MMR Shot Fears Gain Support

[Guest guest]

I'm sorry,  great to hear Dr. Wakefield's work replicated.  My son was damaged

by the MMR.

Kathy

http://www.sarnet.org/lib/todaySAR.htm

  Dr Wakefield was vilified after

claiming to have identified a combined syndrome of autism and bowel

disease in children who had been given the measles, mumps and rubella

injection.

      Government scientists and the Department

of Health dismissed his findings as flawed and insisted the MMR jab was

safe.

      Critics claimed that not a single piece

of research by Dr Wakefield and his colleagues had been replicated

elsewhere.

      But now experts at New York University

School of Medicine have reported the first independent corroboration of

the findings that first sparked concern.

      Dr Arthur Krigsman, a consultant

paediatric gastroenterologisthas observed serious intestinal

inflammation in 43 autistic children.

      At a U.S. Congressional hearing on the

safety of MMR last week, he said his patients had inexplicably

deteriorated, losing language and other skills at around 12 to 18

months of age.

      All the children had been referred to

him because they also had unexplained digestive problems such as pain,

constipation and diarrhea.

      Tests revealed that 90 per cent had the

same inflammatory bowel disease reported by Dr Wakefield in patients he

examined at the Royal Free Hospital in London four years ago.

      Dr Krigsman said last night: 'Our

findings, which are independent of Dr Wakefield's, completely support

his explanation and his observations of the abnormalities in the bowels

of these children.

      'They mirror exactly what he has

described.' The doctor, an assistant professor at New York University,

said he did not know whether the illnesses were linked to MMR.

      But he now plans to examine biopsies

taken from the children for evidence of infection with the measles

virus.

      Pathologists at Trinity College, Dublin,

claimed earlier this month they had evidence from similar experiments

on 75 children, identifying measles virus from the MMR vaccine in bowel

tissue samples.

      Though this is far from proof that the

jab actually triggered autism or bowel disease, some experts saw it as

significant.

      Dr Krigsman said: 'Our concern was to

determine whether there was bowel inflammation in these autistic

children.

      'The answer was yes. Now the question

is: " What is causing it?î.'