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MMR Posted by sylvia on Saturday, August 06, 2005 (10:35:48)

Disabilities.afreepress.com 13/06/05

Open letter to the media

Our federal health agencies continue to state that their research shows "no evidence of harm" from injecting our children with vaccines containing mercury. The press generally publishes these claims because these agencies are charged with safeguarding Americans' health. However, the members of the media rarely note that these are the same people who approved and mandated the vaccines in the first place. They're also the ones with the 700 conflict of interest waivers for financial ties to the drug industry. The reality is that there has never been any long-term study done on the toxic effects of mercury (thimerosal) used in vaccines.

In 1930 Eli Lilly Pharmaceutical Company invented thimerosal to prevent contamination in vaccines and called it a "safe" form of mercury. Thimerosal was tested ONCE--75 years ago on 22 adults who were dying of meningitis. There was no possibility of seeing long-term effects nor could a test on adults give doctors any indication of the effect it might have on the developing brain of a baby. Thimerosal has never been legitimately tested for its toxic effects on humans, although hundreds of peer-reviewed published scientific studies attest to its extreme neurotoxicity. After the creation of the FDA, thimerosal use was grandfathered-in without benefit of scientific input regarding the potential for toxic effects.

The US Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control should be utterly embarrassed to make safety claims based on that pathetic history of oversight. Negligence of such sweeping proportion is unique in the history of modern medicine and has taken a devastating toll on the subset of young children unable to deal with the toxic overload from escalated use of mercury in pediatric vaccines. In twenty years, the autism rate has gone from one in 10,000 to one in every 166 children.

Our federal health agencies continue to have no valid explanation for the dramatic increase in autism. The FDA and the CDC tell us that this may be due to "better diagnosing" or some elusive "autism gene." By definition, you cannot have a genetic epidemic. Therefore, there must be an environmental trigger. The federal health agencies adamantly deny that the autism increase could be the result of toxic mercury allowed in vaccines in the late 80's through today. Yet, they are slow to look for any other environmental trigger. If not mercury, then what? Federal agencies have assumed an indefensible stance, claiming that the admitted excess mercury they allowed in vaccines for the last 20 years doesn't cause mercury poisoning. While they are in denial, America's children are suffering.

We are in the midst of an epidemic of neurological disorders such as autism, ADD, ADHD, etc. Eighty percent of children with an autism diagnosis are under the age of 17, with one in six school-age children now diagnosed with a learning or behavior disorder. Currently our schools are struggling to educate this explosion of special needs students, and in a few years it will be up to the states to bear the total burden of supporting these disabled individuals as adults. The cost will be in the trillions.

I'm asking members of the press to read the attached forward which chronicles the collusion and cover-up involving the FDA and the CDC over the effects of mercury in vaccines along with the statistics showing the explosion of autism in the United States in the last fifteen years.

I have also attached two recent study abstracts which illustrate the toxic properties of thimerosal. While some within our federal agencies and the pharmaceutical industry may refer to such work as "junk science", these studies are from Columbia University and the University of Washington, conducted by well-credentialed scientists with impeccable reputations. There are many other studies by similarly-accredited researchers and universities that support the thimerosal/autism link that I would be happy to provide as well. Many can be found in the library on the NAA website. I urge you to look there.

Please get back to me about your views on the claim that there is "no evidence of harm."

Anne McElroy Dachel

Chippewa Falls, WI

Media Relations Coordinator

National Autism Association

amdachel02@aol.com


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MMR Posted by sylvia on Saturday, August 06, 2005 (10:27:42)

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By Evelyn Pringle

We are on the verge of a welfare disaster in this country (USA). Eighty percent of autistic children are under the age of 17. In a few short years, the states are going to be forced to provide support for an overwhelming number of disabled autistic adults. “The costs will be in the trillions,” according to Ann Dachel.

Ann should know, she is a special education teacher, a member of the National Autism Association, and the mother of a boy with autism and a daughter who developed epilepsy after receiving a Hepatitis B vaccine.

Thimerosal is a mercury based preservative that for many years was added to childhood vaccines to boost drug company profits. In the 1990's the CDC added more and more Thimerosal containing vaccines to the mandatory vaccine schedule without adding up the cumulative amounts of mercury that children were receiving from the vaccines.

Finally, in 1999, after watching the dramatic autism and other neurological disorders, officials at the CDC and FDA realized that a fully vaccinated infant was receiving up to 125 times what the EPA considered safe for mercury exposure.

Because half the officials involved were on payrolls of the drug companies they were charged to regulate, they have never ordered the pharmaceutical industry to stop using Thimerosal. In fact, the product is still used in some vaccines. Last year's flu vaccine had a mercury content eight times the EPA safe limit and it was recommended for six-month-old babies and pregnant women.

The generation of children poisoned by vaccines during the 1990s is now reaching puberty and if the Bush administration is successful in blocking lawsuits against the vaccine makers that caused this epidemic of neurological disorders, tax payers will be left holding the bag and a heavy bag it will be.

The theory of mercury toxicity and autism is not promoted by parents only. Its been verified by such esteemed biochemists as Andrew Hall Cutler, PhD and Boyd Haley, the chemistry department chair at the University of Kentucky. A study by Bernard et al titled "Autism: a novel form of mercury poisoning" documents about 100 matching symptoms.

The transcript of a closed meeting in 1999 that was leaked to the press, attended by officials from drug companies and the CDC and FDA, reveals how the 52 vaccine policymakers at the meeting discussed ways to deal with statistics showing that children given mercury in vaccines had a much higher rate of autism, attention deficit and other disorders.

On August 18, 2003, Dr Leonard G Horowitz, warned members of the congressional committee at a Government Reform Hearing on Vaccines as a Risk Factor For Autism, "the great and grave likelihood that disease prevention through vaccinations is violently backfiring-dramatically increasing mortality and morbidity especially among America's youngest citizens."

Horowitz cited the dangers of our nation's "most established, generally accepted, public health practice of vaccination, and its links to skyrocketing rates of autism and brain damage in children."

This public health professional by training, and independent investigator with expertise in medical sociology and infectious disease research, told Congress, "I have unfortunately, over the past two decades, grown accustomed to instances of poor decision-making, gross negligence, and downright cover-ups in safety oversight and pharmaceutical industry control in the vaccine arena," Horowitz said.

In 2002, the research team of David and Mark Geier, released a study based on tens of millions of doses of vaccines given to children in the US during the 1990s, that presented the first epidemiologic evidence that associated the increase in thimerosal from vaccines with neurodevelopmental disorders.

Professor Lynn Adams, of Radford University, a speech-language pathologist who specializes in autism, says a 1999 study determined that the average child received 33 doses of 10 different vaccines by the age 5. She claims the multiple shots could "flip a genetic switch" in children predisposed to autism.

Lisa Blakemore-Brown, a Psychologist in the UK, also maintains that Thimerosal is the cause of autism, and suspects it is also the culprit involved in a wide variety of other health problems showing up in children these days.

According to Blakemore, the current autism epidemic did not occur earlier because children "were given single vaccines with single amounts of mercury,” she says, “but with the introduction of triple vaccines the amount of mercury contained within the preservative was multiplied and the cumulative effects are only just now being discovered by the public," she adds.

Parents Struggle With The Burden

Laura Bono is the mother of an autistic child and she wants the public to consider the latest research pointing to the mercury-vaccine link. For instance, researcher, Mady Hornig, recently announced the results of a study where mice were given Thimerosal at the level of the childhood immunization schedule and began exhibiting autistic behavior.

Laura cites a study where toxicologist, Dr Jill James, a former FDA researcher, found a problem with autistic children's methylation which made it difficult for their bodies to rid themselves of mercury. Laura notes the findings of Dr Richard Deth, that once in the body, Thimerosal shuts down the detoxifying methylation process.

Laura reveals how her son Jackson experienced a four month regression beginning days after receiving shots. He received HiB (with 25 mcg. of mercury), DT (with 25 mcg. of mercury), Oral Polio, and Measles-Mumps-Rubella. All totaled, he received 50 mcg. of mercury, three dead viruses and four live viruses. The 50 mcg. of mercury was on top of the 75 mcg. of mercury he had already received in his first year of life through one DPT and two other DT shots. The 50 mcg. of mercury he received in one day was 44 times the EPA exposure limit. He would need to weigh 550 lbs. on that day to process that much mercury. He weighed just 25 lbs. The total amount of mercury from 2 months old to 16 months was 139 times the recommended EPA exposure levels.

My outgoing, social, verbal child was a shell of his old self, Laura said, Jackson’s body was still here. But his personality – what made Jackson his smart, loving self – was gone. The sick body replaced the well one. The sleeping child was replaced by one who would awake startled after a few hours and not go back to sleep all night. The one who had a healthy appetite was replaced by one who became picky and whittled his foods down to one or two. The happy child was replaced by an unhappy one. The child who at one time didn’t miss a thing and was the life of the room became distant and preferred to be alone. The one who was developmentally ahead of the crowd began making strange noises and exhibiting odd behaviors. The child God gave us was gone, Laura said.

Andrian Prokofiew of New Jersey, has a son who was developing normally until he acquired autism at 17 months after receiving 20 some vaccines containing Thimerasol. Within weeks of the last three vaccinations given in the same visit, "he lost all speech for 3 years, did not even look at me or know who I was. He screamed for two weeks, his ears turned red, his eyes dilated and he began to spin, flap his hands and bang his head," she said.

It took more than 3 years to find out what happened to him medically and Andrian says she was horrified to find out the pharmaceutical companies gave bonus dollars for each vaccine given.

"Words alone cannot express how devastating this disorder is for the family and child, emotionally as well as financially," she said.

Dr Allen Clark, a licensed physician for 30 years, has a son who developed severe neurodevelopmental symptoms (diagnosed as Asperger’s an autism spectrum disorder) at age 7½ after receiving a routine influenza vaccine containing 25 micrograms of Thimerosal, a dose which the EPA would calculate that would be safe only for a 550 pound adult. The doctor's son weighed only 50 pounds at the time he was vaccinated. Nancy and Tim Hokkanen are parents of Andy Hokkanen, age 6. Andy was exposed to mercury before birth from his mother's tooth fillings, which are 50% mercury, and from RhoGam shots for Rh factor incompatibility. After birth Andy also received Thimerosal from the mandated childhood vaccinations.

Tim's health insurance has covered much the cost of behavioral therapy for Andy but for about 9 months they were on Medical Assistance, which picked up many co-pays. They estimate that their insurance was billed about $100,000 for therapy so far.

Linda Weinmaster has a 13 year old son who also met with mercury poisoning before birth in the form the a mercury-containing RhoGAM shot that Linda received during her 28th week of pregnancy along with his childhood vaccines. He now suffers from a host of medical problems that require care.

Linda tell how her son's medications cost over $6,500 per month. Right now, insurance covers his meds less deductible but not his vitamins which run about $300 per month.

Kendra Pettengill is a single widowed mother of a child with Autism, and Veteran of the United States Air Force.

Kendra is annoyed that anyone would believe that there is not an epidemic in autism and claim that it previously went undiagnosed. “The claim is better diagnosis,” she says, “as if parents, teachers, and doctors 10 or 20 years ago wouldn’t have noticed our spinning, rocking, flapping, head banging, self-biting, children who can’t speak and live in their own little worlds.”

“It is an insult, a slap in the face to parents to claim it is only better diagnostics that recognized our children,” Kendra notes, “A parent 10 years ago would have been just as terror stricken by their child’s condition as I was and would have demanded a reason just as I did.”

Kendra’s insurance company will not pay for her daughter’s medical therapy, the diet, or ABA therapy. In fact, once Autism is diagnosed they can refuse to pay for a doctors visit for the flu if your doctor checks the little Autism box on your insurance sheet, Kendra says.

“Every organization I contacted denied me assistance as they say my $30,000 a year income is too much to qualify,” Kendra said, “A good solid ABA program can cost more than that, per year,” she added.

“I have sold my house, spent my retirement, lost my medical insurance,” Kendra says, “all to save my child from a life of hopelessness.”

According to Kendra, her entire family is affected by her daughter‘s autism, “my parents even sold their house and moved by us to help out,” she said.

Bob Ashburn and his wife Jamie are from Ohio and they have two children with autism spectrum disorder.

Their son, Kyle, who is now 9, was the first to be diagnosed with autism. In many respects they say he was the perfect baby because he was so easy to get along with and yet there was something strange about him that they couldn’t pinpoint. They originally thought that Kyle might be deaf.

When he was about 15 months old, the family was eating at McDonalds when an alarm went off. Everyone in the place reacted to the noise except Kyle, he just kept sat there eating his French Fries. At first the Ashburns thought their daughter Kris, was just shy, and had strange habits, like regular hand washing and needing everything to be consistent. For instance, she needs to sit in the same seat in the car and needs to sleep with her same stuffed animals each night.

Kris is now 14 years old and is very artistically talented and has a great reading level. She can handle regular school but she really needs to have time to herself when she gets home and usually hides in either the bathroom or her bedroom for about an hour reading before she can face the world again.

The Ashburns worry about what kind of future their children will have, especially Kyle who has very few social skills and so many post-reactions to any interactions of a negative sort with people that they don’t know how he can live in society.

When Kyle and Kris get upset they become violent and hit their parents, so the Ashburns have had to change their entire lifestyles so that everything is as consistent as possible and that transitions are made with lots of preparation.

Nothing, not even a quick shopping trip for a carton of milk, they say, can be done on the spur of the moment without some sort of violent reaction from either one or both of the children.

Jennifer Thompson tells how for a period of time, her autistic Zack developed OCD type behaviors about his clothing. "He would only wear certain clothes. No long sleeved shirts, only long pants, and they had to be tucked in!. He would only wear shirts that had buttons. This was an obsession. You did not dare think you could make him do otherwise or he would go into an extreme meltdown. And I know most parents out there understand what a ‘meltdown’ is."

According to Lauro Bono, "What is measurable is the financial toll that this medical crisis takes on families. After the vaccines at 16 months old, Jackson’s medical and therapy needs began taking every bit of money we had saved or ever would have saved."

"The total we have paid for Jackson’s medical, nutritional and private therapy expenses so far," she says, "is roughly $685,000 since August 1990. That is approximately $53,000 per year."

In addition to medical costs, most autistic children can not be left alone and must be looked after and cared for non-stop every day of the year. Unless these kids and their families get the financial help that they deserve from the vaccine makers, the entire burden will eventually fall to the tax payers and the cost will reportedly exceed $2 million dollars per child.

Maybe that will make people wake up and listen.


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MMR Posted by sylvia on Friday, August 05, 2005 (11:28:40)

Yahoo.com 06/06/05

Two national parent organizations are calling on President Bush to issue an Executive Order to compel drug companies to remove mercury preservatives from vaccines in order to protect developing fetuses, infants and children from potential immune and brain system damage.

Unlocking Autism (UA), a national, non-profit autism awareness organization, and the non-profit National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC), the largest and oldest vaccine safety organization in the U.S., are asking the President to enforce a 1999 directive to drug companies by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to remove mercury from all vaccines.

Mercury is a known neurotoxin and drug companies removed mercury preservatives from over-the-counter products in the early 1990's but the FDA has not enforced its 1999 directive regarding vaccines. While mercury has been reduced in many childhood vaccines, some flu vaccines given to pregnant women and infants still contain so much mercury that a person would have to weigh 500 pounds to safely get a flu vaccination according to EPA standards.

During the fall Presidential campaign, Unlocking Autism asked both Presidential candidates if they supported removal of mercury from all childhood vaccines. President Bush said "yes" in writing but since the election has refused to take action despite repeated requests from parents.

"The drug companies have had six years to stop injecting mercury into our children's bodies and that is long enough. Giving mercury to kids on purpose is stupid. If the FDA won't make them get it out then nobody but the President can make them do it. We need the President to step up to the plate and protect our children and the unborn from harm," said Shelley Reynolds, Unlocking Autism (UA) President.

Barbara Loe Fisher, President of the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC), said, "The precautionary principle should prevail here: when in doubt, get it out. Whenever there is a safer product available, the more risky product should be removed from the market. This is like deja vu for those of us who watched the FDA fail to properly regulate the drug industry after the less reactive DTaP vaccine was licensed for babies in 1996. The FDA refused to recall the more toxic DPT vaccine and so it was injected into American babies for six more years, just like mercury has been injected into babies for six more years after the FDA told the drug companies to get it out of vaccines."

Unlocking Autism, the National Vaccine Information Center and other parent groups, who are concerned that the dramatic rise in autism and other neurodevelopmental delays in children in the past few decades is in part due to the use of multiple mercury-containing vaccines, are making ads and public service announcements available to parents in every state which ask President Bush to issue an Executive Order to get mercury out of vaccines. State and federal legislators are also being made aware of the request.


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MMR Posted by sylvia on Friday, May 27, 2005 (18:53:41)

The Christian Post 27/04/05

By Dr. Jonn Matsen

Starting in 1999, for any of my patients who weren’t achieving relief of their symptoms using my dietary program, I would recommend a DMPS Challenge Test—in which DMPS was injected into the patient, followed by a urine test. DMPS is a sulfur compound that binds metals into very stable and non-toxic molecules that can be excreted primarily by the kidneys within 12 hours. While a regular urine test would seldom show any metals, the urine test taken after the DMPS injection often showed large quantities of metal, invariably mercury.

Mercury: The Malevolent Metal

Occasionally, mercury wouldn’t show after the first DMPS Challenge, but if it was repeated several times, mercury would begin to be excreted into the urine. It didn’t take long to come to the conclusion that virtually the whole population was carrying an excess load of mercury hidden away in their bodies, as outlined in my book, Eating Alive II, published in 2002.

Since 2002, hundreds more of my patients have reversed their supposedly “irreversible” diseases by removing metals from their systems, usually after failure of conventional treatment. Recently there has been a spate of articles in the media about mercury in fish as a potential source of mercury in the human system. Has science finally found the source of this mercury that my patients have struggled to remove from their bodies in order to become healthy? I don’t think so.

Filling in the blanks

In 1984, Danish dentist Henrik Lichtenberg had 220 patients fill out a questionnaire that listed 32 symptoms and complaints. One hundred and twenty of these patients then had their mercury-amalgam fillings (and sometimes other metals) replaced with white composite fillings. The 120 patients consisted of 97 women and 23 men, aged 25 to 72, with an average age of 48. The number of complaints per patient ranged from one to twenty eight, with an average of ten symptoms.

One year later, the questionnaire was revisited with all of the patients in the study; the 120 who had the dental work done, as well as the 100 controls. Since the removal of metal fillings, of the original ten complaints, an average of four symptoms was eliminated, five were reduced and one remained. No symptoms got worse.

The breakdown of improved symptoms is as follows:

• 100% reversal of metallic taste; tender teeth; and loss of appetite.

• 90% reversal of depression; diarrhea and constipation; face and jaw tension; mouth sores; bleeding gums; stomach cramps; muscle tremor; chest pains; fear; irritability; and bad breath.

• 80% reversal of allergies; watery eyes; sore throat; diverticulosis; headache; fatigue; lack of concentration; insomnia; dizziness; sciatica; joint pains; and cold extremities.

• 70% reversal of skin problems; bloating; intestinal cramps; muscles tire easily; leg cramps; and rapid heart beat.

The reversal of symptoms reported by Dr Lichtenberg matches what I see in my practice, though improvement typically occurs after a period of oral chelation of metals, rather than just removal of fillings. Dr Lichtenberg’s study does show conclusively that after removing dental mercury and other metals, patients exhibit remarkable improvements in symptoms that conventional medicine still considers “mysterious” or “irreversible.”

While the dental profession maintains that there is insufficient evidence that mercury-amalgams contribute to health problems, Dr Lichtenberg’s results have been duplicated in other studies listed at the end of his article, and it is only politics that keeps mercury and other metals used in dentistry today.

More dangers

A further note is that these same symptom improvements are seen with oral chelation of children who never had mercury fillings, though their faster results indicate that their quantity of mercury is likely much lower. Swedish and German autopsy studies have shown that by several weeks after conception, fetuses are accumulating mercury from their mothers’ amalgam fillings.

Children who have been vaccinated have also been exposed to mercury. Thimerosal is a mercury compound that has been used as a preservative in vaccines and other medications since 1930. While Thimerosal use has been reduced in children’s vaccines in some areas since 2001, it continues to be used in children’s vaccines in Great Britain and in many products such as nasal mist, as well as immunoglobulin and some adult’s vaccines. The mercury in vaccines is often replaced with aluminum or titanium dioxide, which are also heavy metals of questionable safety.

So the next time you hear that fish is being blamed as the source of dangerous heavy metals, ask yourself if this is based on solid clinical evidence or if it’s a smokescreen that covers the real source. While some fish does indeed carry high levels of mercury, wild salmon and albacore tuna are relatively short-lived fish that don’t typically contain high levels. More likely sources of mercury are dental work and the hepatitis B and flu shots.


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MMR Posted by sylvia on Thursday, May 26, 2005 (19:43:48)

The Joplin Globe 24/04/05

By Susan Redden

Carthage parents who have worked for legislation to ban mercury from childhood vaccines say they still are supportive of a bill before Missouri lawmakers, even in its amended form.

A bill to be considered by the House Health Care Policy Committee this week would ban all but a trace of thimerosal, a mercury-containing preservative, from vaccines.

Alan and Lujene Clark have lobbied for a mercury ban for two years.

Though they prefer an earlier version of the bill that would have extended the restriction to children thorough age 14, a limited ban is better than none, Lujene Clark said Friday.

"I'm saying the same thing I've heard from other parents lately - please don't throw the baby out with the bath water," she said.

"It's better than nothing," agreed Rita Schreffler, Nixa, media liaison with the National Autism Association.

"It's certainly not as strong as it should be," she said.

Schreffler and the Clarks cite what they describe as a growing amount of research that links mercury to disorders in the autism spectrum, including attention deficit (hyperactivity) disorder and Asperger's syndrome.

Alan Clark, who is a physician, and Lujene, a former nurse, began their research in 2003 after their son, Devon, now 9, was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, often described as high-functioning autism.

Lujene Clark said she will testify on Wednesday in support of the amended bill, which was passed unanimously by the Missouri Senate on April 13.

She's not happy, Clark said, that bill sponsor Sen. Norma Champion, R-Springfield, amended the measure to lower the age limit for the thimerosal ban. She said she is supportive, however, of an amendment added by Sen. John Loudon, R-Ballwin, that requires patients to be informed of any vaccine that contains mercury, and allows them to refuse the inoculation if it contains more than the state limit.

The Loudon amendment passed 22-10, with Sen. Gary Nodler, R-Joplin, voting with the majority.

"The amendment is huge, because of the protection it provides," Lujene Clark said.

The lower age limit is a preference of Gov. Matt Blunt, according to Jessica Robinson, a spokesman for the governor's office.

"The governor is very supportive of a ban for children age 3 and under," Robinson said Friday. "There were concerns, after meeting with pediatricians and other interested parties, about limiting the vaccine choice for children older than 3. This would give each parent and family the choice of how they want to proceed personally, since so much has to do with the children's weight and health history."

Thimerosal was removed from most pediatric vaccines in recent years, after federal health officials in 1999 revealed that many infants were being exposed, through routine vaccinations, to mercury far above health guidelines.

While mercury has been removed from most childhood vaccines, there is a thimerosal-containing version of the diptheria-tetanus shot, required for children at age 11, Clark said. And there are flu vaccinations, recommended for children starting last year, that contain the preservative.

"If it's all mercury-free, then what's the problem with banning it?" she asked. "We need the bill because of flu shots, and diptheria-tetanus, and for any future vaccines they add to the schedule."

Both Schreffler and Lujene Clark expressed worries that the bill still is pending as the session enters its final month.

A year ago, a thimerosal-banning bill was approved in the House by a vote of 152-4, but failed to reach a Senate vote after it fell victim to a filibuster in the Senate.

Since then, thimerosal bans have been passed in Iowa and California, and are under consideration in at least a dozen other states, Lujene Clark said.


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