The vaccine-autism myth
February 6, 2007 by Grace Ibay
Filed under Diseases & Conditions
I previously wrote about whether the amount of mercury (in thimerosal) in flu vaccines pose a health risk, specifically causing autism in children. Although I cited the CDC’s flu site, I wrote without any expertise or experience.
Not Kristina Chew. She writes from the perspective of a mother with an autistic child and one who knows that vaccines did not cause her child to become autistic, that there are no scietific connections between vaccines and autism.
Perhaps if more stories of how “a vaccine didn’t cause my child’s autism” were heard, we could start to tease apart the vaccine-autism link and show what strange bedfellows these two have been all along.
Go ahead and read her story at Autism Vox. It’s an eye-opener.
Tags: autism, urban myth, vaccines, Kristina Chew, research
It is mercury in vaccines that cause autism. Also being down-wind of a coal-fired plant causes autism because of the mercury in coal.
You might want to read Every Second Child, a book by an Australian MD. He recounts how vaccinations in aborigines kill 50% of them. He injected them the night before the vaccination with Vitamin C, and not one died. His license to practice medicine was revoked for nearly 20 years.
Joe, I will look into this book you mentioned. Why was this doctor’s license revoked?
Experts have said that there are no longer any mercury or thimerosal in modern vaccines, so maybe that was true years ago, if ever there was a connection at all, but certainly there is no science to back it up.
90% of flu shots still have high doses of mercury. So ineffective of a preservative, Chiron’s supply got infected 2 years ago in spite of this wonder preservative. If this was not political, common sense as well as about a dozen studies indicate that it should be replaced with a better preservative. Thimerosal in flu shots probably caused a cluster of abortions in the 2nd and 3rd trimester in North Carolina (see Vaers, 2005)and every study on the effects of thimerosal on pregnant animals showed abortions. It is a wonder the drug makers claim that the flu shot is not studied to cause harm to pregnant women..who in their right mind would inject mercury into a pregnant woman? maybe a shareholder
This has been of interest to me an a Autistic person (Asperger’s Syndrome). I have considered an explanation for a link between vaccination and Autism I would like you to consider.
Children develop social skill between 18-24 which results in their interacting with children and adults in the community. This interaction significantly increases the risk of infectious diseases such as mumps; as such it is just before this stage that children are vaccinated to ensure they are immune before they are exposed to illness on the playground. if a child was born with a condition such as Autism which improves other brain functions but limits the desire and ability for social interactions these characteristics will not become apparent until they are placed in social situations. Since immunization serves to protect children from viruses they obtain in these situations and is administed before children become social, it would only be logical that vaccination would be administered soon before Austic characteristis are observed and the child diagnosed.