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"Just before President Bush signed the homeland security bill into law an
unknown member of Congress inserted a provision into the legislation that
blocks lawsuits against the maker of a controversial [mercury-based]
vaccine
preservative called "thimerosal," used in vaccines that are given to
children."
-- CBS, 12/12/02
Dear friends,
Many vaccines may have more dangers than you might know. The major media
articles below raise serious questions about dangers which have not been
adequately addressed by the producers of many vaccines. Each entry
provides
a one-paragraph summary of key excerpts taken verbatim from these
articles,
along with the headline, date, and link to the full article on the media
website. Most of the articles deal with a controversial mercury-based
preservative called Thimerosal which was routinely used in many vaccines,
and its link to the rapid rise in autism. The last article from the London
Times presents revealing evidence of a connection between a major smallpox
vaccine campaign and the early spread of AIDS.
To understand why you likely have not heard about most of these vaccine
dangers, don't miss the excellent summary of a highly revealing book by
the
former editor of the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine at
http://www.WantToKnow.info/truthaboutdrugcompanies.
Dr. Angell clearly
depicts how the pharmaceutical companies have used their immense wealth to
exert control over all branches of government and prevent information
which
might hurt their profits from getting significant media coverage. By
spreading the word on these im****tant matters, we can and will make a big
difference. Thanks for caring, and have a great day!
With best wishes,
Fred Burks for the WantToKnow.info Team
Former language interpreter for Presidents Bush and Clinton
US study sup****ts claims of MMR link to autism
May 29, 2006, London Times
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,11069-2201494,00.html
American researchers say that their study sup****ts the findings of Andrew
Wakefield, the discredited gastroenterologist who raised fears that the
measles, mumps and rubella injection might be causing autism. His
research,
published in The Lancet in 1998, detected traces of the measles virus in
the
guts of 12 children with autism. The latest study, led by Arthur Krigsman,
of New York University School of Medicine, involved 275 children. Serious
intestinal inflammations were found in some of the autistic children and
biopsies of gut tissue were performed on 82 of them. Of these, 70 are said
to have shown evidence of the measles virus, which so far has been
confirmed
in 14 cases by more stringent DNA tests. Steve Walker, assistant professor
at Wake Forest University Medical Centre, North Carolina, who analysed the
gut samples, said the work mirrored Dr Wakefield's study. All the children
involved were diagnosed with autism and had come to Dr Krigsman and Dr
Walker seeking help for symptoms of serious digestive problems for which
no
explanation could be found.Mainstream science has repeatedly examined the
theory of a link between MMR and autism and found no evidence to back it.
The Age of Autism: 'A pretty big secret'
December 7, 2005, Wa****ngton Times/UPI
http://www.wa****ngtontimes.com/upi/20051204-060313-6829r.htm
Thousands of children cared for by Homefirst Health Services in
metropolitan
Chicago have at least two things in common with thousands of Amish
children
in rural Lancaster: They have never been vaccinated. And they don't have
autism. "We have about 30,000 or 35,000 children that we've taken care of
over the years, and I don't think we have a single case of autism in
children delivered by us who never received vaccines," said Dr. Mayer
Eisenstein, Homefirst's medical director who founded the practice in 1973.
The autism rate in Illinois public schools is 38 per 10,000. Eisenstein,
in
fact, is author of the book "Don't Vaccinate Before You Educate!" Earlier
this year Florida pediatrician Dr. Jeff Bradstreet said there is virtually
no autism in home-schooling families who decline to vaccinate for
religious
reasons -- lending credence to Eisenstein's observations. "It's largely
non-existent," said Bradstreet, who treats children with autism from
around
the country. Thimerosal, which is 49.6 percent ethyl mercury by weight,
was
phased out of most U.S. childhood immunizations beginning in 1999, but the
CDC recommends flu shots for pregnant women and last year began
recommending
them for children 6 to 23 months old. Most of those shots contain
thimerosal.
Debate over vaccines, autism won't die
June 26, 2005, MSNBC
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/8336821
http://www.WantToKnow.info/050705vaccineautismlink
Mercury in shots blamed for rise in brain disorder among children. Vested
interests make it tough to know who to believe. Many parents have filed
lawsuits. Many scientists have ties to vaccine makers or are selling their
expertise in court cases. Government officials don't want people to turn
away from vaccines, which have clearly benefitted public health. Flu
vaccine
sold in multidose vials still contains the [mercury] preservative, and the
government urges flu shots for pregnant women and young children even
though
not enough thimerosal-free ones are available, critics say. Robert F.
Kennedy, Jr....who has pushed the issue on news shows and in an article in
Rolling Stone magazine, said that when he looked at the government's
evidence it was laughably flawed. "It was clear to me that the re****ts
they're
relying on are 'cigarette science,"' he said, referring to tobacco
companies'
past arguments that there was no proof cigarettes caused cancer.
Deadly Immunity
June 16, 2005, Robert F. Kennedy
http://www.WantToKnow.info/050825mercuryautismlink
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0616-31.htm
In June 2000, a group of top government scientists and health officials
gathered for a meeting at the isolated Simpsonwood conference center...to
ensure complete secrecy. The federal officials and industry
representatives
had assembled to discuss a disturbing new study that raised alarming
questions about the safety of a host of common childhood vaccines
administered to infants and young children. A mercury-based preservative
in
the vaccines -- thimerosal -- appeared to be responsible for a dramatic
increase in autism. But instead of taking immediate steps to alert the
public and rid the vaccine supply of thimerosal, the officials and
executives at Simpsonwood spent most of the next two days discussing how
to
cover up the damaging data. According to transcripts obtained under the
Freedom of Information Act, many at the meeting were concerned about how
the
damaging revelations about thimerosal would affect the vaccine industry's
bottom line. The CDC paid the Institute of Medicine to conduct a new study
to whitewash the risks of thimerosal, ordering researchers to "rule out"
the
chemical's link to autism. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, who has
received $873,000 in contributions from the pharmaceutical industry, has
been working to immunize vaccine makers from liability in 4,200 lawsuits
that have been filed by the parents of injured children. More than 500,000
kids currently suffer from autism. The disease was unknown until 1943,
when
it was identified and diagnosed among 11 children born in the months after
thimerosal was first added to baby vaccines in 1931. Internal do***ents
reveal that Eli Lilly, which first developed thimerosal, knew from the
start
that its product could cause damage -- and even death -- in both animals
and
humans.
Note: A good, though somewhat watered down version of the above article
was
published in the Boston Globe on July 1, 2005. To see this article on the
Globe website, click here.
A child's return from autism
May 25, 2005, San Francisco Chronicle
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/05/25/BAGU0CU2K71.DTL
A Lafayette couple, certain that chelation therapy has helped their
autistic
son, stepped squarely into the controversy surrounding the causes of
autism
and its treatment Tuesday as they joined 150 other parents in launching an
international sup****t group that will aggressively promote the treatment.
The Handleys are now among a small minority of parents -- who, believing
that the autism was caused by the mercury in thimerosal, a preservative
that
was routinely used in vaccines until recently -- are treating their
children
with chelation therapy, a lotion or pill that strips the body of heavy
metals. It has been used for decades to detoxify people contaminated in
industrial accidents, but no studies have proved whether it is an
effective
treatment for autism. For Jamie's parents, the proof they need is in front
of them: Jamie, now 3 years old and several months into treatment, is
plump
and playing baseball. His smile has returned. The Handleys said the new
sup****t group, Generation Rescue, www.generationrescue.com, will offer
information on chelation therapy and connect parents with those who can
help.
The Age of Autism: The Amish anomaly
April 18-19, 2005, Wa****ngton Times
http://www.washtimes.com/upi-breaking/20050321-115921-9566r.htm
- Part 1
http://wa****ngtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20050417-052541-5549r.htm
- Part 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 Amish have a
religious
exemption from vaccination. So far, there is evidence of only three, all
of
them children, the oldest age 9 or 10. Julia is one of them. She...is
adopted from China. "She had most of her vaccines given to her in the
United
States before we got her." [Of the other one definitely had a vaccine, and
the other's vaccine status is unknown.] 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.
Possible Mercury, Autism Connection Found in Study
March 17, 2005, Los Angeles Times
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-autism17mar17,1,1770760.story?coll=la-news-science
http://newsmine.org/archive/nature-health/health/toxic-mercury-in-environment-causing-autism.txt
Studying individual school districts in Texas, the epidemiologists found
that those districts with the highest levels of mercury in the environment
also had the highest rates of special education students and autism
diagnoses. There was a strong, direct relation****p between mercury and
autism levels. The incidence of autism has grown dramatically over the
last
two decades, from about one in every 2,000 children to as high as one in
every 166. The pur****ted link between autism and mercury has been a
subject
of intense debate. In the past it has centered primarily on the
mercury-containing preservative thimerosal, which was once widely used in
vaccines. Many parents have argued that thimerosal causes autism because
their children seemed to develop the neurological disorder shortly after
they received childhood vaccinations.
Merck's infant vaccine stirs new controversy
Los Angeles Times/Newsday, March 8, 2005
http://www.nynewsday.com/news/health/ny-usglan084168623mar08,0,3713664.story
http://www.mercuryexposure.org/index.php?article_id=344
Merck & Co. continued to supply infant vaccine containing a mercury
preservative for two years after declaring that it had eliminated the
chemical. Rep. David Weldon (R-Fla.), a physician, said that what Merck
did
was "misleading." "You had people literally into 2002 getting shots with
mercury, having been told it was all taken out in 1999," he said. "There
should have been a much more cautious announcement that we're going to
eliminate the mercury over time." Thimerosal, which is nearly 50 percent
ethyl mercury, has largely been eliminated from most routine childhood
vaccines, although it is present in most flu shots. More than 4,200
parents
have filed claims in the federal Vaccine Injury Compensation Program,
alleging that their children suffered autism or other neurological
disorders
from mercury in their shots.
The Man Behind The Vaccine Mystery
December 12, 2002, CBS
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/12/12/eveningnews/main532886.shtml
It's been a mystery in Wa****ngton for weeks. Just before President Bush
signed the homeland security bill into law an unknown member of Congress
inserted a provision into the legislation that blocks lawsuits against the
maker of a controversial vaccine preservative called "thimerosal," used in
vaccines that are given to children. Drug giant Eli Lilly and Company
makes
thimerosal. It's the mercury in the preservative that many parents say
causes autism in thousands of children. But nobody in Congress would admit
to adding the provision, re****ts CBS News Correspondent Jim Acosta - until
now. House Majority Leader Dick Armey tells CBS News he did it to keep
vaccine-makers from going out of business under the weight of mounting
lawsuits. "I did it and I'm proud of it," says Armey, R-Texas. "It's a
matter of national security," Armey says. Because Armey is retiring at the
end of the year, some say the outgoing majority leader is the perfect fall
guy to take the heat and ****eld the White House from embarrassment.
Smallpox vaccine 'triggered Aids virus'
May 11, 1987, London Times
http://www.WantToKnow.info/870511vaccineaids
The Aids epidemic may have been triggered by the mass vaccination campaign
which eradicated smallpox. The World Health Organization, which
masterminded
the 13-year campaign, is studying new scientific evidence suggesting that
immunization with the smallpox vaccine Vaccinia awakened the unsuspected,
dormant human immuno defence virus infection (HIV). Doctors who accept the
connection between the anti-smallpox campaign and the Aids epidemic now
see
answers to questions which had baffled them. How, for instance, the Aids
organism, previously regarded by scientists as 'weak, slow and
vulnerable,'
began to behave like a type capable of creating a plague. The smallpox
vaccine theory would account for the position of each of the seven Central
African states which top the league table of most-affected countries; why
Brazil became the most afflicted Latin American country; and how Haiti
became the route for the spread of Aids to the US. The greatest spread of
HIV infection coincides with the most intense immunization programmes.
Although detailed figures of Aids cases in Africa are difficult to
collect,
the more than two million carriers, and 50,000 deaths...are concentrated
in
the Countries where the smallpox immunization programme was most
intensive.
Brazil, the only South American country covered in the eradication
campaign,
has the highest incidence of Aids in that region.
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