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Posted August 25, 2008

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Is Autism Behind the Rise in the Number of Cases of Measles?

Your comment is nonsensical. At the time of going to press there are no identified autism genes though most people agree that there may be some genetic predisposition towards environmental damage (as for instance in the Hannah Poling case, and mitochondrial dysfuntion).

As to the rise in measles I don't think you can say more than that more cases are being confirmed by health officials trying to push the vaccine programme, and that MMR may not be as effective as they pretend (in the UK officials have been ordering double vaccinations in measles affected areas).

There is every reason to be more concerned at the spread of autism than measles, and the fact that the officials from the CDC and AAP don't see it that way detracts vastly from their credibility. Almost no one is dying from measles and autism is a life sentence.

Measles

Please research your opinions before you declare "evidence".

Numerous studies including one from Wake Forest University have found persistent measles virus, of the same strain as the MMR, causing hyperplasia in the GI systems of Autistic children.

It has literally been found in their spinal fluid.

... Stephen J. Walker, Ph.D., an assistant professor of physiology and pharmacology at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center. Walker and colleagues have issued an abstract to be presented at this week’s International Meeting for Autism Research, indicating that a high percentage of autistic children that they have tested with chronic bowel disease show evidence of measles virus in their intestines.

Why has the media failed to understand the breech of confidence here? Studied viral damage to the gut and brain better?

Are pharmaceutical ad revenues at risk?

Vaccines do not insure 100% immunity.

The Iowa mumps outbreak and recent outbreaks of chicken pox were among the vaccinated as well as unvaccinated.

This is nothing more than an attempt to promote a bloated vaccine schedule that appears to be failing.

Vaccines should be regulated by independent agencies for safety.

They should be Mercury and toxin free before they are injected in our young infants. Infants who are not allowed solid food, peanuts, cow's milk, eggs and honey until age one.

Parents should be free to govern their children's health and not subject to mandates from agencies entwined with the vaccine industry.

The heavily conflicted CDC that both promotes and regulates vaccines cannot be trusted. How can we ever expect an unbias answer from them.

It's time to put our children before the almighty Pharmaceutical dollar!!!

Pay now or pay later, as the rates climb to 1:150, 1:80 BOYS 1:40 twins!!!

AUTISM

U.S. News tells us that genes, not vaccines, are the cause of autism, yet your own health editor, Dr. Bernadine Healy told the public on CBS Evening News in May that the studies have not been done that would disprove a link between vaccines and autism. She admonished officials for talking like they had.

Anne Dachel

Media editor

Age of Autism

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