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Head of CDC Admits on CNN that Vaccines can Trigger Autism


Recently Julie Gerberding, the head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), appeared on Dr. Sanjay Gupta‘s show House Call and explained that vaccines can trigger autism in a vulnerable subset of children. This is the claim that many parents have been making since at least the 1980s, and they have been dismissed and even mocked for making it.


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The U.S. government has now gone on the record saying that childhood vaccines can contribute to the symptoms of autism. They have then backtracked and stated that there is no association.

So which is it?

Well, by the time your child starts school he or she will have received more than 36 injections, including four doses each of vaccines for Hemophilus influenzae type b infections, diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis -- all of them given during the first 12 months of life.

And by then it may be too late for the CDC to make up their mind about whether or not vaccines can be dangerous.

In 1976, children received 10 vaccines before attending school, and in the early 1980s, the incidence of autism was 1 in 10,000 births. Today it is 1 in 150 births and still climbing.

Is there a connection between autism and vaccines? I’d say so. And a pretty obvious one at that. If you are interested in the science behind this connection, Dr. Russell Blaylock has written an excellent paper that provides a connection between excessive vaccination and neurodevelopmental disorders like autism that is definitely worth reading.

The Blame Game

It seems clear from watching the CNN video with Dr. Julie Gerberding, the CDC’s director, that they are looking to put the blame for rising autism rates on anything other than their overzealous vaccination schedule.

While they have admitted that vaccines can trigger autism, Dr. Gerberding is quick to say that it’s only in children with a “rare” mitochondrial disorder. Referring to the landmark Hannah Poling case, Dr. Gerberding claimed that Hannah's case was a rare incident with little relevance to the other autism cases pending in the federal “vaccine court.”

Since then, however, Dr. Gerberding and other CDC officials were made aware of a Portuguese study reporting that 7.2 percent of children with autism had confirmed mitochondrial disorders. Some now estimate the rate of mitochondrial dysfunction in autism to be 20 percent or more, and the rate among children with the regressive sub-type of autism is likely even higher.

If mitochondrial dysfunction can convert into autism in large numbers, then the connection between vaccines and autism could clearly be quite strong.

So much so that the CDC acknowledged they are aware of this situation and are “immediately taking measures to address the current national vaccine schedule.”

Yet, Dr. Gerberding made no mention of this on CNN.

She also did not mention that the current vaccination schedule has never been proven to be safe.

Health officials consider a vaccine to be safe if no bad reactions -- like seizures, intestinal obstruction or anaphylaxis -- occur acutely. The CDC has not done any studies to assess the long-term effects of its immunization schedule.

So no one knows whether injecting children with 14 vaccines in their first 24 months of life, plus the meningococcal vaccine, which is to be administered between the age of 2 and 6, is enough to overwhelm their systems and lead to neurological and immune system disorders. They don’t know, yet they are very adamant about keeping your children on this schedule -- and they make anyone who dares to question their logic out to be a quack.

Yet here’s something to chew on. One vaccine injected into a 13-pound, 2-month-old infant is equivalent to 10 doses of the same in a 130-pound adult.

This is an assault on your child’s nervous system and immune system, neither of which is fully developed. It’s no wonder, then, according to Dr. Russell Blaylock, that multiple vaccines given close together over-stimulate your brain's immune system and, via the mechanism of "bystander injury," destroy brain cells.

What else wasn’t mentioned in the interview?

Oh yes, that members of the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) -- the one that promulgates a self-serving, one-size-fits-all vaccine policy -- are known to have ties to vaccine makers. And their compulsory vaccination schedule, that’s required of nearly every U.S. child who is entering public school, has made many of these vaccine makers rich beyond their wildest imaginations.

Vaccinating Your Children: How to Find Out the Truth

The CDC is clearly very confused about where they stand on this issue (or at least are pretending to be). So if it were me, I would not put the future health of my child in their hands, or the hands of a doctor who blindly accepts all of their recommendations.

Personally, I question the validity of most all vaccinations. But there is a middle ground, one that at least protects your child during the crucial time of their brain development. The most rapid period of brain development begins in the third trimester of pregnancy and continues over the first two years of life. By then, brain development is 80 percent complete, so it makes sense to wait until this time to give any vaccinations.

Dr. Donald Miller, a cardiac surgeon and professor of surgery at the University of Washington in Seattle, came up with this user-friendly vaccination schedule back in 2004, and it is leaps and bounds ahead of the CDC’s “one-size-fits-all” schedule:

1. No vaccinations until your child is two years old
2. No vaccines that contain thimerosal (mercury)
3. No live virus vaccines
4. The following vaccines should be given one at a time (not as a combination vaccine), every six months, beginning at age 2:
  • Pertussis (acellular, not whole cell)
  • Diphtheria
  • Tetanus
  • Polio (the Salk vaccine, cultured in human cells)
This schedule takes the best interests of the individual into consideration rather than what the government judges best for society. If your pediatrician does not like this schedule (and most won’t), I’d suggest finding a new one who does.

Another useful tool that can help with autistic behaviors and symptoms is Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT). For an example see EFT helps autistic horseback riding student focus on riding.



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Posted On Apr 22, 2008

It's simple... Do vaccines cause any number of neurological diseases and autism?  YES.  But, does it happen to every single child vaccinated?  NO.  Different question... Do cigarettes cause lung cancer?  YES.  But, does every person that smokes get lung cancer?  NO.  But the reality is that if our children were to ask us if they can start smoking cigarettes, we're not going to tell them, "Sure, honey!  There's a chance that you MIGHT NOT get lung cancer so, go ahead, puff away!"  It's a dice roll.  And, if our children happen to avoid dying from vaccines at a young age, they have future neurological diseases to possibly look forward to.  The problem of sickness is this country is not due to a lack of vaccines, pharmaceuticals, or diagnostic tests.  We've more than enough of those.  


 
hlthnut
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Posted On Apr 08, 2008

She pulled the figure of “33,000 children saved from death by vaccines” out of her rectum. There has been no long-term follow up of vaccinated vs unvaccinated individuals. Sounds very like the “36,000 people die from influenza” garbage when actual deaths were only 152, and the equally ludicrous “400,000 excess deaths due to obesity” when obesity is not a cause of death on any death certificate.

Gerberding is a cad and a liar!

 
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Posted On Apr 22, 2008

She actually doesn't say "saved from death by vaccines". Her statement is "saved from death associated with vaccines because of our immunization program".  Which even though she didn't mean for it to sound that way, is basically like saying "he was saved from death by a gun because he was shot".  But there was truth in the statement "DEATH ASSOCIATED WITH VACCINES".


 
 
 
Posted On Apr 08, 2008
I find it interesting that the CDC wouldn't accept the vaccine/autism relationship until they could blame it on the children....

 
HealthCoachSandraG
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Posted On Apr 22, 2008

I am a 45 year old woman who by the age of 12 had suffered through chicken pox, measles, mumps, whooping cough, and a few bouts of the flu!  They each lasted a week or two and I would rather have the actual disease again then have the vaccine and worry the rest of my life about "side effects" from being innoculated.  My children were half way through their vaccinations when I became "informed" of the dangers and stopped.  To this day, at the age of 19 and 16, EVERY doctor visit (a rarity) I am told "your children are not caught up on their vaccines, we can do that now, all of them today, plus the flu shot, it's for their own good".  Of course I politely refuse and am met with stares of shock when I ask them to guarantee it safe with no health risks and to put it in writing and sign it.  No one has taken me up on that offer yet!  


 
Lubov
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Magnolia
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Posted On Apr 29, 2008

Lubov, I do like your style! I also had all those childhood diseases, except whooping cough, which I was exposed to but never got. No big deal.

Keep holding the doctors' and their medical staff's feet to the fire. I don't go to medical doctors. I see a naturepath and a chiropractor, and sometimes a massage therapist, and am healthier now than I have ever been.

You're tough and we need more like you!


 
 
 
Posted On Apr 10, 2008
As a medical doctor now working with autistic children I may be able to comment from "both sides".
During my pediatric training I saw cases of tetanus, deaths from pertussis, measles encephalitis and haemophilis meningitis.
I now see cases of autism attributed to the very intervention that has helped dramatically lower the incidence of these diseases.
Most of the parents of autistic children I see cannot attribute the onset of autism to a specific event. Their children never developed neurotypically.
In about 20% of autism cases I see the onset is attributed to a specific event. In these cases development has been normal prior to this event. We call this regressive autism. The cause of regression is often not a vaccination and can be bronchitis, gastroenteritis or indeed any serious illness.
Focussing on vaccines it is of onterest that the incidence of autism has not dropped in countries that ceased using thiomerasol containing vaccines. It would thus be hard to incriminate mercury as the causative agent.
The thing that has changed most in the vaccine schedule is the number of vaccines given on a single day. We are now asked to give 7 antigens to our 2,4 & 6 month babies on the same day
It is this oxidative stress or the oxidative stress of serious illnesses that may tip genetically susceptible infants into the autism cascade.
In our biomedical work we attempt to demonstrate the resulting metabolic imbalances and correct them.
Improvement follows in most and cure in some.

 
Dr.Dr Richards
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sobber
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Posted On Apr 22, 2008

I would run away from doctors who think mercury has nothing to do with anything;

Maybe it is a health supplement ,that is why they adding it to each of the vaccines...

I often wondered are the docs part of the scheme or they brainwashed or they have fast processors but old windows running in their heads...



DavidP24
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Posted On Apr 23, 2008

It seems that you need to do a bit more research on Autism, first of all a "good catch" is seen to be a diagnosis at 3 years of age.  Charities like NAAR are funding research to identify as early as 9 months but they are some way off.

Almost all Autism is regressive; it is the nature of Autism and the brain development.  You can't rely on what parent notice or "indeed any serious illness” what you should consider is the common factor - the immune system.

One of the issues is that the onset of Autism is only detectable using current methods after a certain amount of normal brain development.  We had the MMR scare (which I think is a catalyst in a damaged immune system rather than a cause) and we held off from vaccinating our child for MMR until 19 months.  We were persuaded by a blinded medical professional who was following Government advice about the importance of vaccination.  This advice lost the Government trust and now many people refuse to vaccinate at all.

Our first child showed many changes within a month of the MMR, inability to tolerate being lifted, screaming all the time etc.  Our Doctor who has a child on the spectrum referred us to a behavioural psychologist who dismissed our child’s behaviour as precocious!  

It was only at pre-school that we were advised there may be issues because of social issues like playing with other children.

For our second child we chose to pay privately for separate vaccines a year apart, we did not administer the measles component at all.  Needless to say the second child is neurotypical.

The jury is still out on the role of Vaccines, but there HAS been an increase in the third world where Thimerosal is still used and as I said below we are seeing a drop in EARLY diagnosis since October 2007 (3 years post removal of Thimerosal here).

Of course nobody will admit it anyway, so what I tell parents is that knowing does not help you help your child and anger is part of the bereavement process that comes with diagnosis.



Magnolia
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Posted On Apr 29, 2008

Dr.Dr. Richards, commenting from both sides would mean you have experience in seeing the symptoms of autism clear from following protocols such as a diet restricting grains and sugar, detox from heavy metals, feeding only fresh organic veggies and fruits, raw milk, getting proper exercise, sunlight, good natural sleep, checking vitamin D levels and supplementing as needed.

Are any of these treatments something you have tried? I know they aren't something you were taught in medical school.

The question that remains in my mind is; both sides of what?

You listed cases of tetanus, deaths from pertussis (what us old folk call whooping cough), measles encephelitis, and haemophilis meningitis. How many total cases of each did you actually see? Of those total cases of measles, pertussis, and meningitis, what was the actual death statistic per each disease, given the total number of cases?

Think about this. How many diseases could have been prevented if people had used proper hygiene?

I never saw a case of autism until about 1980, when my son was two years old. A friend had this tragedy occur to her child. I am 56 years old. Let me repeat this; I NEVER SAW A CASE OF AUTISM UNTIL ABOUT 1980. There were no children with these symptoms. Fever-induced brain damage, yes. Mental retardation, yes. Autistic symptoms just were not heard of 30 or more years ago.

My granddaughter will never have a vaccination, EVER.

Why, Dr.Dr Richards, would you need to demonstrate metabolic imbalances and correct them to 'improve' or 'cure' a vaccine damaged patient, when 35 years ago, this 'autism cascade' was virtually non-existent?


 
 
 
 
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