Wednesday, 21 November 2007

• Vaccines

  With the release of the news posted below - I've decided to blog a little about vaccines :)

  Vaccines are certainly getting a lot more negative press.   Rolling Stone Magazine released an article in June 2005 about the Government Coverup of Mercury in Vaccines - Deadly Immunity

  I'm not sure about going all conspiracy theory on y'all, but it's an interesting read.  Anyone can see the VAERS and see that vaccines aren't as benign as our pediatricians would like us to believe.  Keep in mind when reading the data - that VAERS is a self-report database. It's estimated that only about 10% of reactions are reported. 

  Now what about all the other stinking preservatives, neurotoxins, and heavy metals in vaccines? Aluminum, Formaldehyde, Anti-freeze, Neomycin... Especially since the MMR vaccine - continuously linked by Moms to Autism has never contained Thimerasol.  And what about the other brain injuries and immune dysfunction?  We know that preservatives and additives are icky in our food - why would we think that human diploid cells, monkey kidneys and 16 different diseases/bacteria injected into our 2 month olds is a good idea? 

  Dr. Sears doesn't think it is.  Dr. Robert Sears (Dr. Bob) has released his Vaccine Book - it's a pretty mainstream pro-vax book, overall.  He does, however, include Alternate schedules for reducing the amount of Aluminum injected into babes.  He also breaks down each disease and even talks about Serotype replacement with bacterial disease. 

  Jenny McCarthy and Holly Peete were on Oprah in September talking about Jenny's new book: Healing Autism: Louder than Words and the older book Shot in the Dark   Jenny links her little boys Autism to his vaccines and has publically said that she's considering not vaccinating her new baby.  A pretty bold statement.   Here's a link to Oprah's message board - last I checked there were over 4000 messages about the episode mostly from Moms . 

  And now that this information has been released - is there culpability from the pharmacutical industry?

  The internet is a powerful tool - it's not just Rainbow Colored flashing sites.  It's celebrities, it's moms & dads, it's doctors sharing *their* stories. 

  Blood levels of mercury are related to diagnosis of autism: a reanalysis of an important data set.

  Desoto MC, Hitlan RT.

  Department of Psychology, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa. cathy.desoto@uni.edu.

  The question of what is leading to the apparent increase in autism is of great importance. Like the link between aspirin and heart attack, even a small effect can have major health implications. If there is any link between autism and mercury, it is absolutely crucial that the first reports of the question are not falsely stating that no link occurs. We have reanalyzed the data set originally reported by Ip et al. in 2004 and have found that the original p value was in error and that a significant relation does exist between the blood levels of mercury and diagnosis of an autism spectrum disorder. Moreover, the hair sample analysis results offer some support for the idea that persons with autism may be less efficient and more variable at eliminating mercury from the blood.

  PMID: 18006963 [PubMed - in process]

   

  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=pubmed&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=18006963&ordinalpos=1&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum

   

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