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March 22 2008
U.S. Government Concedes That Mercury Causes Autism

vaccine, thimerosal, vaccination, shotThe U.S. government has concluded that childhood vaccines contributed to symptoms of autism in 9-year-old Hannah Poling. The unprecedented concession was in response to one of three test cases that allege the mercury-containing vaccine preservative thimerosal caused autism in children.

According to the case, the child was healthy and developing normally until her 18-month well-baby visit, where she received vaccinations for nine diseases, two of which contained thimerosal. Within 48 hours of the shots, Hannah become ill, refused to walk and could not sleep through the night. Within three months, she began showing signs of autism.

According to U.S. Division of Vaccine Injury Compensation, the shots "significantly aggravated an underlying mitochondrial disorder" and resulted in a brain disorder "with features of autism spectrum disorder."

Although federal officials continue to say there is no link between autism and vaccines, this concession says otherwise.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has determined that Hannah’s family is entitled to compensation from a federal vaccine injury fund in an amount that is still being determined.

There are currently 4,900 autism cases pending in Federal "Vaccine Court."

Dr. MercolaDr. Mercola's Comments:
This is an unprecedented admission by the U.S. government, which, until now, has clung to their statement that vaccines do not cause autism. Though they are still saying this, they have now conceded that the vaccines “significantly aggravated” an underlying disorder and caused autistic symptoms in at least one child.

It will be interesting to see how the other 4,900 cases waiting to be heard will turn out. No doubt many of these cases will report similar stories to Hannah Poling’s, where a healthy infant receives vaccinations and then suddenly becomes withdrawn and unable to communicate as they did before.

There is little doubt that thimerosal, a preservative that is 49.6 percent ethylmercury, is a contributing factor in many cases of autism. It is a well-established fact that exposure to mercury can cause immune, sensory, neurological, motor, and behavioral dysfunctions -- all similar to traits defining, or associated with, autism.

There may also be another component in vaccines that is causing damage. For instance, according to Donald W. Miller, Jr., MD:

“Another important factor with regard to mercury on the mind … is synergistic toxicity -- mercury's enhanced effect when other poisons are present. A small dose of mercury that kills 1 in 100 rats and a dose of aluminum that will kill 1 in 100 rats, when combined have a striking effect: all the rats die.

Doses of mercury that have a 1 percent mortality will have a 100 percent mortality rate if some aluminum is there. Vaccines contain aluminum.”

Have Autism Rates Declined Since Thimerosal Was Removed From Vaccines?

Thimerosal was taken out of most childhood vaccines at the beginning of the decade. In 2006, studies of two government databases indicated that autism rates went up as thimerosal dosages increased, then began to decline as thimerosal was removed.

Yet, if you look at this Time magazine article, it says that autism rates have continued to climb since thimerosal was removed from vaccines in 2001. Why the discrepancy?

It could be due to the fact that in 2002 the U.S. government began recommending flu shots to children under 2 (and now recommends them for kids until they’re 18). Well, most flu shots still contain thimerosal, so many infants are still being exposed to mercury.

There is also the issue of vaccine timing.

“Giving too many vaccines over too short a time to infants whose nervous system is not yet fully developed can also trigger autism and its spectrum of disorders,” Dr. Miller says.

And, according to Dr. Russell Blaylock, multiple vaccines given close together over-stimulate your brain's immune system and, via the mechanism of "bystander injury," destroy brain cells.

What Else is Fueling the Autism Epidemic?

Autism now affects about one in 150 U.S. children. A small portion of these cases, perhaps 1 percent, may be due to genetic defects, and the rest are likely caused by exposure to toxic chemicals, viruses or other environmental influences.

One environmental influence that you may not have heard about was suggested by a November 2007 study in the Journal of the Australasian College of Nutritional & Environmental Medicine. It found that electromagnetic radiation (EMR) from cell phones, cell towers, Wi-Fi devices and other similar wireless technologies may be an accelerating factor in autism.

After five years of research on children with autism and other membrane sensitivity disorders, the researchers found that EMR negatively affects cell membranes, and allows heavy metal toxins, which are associated with autism, to build up in your body.

Meanwhile, autism rates have increased concurrently along with the proliferation of cell phones and wireless use.

EMR, the researchers say, could impact autism by facilitating early onset of symptoms or by trapping heavy metals inside of nerve cells, which could accelerate the onset of symptoms of heavy metal toxicity and hinder therapeutic clearance of the toxins.

If Your Child Has Autism …

There are several things you can do to help:

1. Have your child eat a diet tailored to their nutritional type. In my experience, nearly ALL children seem to respond favorably to the dietary changes when properly implemented.

2. Avoid giving your child pasteurized milk. This is imperative to the treatment of autism, and includes all milk products, such as ice cream, yogurt and whey. Even natural flavorings in food must be avoided unless the processor can guarantee, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that caseinate is not included. Anyone managing this illness without restricting milk is deceiving themselves.

3. Eliminating sugar, juice, soda, French fries and wheat (pasta, bagels, cereal, pretzels, etc) from your child’s diet is also highly recommended.

4. Make sure your child is getting proper sun exposure, as there is a link between rampant vitamin D deficiency and the proportionate jump in autism. The vitamin D receptor appears in a wide variety of brain tissue early in the fetal development, and activated vitamin D receptors increase nerve growth in your brain. 

5. Use an effective intervention to address any emotional stresses your child faces as soon as possible. Potent energy psychology tools such as the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) are excellent for this purpose. You can do EFT with your child, and also teach him how to do it himself.

6. Homeopathy may also help ameliorate symptoms.

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mmc88121
[ Joined on 11/06 ] [ Posted on March 3, 2008 ]
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I see the government still speaks out of both sides of its mouth, denying the effects in most cases, but admitting them in others.

Mary
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Wilde1
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  Mercola

like when they say mercury is safe in the mouth -- but hazardous waste once it's taken out.

Mercola
  
sobber
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  Mercola

by government are u reffering to these

www.freewebs.com/.../variousarticles.htm

  
  
Dr. L'Hommedieu
[ Joined on 03/07 ] [ Posted on March 22, 2008 ]
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I wouldn't get too excited about this acknowledgment.  They simply said, "the shots "significantly aggravated an underlying mitochondrial disorder" and resulted in a brain disorder "with features of autism spectrum disorder.""  It doesn't appear that it was admitted that vaccines are generally harmful in any way and they never admitted it was autism, only 'autism-like.'  So you see, the child hasn't actually developed autism, therefore there is no real connection.

What they are intimating is vaccines are otherwise perfectly safe for everyone, except for this unfortunate genetically mutated child because this (previously healthy) child already had a rare borderline genetic disorder that surfaced due to a vaccine series.  (What was this disorder called?) Of course, we are supposed to think that this 'illness' would have eventually surfaced as some delayed-onset autism-like disorder in the future whether the child had received the vaccinations or not.  Of course.. we knew that.

Translated from double speak it means, "our butts are in hot water so we need to do some fast, fancy waffling so the public doesn't start thinking about this and get wise to our financial milk cow or we'll take a huge loss from thinking parents filing law suits."

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seg
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This is very encouraging but I hope the masses don't let up on the fight to not vaccinate.... and i hope all these mandatory regulations to vaccinate be revoked....

Now bring on the lawsuits !!!!!!!!!!!!
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4Hand Healthy
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Speaking as an optimist,maybe this will be the beginning of the end of "required" vaccinations.Let's all hope so.
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bmc
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  Mercola
dave61 and mamma228 reported this earlier. A transcript of the court order is on the Huffington Post. David Kirby wrote the article. Everyone please go to this site. The court order can be printed or e-mail forwarded. We should be sending this to our government officals, doctors, schools, and so on. 
There are also links in the blogs by dave61 and mamma228 just go to the  "Recent Autism Studies Do Not Actually Vindicate Vaccines" article in # 1075 March 1 2008 new letter.
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bmc
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I'm not sure if it's o-kay for me to post this, but I just signed onto the National Vaccine Information Center. They have a petition to sign, that asks that independent researchers be allowed access to VSD (Vaccine Safety Datalink) data for the purpose of validating the data. The CDC is currently blocking them. I figue that many of you here will want in of this.

  
  
ZPE
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I seem to remember reading about studies showing a link between a poor digestive system, with its compromised ability to break down proteins, into the amino acids required to chelate metals - such as mercury.

The article points out that mitochondrial disorders are rare...

I think that digestive disorders are a lot less rare, and therefore an infants 'chelation ability' is something that should be addressed in studies as well....

In addition, there should be studies to determine if chelation therapies could alleviate the symptoms of autistic sufferers - as I believe there is circumstantial evidence to show that it might.
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sobber
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  Mercola

in Poland all of autism clinics do mercury chelation, nothing else would really work if mercury is in the body

  
  
mama bear
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Hopefully this will open the door for more successful litigation.  I am not  "sue happy".  However, when the government is clearly wrong and continues to cover it up, the citizens need a remedy.
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sobber
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u right like the care;say in public that 9/11 was an inside job and they put u in jail;there is no we the people now it is we the corporations

  
  
klane33029
[ Joined on 06/06 ] [ Posted on March 24, 2008 ]
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As a father of an eight year old "autistic" son, I started conducting my research immediately after my son's reaction to the Hepatitis Vaccine that was given to him at the early age of five days, without our consent [Written or Oral].  If I would have know then, what I know now, I would have pressed charges on that "Good-for-Nothing" doctor for the crime he committed against my son and the Hell that he has put us through since then.

The CDC and the Pharmaceutical companies have been increasing their bank accounts using our children as  bait, and the shame of it all, is that they have known since the early 1920's about the dangers of this mercury based preservative, "Thimerasol", but still insist on utilizing it in order to reduce costs and maximize profits.

The biggest scam in History is the "Flu" Vaccine - Not only are you receiving a major dose of Mercury, but you are also receiving last Season's Flu strain.  There is no Flu epidemic, but there is an epidemic of Autism, ADD, Asperger's among other neurological ailments.

The time has come for everyone to become aware of what has been going on, thus to prevent other families in becoming part of the statistics.  Don't let the pharmaceutical companies bully you into poisoning your children.

There is no need for our children to receive 36 vaccines, especially multiple dose vials in one visit.

I beg you all to stop this epidemic by becoming more involved and aware of what is really going into your child's veins.

Thank you, Dr. Mercola for providing and educating us with unbiased informations regarding vaccines as well as all of the drugs that are FDA Approved, but are also highly lethal.

Stop the Madness, Hear the Silence [Autism Speaks]

Note:  Since we stopped my son's vaccines at an early age, he has progressed to the point where he speaks, plays, communicates and is in a normal classroom setting with some assistance and we are very optimistic that he will lead a normal life full of love, happiness and health.

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Croft Woodruff
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So the "experts" are telling us the shots "significantly aggravated an underlying mitochondrial disorder" and resulted in a brain disorder "with features of autism spectrum disorder." They also tell us that they have no test for this "mitochondrial disorder" so that parents would know that their child could be at risk for vaccine injury or worse and thereby have the right to avoid a disaster.

They make up these excuses as they go along in order to avoid their responsibility for having failed to thoroughly test  these vaccines for safety as well as effectiveness. Double blind studies - the gold standard of scientific verification - published in peer reviewed journals do not even exist. All the evidence CDC has been feeding us  to support their claims about vaccine efficacy and safety is anecdotal and, as they keep telling us, anecdotal evidence is not reliable.

Vaccines, as they are produced today, are laced with proteins and unknown viruses that result from being incubated in the diseased tissues of foreign species. They contain added nerve poisons such as aluminum and mercury and formaldehyde - a known carcinogen. This is not science but something else that ranks with the "eye of newyt and tongue of toad" witchcraft of Shakespeare's Macbeth.

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Anathema
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Perhaps truth may prevail afterall.  They did couch this by determining the child had a specific mitochondrial disorder aggravated by the vax.  However, all ASD kids likely have a mitochondrial variance.  It's a start, though. 
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healthfoodnut
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And  WHY isn't this ALL over the news? 
I'm  guessing  the American Dental Association does not like this news! Will then next find a correlation between amalgam as well? Stay tuned folks! More to come!
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Mary_Ascher
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