Re: I've never heard of an Amish child having autism...Have you?

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Hi n - A few years ago in the Plain Dealer, I read an article on a family who had a teenager with autism. I'm doing a PD website search now and I'm not having any luck. If I remember correctly, the child had a heritable disease, so the autism probably was not caused by vaccinations.

I don't think you would ever hear of an outbreak of polio here in the states unless the first case or carrier was from sub-Saharan Africa or just back from a visit there. And I don't think too many Amish visit Africa too often.

As for Rubella, measles, etc, I haven't heard of any amish cases of those diseases, but they certainly would be at risk of contracting them if they haven't been vaccinated.

Just some thoughts. Chris

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Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 7:36 AM

Subject: [ ] I've never heard of an Amish child having autism...Have you?

If anyone knows of an amish child that has autism that has never been vacinnated I would like to know. I'm wondering about our concern about vacinnations or any type of mercury exposure. There are amish communities that don't vacinnate and I think they would be kind enough to let us know if any of their children have autism...and if they don't have autism, then we could ask ourselves "Why don't they?" This is just something we don't think to ask. We could ask..why not? Let's find out. Another point is, I've never heard of any outbreaks of Rubella, Polio or other diseases and if they don't vaccinate, how is it that they don't have those outbreaks? Just thinking.....I know I haven't heard anything about these issues. Have you heard of anything or know someone who could tell us? Truly Yours, n