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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Correct me if I'm wrong, but some vaccine cultures were developed from aborted babies (got word of this from my sister who has several children).
How many of those with pertussis were already vaccinated? There is enough evidence, scientific as well as anecdotal, to question the safety and efficacy of vaccinations.
Why is this the only medical procedure over which I cannot exercise informed consent?
Those people who don't vaccinate are the reason we still have these diseases affecting our society.
We have possible cases of whooping cough right here where I live.The year 2005 and we stil have to deal with whooping cough...unbelievable.
When did inoculating children begin? That would be an interesting area to examine. Also, Amish don't inoculate their children, do they? They don't go to doctors. I've seen them in my nutritionist's office. They trust him for their health. Interesting.
AGREED. That's what I believe too.
"The mainstream scientific consensus says autism is a complex genetic disorder"
It is possible that the Amish gene pool is lacking the gene defect responsible for Autism.
Studies show that 56% of all statistics are wrong.
Anomoly? You may mean anomaly, but what do the spelling police know that can't be fund in a Webster's word book? Spell checkers are our friends.
http://www.cogforlife.org/
Here is a site about aborted children used for vaccines.
Vaccine's Secret Ingredient: Aborted Babies
http://autism.about.com/cs/vaccinations/l/blvaccsecret.htm
http://www.dgwsoft.co.uk/homepages/vaccines/
http://www.dgwsoft.co.uk/homepages/vaccines/usvaccines.html
AND IT'S A BRITISH WEB SITE!! God Bless those Pro-Life Brits.
http://www.cogforlife.org/fetalvaccinetruth.htm
http://www.vaccinetruth.org/focus_on_the_family.htm
http://www.deoomnisgloria.com/mt/archives/000262.html
Our little autist is very interested in Mozart: I don't think he watches a great deal of TV but I confess I don't see him that often.
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Jab mercury is a classic iatrogenic accident-waiting-to-happen. I wouldn't use a mercury/thimerosal based vaccine on any small child.
and a spell checker would have not caught that you may mean found.
No flaming from me, but playing devil's advocate, let me compare unvaccinated children who don't experience normal childhood illnesses to unneutured pets who do not propagate. The reason? Most pets are neutured. The comparison? Most children are vaccinated nowadays, which lessenes the spread of such illnesses.
Yes. See http://cogforlife.org/fetalvaccines.htm. The list of vaccines derived from abortion includes Varivax (Chickenpox-Merck), MMRII (Merck), Polio (Avenis-Pasteur).
"Everyone may think I am bizzare but I feel that many of the children who are diagnosed with Autism, actually have had too much input from tv and the brains developed differently. "
Whether autisim is caused by this overexposure to electronic stimulation, I don't know, but I am very sure that human beings weren't designed for this kind of constant TV, video games, music being pounded into our heads 24/7/365. I have tried to limit it with my children (wish I had limited it more when they were younger), and even now that they are grown I try to encourage them to have quiet times. It just seems to me that none of us can achieve a healthy balance in our lives with all that noise-- we need time to think our own thoughts, to daydream, etc..
(smile)
My 4 children were immunized for everything available, starting from infancy. No autism. This is also true of my sister's three children, and my brothers' 5 children. Of the two children in the most recent generation, both of them were fully immunized, and neither is autistic. That's 14 fully immunized people, a small sample, but without autism, nonetheless.
Partial list of scientific studies linking the MMR vaccine and autism:
Following are some of the scientific studies that demonstrate the MMR vaccine to be a significant causal factor in autism. Note that these studies are consistently ignored in the medical establishment’s publications claiming that there is no evidence for vaccine-caused autism.
Wakefield AJ, Murch SH, Anthony A, Linnell J, Casson DM, Malik M, Berelowitz M, Dhillon AP, Thomson MA, Harvey P, Valentine A, Davies SE, Walker-Smith JA. Ileal-lymphoid-nodular hyperplasia, non-specific colitis, and pervasive developmental disorder in children. Lancet. 1998 28;351(9103):637-41. PMID: 9500320
Ashwood P et al. Intestinal lymphocyte populations in children with regressive autism: evidence for extensive mucosal immunopathology. J Clin Immunol. 2003 Nov;23(6):504-17. PMID: 15031638
Wakefield AJ. Enterocolitis, autism and measles virus. Mol Psychiatry. 2002;7 Suppl 2:S44-6. PMID: 12142948
Wakefield AJ. The gut-brain axis in childhood developmental disorders. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr. 2002 May-Jun;34 Suppl 1:S14-7. PMID: 12082381
Torrente F et al. Small intestinal enteropathy with epithelial IgG and complement deposition in children with regressive autism. Mol Psychiatry. 2002;7(4):375-82, 334. PMID: 11986981
Wakefield AJ et al. Review article: the concept of entero-colonic encephalopathy, autism and opioid receptor ligands. Aliment Pharmacol Ther 2002 16(4):663-74. PMID 11929383
Furlano RI et al. Colonic CD8 and gamma delta T-cell infiltration with epithelial damage in children with autism. J Pediatr. 2001 Mar;138(3):366-72. PMID: 11241044
O'Leary JJ et al. Measles virus and autism. Lancet. 2000 Aug 26;356(9231):772. PMID: 11085720
Wakefield AJ et al. Enterocolitis in children with developmental disorders. Am J Gastroenterol. 2000 Sep;95(9):2285-95. PMID: 11007230
Wakefield AJ, Montgomery SM. Autism, viral infection and measles-mumps-rubella vaccination. Isr Med Assoc J. 1999 Nov;1(3):183-7. PMID: 10731332
Wakefield AJ. MMR vaccination and autism. Lancet. 1999 Sep 11;354(9182):949-50. PMID: 10489978
Quigley EM, Hurley D. Autism and the gastrointestinal tract. Am J Gastroenterol. 2000 Sep;95(9):2154-6. PMID: 11007210
Kawashima H et al. Detection and sequencing of measles virus from peripheral mononuclear cells from patients with inflammatory bowel disease and autism. Dig Dis Sci. 2000 Apr;45(4):723-9. PMID 10759242
Vijendra K. Singh, Ph.D. Autism, Vaccines, and Immune Reactions. IOM presentation, Feb 9, 2004.
Audio only: http://www.iom.edu/view.asp?id=19132
Singh VK, Jensen RL. Elevated levels of measles antibodies in children with autism. Pediatr Neurol. 2003 Apr;28(4):292-4. PMID: 12849883
Singh VK et al. Abnormal measles-mumps-rubella antibodies and CNS autoimmunity in children with
Partial list of studies linking thimerosal to Autism
The Centers for Disease Control and the American Academy of Pediatrics have issued a statement asserting that “the available scientific evidence has not shown thimerosal-containing vaccines to be harmful.” Their statement is false. Following are some of the scientific studies that demonstrate thimerosal, a mercury-containing substance that is used as a preservative, to be harmful and to be a highly probably causal factor in autism. Note that these studies are consistently ignored in the medical establishment’s publications claiming that there is no evidence for vaccine-caused autism.
Bernard S, Enayati A, Redwood L, Roger H, Binstock T. Autism: a novel form of mercury poisoning. Med. Hypotheses. 2001 Apr;56(4):462-71. PMID: 11339848
Geier DA, Geier MR. An assessment of the impact of thimerosal on childhood neurodevelopmental disorders. Pediatr Rehabil. 2003 Apr-Jun;6(2):97-102. PMID: 14534046
Geier MR, Geier DA. Neurodevelopmental disorders after thimerosal-containing vaccines: a brief communication. Exp Biol Med (Maywood). 2003 Jun;228(6):660-4. PMID: 12773696
Geier & Geier. Parents' worries about thimerosal in vaccines are well founded! http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/eletters/112/6/1394
David Baskin, M.D. et al. Thimerosal induces DNA breaks, caspase-3 activation, membrane damage, and cell death in cultured human neurons and fibroblasts. Toxicol Sci. 2003 Aug;74(2):361-8. Epub 2003 May 28. PMID: 12773768
Mady Hornig, M.D Etiologic factors and pathogenesis of autism: evidence from clinical studies and animal models. IOM presentation, Feb 9 2004 Audio only: http://www.iom.edu/view.asp?id=19108
Richard C. Deth, Ph.D. Effects of Mercury on Methionine Synthase: Implications for Disordered Methylation in Autism DAN! 2003 Philadelphia - http://64.202.182.52/powerpoint/dan2003/RichardDeth.htm
Richard C. Deth, Ph.D. A Link Between Thimerosal and the Brain: Can Vaccines Affect Central Nervous System Function? Molecular Psychiatry 2004, Volume 9.
Vojdani A, Pangborn JB et al. Infections, toxic chemicals and dietary peptides binding to lymphocyte receptors and tissue enzymes are major instigators of autoimmunity in autism. Int J Immunopathol Pharmacol. 2003 Sep-Dec;16(3):189-99. PMID: 14611720
Jeff Bradstreet, M.D. A Case-control Study of Mercury Burden in Children with Autistic Disorders and Measles Virus Genomic RNA in Cerebrospinal Fluid in Children with Regressive Autism. IOM presentation, Feb 9, 2004
Slides: http://www.iom.edu/view.asp?id=18578
Audio: http://www.iom.edu/view.asp?id=19130
Valsamakis A et al. style='mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>Altered virulence of vaccine strains of measles virus after prolonged style='mso-bidi-font-style: italic'>replication in human tissue. J Virol. 1999 73(10): 8791-7. PMID 10482633 http://jvi.asm.org/cgi/reprint/73/10/8791.pdf
The CDC's original findings before the CDC began to manipulate the data, obtained via the Freedom of Information Act: High risk values for thimerosal injections and a range of neurologic problems, including ADHD, tics, language problems, and autism. http://factsformedia.com/factsformedia/thimerosalstudy.pdf
Excerpts from CDC’s in-house conference: Thimerosal sequelae http://www.nationalautismassociation.org/library/IOM%20Simpsonwood%20in%20bold.pdf
Congressman, Dr. Weldon's letter to the CDC director, available at: http://momsonamissionforautism.org/Autism_Central/Dr_Weldon_Responds.shtml
Institute of Medicine presentation of Congressman Dave Weldon, M.D.
http://www.nationalautismassociation.org/pdf/Weldon.pdf
Geier MR, Geier DA. Autism and thimerosal-containing vaccines: analysis of the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS). IOM presentation, Feb 9, 2004.
Slides: http://www.iom.edu/view.asp?id=18392
Audio: http://www.iom.edu/view.asp?id=19120
David Baskin, M.D. Relation of Neurotoxic Effects of Thimerosal to Autism. IOM presentation, Feb 9, 2004.
Audio only: http://www.iom.edu/view.asp?id=19124
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