Posted on 11/08/2011 3:56:12 AM PST by Kaslin
While most mainstream news media cover presidential campaigns or economic conditions, the feds are going under the radar and your skin -- literally -- with something that could be detrimental to your and your children's health. News just broke about their cover-up, but few, if any, agencies passed along the wire.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1 in 110 children have autism spectrum disorders, which is strikingly more than just two decades ago. (ASDs are a group of developmental disabilities that can cause communication, behavioral and social challenges.) The National Autism Association calls the 644 percent increase of ASDs among U.S. children since the early 1990s "a tragic epidemic of autism."
Many attribute the increase in the rate of ASDs to children's being exposed to significant quantities of thimerosal, a mercury-based compound that has been used since the 1930s as a preservative in certain vaccines and pharmaceutical products to prevent bacterial and fungal contamination.
According to the CDC's website, however, "to date, the studies continue to show that vaccines are not associated with ASDs. ... The most recent and rigorous scientific research does not support the argument that thimerosal-containing vaccines are harmful. ... Is thimerosal in vaccines safe? Yes."
But PR Newswire reported recently that the Coalition for Mercury-free Drugs exposed a federal cover-up between the CDC and vaccine researchers. Despite the fact that the CDC received an email from CoMeD in 2002 that revealed a causal relationship between the removal of thimerosal from vaccines and a decline in the rate of autism, the CDC encouraged the publication of a study in Pediatrics that ignored certain data and misled the medical community and public by insinuating that thimerosal in vaccines does not increase the risk of autism.
Almost inconceivably, the study in Pediatrics actually purported that autism rates increased after thimerosal was removed. And to add insult to injury, PR Newswire reported, "One coauthor, from Aarhus University, Denmark, was aware of the omission and alerted CDC officials in a 2002 email, stating 'Attached I send you the short and long manuscript about Thimerosal and autism in Denmark ... I need to tell you that the figures do not include the latest data from 2001 ... but (SET BOLD) the incidence and prevalence are still decreasing in 2001 (END BOLD)' (emphasis added)."
The deliberate avoidance and falsification of medical data to support CDC bias is heinous enough, but the fact that such information is manipulated to practice medicine on our nation's children is monstrous malpractice and even premeditated malevolence. I agree wholeheartedly with Lisa Sykes, president of CoMeD, who summarized the CDC cover-up: "This type of malfeasance should not be tolerated by those who are entrusted with our children's health and well-being."
But even the Institute of Medicine, the nation's bastion of authoritative health advice, just cleared vaccines as an autism culprit in a recent report.
And just when you think vaccination news couldn't get any worse, the San Francisco Chronicle recently reported that the National Biodefense Science Board, which advises the federal government on bioterrorism issues, voted 12-1 to recommend that the Health and Human Services Department endorse and sponsor a study to test the anthrax vaccine in children. (Do these advisory panels not think 36 federally recommended vaccinations for children by age 2 are enough?)
The truth is, as the National Autism Association reports on its website, "there are over 1500 studies and papers documenting the hypoallergenicity and toxicity of thimerosal (ethylmercury) have existed for decades," with recent research revealing commonness of speech delays and tics. The NAA adds, "Recent studies have confirmed the association between the use of thimerosal and autism has moved from 'biologically plausible' (in 2001) to a 'biological certainty.'"
Hence, justification for thimerosal's inclusion in any product is unwarranted at best and dangerous at worst. The NAA categorically states in its series of warnings about thimerosal: "Mercury is hazardous to humans. The use of a toxic poison as a preservative is undesirable, unnecessary and should be eliminated entirely."
That is why the United Nations Environment Programme is proposing a global treaty ban on mercury in vaccines, something SafeMinds, a parental advocacy group, applauds based upon the group's longevity in trumpeting the dangers of thimerosal.
But according to another recent PR Newswire report, though thimerosal is not used in vaccines for measles, mumps, oral polio, yellow fever or tuberculosis, it still is found in many diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, hepatitis B and influenza vaccines, especially in developing countries.
Since 2001 in the U.S., no new vaccine licensed by the Food and Drug Administration for use in children has contained thimerosal, except for ones to prevent influenza. Nevertheless, the CDC continues to recommend some routine vaccines with "trace amounts of thimerosal" for children younger than 6.
The FDA has approved many seasonal flu vaccines, which come in both multi-dose vials and single-dose units. Those that are produced in large quantities and are in multi-dose vials contain thimerosal, whereas the single-dose units (including nasal spray) do not contain thimerosal, because they are opened immediately and used only once. (So if you or yours insist on seasonal influenza shots, ensure they are single-dose.)
But do we really want to swap the flu bug for thimerosal? And isn't "Centers for Disease Control and Prevention" a total misnomer when the agency allows "trace amounts of thimerosal" in our children's soup of medicines? Are we really going to allow our children to be mercury-laced vaccinated guinea pigs? At the very least, shouldn't we avoid all thimerosal-containing products for precautionary reasons?
Jose Dorea, professor of nutritional sciences at the University of Brasilia, hit the health nail right on the head when he recently said: "The evidence continues to mount that mercury in vaccines is not safe, that negative effects happen even with vaccine levels of exposure. We must end the use of thimerosal as soon as possible. No pregnant mother or child should have to trade getting mercury injected into them for the prevention of an infectious disease."
So let the buyer beware! Or, should I say, let the booster beware! Don't check your brain in at the door of your family's health care. And don't ever be afraid to ask the hard questions of your health practitioners -- for example, "What are the exact ingredients in that syringe?"
It is your health, and they are your children, entrusted to you by God, so be bold in ensuring their safety and welfare. You still have the constitutional right to refuse any health care you deem unnecessary.
Autistic Disorder,It's this last one that is a catch-all for everything else that doesn't meet the more rigidly defined categories above. It may very well be that the "big increase" in autism is reflective of a greater willingness of doctors and others to stick something they can't otherwise categorize into this "Not Otherwise Specified" category. That doesn't at all mean there is a growing number of children "with" a Not Otherwise Specified disorder but that there are more that are being assigned to that category. People used to refer to someone suffering from a "wasting disease." This descriptive category is now replaced by various types of cancer and other diseases that cause "wasting." Pervasive Developmental Disorder Not Otherwise Specified is such a category. The number of people in it depend on how often something is described as a "pervasive developmental disorder."
Asperger’s Disorder,
Childhood Disintegrative Disorder, and
Pervasive Developmental Disorder Not Otherwise Specified.
No, I think that any person who deems themselves an "expert", which she is doing, based solely on being a mother, is sadly deluded. Especially when the advice she gives out is so out of step with real medical experts.
Stick the other foot in, bud.
My God. How old are you?
More nuttiness.
With at "hostile" cherry on top.
The “real medical experts” have done a whole lot to cure autism, haven’t they? Not. Educate yourself before you go bashing people who have found a way to help their children with autism.
Interesting, she has found a "cure" for autism, and is isn't being reported in any news service?
No, she says she "cured" her child, but presents no evidence.
Why do you find her so credible? Is it her big boobs? Skinny waist (did you see how much she slimmed down after her last child!!)? How about that new hair style?! Tell us. What makes Dr. Jenny such a savant?
Boy, not only are you hostile, now you’re getting crude. Frankly you’re acting like a bully.
Can you be more specific please? What, specifically, is in the vaccines that an infant's immune system can't handle?
there just aren't as many children with developmental disorders these days, making the remaining ones stand out.
I sympathize with your properly seeking to avoid the tinfoil-hat thing. But at the same time, administrator-types will try both of these (opposite) explanations to try to convince you that you're not seeing what you're seeing. Sometimes they're correct, and sometimes they're not. I'm not talking about seeing kids at the mall (there were no malls, now that I think of it). In both periods, I'm talking about families I know or knew in small towns where there's really nowhere to hide your secrets. They didn't have institutionalized children. As I said, we may or may not have a handle on the cause, but I'm seeing more of it, and the observations of others confirm my impression.
Been a while. Yeah the same crop always shows up. Hope you’re hail healthy and hearty.
Fully up to date with my vaccines, so good to go!
Fell free to ping me to any of these threads.
Have a good one.
It seems that its not what is in the vaccines, but in the total number given that can compromise an immature immune system...but that is just my opinion on the number given..
So it is the active ingredient in vaccines (i.e. the "stuff that makes it a vaccine) that infants are getting too much of?
Read what I wrote, its the NUMBER of vaccines given to an infant that can overwhelm the immature infants system..I did NOT speak of the “stuff” as you put it, that is in the vaccine. What I said is obiviously not what you read. Try again to read my first sentence..
OK, let's try this. The active ingredient in a vaccine is a antigen (actually proteins and polysaccharides). That is the thing that activates the child's immune system. So that is what you feel "overwhelms" the system.
That said, it is worth looking at the total number of those antigens in the vaccine schedule. You see, vaccines are always being improved. It is now the case that the total number of antigens in the vaccine schedule (around 130) is less than the old Smallpox vaccine alone (200) and much lower than the total in 1980 (over 3000!). So it is clear that we are not overwhelming the immune system with the number of vaccines given.
Hope this helps.
Doesn’t help me, I didn’t ask for your help, your the one that asked the question. Hope you have now answered your own question to me to your satisfaction...
How can it not?!
I gave you the facts concerning vaccines. Don't you believe them? Do you have any competing facts to support your assertion?
I won't even let the doctor give me flu shot and it drives him nuts seeing that I have COPD, unstable angina, came up with eczema at the age of 72 for the first time in my life, and have insomnia. That insomnia is why I am sometimes on F.R. at 5am... But when some of the grandkids were babies I was amazed at the amount of vaccines they received as infants.
When my kids were infants it was DPT, polio, small pox and the last child didn't even get a small pox vaccination cause the doctor said there was a greater chance of having a bad reaction than getting small pox as there had been no case of it in the US for years...She is in her 40's and still has not had a vaccination for small pox. It would only be necessary if she were to leave the country....
That is the reason I am not interested in getting into a disagreement on vaccines, pro and con. :O)
Time for my evening coffee and cigarette...have a great evening... GG
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