I got this article from ageofautism.com I hope they don’t mind. If this is really going to happen I would expect the President to say something.
CDC Study Expected to Announce 1 in 100 Autism Rate—A
Startling 50% Jump in Just Two Years. Evidence Points to an Environmental Trigger.
CDC Study Expected to Announce 1 in 100 Autism Rate—A Startling 50% Jump in Just Two Years. Evidence Points to an Environmental Trigger. SafeMinds calls for more targeted environmental research and vaccine safety studies to begin immediately.
Atlanta, GA – Researchers report that autism has risen to an epidemic rate of 1 in 100 children in a study to be released on Friday by the Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring (ADDM) Network office of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), This rate represents a 50% increase between the two birth cohort years of 1994 and 1996 and mirrors a recent study released by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), which found a rate of 1 in 91 children, 1 in 58 boys.
In 2007, the ADDM released a similar study conducted in 2002 examining children born in 1994 that found the autism rate to be 1 in 150. In the study to be released Friday, the CDC looked at children born in 1996 (8 years old in 2004) and determined that there was a substantial increase of 50% between those two birth years.
This study and other recently published research clearly indicate that autism cannot solely be caused by genetic differences because it is impossible for genetic diseases to increase at such astronomical rates. It also cannot be explained by better diagnosing, changes in diagnostic criteria or migration patterns. It is clearly triggered by the environment. It’s well past time that CDC and NIH treat the autism epidemic with the national emergency status it deserves and act with crisis level response.
Though alarming, researchers MUST acknowledge the obvious trend and its connection to the environment to help children. This conclusion is supported by an NIH funded study released earlier this year by the UC Davis M.I.N.D, Institute which “found that the seven- to eight-fold increase in the number children born in California with autism since 1990 cannot be explained by either changes in how the condition is diagnosed or counted — and the trend shows no sign of abating.” The study’s lead investigator, Dr. Irva Hertz-Picciotto , a professor of environmental and occupational health and epidemiology and an internationally respected autism researcher, added, “It’s time to start looking for the environmental culprits responsible for the remarkable increase in the rate of autism in California.”
The two ADDM reports from 1994 and 1996 birth years provide autism researchers a significant investigative clue by narrowing the years needed to investigate what changed in the environment to trigger such an increase in autism in such a short time frame.
The skyrocketing increase in autism in the 1990’s and 2000’s came at a time when mercury emissions have been increasing worldwide, the content of mercury in infant vaccines more than tripled, and the number of vaccines given to children went from 18 shots to 36 shots today. Now, it is determined that autism increased at an incredible 50% between 1994 and 1996 at the same time that the uptake rate of the Hepatitis B vaccine among infants accelerated immensely. This vaccine series added 62.5 more micrograms of mercury to babies, putting them over the the dose considered safe by the EPA for an average weight infant.
The Hepatitis B vaccine at birth has also received sharp criticism from advocates after a recent study by Laura Hewitson, University of Pittsburgh, which found that infant macaques given the Hep B birth dose, adjusted for macaque weight, showed statistically significant developmental delays.
SafeMinds calls on the CDC and the National Institutes of Health Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC) to close vaccine safety research gaps identified by the National Vaccine Advisory Committee (NVAC) in an independent and transparent manner. We ask that the government appropriate money immediately to compare ALL health outcomes among fully vaccinated children with those of unvaccinated children. Incredibly, such a study has never been done for any single vaccine nor the entire vaccine schedule collectively and has now been officially identified as a vaccine safety gap by NIH’s own scientific advisory committee, the National Vaccine Advisory Committee (NVAC).
The US government has spent billions on a failed H1N1 vaccination program, and to date, the CDC has yet to respond to the NVAC’s Recommendations to the to improve vaccine safety. These recommendations for greater vaccine safety were echoed in an Institute of Medicine (IOM) report released Friday (11th).
They stated that the United States needs to establish a permanent group that advises the government on vaccine safety and substantially increase research monies to improve vaccine safety and address public concern. “How many more scientific advisory reports need to be issued before the government chooses to protect vulnerable populations from vaccine injury?”, asked Theresa Wrangham, President of SafeMinds.
Additionally, SafeMinds calls on the IACC and National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) to initiate research using existing data from the CDC’s National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) to facilitate the establishment of reference ranges for mercury and other developmental toxicants, especially for vulnerable subgroups like women of child-bearing age and young children. Such a study could look for associations between higher body burdens of toxicants and a range of childhood health outcomes could help to assess levels of exposure that are unsafe, and could help set research priorities for toxicants which have the greatest potential to diminish human health. This information would facilitate the type of cause and treatment oriented research that is so desperately needed.
SafeMinds is a charitable non-profit and leader in funding and advancing the science regarding mercury exposure as it relates to autism. Our expertise extends beyond mercury-related exposures to broader vaccine safety issues, as many of our Board Members hold government agency committee positions such as the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee, various CDC Vaccine Committees, the Department of Defense Autism Spectrum Disorder Research Program and the National Vaccine Advisory Committee’s Vaccine Safety Working Group.
Precisely how the swine flu chronicle will play out remains to be seen, but there is one business sector that may in secret be hoping for the worst — vaccine manufacturers, that are more than $1 billion richer, a total that will soar far higher if, in fact, the winter outbreak is as bad as many fear.
Halo-worthy as vaccine makers may seem, the truth is that Big Pharma is motivated by further than a desire to save humankind, given the enormous profit potential from a successful vaccine. New blockbuster products and manufacturer-friendly legislation have combined to make the global vaccine market even larger and more lucrative than ever. In fact, the vaccine market is growing even faster than the market for regular pharmaceutical drugs, bringing in as much as $20 billion or more, by some estimates. That’s because the markup on vaccines is bigger than on pharmaceutical drugs, making them especially profitable. However, as the use of vaccines has extended exponentially in recent years, so have concerns regarding their safety and efficacy.
Vaccine Risk
Vaccines have enabled us to take major steps forward in public health, virtually eradicating destructive diseases, such as polio and smallpox, says Larry Sasich, PharmD, MPH, an assistant professor of pharmacy practice at the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine (LECOM) School of Pharmacy in Erie, Pennsylvania. But vaccines are drugs, he points out, and all drugs carry some risks. Though rare, vaccines have been known to cause seizures, brain damage and even death.
In the early 1980s, consumers deluged manufacturers with lawsuits, most especially parents whose children had suffered complications after inoculation with the problematic DTP vaccine (immunization against diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis, or whooping cough). Fearing the public health consequences if vaccine makers responded by reducing production or pulling out of the market altogether, the federal government passed the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 to shield manufacturers from legal responsibility.
Legislated Protection from Liability
The 1986 act created the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP), which protected vaccine makers from lawsuits and set compensation standards for people injured by their manufactured goods. For example, compensation for vaccine-related deaths is limited to $250,000 — a fraction of what might be awarded by a jury in a civil trial if, say, a child had a fatal vaccine reaction. In truth, this amount of money is like pocket change to drug companies, and they aren’t even the ones who must pay up — the federal government writes the check. This protection may help get important vaccines to market faster, but it doesn’t do much to guarantee safety, because vaccine manufacturers are shielded from consequences for products that turn out to be problematic or even dangerous.
Also, vaccines are genetically engineered and opponents are forbidden by law from duplicating them. This gives producers a virtual monopoly on their products. Since they never have to face competition, biologic-based vaccines continue to generate big profits for years and years and years.
Gardasil: A Cautionary Story
Protecting manufacturers this way puts consumers at risk. In 2006, for example, despite meager data to support its safety and effectiveness, Merck introduced and aggressively marketed Gardasil, a new vaccine designed to protect girls and young women from cancer-causing strains of the human papillomavirus (HPV). Among their questionable marketing tactics, the firm gave hundreds of thousands of dollars in “grants” to medical associations to develop educational materials promoting the vaccine. Even worse, Merck made substantial campaign contributions to state legislators — as it lobbied them to make Gardasil mandatory for girls attending public schools.
Yet, this vaccine doesn’t vanquish a toxic disease such as polio or smallpox. Rather it protects against four viruses that comprise 70% of the HPV strains that cause cervical cancer — and even if they’ve received the vaccine, women still require regular screening for the disease. While study results published in the August 2009 issue of Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) note that Gardasil has a safety record in line with that of other vaccines, serious complications (including an increased risk for potentially fatal blood clots) have been reported. Gardasil is also painful and painfully pricey. The three-shot series costs $400 to $1,000, which is only sometimes covered by insurance, and last year brought in $1.4 billion in sales for Merck… amazing, given that there’s no evidence yet how long immunity will even last or whether booster shots will prove necessary. Thus far, the vaccine has been successful in preventing HPV infections that precede cervical cancer, but since this type of cancer takes years to develop, only time will tell whether Gardasil protects against cervical cancer itself.
Moving Forward: The Argument Continues
Even in the face of a pandemic, it remains impossible to come to a consensus regarding vaccines and whether they should be mandatory. Consumer advocates argue for greater regulation and higher standards (e.g., for new vaccines and other drugs, medical devices and procedures), while industry insists that government ought to keep its hands off. As for the vaccine shield protecting Big Pharma from liability, some legislators talk of getting rid of it while others exclaim it should be strengthened.
Dr. Sasich told me that he personally believes that vaccines have the potential to do enormous benefit for society and that the vaccine shield enables science and technology to step forward faster and more efficiently. While I agree that many immunizations save lives, I am skeptical about some of the more recent entries into the vaccination arena, such as Gardasil. Perhaps makers need a stick as well as a carrot — financial responsibility for failures as well as windfall profits for success — to motivate them to ensure that vaccines are not dangerous, necessary and effective before introducing them on a large-scale starting point to the American public, much less making them mandatory.
Source(s):
Larry Sasich, PharmD, MPH, pharmacist and assistant professor of pharmacy practice, Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine (LECOM) School of Pharmacy, Erie, PA.
With the economy the way it is, I thought I would enter this opportunity on the blog. It may do someone some good. We are getting a lot of traffic these days and we seem to be getting lots of new people every day. Matt is too old to get any such help. It is for children much younger. Besides we tried some of this 20 years ago and it didn’t seem to help much. On the other hand he did seem to have gut problems but no one out there could help at that time. Besides his major problem has always been rage. They didn’t have Indural back then. The older he got the worse the rage got. When he turned 14 was his first hospitalization.
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Applications for the second round of Generation Rescue’s Rescue Family grant program are available now on the GR Web site.
The program is available for children diagnosed with an Autism Spectrum Disorder and who have not yet started any biomedical treatment. Grant recipients are given vitamins, supplements, DAN! doctor visits, guidance in implementing biomedical treatment and a gluten- and casein- free diet. Families are asked to document their children’s progress during the program.
For more information about the Rescue Family grant program or to obtain an application, visit the Generation Rescue Web site. We will continue to post new information there as details develop. Applications must be received by Dec. 10, 2009.
Welcome to the autistic blog. Right now we are focusing on my son Matt and his Autism rage or if you want to call it beta rage in Autism.
Matt’s Meeting on the 9th went well. They called it Matt’s Periodic Review. The hospital stay didn’t hardly come up. Tim the manager was there. Sue the therapist, Me and his mom Pat. Jim the group home manager, Tina his co-ordinator and Donna the psychologist,
They scanned their charts and said Matt is actually improving in his behavior.
We talked about whether or not Matt could come home for Thanksgiving for dinner or an overnighter and that was ruled out because they want Matt to learn to rely on his new group home as his “Home”. So we will be going over there on Tuesday for dinner at his “House”. Then on Thursday at my sisters house as usual.
I wondered if they upped his Indural and I guess they did. It is now three doses of 20 MG during the day and one 250 slow acting at bed time for a total of 310 mg daily. That is getting much closer to the usual dose for treating high blood pressure of 450 mg daily. I have noticed a change in his behavior too. He is still being a jerk at times but the funny thing is that it doesn’t go any where. He gets mad at someone then he yells and maybe pushes a bit and goes in his room and calms down. Before this would turn into something ugly with him getting the short end of the stick or hurt or both. So that said his tendencies are more normal I think.
They talked about Sensory Integration Intervention. That may have some slight effect but I think once Matt gets used to the effects of the Indural he will be pretty good. (Pray to God). Maybe right now he has to get used to being able to calm himself down like a normal person.
Thats it for the meeting. The rest was a lot of paperwork and legal stuff and chit chat and back slapping.
The latest on Matt is that he did have an outburst about 2 weeks ago. He did a lot of new things. He hit and pushed people, He picked up a coffee table and threw it at one of the other clients at the group home. OK that is bad and when you are looking for breaks in his behavour because he is on Imdural for his Beta Rage, this can be discouraging. On the other hand no one was injured really.
OK so the group home called the police and they took him to the hospital in Mt. Clemens. I hear he sat there pretty calm until they said “well he is pretty calm and not feeling like killing himself or others, I guess we won’t admit him.”
Matt didn’t like that at all. So he physically attacked his 2 care givers and tried to escape. He did this in front of the doctor and nurses. Of course the doctor changed his mind and admitted Matt for 4 days. I went over the next day to sign some papers and stopped in to see Matt and asked “What are you up to”? He said he did it on purpose so he could get away from the group home and go to the hospital.
He was real good on his behavour for the rest of his stay. Before they let him out the nurse called and said it looks like he just needed to get away from the group home for a while. They said it would have been cheaper to take him home for a weekend once in a while or at least an overnighter. He is not allowed to do that. So I guess at the next meeting on the ninth I will bring that up.
They are really strict at the group home. Three care givers for 2 to 3 clients. Matt has to wear an alarm that goes off if he goes by a door. He can’t go outside alone. Stuff like that.
So the good news is he was making it up I think and the real beta rage is subsiding somewhat.
1 in every 166 children in the United States has autism.
What’s causing this epidemic?
Is it possible that the FDA has made yet another grave oversight?
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Evidence of Harm is essentially the story of parents with autistic children
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Business, Big Science and Big Government with a radical new theory on the
cause. These parents have uncovered compelling evidence that vaccine
mercury, in the form of the preservative Thimerosal, could very well have
played a role in the disease, and their medical, scientific, legal, and
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Disabled by a Flu Shot – Please Pass This To Everyone
Hello,
My name is Desiree Jennings and I am a twenty-five year old woman. I work full-time as a Marketing Communications Manager for a large Internet company. I am currently finishing up on my bachelor’s degree in Finance and Economics this fall and hope to go on to a Masters in Economics in 2010.
In my spare time, I enjoy running in and training for races from 5Ks to marathons. I am also a leader of a local run club, training beginning runners for 5K and 10K races. I am training for the National Marathon in DC in March and just lately became a member of the Washington Redskins Cheerleader Ambassador team.
That was the life that I used to know.
On August 23, 2009, I received a seasonal flu vaccine at a local grocery store that drastically, and potentially irreversibly, altered my future. In a matter of a few short weeks I lost the ability to walk, talk normally, and focus on more than one stimuli at a time. Whenever I eat I know, without fail, that my body will soon go into uncontrollable convulsions coupled with periods of blacking out.
Every day is a battle to control the symptoms triggered by the flu vaccine shot and a reminder that my life will never be the same. I set up this site to tell my story and warn the people of the neurological side effects than can result from vaccinations; especially knowing that in the majority of these cases, their stories are seldom heard outside of immediate families and friends.
I hope everyone that reads my story will heed my warning and think very carefully, including watching my story, reading the information about vaccine side effects on my website, reading the vaccine package insert, considering the natural remedies for flu and H1N1 on my site, and seeking out consultations with the doctors found on my website, before making the decision to receive a vaccination.
This takes weeks to show a trend. It has been about 3 weeks since the holiday Blow Up. As I stated before Matt has recently been diagnosed as having Beta Rage. That is a mental condition where someone goes into rage somewhat without cause or much warning. Makes a lot of noise and does some damage. This person really doesn’t know why they do it and when they calm down in about 45 minutes they knew they did it but are very sorry and apologetic and may even cry a bit. I can say for sure that this behavior is traumatic for the family also. A person never really gets used to it. The treatment is to give the rage person Beta Blockers. That is a blood pressure medicine. In this case Indural. you can check here for details on this drug Indural. There is nothing there about rage.
Ok so Matt was on it for 3 weeks and then he had some pretty bad attacks. A problem is that he was on a trial dose of 10 mg twice a day. They are suppose to start out on a small dose to see if it lowers his blood pressure too much and there is a possibility of an allergic reaction. After that last reaction they boosted him up to 20mg. per day. There is a usual maximum dose of 450mg per day. So we are still in the safety range maybe.
Since he has been on the higher dose there has been no problems like before. He is not like a zombie because he got into an argument with a care giver over not taking his meds on time. He wanted to finish his grooming in the AM and they waited till the last second to get him up and an argument ensued but calmed down right away. I stepped in later in the day and convinced everyone that sleeping in past meds time is not a good idea and that getting Matt up at 7:30 AM would be best. That would give him 1 1/2 hour to get ready for meds. I guess things have been great since. 3 weeks of quiet.
I still say that if this stuff works like Dr. Leopard says it can work it will be a small miracle for us. Long overdue, it has been known that Indural does this since the 90’s. None of his doctors knew of it or I am sure we would have found out ourselves.
This has been a difficult time to judge how things are going. Matt has a seasonal tendency to act up on the summer holidays. He has been in the hospital for the last 15 years on the 4th of July. That usually starts things off but that lasts till Thanksgiving. Christmas is not too bad. With the new Beta blocker he seemed very nice when he wasn’t upset. But at the holiday on Labor Day he was terrible. He wrecked the drywall all over the group home. Pushed a couple of the workers down. Yelled and screamed a lot. They called the police and Matt ended up at the mental hospital but they didn’t keep him due to the fact that his health insurance had not been started up yet. Just slow paper work. The goofy part was that I told one of the workers at 6 PM on the holiday to go and tell Matt that the at 6 pm the holiday was over. It was 6 pm and Matt calmed down and the crisis was over. He has been good ever since. His doctor increased his beta blocker from 20 mg per day to 200 mg per day and his personality has become more demure. All I can say is that this is a process but maybe with a good outcome. I do know he learned some new tricks with his 3 year stay at the state hospital in Mt. Pleasant. None of them good, I’m afraid.
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