vaccine. Drug companies denied problem until new and improved came out (shades of the current mercury controversy)
live polio vaccine- caused polio! pulled in 2000/ replaced with the dead version (which is what you & I had)
Thanks...
I can believe that -- not even my puppy had that many vaccines when he got his shots.
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