Posted on 04/20/2005 8:26:42 AM PDT by agsloss
Lancaster, PA, Apr. 18 (UPI) -- Part 1 of 2. Where are the autistic Amish? Here in Lancaster County, heart of Pennsylvania Dutch country, there should be well over 100 with some form of the disorder. I have come here to find them, but so far my mission has failed, and the very few I have identified raise some very interesting questions about some widely held views on autism. The mainstream scientific consensus says autism is a complex genetic disorder, one that has been around for millennia at roughly the same prevalence. That prevalence is now considered to be 1 in every 166 children born in the United States. Applying that model to Lancaster County, there ought to be 130 Amish men, women and children here with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Well over 100, in rough terms. Typically, half would harbor milder variants such as Asperger's Disorder or the catch-all Pervasive Development Disorder, Not Otherwise Specified -- PDD-NOS for short. So let's drop those from our calculation, even though "mild" is a relative term when it comes to autism. That means upwards of 50 Amish people of all ages should be living in Lancaster County with full-syndrome autism, the "classic autism"...
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I have identified three Amish residents of Lancaster County who apparently have full-syndrome autism, all of them children. A local woman told me there is one classroom with about 30 "special-needs" Amish children. In that classroom, there is one autistic Amish child. Another autistic Amish child does not go to school. The third is that woman's pre-school-age daughter. If there were more, she said, she would know it. What I learned about those children is the subject of the next column.
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The 1 ppm is contained (though it is fair to note for Methyl Mercury) in every FDA warning to Pregnant women about Fish Consumption.
The EPA number is parroted here...
http://www.mercola.com/2003/apr/9/diet_mercury.htm
FDA, thimerasol,
A vaccine containing 0.01% thimerosal as a preservative contains 50 micrograms of thimerosal per 0.5 mL dose or approximately 25 micrograms of mercury per 0.5 mL dose.
http://www.fda.gov/cber/vaccine/thimerosal.htm
I didn't realize it was that high; does that mean that in 1 cc of vaccine, nearly half is mercury? If people knew JUST THAT, it would majorly impact the industry, I'm sure.
I wasn't really looking for answers (I'm pretty familiar with Amish ways), but just pointing out that there must be a thousand possible reasons for a lower autism rate among the Amish, and thus singling out low vaccinination rates as somehow particularly likely to be a major factor, is pretty ridiculous.
I agree. I would always consider supplements, vitamins, herbal remedies if possible. One child in our area was given polio serum and the baby contact polio and later died of it. It can be very dangerous.
I don't believe for a minute that vaccines are responsible for autism, but any genetic disease or pre-disposition to disease, which is X-chromosome linked is more prevalent in boys (since they have only one, and if that one is "bad", there isn't another one to provide a compensating normal gene).
Excellent question, and I hope one that will be looked at, if it hasn't been already.
As I mentioned before to another poster, who had proffered a genetic link to autism, I suspect that there may be groups of people whom are more susceptible to the causes of autism-- even to the syndrome, itself.
There are plenty of afflictions out there that are more prevalent in men than women, women than men, blacks than whites, etc. Maybe hormone levels protect one somewhat? I've not a clue.
It is an important question, though.
DTP was replaced with DTaP after there many many reactions.
Reagan started the vaccine trust fund due to all the lawsuits.
I've not a clue.
The fact that the FDA unapproved the drug is a verifiable fact. The statement that hospitals use it daily is a verifiable anecdote.
This fact, though, instantly shut down the doctor whom I was arguing with while my wife lay there in labor. My wife wouldn't let anyone into the delivery room but me-- certainly not our attorney, if we had had one.
;-)
http://www.danconference.com/index.htm
Defeat Autism Now
There are some very interesting findings coming out that indicate the children who do not have good pathways to rid their bodies of heavy metals are the ones who are susceptible to Autism from heavy metal exposure. They concentrate it in their tissues - gut, brain, etc. There have been some improvements in their disease by chelation and methyl-B12 injections. New book out by David Kirby:
Evidence of Harm : Mercury in Vaccines and the Autism Epidemic: A Medical Controversy
by David Kirby
You are mistaken - although thimerosal has been reduced and eliminated in some vaccines, it is still present in many.
http://www.fda.gov/cber/vaccine/thimerosal.htm
And the fact remains that many vaccines are still produced using aborted fetal tissues. Quite honestly - I would rather not have vaccines if it meant that less babies would be murdered.
I wonder how vilified the people were that were proffering anecdotal evidence of the problem, prior to this resolution. I suspect that we are sitting somewhere in this cycle.
Reagan started the vaccine trust fund due to all the lawsuits.
I'm sure that's what the drug companies are fearful of again.
Check here
I'm reading that Now.
I could throttle some people.
Do you honestly think that there would have been fewer polio cases during the last twenty years if the polio vaccine had not been invented?
No. I'm just saying that the CDC Knew that the live vaccines were causing polio and that there was a safer alternative and the CDC chose profits over protection.
Unless the "incompetent freaks who fall for this bunk" have somehow forced everyone else to eschew the vaccinations, how are they responsible for an epidemic? Isn't it more likely that the epidemic is being caused by a strain for which the vaccination is innefective?
Serious question, not an attack. This is not my field of expertise.
Oh, and my kids were vaccinated.
Shalom.
Most diseases that vaccines are designed to prevent are viruses, which are not affected by antibiotics
Sure, but often it is secondary infections which are the real danger.
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