While autism rates have been climbing at a frightening rate, its root causes have remained elusive. Researchers at the University of California, Davis M.I.N.D. institute have concluded that the focus of autism research should shift away from genetics or accounting practices and toward the increase of toxic chemicals and infectious microbes in the environment, especially in the home. Since 1990, autism rates in California have increased 600 to 700 percent. The study, published in Epidemiology, suggests that environmental toxins like metals, pesticides, and infectious agents could play a large part in the increase.
The dramatic increase in autism rates in California has been attributed to several factors, including increases in families bringing autistic children into California and changes in how autistic children are diagnosed. To address the first issue, the study only looked at California natives. The second issue, accounting practices, played a small part in the increase, but no more than 20% of the overall increase.
With these factors ruled out, said M.I.N.D. researcher Irva Hertz-Picciotto, genetics and environment become the most likely, “and genetics don’t change in such a short period of time.” Hertz-Picciotto is currently involved in two large studies investigating the possible environmental causes of autism, including one that is looking into flame retardants and pesticides. A new study reported by Scientific American found a link between the increase of phthalates, a compound used in vinyl and cosmetics, and autism rates.
Perhaps not coincidentally, the M.I.N.D study began soon after a 2005 Center for Disease Control and Prevention study that showed that most American children and adults carried within their bodies dozens of potentially toxic pesticides and chemical compounds used in consumer products. While the study showed that levels of certain known harmful chemicals like lead have decreased after greater awareness and regulation, the levels of chemicals whose effects are unknown have greatly increased. For 148 chemicals listed in the report, the CDC admitted they do not know the potential health effects.
Fetuses and newborns are at most risk to harmful chemicals because of the enormous cell growth. The CDC study showed that one in every 18 women of childbearing age in the United States had mercury in their bodies that exceeded the EPA’s safe levels. In their early years, children are at higher risk due to the chemicals in flame retardants, their habit of putting everything in their mouths, and crawling on the floor – and their bodies are less able to metabolize them.
One of the key elements of green building is increased indoor air quality, including the limiting of VOCs, or volatile organic compounds, in the home. These studies highlight the need for better indoor air quality measures and greater education among homeowners and product manufacturers. Additionally, the fact that hundreds of chemicals without known health effects are in widespread use should spur the CDC and EPA to push for their testing or removal from products until they are proven safe.
*Note: The original version of this article mistakenly implied that the study ruled out vaccines as a cause of autism. I apologize for the mistake. In order to return the focus of the article to the issue of harmful chemicals in the home, I have removed the parts discussing vaccines.
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“But since thimerosal was removed from most vaccines by 1999 and the autism rate grew at the same rate, the compound was dismissed as a possible trigger.”
This is false. The current “preservative” level mercury in multi-dose flu, meningococcal and tetanus vaccines is 50,000 ug/l. This can be confirmed by simply analyzing the multi-dose vials. This level of mercury is 250 times higher than EPA hazarouds waste levels based on toxicity characteristics.
The type of mercury in vaccines, ethylmercury, is a short chain alkyl mercury compund. This is the most toxic form of mercury. Your statement is based on a study done by the California Immunization Director. He basically vindicated himself for his role in this epidemic we call autism.
Even without mercury, aluminum is used as an adjuvant in most childhood vaccines. This includes 250 micrograms in the Hepatitis B vaccine administered at birth. At two months of age, a child is exposed to 1,250 micrograms of aluminum from vaccination. If all this aluminum enters the blood, the level would be 25 times higher than what is documented to cause neurological damage in infants. This process is repeated again at 4, 6 and 12 months of age. Aluminum is especially dangerous for people with poor kidney function. Some infants have very limited kidney function. Aluminum in vaccines has now been linked to gulf war syndrome. If it can cause injury to a healthy adult soldier, what is it doing to a newborn baby?
“But since thimerosal was removed from most vaccines by 1999 and the autism rate grew at the same rate, the compound was dismissed as a possible trigger.”
This is false. The current “preservative” level mercury in multi-dose flu, meningococcal and tetanus vaccines is 50,000 ug/l. This can be confirmed by simply analyzing the multi-dose vials. This level of mercury is 250 times higher than EPA hazarouds waste levels based on toxicity characteristics.
The type of mercury in vaccines, ethylmercury, is a short chain alkyl mercury compund. This is the most toxic form of mercury. Your statement is based on a study done by the California Immunization Director. He basically vindicated himself for his role in this epidemic we call autism.
Even without mercury, aluminum is used as an adjuvant in most childhood vaccines. This includes 250 micrograms in the Hepatitis B vaccine administered at birth. At two months of age, a child is exposed to 1,250 micrograms of aluminum from vaccination. If all this aluminum enters the blood, the level would be 25 times higher than what is documented to cause neurological damage in infants. This process is repeated again at 4, 6 and 12 months of age. Aluminum is especially dangerous for people with poor kidney function. Some infants have very limited kidney function. Aluminum in vaccines has now been linked to gulf war syndrome. If it can cause injury to a healthy adult soldier, what is it doing to a newborn baby?
Thank you for your comment, Joe. Great point. Additionally, even thimerosal wasn’t phased out until 2003. I’ve included a note in the post after the line you quoted.
Our friends over at Eco Childs Play have some good articles on mercury in vaccines:
http://ecochildsplay.com/2008/04/30/environmental-mercury-and-autism-are-vaccines-still-a-culprit/
Thank you for your comment, Joe. Great point. Additionally, even thimerosal wasn’t phased out until 2003. I’ve included a note in the post after the line you quoted.
Our friends over at Eco Childs Play have some good articles on mercury in vaccines:
http://ecochildsplay.com/2008/04/30/environmental-mercury-and-autism-are-vaccines-still-a-culprit/
Thanks for the write-up Joel. It is interesting that the report cites consumer products in the home as a potential link, but what about chemicals at the workplace? These are often just as much, if not more toxic, then consumer variants. Since many of them come in concentrated form, there is even more chance of misuse and abuse leading to pollution. Potential mothers are likely spending as much (if not more) time indoors, at work, then at home; shouldn’t this aspect be included in the report? Better indoor air quality, as you mention, needs to be improved at all places people spend time, not just the home.
Thanks for the write-up Joel. It is interesting that the report cites consumer products in the home as a potential link, but what about chemicals at the workplace? These are often just as much, if not more toxic, then consumer variants. Since many of them come in concentrated form, there is even more chance of misuse and abuse leading to pollution. Potential mothers are likely spending as much (if not more) time indoors, at work, then at home; shouldn’t this aspect be included in the report? Better indoor air quality, as you mention, needs to be improved at all places people spend time, not just the home.
I think there’s an important point here but I wish that the article had more fact checking. Where did the author read that thimerosal (mercury preservative) was removed from vaccines in 1999? I don’t even think the FDA website substantiates that myth anymore. No– mercury was *never* completely removed from vaccines and it was not even partially removed from the childhood schedule in California until 2006. That means that the children in last year’s CA autism prevalence study did not represent “autism in spite of mercury removal” by any stretch of the imagination. The cohort exposed to even “reduced” mercury would have been too young (under three) to diagnose with autism at the time of the study.
Up to 2004, a child in California could still get the 90′s era 270+ micrograms of mercury from regular shots. By adding the flu vaccine to the schedule before the mercury in other shots were reduced, between 2002 and 2006, the amount of mercury was actually boosted to 300 micrograms– higher than the record 90′s levels.
As the amounts in other thimerosal-containing vaccines were “reduced” from 25 to 3-5 micrograms, the flu shot remained on the schedule and, to date, a child can still get about 71 micrograms of mercury from routine childhood shots. This is very much like the “light” cigarette argument. 71 micrograms is not “no mercury”. Furthermore, since the amounts of environmental mercury from coal-fired plumes from China, cement manufacturing and fly ash, the reduction of mercury in shots has been made, if not moot, then at least a gesture of reduced significance.
On top of this, the amount of aluminum in shots was increased many fold after the “partial” removal of mercury. This is because thimerosal had been used all along as an illegal “adjuvant” or immune system irritant which was meant to increase the immune system’s reaction to vaccine viruses. Aluminum was increased to compensate for the “lost illegal adjuvant”. Aluminum and mercury are chemically synergistic: aluminum increases the toxicity of mercury many times over. In other words, you can get more neurodegeneration for your buck with a little mercury and increased aluminum. This is one reason why the epidemic is not slowing.
Many believe that mercury will turn out to be the central culprit in autism causation but that, like Rachel Carson predicted back in the sixties, it’s substances that assault mitochondrial function that leads to *susceptibility* to this (Carson does not have to mention autism specifically to be prophetic) and other diseases. So autism’s causes may be limited to a very few substances that mimic mercury’s specific effects on the brain (certain pesticides, the drug Depakote) but this process has countless chemical “facilitators”, things which specifically compromise mitochondrial function as the “set up” for the final blow dealt by the main causes of autism. Mitochondrial dysfunction is the “entree”.
The toxic facilitators which induce mitochondrial dysfunction in children and adults or which cause compromised immunity- many things found in the home– are very significant links in the chain of events leading to autism. Given enough “facilitator” exposure and a child doesn’t even “need” vaccine mercury to be pushed over the edge. As environmental mercury increases from pollution, it takes less “facilitation” to induce the perfect neurological storm called autism.
The one aspect of autism that might be genetic is that certain genetic conditions– some benign and some manifesting as serious, such as high IQ (yes, that’s why math and computer geeks have more children with autism), a tendency to allergies, family history of autoimmunity or cerebral palsy– involve slightly weakened mitochondrial systems and therefore somewhat weakened immunity that might have, without a toxic assault, have resolved somewhat in adulthood for some conditions.
Cleaning up the home and building with safer materials could be a step towards slowing the epidemic. Because of the very high amount of mercury in the bulbs (4-5 mg is 200 times what it takes to cause brain damage in an infant), the use of CFL should be avoided until a mercury-free alternative is created. Builders should also be aware that anything which contains formaldehyde causes a cross-sensitivity to mercury and many children these days are subclinically mercury toxic, even aside from children with autism. The combination can induce asthma and seizures in children with sequestered metal poisoning.
Something’s got to give in any case. The current military tally for autism is 1/67.
I think there’s an important point here but I wish that the article had more fact checking. Where did the author read that thimerosal (mercury preservative) was removed from vaccines in 1999? I don’t even think the FDA website substantiates that myth anymore. No– mercury was *never* completely removed from vaccines and it was not even partially removed from the childhood schedule in California until 2006. That means that the children in last year’s CA autism prevalence study did not represent “autism in spite of mercury removal” by any stretch of the imagination. The cohort exposed to even “reduced” mercury would have been too young (under three) to diagnose with autism at the time of the study.
Up to 2004, a child in California could still get the 90′s era 270+ micrograms of mercury from regular shots. By adding the flu vaccine to the schedule before the mercury in other shots were reduced, between 2002 and 2006, the amount of mercury was actually boosted to 300 micrograms– higher than the record 90′s levels.
As the amounts in other thimerosal-containing vaccines were “reduced” from 25 to 3-5 micrograms, the flu shot remained on the schedule and, to date, a child can still get about 71 micrograms of mercury from routine childhood shots. This is very much like the “light” cigarette argument. 71 micrograms is not “no mercury”. Furthermore, since the amounts of environmental mercury from coal-fired plumes from China, cement manufacturing and fly ash, the reduction of mercury in shots has been made, if not moot, then at least a gesture of reduced significance.
On top of this, the amount of aluminum in shots was increased many fold after the “partial” removal of mercury. This is because thimerosal had been used all along as an illegal “adjuvant” or immune system irritant which was meant to increase the immune system’s reaction to vaccine viruses. Aluminum was increased to compensate for the “lost illegal adjuvant”. Aluminum and mercury are chemically synergistic: aluminum increases the toxicity of mercury many times over. In other words, you can get more neurodegeneration for your buck with a little mercury and increased aluminum. This is one reason why the epidemic is not slowing.
Many believe that mercury will turn out to be the central culprit in autism causation but that, like Rachel Carson predicted back in the sixties, it’s substances that assault mitochondrial function that leads to *susceptibility* to this (Carson does not have to mention autism specifically to be prophetic) and other diseases. So autism’s causes may be limited to a very few substances that mimic mercury’s specific effects on the brain (certain pesticides, the drug Depakote) but this process has countless chemical “facilitators”, things which specifically compromise mitochondrial function as the “set up” for the final blow dealt by the main causes of autism. Mitochondrial dysfunction is the “entree”.
The toxic facilitators which induce mitochondrial dysfunction in children and adults or which cause compromised immunity- many things found in the home– are very significant links in the chain of events leading to autism. Given enough “facilitator” exposure and a child doesn’t even “need” vaccine mercury to be pushed over the edge. As environmental mercury increases from pollution, it takes less “facilitation” to induce the perfect neurological storm called autism.
The one aspect of autism that might be genetic is that certain genetic conditions– some benign and some manifesting as serious, such as high IQ (yes, that’s why math and computer geeks have more children with autism), a tendency to allergies, family history of autoimmunity or cerebral palsy– involve slightly weakened mitochondrial systems and therefore somewhat weakened immunity that might have, without a toxic assault, have resolved somewhat in adulthood for some conditions.
Cleaning up the home and building with safer materials could be a step towards slowing the epidemic. Because of the very high amount of mercury in the bulbs (4-5 mg is 200 times what it takes to cause brain damage in an infant), the use of CFL should be avoided until a mercury-free alternative is created. Builders should also be aware that anything which contains formaldehyde causes a cross-sensitivity to mercury and many children these days are subclinically mercury toxic, even aside from children with autism. The combination can induce asthma and seizures in children with sequestered metal poisoning.
Something’s got to give in any case. The current military tally for autism is 1/67.
Thimerosal is still used in vaccine manufacture; it has not been “phased out.” It is chelated (chemically removed) at the end of production. Chemists such as Dr. Boyd E. Haley, PhD have expressed concern that Thimerosal can bind to antigens.
Dr. Haley and other researchers such as Dr. Isaac Pessah and his UC-Davis team discovered that Thimerosal causes dendritic damage at extremely low levels — not just 20-40 ppb, but at 0.5 ppb. Subsequent interruption of calcium channels can disrupt normal immune function.
Also of great concern is the effect of multiple vaccines, which has not been formally studied. Note the 2008 DHHS vaccine injury concession of Hannah Poling, whose father Jon is a Johns Hopkins neurologist and mother Terri is an ICU nurse and attorney.
It is sad that the obvious is being avoided because it is controversial, and administered by health care professionals. But good intentions are no guarantee of good outcomes.
Thimerosal is still used in vaccine manufacture; it has not been “phased out.” It is chelated (chemically removed) at the end of production. Chemists such as Dr. Boyd E. Haley, PhD have expressed concern that Thimerosal can bind to antigens.
Dr. Haley and other researchers such as Dr. Isaac Pessah and his UC-Davis team discovered that Thimerosal causes dendritic damage at extremely low levels — not just 20-40 ppb, but at 0.5 ppb. Subsequent interruption of calcium channels can disrupt normal immune function.
Also of great concern is the effect of multiple vaccines, which has not been formally studied. Note the 2008 DHHS vaccine injury concession of Hannah Poling, whose father Jon is a Johns Hopkins neurologist and mother Terri is an ICU nurse and attorney.
It is sad that the obvious is being avoided because it is controversial, and administered by health care professionals. But good intentions are no guarantee of good outcomes.
Very fascinating report on vaccines and autism. Does a study exist for children not vaccinated and autism? Are the numbers drastically lower?
Very fascinating report on vaccines and autism. Does a study exist for children not vaccinated and autism? Are the numbers drastically lower?
@The Passive Dad
I don’t know if unvaccinated children have less autism, but they certainly have more whooping cough and measles.
@The Passive Dad
I don’t know if unvaccinated children have less autism, but they certainly have more whooping cough and measles.
To Passive Dad–
There have been no large scale government funded studies of vaccinated vs. never vaccinated children, though smaller independent studies show considerably elevated rates of asthma, seizures, autism and other autoimmune-related diseases among vaccinated children.
Rep. Carolyn Maloney has held hearings calling for this missing large-scale vax/never-vaxed study but industry resistance to such a study has been consistent and shrill, particularly from vaccine industry lobby groups like ECB2 (Every Child By 2), who sent counter-appeal letters to every member of Congress after Maloney’s hearing on the hill. The message of ECB2 and similar lobbies is in effect “we don’t need to do this study because we…don’t want to know the outcome”.
The majority of people becoming ill in the relatively infrequent whooping cough and measles outbreaks (these and almost all diseases represented on the vaccine schedule were in decline prior to the invention of vaccines to combat them) were already vaccinated against the diseases. One of the ironies of these ailments is that they can be caught through viral shedding– parent or daycare worker changing the diapers of a just vaccinated child is not an uncommon route of contagion. Also, these diseases are not normally very serious in healthy children but can be fatal among immune compromised individuals– the irony here being that hypervaccination compromises the immune systems of susceptible individuals.
Remember the episode when the Brady Bunch got the measles? Jan didn’t die and Peter wasn’t rendered infertile. I think the character’s fight about whether to get a “boy” or “girl” doctor. Measles wasn’t always the bogey man it’s been made into. But fear makes money and, as American children become sicker than they’ve ever been in history despite all these suppposedly wonderful preventives, the public is very afraid and disaster capitalism is in full swing.
To Passive Dad–
There have been no large scale government funded studies of vaccinated vs. never vaccinated children, though smaller independent studies show considerably elevated rates of asthma, seizures, autism and other autoimmune-related diseases among vaccinated children.
Rep. Carolyn Maloney has held hearings calling for this missing large-scale vax/never-vaxed study but industry resistance to such a study has been consistent and shrill, particularly from vaccine industry lobby groups like ECB2 (Every Child By 2), who sent counter-appeal letters to every member of Congress after Maloney’s hearing on the hill. The message of ECB2 and similar lobbies is in effect “we don’t need to do this study because we…don’t want to know the outcome”.
The majority of people becoming ill in the relatively infrequent whooping cough and measles outbreaks (these and almost all diseases represented on the vaccine schedule were in decline prior to the invention of vaccines to combat them) were already vaccinated against the diseases. One of the ironies of these ailments is that they can be caught through viral shedding– parent or daycare worker changing the diapers of a just vaccinated child is not an uncommon route of contagion. Also, these diseases are not normally very serious in healthy children but can be fatal among immune compromised individuals– the irony here being that hypervaccination compromises the immune systems of susceptible individuals.
Remember the episode when the Brady Bunch got the measles? Jan didn’t die and Peter wasn’t rendered infertile. I think the character’s fight about whether to get a “boy” or “girl” doctor. Measles wasn’t always the bogey man it’s been made into. But fear makes money and, as American children become sicker than they’ve ever been in history despite all these suppposedly wonderful preventives, the public is very afraid and disaster capitalism is in full swing.
The feds won’t do the vaccinated/unvaccinated study because they know what they will find.
But former UPI editor Dan Omsted has been investigating the history of autism and did look
at two unvaccinated populations and found almost no
autism. Anactodal evidence but very strong anacdotal
evidence.
The Age of Autism: ‘A pretty big secret’
>
>
> By DAN OLMSTED
> UPI Senior Editor
>
> CHICAGO, Dec. 7 (UPI) — It’s a far piece from the horse-and-buggies of
> Lancaster County, Pa., to the cars and freeways of Cook County, Ill.
>
> But 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 a fairly large practice. 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. Homefirst doctors have delivered more than 15,000 babies
> at home, and thousands of them have never been vaccinated.
>
> The few autistic children Homefirst sees were vaccinated before their
> families became patients, Eisenstein said. “I can think of two or three
> autistic children who we’ve delivered their mother’s next baby, and we
> aren’t really totally taking care of that child — they have special care
> needs. But they bring the younger children to us. I don’t have a single
> case that I can think of that wasn’t vaccinated.”
>
> The autism rate in Illinois public schools is 38 per 10,000, according to
> state Education Department data; the Centers for Disease Control and
> Prevention puts the national rate of autism spectrum disorders at 1 in 166
> — 60 per 10,000.
>
> “We do have enough of a sample,” Eisenstein said. “The numbers are too
> large to not see it. We would absolutely know. We’re all family doctors. If
> I have a child with autism come in, there’s no communication. It’s
> frightening. You can’t touch them. It’s not something that anyone would
> miss.”
>
> No one knows what causes autism, but federal health authorities say it
> isn’t childhood immunizations. Some parents and a small minority of doctors
> and scientists, however, assert vaccines are responsible.
>
> This column has been looking for autism in never-vaccinated U.S. children
> in an effort to shed light on the issue. We went to Chicago to meet with
> Eisenstein at the suggestion of a reader, and we also visited Homefirst’s
> office in northwest suburban Rolling Meadows. Homefirst has four other
> offices in the Chicago area and a total of six doctors.
>
> Eisenstein stresses his observations are not scientific. “The trouble is
> this is just anecdotal in a sense, because what if every autistic child
> goes somewhere else and (their family) never calls us or they moved out of
> state?”
>
> In practice, that’s unlikely to account for the pronounced absence of
> autism, says Eisenstein, who also has a bachelor’s degree in statistics, a
> master’s degree in public health and a law degree.
>
> Homefirst follows state immunization mandates, but Illinois allows
> religious exemptions if parents object based either on tenets of their
> faith or specific personal religious views. Homefirst does not exclude or
> discourage such families. Eisenstein, in fact, is author of the book “Don’t
> Vaccinate Before You Educate!” and is critical of the CDC’s vaccination
> policy in the 1990s, when several new immunizations were added to the
> schedule, including Hepatitis B as early as the day of birth. Several of
> the vaccines — HepB included — contained a mercury-based preservative
> that has since been phased out of most childhood vaccines in the United
> States.
>
> Medical practices with Homefirst’s approach to immunizations are rare.
> “Because of that, we tend to attract families that have questions about
> that issue,” said Dr. Paul Schattauer, who has been with Homefirst for 20
> years and treats “at least” 100 children a week.
>
> Schattauer seconded Eisenstein’s observations. “All I know is in my
> practice I don’t see autism. There is no striking 1-in-166,” he said.
>
> Earlier this year we reported the same phenomenon in the mostly
> unvaccinated Amish. CDC Director Dr. Julie Gerberding told us the Amish
> “have genetic connectivity that would make them different from populations
> that are in other sectors of the United States.” Gerberding said, however,
> studies “could and should be done” in more representative unvaccinated
> groups — if they could be found and their autism rate documented.
>
> Chicago is America’s prototypical “City of Big Shoulders,” to quote Carl
> Sandburg, and Homefirst’s mostly middle-class families seem fairly
> representative. A substantial number are conservative Christians who
> home-school their children. They are mostly white, but the Homefirst
> practice also includes black and Hispanic families and non-home-schooling
> Jews, Catholics and Muslims.
>
> They tend to be better educated, follow healthier diets and breast-feed
> their children much longer than the norm — half of Homefirst’s mothers are
> still breast-feeding at two years. Also, because Homefirst relies less on
> prescription drugs including antibiotics as a first line of treatment,
> these children have less exposure to other medicines, not just vaccines.
>
> Schattauer, interviewed at the Rolling Meadows office, said his caseload is
> too limited to draw conclusions about a possible link between vaccines and
> autism. “With these numbers you’d have a hard time proving or disproving
> anything,” he said. “You can only get a feeling about it.
>
> “In no way would I be an advocate to stand up and say we need to look at
> vaccines, because I don’t have the science to say that,” Schattauer said.
> “But I don’t think the science is there to say that it’s not.”
>
> Schattauer said Homefirst’s patients also have significantly less childhood
> asthma and juvenile diabetes compared to national rates. An office manager
> who has been with Homefirst for 17 years said she is aware of only one case
> of severe asthma in an unvaccinated child.
>
> “Sometimes you feel frustrated because you feel like you’ve got a pretty
> big secret,” Schattauer said. He argues for more research on all those
> disorders, independent of political or business pressures.
>
> The asthma rate among Homefirst patients is so low it was noticed by the
> Blue Cross group with which Homefirst is affiliated, according to Eisenstein.
>
> “In the alternative-medicine network which Homefirst is part of, there are
> virtually no cases of childhood asthma, in contrast to the overall Blue
> Cross rate of childhood asthma which is approximately 10 percent,” he said.
> “At first I thought it was because they (Homefirst’s children) were
> breast-fed, but even among the breast-fed we’ve had asthma. We have
> virtually no asthma if you’re breast-fed and not vaccinated.”
>
> Because the diagnosis of asthma is based on emergency-room visits and
> hospital admissions, Eisenstein said, Homefirst’s low rate is hard to
> dispute. “It’s quantifiable — the definition is not reliant on the
> doctor’s perception of asthma.”
>
> Several studies have found a risk of asthma from vaccination; others have
> not. Studies that include never-vaccinated children generally find little
> or no asthma in that group.
>
> 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. “It’s an extremely rare event.”
>
> Bradstreet has a son whose autism he attributes to a vaccine reaction at 15
> months. His daughter has been home-schooled, he describes himself as a
> “Christian family physician,” and he knows many of the leaders in the
> home-school movement.
>
> “There was this whole subculture of folks who went into home-schooling so
> they would never have to vaccinate their kids,” he said. “There’s this
> whole cadre who were never vaccinated for religious reasons.”
>
> In that subset, he said, “unless they were massively exposed to mercury
> through lots of amalgams (mercury dental fillings in the mother) and/or
> big-time fish eating, I’ve not had a single case.”
>
> Federal health authorities and mainstream medical groups emphatically
> dismiss any link between autism and vaccines, including the mercury-based
> preservative thimerosal. Last year a panel of the Institute of Medicine,
> part of the National Academies, said there is no evidence of such a link,
> and funding should henceforth go to “promising” research.
>
> 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.
>
> Thimerosal-preserved vaccines are currently being injected into millions of
> children in developing countries around the world. “My mandate … is to
> make sure at the end of the day that 100,000,000 are immunized … this
> year, next year and for many years to come … and that will have to be
> with thimerosal-containing vaccines,” said John Clements of the World
> Health Organization at a June 2000 meeting called by the CDC.
>
> That meeting was held to review data that thimerosal might be linked with
> autism and other neurological problems. But in 2004 the Institute of
> Medicine panel said evidence against a link is so strong that health
> authorities, “whether in the United States or other countries, should not
> include autism as a potential risk” when formulating immunization policies.
>
> But where is the simple, straightforward study of autism in
> never-vaccinated U.S. children? Based on our admittedly anecdotal and
> limited reporting among the Amish, the home-schooled and now Chicago’s
> Homefirst, that may prove to be a significant omission.
>
The Age of Autism: ‘A pretty big secret’
>
>
> By DAN OLMSTED
> UPI Senior Editor
>
> CHICAGO, Dec. 7 (UPI) — It’s a far piece from the horse-and-buggies of
> Lancaster County, Pa., to the cars and freeways of Cook County, Ill.
>
> But 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 a fairly large practice. 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. Homefirst doctors have delivered more than 15,000 babies
> at home, and thousands of them have never been vaccinated.
>
> The few autistic children Homefirst sees were vaccinated before their
> families became patients, Eisenstein said. “I can think of two or three
> autistic children who we’ve delivered their mother’s next baby, and we
> aren’t really totally taking care of that child — they have special care
> needs. But they bring the younger children to us. I don’t have a single
> case that I can think of that wasn’t vaccinated.”
>
> The autism rate in Illinois public schools is 38 per 10,000, according to
> state Education Department data; the Centers for Disease Control and
> Prevention puts the national rate of autism spectrum disorders at 1 in 166
> — 60 per 10,000.
>
> “We do have enough of a sample,” Eisenstein said. “The numbers are too
> large to not see it. We would absolutely know. We’re all family doctors. If
> I have a child with autism come in, there’s no communication. It’s
> frightening. You can’t touch them. It’s not something that anyone would
> miss.”
>
> No one knows what causes autism, but federal health authorities say it
> isn’t childhood immunizations. Some parents and a small minority of doctors
> and scientists, however, assert vaccines are responsible.
>
> This column has been looking for autism in never-vaccinated U.S. children
> in an effort to shed light on the issue. We went to Chicago to meet with
> Eisenstein at the suggestion of a reader, and we also visited Homefirst’s
> office in northwest suburban Rolling Meadows. Homefirst has four other
> offices in the Chicago area and a total of six doctors.
>
> Eisenstein stresses his observations are not scientific. “The trouble is
> this is just anecdotal in a sense, because what if every autistic child
> goes somewhere else and (their family) never calls us or they moved out of
> state?”
>
> In practice, that’s unlikely to account for the pronounced absence of
> autism, says Eisenstein, who also has a bachelor’s degree in statistics, a
> master’s degree in public health and a law degree.
>
> Homefirst follows state immunization mandates, but Illinois allows
> religious exemptions if parents object based either on tenets of their
> faith or specific personal religious views. Homefirst does not exclude or
> discourage such families. Eisenstein, in fact, is author of the book “Don’t
> Vaccinate Before You Educate!” and is critical of the CDC’s vaccination
> policy in the 1990s, when several new immunizations were added to the
> schedule, including Hepatitis B as early as the day of birth. Several of
> the vaccines — HepB included — contained a mercury-based preservative
> that has since been phased out of most childhood vaccines in the United
> States.
>
> Medical practices with Homefirst’s approach to immunizations are rare.
> “Because of that, we tend to attract families that have questions about
> that issue,” said Dr. Paul Schattauer, who has been with Homefirst for 20
> years and treats “at least” 100 children a week.
>
> Schattauer seconded Eisenstein’s observations. “All I know is in my
> practice I don’t see autism. There is no striking 1-in-166,” he said.
>
> Earlier this year we reported the same phenomenon in the mostly
> unvaccinated Amish. CDC Director Dr. Julie Gerberding told us the Amish
> “have genetic connectivity that would make them different from populations
> that are in other sectors of the United States.” Gerberding said, however,
> studies “could and should be done” in more representative unvaccinated
> groups — if they could be found and their autism rate documented.
>
> Chicago is America’s prototypical “City of Big Shoulders,” to quote Carl
> Sandburg, and Homefirst’s mostly middle-class families seem fairly
> representative. A substantial number are conservative Christians who
> home-school their children. They are mostly white, but the Homefirst
> practice also includes black and Hispanic families and non-home-schooling
> Jews, Catholics and Muslims.
>
> They tend to be better educated, follow healthier diets and breast-feed
> their children much longer than the norm — half of Homefirst’s mothers are
> still breast-feeding at two years. Also, because Homefirst relies less on
> prescription drugs including antibiotics as a first line of treatment,
> these children have less exposure to other medicines, not just vaccines.
>
> Schattauer, interviewed at the Rolling Meadows office, said his caseload is
> too limited to draw conclusions about a possible link between vaccines and
> autism. “With these numbers you’d have a hard time proving or disproving
> anything,” he said. “You can only get a feeling about it.
>
> “In no way would I be an advocate to stand up and say we need to look at
> vaccines, because I don’t have the science to say that,” Schattauer said.
> “But I don’t think the science is there to say that it’s not.”
>
> Schattauer said Homefirst’s patients also have significantly less childhood
> asthma and juvenile diabetes compared to national rates. An office manager
> who has been with Homefirst for 17 years said she is aware of only one case
> of severe asthma in an unvaccinated child.
>
> “Sometimes you feel frustrated because you feel like you’ve got a pretty
> big secret,” Schattauer said. He argues for more research on all those
> disorders, independent of political or business pressures.
>
> The asthma rate among Homefirst patients is so low it was noticed by the
> Blue Cross group with which Homefirst is affiliated, according to Eisenstein.
>
> “In the alternative-medicine network which Homefirst is part of, there are
> virtually no cases of childhood asthma, in contrast to the overall Blue
> Cross rate of childhood asthma which is approximately 10 percent,” he said.
> “At first I thought it was because they (Homefirst’s children) were
> breast-fed, but even among the breast-fed we’ve had asthma. We have
> virtually no asthma if you’re breast-fed and not vaccinated.”
>
> Because the diagnosis of asthma is based on emergency-room visits and
> hospital admissions, Eisenstein said, Homefirst’s low rate is hard to
> dispute. “It’s quantifiable — the definition is not reliant on the
> doctor’s perception of asthma.”
>
> Several studies have found a risk of asthma from vaccination; others have
> not. Studies that include never-vaccinated children generally find little
> or no asthma in that group.
>
> 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. “It’s an extremely rare event.”
>
> Bradstreet has a son whose autism he attributes to a vaccine reaction at 15
> months. His daughter has been home-schooled, he describes himself as a
> “Christian family physician,” and he knows many of the leaders in the
> home-school movement.
>
> “There was this whole subculture of folks who went into home-schooling so
> they would never have to vaccinate their kids,” he said. “There’s this
> whole cadre who were never vaccinated for religious reasons.”
>
> In that subset, he said, “unless they were massively exposed to mercury
> through lots of amalgams (mercury dental fillings in the mother) and/or
> big-time fish eating, I’ve not had a single case.”
>
> Federal health authorities and mainstream medical groups emphatically
> dismiss any link between autism and vaccines, including the mercury-based
> preservative thimerosal. Last year a panel of the Institute of Medicine,
> part of the National Academies, said there is no evidence of such a link,
> and funding should henceforth go to “promising” research.
>
> 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.
>
> Thimerosal-preserved vaccines are currently being injected into millions of
> children in developing countries around the world. “My mandate … is to
> make sure at the end of the day that 100,000,000 are immunized … this
> year, next year and for many years to come … and that will have to be
> with thimerosal-containing vaccines,” said John Clements of the World
> Health Organization at a June 2000 meeting called by the CDC.
>
> That meeting was held to review data that thimerosal might be linked with
> autism and other neurological problems. But in 2004 the Institute of
> Medicine panel said evidence against a link is so strong that health
> authorities, “whether in the United States or other countries, should not
> include autism as a potential risk” when formulating immunization policies.
>
> But where is the simple, straightforward study of autism in
> never-vaccinated U.S. children? Based on our admittedly anecdotal and
> limited reporting among the Amish, the home-schooled and now Chicago’s
> Homefirst, that may prove to be a significant omission.
This is an epic cover-up and every Omsted articles
documents the sad history of a lost generation. If interested,the articles are best read from the beginning because of the timeline but every one of them is exceptional.
http://www.vaccinationnews.com/age_of_autism.htm
The feds won’t do the vaccinated/unvaccinated study because they know what they will find.
But former UPI editor Dan Omsted has been investigating the history of autism and did look
at two unvaccinated populations and found almost no
autism. Anactodal evidence but very strong anacdotal
evidence.
The Age of Autism: ‘A pretty big secret’
>
>
> By DAN OLMSTED
> UPI Senior Editor
>
> CHICAGO, Dec. 7 (UPI) — It’s a far piece from the horse-and-buggies of
> Lancaster County, Pa., to the cars and freeways of Cook County, Ill.
>
> But 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 a fairly large practice. 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. Homefirst doctors have delivered more than 15,000 babies
> at home, and thousands of them have never been vaccinated.
>
> The few autistic children Homefirst sees were vaccinated before their
> families became patients, Eisenstein said. “I can think of two or three
> autistic children who we’ve delivered their mother’s next baby, and we
> aren’t really totally taking care of that child — they have special care
> needs. But they bring the younger children to us. I don’t have a single
> case that I can think of that wasn’t vaccinated.”
>
> The autism rate in Illinois public schools is 38 per 10,000, according to
> state Education Department data; the Centers for Disease Control and
> Prevention puts the national rate of autism spectrum disorders at 1 in 166
> — 60 per 10,000.
>
> “We do have enough of a sample,” Eisenstein said. “The numbers are too
> large to not see it. We would absolutely know. We’re all family doctors. If
> I have a child with autism come in, there’s no communication. It’s
> frightening. You can’t touch them. It’s not something that anyone would
> miss.”
>
> No one knows what causes autism, but federal health authorities say it
> isn’t childhood immunizations. Some parents and a small minority of doctors
> and scientists, however, assert vaccines are responsible.
>
> This column has been looking for autism in never-vaccinated U.S. children
> in an effort to shed light on the issue. We went to Chicago to meet with
> Eisenstein at the suggestion of a reader, and we also visited Homefirst’s
> office in northwest suburban Rolling Meadows. Homefirst has four other
> offices in the Chicago area and a total of six doctors.
>
> Eisenstein stresses his observations are not scientific. “The trouble is
> this is just anecdotal in a sense, because what if every autistic child
> goes somewhere else and (their family) never calls us or they moved out of
> state?”
>
> In practice, that’s unlikely to account for the pronounced absence of
> autism, says Eisenstein, who also has a bachelor’s degree in statistics, a
> master’s degree in public health and a law degree.
>
> Homefirst follows state immunization mandates, but Illinois allows
> religious exemptions if parents object based either on tenets of their
> faith or specific personal religious views. Homefirst does not exclude or
> discourage such families. Eisenstein, in fact, is author of the book “Don’t
> Vaccinate Before You Educate!” and is critical of the CDC’s vaccination
> policy in the 1990s, when several new immunizations were added to the
> schedule, including Hepatitis B as early as the day of birth. Several of
> the vaccines — HepB included — contained a mercury-based preservative
> that has since been phased out of most childhood vaccines in the United
> States.
>
> Medical practices with Homefirst’s approach to immunizations are rare.
> “Because of that, we tend to attract families that have questions about
> that issue,” said Dr. Paul Schattauer, who has been with Homefirst for 20
> years and treats “at least” 100 children a week.
>
> Schattauer seconded Eisenstein’s observations. “All I know is in my
> practice I don’t see autism. There is no striking 1-in-166,” he said.
>
> Earlier this year we reported the same phenomenon in the mostly
> unvaccinated Amish. CDC Director Dr. Julie Gerberding told us the Amish
> “have genetic connectivity that would make them different from populations
> that are in other sectors of the United States.” Gerberding said, however,
> studies “could and should be done” in more representative unvaccinated
> groups — if they could be found and their autism rate documented.
>
> Chicago is America’s prototypical “City of Big Shoulders,” to quote Carl
> Sandburg, and Homefirst’s mostly middle-class families seem fairly
> representative. A substantial number are conservative Christians who
> home-school their children. They are mostly white, but the Homefirst
> practice also includes black and Hispanic families and non-home-schooling
> Jews, Catholics and Muslims.
>
> They tend to be better educated, follow healthier diets and breast-feed
> their children much longer than the norm — half of Homefirst’s mothers are
> still breast-feeding at two years. Also, because Homefirst relies less on
> prescription drugs including antibiotics as a first line of treatment,
> these children have less exposure to other medicines, not just vaccines.
>
> Schattauer, interviewed at the Rolling Meadows office, said his caseload is
> too limited to draw conclusions about a possible link between vaccines and
> autism. “With these numbers you’d have a hard time proving or disproving
> anything,” he said. “You can only get a feeling about it.
>
> “In no way would I be an advocate to stand up and say we need to look at
> vaccines, because I don’t have the science to say that,” Schattauer said.
> “But I don’t think the science is there to say that it’s not.”
>
> Schattauer said Homefirst’s patients also have significantly less childhood
> asthma and juvenile diabetes compared to national rates. An office manager
> who has been with Homefirst for 17 years said she is aware of only one case
> of severe asthma in an unvaccinated child.
>
> “Sometimes you feel frustrated because you feel like you’ve got a pretty
> big secret,” Schattauer said. He argues for more research on all those
> disorders, independent of political or business pressures.
>
> The asthma rate among Homefirst patients is so low it was noticed by the
> Blue Cross group with which Homefirst is affiliated, according to Eisenstein.
>
> “In the alternative-medicine network which Homefirst is part of, there are
> virtually no cases of childhood asthma, in contrast to the overall Blue
> Cross rate of childhood asthma which is approximately 10 percent,” he said.
> “At first I thought it was because they (Homefirst’s children) were
> breast-fed, but even among the breast-fed we’ve had asthma. We have
> virtually no asthma if you’re breast-fed and not vaccinated.”
>
> Because the diagnosis of asthma is based on emergency-room visits and
> hospital admissions, Eisenstein said, Homefirst’s low rate is hard to
> dispute. “It’s quantifiable — the definition is not reliant on the
> doctor’s perception of asthma.”
>
> Several studies have found a risk of asthma from vaccination; others have
> not. Studies that include never-vaccinated children generally find little
> or no asthma in that group.
>
> 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. “It’s an extremely rare event.”
>
> Bradstreet has a son whose autism he attributes to a vaccine reaction at 15
> months. His daughter has been home-schooled, he describes himself as a
> “Christian family physician,” and he knows many of the leaders in the
> home-school movement.
>
> “There was this whole subculture of folks who went into home-schooling so
> they would never have to vaccinate their kids,” he said. “There’s this
> whole cadre who were never vaccinated for religious reasons.”
>
> In that subset, he said, “unless they were massively exposed to mercury
> through lots of amalgams (mercury dental fillings in the mother) and/or
> big-time fish eating, I’ve not had a single case.”
>
> Federal health authorities and mainstream medical groups emphatically
> dismiss any link between autism and vaccines, including the mercury-based
> preservative thimerosal. Last year a panel of the Institute of Medicine,
> part of the National Academies, said there is no evidence of such a link,
> and funding should henceforth go to “promising” research.
>
> 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.
>
> Thimerosal-preserved vaccines are currently being injected into millions of
> children in developing countries around the world. “My mandate … is to
> make sure at the end of the day that 100,000,000 are immunized … this
> year, next year and for many years to come … and that will have to be
> with thimerosal-containing vaccines,” said John Clements of the World
> Health Organization at a June 2000 meeting called by the CDC.
>
> That meeting was held to review data that thimerosal might be linked with
> autism and other neurological problems. But in 2004 the Institute of
> Medicine panel said evidence against a link is so strong that health
> authorities, “whether in the United States or other countries, should not
> include autism as a potential risk” when formulating immunization policies.
>
> But where is the simple, straightforward study of autism in
> never-vaccinated U.S. children? Based on our admittedly anecdotal and
> limited reporting among the Amish, the home-schooled and now Chicago’s
> Homefirst, that may prove to be a significant omission.
>
The Age of Autism: ‘A pretty big secret’
>
>
> By DAN OLMSTED
> UPI Senior Editor
>
> CHICAGO, Dec. 7 (UPI) — It’s a far piece from the horse-and-buggies of
> Lancaster County, Pa., to the cars and freeways of Cook County, Ill.
>
> But 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 a fairly large practice. 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. Homefirst doctors have delivered more than 15,000 babies
> at home, and thousands of them have never been vaccinated.
>
> The few autistic children Homefirst sees were vaccinated before their
> families became patients, Eisenstein said. “I can think of two or three
> autistic children who we’ve delivered their mother’s next baby, and we
> aren’t really totally taking care of that child — they have special care
> needs. But they bring the younger children to us. I don’t have a single
> case that I can think of that wasn’t vaccinated.”
>
> The autism rate in Illinois public schools is 38 per 10,000, according to
> state Education Department data; the Centers for Disease Control and
> Prevention puts the national rate of autism spectrum disorders at 1 in 166
> — 60 per 10,000.
>
> “We do have enough of a sample,” Eisenstein said. “The numbers are too
> large to not see it. We would absolutely know. We’re all family doctors. If
> I have a child with autism come in, there’s no communication. It’s
> frightening. You can’t touch them. It’s not something that anyone would
> miss.”
>
> No one knows what causes autism, but federal health authorities say it
> isn’t childhood immunizations. Some parents and a small minority of doctors
> and scientists, however, assert vaccines are responsible.
>
> This column has been looking for autism in never-vaccinated U.S. children
> in an effort to shed light on the issue. We went to Chicago to meet with
> Eisenstein at the suggestion of a reader, and we also visited Homefirst’s
> office in northwest suburban Rolling Meadows. Homefirst has four other
> offices in the Chicago area and a total of six doctors.
>
> Eisenstein stresses his observations are not scientific. “The trouble is
> this is just anecdotal in a sense, because what if every autistic child
> goes somewhere else and (their family) never calls us or they moved out of
> state?”
>
> In practice, that’s unlikely to account for the pronounced absence of
> autism, says Eisenstein, who also has a bachelor’s degree in statistics, a
> master’s degree in public health and a law degree.
>
> Homefirst follows state immunization mandates, but Illinois allows
> religious exemptions if parents object based either on tenets of their
> faith or specific personal religious views. Homefirst does not exclude or
> discourage such families. Eisenstein, in fact, is author of the book “Don’t
> Vaccinate Before You Educate!” and is critical of the CDC’s vaccination
> policy in the 1990s, when several new immunizations were added to the
> schedule, including Hepatitis B as early as the day of birth. Several of
> the vaccines — HepB included — contained a mercury-based preservative
> that has since been phased out of most childhood vaccines in the United
> States.
>
> Medical practices with Homefirst’s approach to immunizations are rare.
> “Because of that, we tend to attract families that have questions about
> that issue,” said Dr. Paul Schattauer, who has been with Homefirst for 20
> years and treats “at least” 100 children a week.
>
> Schattauer seconded Eisenstein’s observations. “All I know is in my
> practice I don’t see autism. There is no striking 1-in-166,” he said.
>
> Earlier this year we reported the same phenomenon in the mostly
> unvaccinated Amish. CDC Director Dr. Julie Gerberding told us the Amish
> “have genetic connectivity that would make them different from populations
> that are in other sectors of the United States.” Gerberding said, however,
> studies “could and should be done” in more representative unvaccinated
> groups — if they could be found and their autism rate documented.
>
> Chicago is America’s prototypical “City of Big Shoulders,” to quote Carl
> Sandburg, and Homefirst’s mostly middle-class families seem fairly
> representative. A substantial number are conservative Christians who
> home-school their children. They are mostly white, but the Homefirst
> practice also includes black and Hispanic families and non-home-schooling
> Jews, Catholics and Muslims.
>
> They tend to be better educated, follow healthier diets and breast-feed
> their children much longer than the norm — half of Homefirst’s mothers are
> still breast-feeding at two years. Also, because Homefirst relies less on
> prescription drugs including antibiotics as a first line of treatment,
> these children have less exposure to other medicines, not just vaccines.
>
> Schattauer, interviewed at the Rolling Meadows office, said his caseload is
> too limited to draw conclusions about a possible link between vaccines and
> autism. “With these numbers you’d have a hard time proving or disproving
> anything,” he said. “You can only get a feeling about it.
>
> “In no way would I be an advocate to stand up and say we need to look at
> vaccines, because I don’t have the science to say that,” Schattauer said.
> “But I don’t think the science is there to say that it’s not.”
>
> Schattauer said Homefirst’s patients also have significantly less childhood
> asthma and juvenile diabetes compared to national rates. An office manager
> who has been with Homefirst for 17 years said she is aware of only one case
> of severe asthma in an unvaccinated child.
>
> “Sometimes you feel frustrated because you feel like you’ve got a pretty
> big secret,” Schattauer said. He argues for more research on all those
> disorders, independent of political or business pressures.
>
> The asthma rate among Homefirst patients is so low it was noticed by the
> Blue Cross group with which Homefirst is affiliated, according to Eisenstein.
>
> “In the alternative-medicine network which Homefirst is part of, there are
> virtually no cases of childhood asthma, in contrast to the overall Blue
> Cross rate of childhood asthma which is approximately 10 percent,” he said.
> “At first I thought it was because they (Homefirst’s children) were
> breast-fed, but even among the breast-fed we’ve had asthma. We have
> virtually no asthma if you’re breast-fed and not vaccinated.”
>
> Because the diagnosis of asthma is based on emergency-room visits and
> hospital admissions, Eisenstein said, Homefirst’s low rate is hard to
> dispute. “It’s quantifiable — the definition is not reliant on the
> doctor’s perception of asthma.”
>
> Several studies have found a risk of asthma from vaccination; others have
> not. Studies that include never-vaccinated children generally find little
> or no asthma in that group.
>
> 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. “It’s an extremely rare event.”
>
> Bradstreet has a son whose autism he attributes to a vaccine reaction at 15
> months. His daughter has been home-schooled, he describes himself as a
> “Christian family physician,” and he knows many of the leaders in the
> home-school movement.
>
> “There was this whole subculture of folks who went into home-schooling so
> they would never have to vaccinate their kids,” he said. “There’s this
> whole cadre who were never vaccinated for religious reasons.”
>
> In that subset, he said, “unless they were massively exposed to mercury
> through lots of amalgams (mercury dental fillings in the mother) and/or
> big-time fish eating, I’ve not had a single case.”
>
> Federal health authorities and mainstream medical groups emphatically
> dismiss any link between autism and vaccines, including the mercury-based
> preservative thimerosal. Last year a panel of the Institute of Medicine,
> part of the National Academies, said there is no evidence of such a link,
> and funding should henceforth go to “promising” research.
>
> 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.
>
> Thimerosal-preserved vaccines are currently being injected into millions of
> children in developing countries around the world. “My mandate … is to
> make sure at the end of the day that 100,000,000 are immunized … this
> year, next year and for many years to come … and that will have to be
> with thimerosal-containing vaccines,” said John Clements of the World
> Health Organization at a June 2000 meeting called by the CDC.
>
> That meeting was held to review data that thimerosal might be linked with
> autism and other neurological problems. But in 2004 the Institute of
> Medicine panel said evidence against a link is so strong that health
> authorities, “whether in the United States or other countries, should not
> include autism as a potential risk” when formulating immunization policies.
>
> But where is the simple, straightforward study of autism in
> never-vaccinated U.S. children? Based on our admittedly anecdotal and
> limited reporting among the Amish, the home-schooled and now Chicago’s
> Homefirst, that may prove to be a significant omission.
This is an epic cover-up and every Omsted articles
documents the sad history of a lost generation. If interested,the articles are best read from the beginning because of the timeline but every one of them is exceptional.
http://www.vaccinationnews.com/age_of_autism.htm
Ask your self why this preservative Thimerosal is still in the flu shots and given to preg. women at all trimesters with all this damning information, also Thimerosal is in the shots given to collage kids, how do you ask a kid to learn after giving him or her something that reduces the IQ ???? That’s counter productive don’t you think???? It thimerosal containing flu vacc.’s was also recommended for children 6 mos. to three yr’s of age, all the while knowing that children 6 mos. to three yr’s get absolutely no benefit from the inactivated flu vaccine except that of a placebo effect. That was the latest study back when Dr. Julie Gerberding allowed it back in after removing it from the children’s vaccines. And you would ask, for what reason would she do that ??? answer If you put it back in the numbers will not fall. That is why they said when talking about removing Thimerosal from children’s vaccines they said we have a plan in place. Pretty diabolical huh!
MATERIAL SAFETY DATA SHEET (MSDS)
TOXICOLOGICAL INFORMATION:
Acute toxicity: LD50 = 75 mg/kg(rat-oral),
Further Toxicological Information: Quantitative data on the toxicity of this
product are not available. The following applies to organic mercury compounds in
general: long-term exposure leads to disorders/damage of the nervous system.
Danger of skin absorption. Sensitisation with allergic manifestations in
predisposed persons. Pregnant women should not be exposed to the product.
Further hazardous properties cannot be excluded.
• Further data: This product should be handled with the care usual when dealing
with chemicals. Under reactivity data in the MSDS it says to stay away from aluminum! guess what is in children’s vaccines as a catalyst ALUMINUM By the way mercury and aluminum react violently together. That’s a well known fact from miners that mined for gold They Lilly was apparently told this also
This was found in Eli Lilly s Documents the inventor of thimerosal
1972 British Medical Journal reports case of skin burns resulting from the chemical interaction of thimerosal and
aluminum. “Mercury is known to act as a catalyst and to cause aluminum to oxidize rapidly, with the production of heat.” “The manufacturers who supply us with thimerosal have been informed.” [Thimerosal is being used in vaccines which also contain
aluminum]. So with all this evidence isn’t this considered domestic terrorism ????
Ask your self why this preservative Thimerosal is still in the flu shots and given to preg. women at all trimesters with all this damning information, also Thimerosal is in the shots given to collage kids, how do you ask a kid to learn after giving him or her something that reduces the IQ ???? That’s counter productive don’t you think???? It thimerosal containing flu vacc.’s was also recommended for children 6 mos. to three yr’s of age, all the while knowing that children 6 mos. to three yr’s get absolutely no benefit from the inactivated flu vaccine except that of a placebo effect. That was the latest study back when Dr. Julie Gerberding allowed it back in after removing it from the children’s vaccines. And you would ask, for what reason would she do that ??? answer If you put it back in the numbers will not fall. That is why they said when talking about removing Thimerosal from children’s vaccines they said we have a plan in place. Pretty diabolical huh!
MATERIAL SAFETY DATA SHEET (MSDS)
TOXICOLOGICAL INFORMATION:
Acute toxicity: LD50 = 75 mg/kg(rat-oral),
Further Toxicological Information: Quantitative data on the toxicity of this
product are not available. The following applies to organic mercury compounds in
general: long-term exposure leads to disorders/damage of the nervous system.
Danger of skin absorption. Sensitisation with allergic manifestations in
predisposed persons. Pregnant women should not be exposed to the product.
Further hazardous properties cannot be excluded.
• Further data: This product should be handled with the care usual when dealing
with chemicals. Under reactivity data in the MSDS it says to stay away from aluminum! guess what is in children’s vaccines as a catalyst ALUMINUM By the way mercury and aluminum react violently together. That’s a well known fact from miners that mined for gold They Lilly was apparently told this also
This was found in Eli Lilly s Documents the inventor of thimerosal
1972 British Medical Journal reports case of skin burns resulting from the chemical interaction of thimerosal and
aluminum. “Mercury is known to act as a catalyst and to cause aluminum to oxidize rapidly, with the production of heat.” “The manufacturers who supply us with thimerosal have been informed.” [Thimerosal is being used in vaccines which also contain
aluminum]. So with all this evidence isn’t this considered domestic terrorism ????
Statement from Lilly in 1976
“We are not aware of any instance of ‘mercury poisoning’ after decades of marketing this product.” said in 1976 the next line calls them a lier
1972 Article received by Lilly: Merthiolate in vaccines caused six deaths ? “The symptoms and clinical course of the six patients suggest sub acute mercury poisoning.”
4/27/76 Lilly responds to Rexall Drug Company’s efforts to place the following warning on Merthiolate product: “Frequent or prolonged use or application to large areas may cause mercury poisoning.” Lilly objects to this proposed warning, stating:
“We object to the connection of our trademark with the unjustified alarm and concern on the part of the user which the statement is likely to cause? . We are not aware of any instance of ‘mercury poisoning’ after decades of marketing this product. This is because the mercury in the product is organically bound ethylmercury as a completely non- toxic nature, not methylmercury.” this was in 1972
seems they wern’t aware of Dr. Engleys findings from 1948 in the AMA paid for blue ribbon panel study
also in the AMA Journal
Dr. Engleys and teams findings
“We found thimerosal is toxic down to a level that is almost unbelievable. Down to 1.10, maybe 100 nanograms…a millionth of a gram and that is about as toxic as you can get,” he said.”
Also Thimerosal is neither efficacious nor safe, and should be removed as a preservative in prescription biologics and pharmaceutical products, as well as from topical over-the-counter products such as Butt-Balm that have Thimerosal present in their formulations as an active ingredient.
Remember all the flu vaccines that had to be destroyed over half from one manuf. It was preserved
with Thimerosal it could not even kill the easest to
kill microbe
also Dr. Engley tells of a story from 1938 from one of the biggest blood drives for Brittish war efforts ever, It to was preserved with Thimerosal and all of it arrived useless much like the current CDC
This was also a Quote from Dr. Engley “if they had followed through on our 82 report the vaccines would have been freed of thimerosal and all this autism they tell me would not have occurred” you cannot get any more clearer than that…. and they say they don’t know what is causing autism that is pure BS and this statement proves it.
So our children were damaged,and costing states tons of money for no apparent benefit acording to Dr. Engley and his blue ribbon panels findings.
Statement from Lilly in 1976
“We are not aware of any instance of ‘mercury poisoning’ after decades of marketing this product.” said in 1976 the next line calls them a lier
1972 Article received by Lilly: Merthiolate in vaccines caused six deaths ? “The symptoms and clinical course of the six patients suggest sub acute mercury poisoning.”
4/27/76 Lilly responds to Rexall Drug Company’s efforts to place the following warning on Merthiolate product: “Frequent or prolonged use or application to large areas may cause mercury poisoning.” Lilly objects to this proposed warning, stating:
“We object to the connection of our trademark with the unjustified alarm and concern on the part of the user which the statement is likely to cause? . We are not aware of any instance of ‘mercury poisoning’ after decades of marketing this product. This is because the mercury in the product is organically bound ethylmercury as a completely non- toxic nature, not methylmercury.” this was in 1972
seems they wern’t aware of Dr. Engleys findings from 1948 in the AMA paid for blue ribbon panel study
also in the AMA Journal
Dr. Engleys and teams findings
“We found thimerosal is toxic down to a level that is almost unbelievable. Down to 1.10, maybe 100 nanograms…a millionth of a gram and that is about as toxic as you can get,” he said.”
Also Thimerosal is neither efficacious nor safe, and should be removed as a preservative in prescription biologics and pharmaceutical products, as well as from topical over-the-counter products such as Butt-Balm that have Thimerosal present in their formulations as an active ingredient.
Remember all the flu vaccines that had to be destroyed over half from one manuf. It was preserved
with Thimerosal it could not even kill the easest to
kill microbe
also Dr. Engley tells of a story from 1938 from one of the biggest blood drives for Brittish war efforts ever, It to was preserved with Thimerosal and all of it arrived useless much like the current CDC
This was also a Quote from Dr. Engley “if they had followed through on our 82 report the vaccines would have been freed of thimerosal and all this autism they tell me would not have occurred” you cannot get any more clearer than that…. and they say they don’t know what is causing autism that is pure BS and this statement proves it.
So our children were damaged,and costing states tons of money for no apparent benefit acording to Dr. Engley and his blue ribbon panels findings.
Did you actually READ the study? I would suggest either reading (for the first time) or going back and re-reading the study. Then, adjust your article accordingly.
Did you actually READ the study? I would suggest either reading (for the first time) or going back and re-reading the study. Then, adjust your article accordingly.
In 1931, Dr. Charles Richet won a Nobel Prize for his theory on “Anaphylaxis”, which can be accessed at:
http://tinyurl.com/3eey7p
Almost one hundred years ago, Dr. Richet discovered that our immune systems are as unique to each individual as are our fingerprints and DNA. Which means, the scientific likelihood of developing a “one size fits all vaccine” is all but impossible.
So, why do we insist on giving a newborn infant, within hours of birth, the HEP B vaccine….when there is no way ANYONE can know if that infant has inherited a genetic INTOLERANCE for the varied substances in that vaccine?
In 1931, Dr. Charles Richet won a Nobel Prize for his theory on “Anaphylaxis”, which can be accessed at:
http://tinyurl.com/3eey7p
Almost one hundred years ago, Dr. Richet discovered that our immune systems are as unique to each individual as are our fingerprints and DNA. Which means, the scientific likelihood of developing a “one size fits all vaccine” is all but impossible.
So, why do we insist on giving a newborn infant, within hours of birth, the HEP B vaccine….when there is no way ANYONE can know if that infant has inherited a genetic INTOLERANCE for the varied substances in that vaccine?
Curious to know why my previous comments were not printed re: Charles Richet’s “anaphylaxis” theory?
Curious to know why my previous comments were not printed re: Charles Richet’s “anaphylaxis” theory?
Thank you, everyone, for your comments. I realized that my poor wording of the vaccine/autism connection implied that the study ruled out any connection, which is not the case. In an attempt to return the focus of the article to indoor air quality and the possible health effects of chemicals in the home, I have removed the parts of the article addressing vaccines. I included a note at the end of the article. I apologize for the implication and applaud those of you who endeavor to find a cure for autism.
As I mentioned in an earlier comment, another Green Options site, Eco Childs Play, contains articles on mercury in vaccines.
Thank you, everyone, for your comments. I realized that my poor wording of the vaccine/autism connection implied that the study ruled out any connection, which is not the case. In an attempt to return the focus of the article to indoor air quality and the possible health effects of chemicals in the home, I have removed the parts of the article addressing vaccines. I included a note at the end of the article. I apologize for the implication and applaud those of you who endeavor to find a cure for autism.
As I mentioned in an earlier comment, another Green Options site, Eco Childs Play, contains articles on mercury in vaccines.