Guest guest Posted May 27, 2008 Report Share Posted May 27, 2008 <http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/731746/the-debate-that-wont-go-away.\ thtml#comments>http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/731746/the-debate-that\ -wont-go-away.thtml#comments Comments are invited (more supportive comments would be helpful)... The debate that won't go away Monday, 26th May 2008 Good to see that the <http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/main.jhtml?xml=/health/2008/05/26/hautism126.\ xml>Telegraph today picks up on developments I wrote about <http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/569281/another-piece-in-the-jigsaw.t\ html>here in the US, where a head of official steam is building behind the perception that there is a troubling relationship between certain childhood vaccines, including MMR, and autistic symptoms and other damage in a small subset of particularly vulnerable children. As I have written, this has been prompted by recent US cases in which multiple vaccinations have aggravated an underlying mitochondrial weakness to produce catastrophic effects, leading Dr Bernardine Healy, the former head of the National Institute of Health, to tell CBS News: I think that the public health officials have been too quick to dismiss the [autism link to vaccination] hypothesis as irrational. In addition, the Telegraph reported this: The vaccine hypothesis was bolstered recently by a five-year study in monkeys who were given the same vaccinations that American children are routinely given. Last week, Dr Hewitson, a specialist in obstetrics, gynaecology and reproductive sciences at the University of Pittsburgh, told the International Meeting for Autism Research in London that in the double-blind placebo-controlled study, 13 vaccinated animals showed increased aggression, impaired cognitive skills and developmental delay. The three unvaccinated animals in the study developed normally. ‘There was a significant difference between the two groups,’ said Hewitson. ‘The vaccinated group had trouble developing reflexes?… They also became more insular and more aggressive. There was an increase in aggressive behaviour after they had their MMR vaccines, and they stopped exploring their surroundings as much.’ Abnormal brain activity was found in the monkeys, and higher sensitivity to a naturally occurring brain chemical linked to sleeplessness, hallucinations, lack of social skills and a high pain threshold - all symptoms found in children on the autistic spectrum. The monkeys also exhibited abnormalities of the amygdala, the part of the brain which regulates emotions. ’We can’t conclude that vaccines cause autism from this study,’ said Hewitson, ‘What we can conclude is that the vaccinated monkeys showed significant negative behavioural differences before and after the MMR.’ This research, carried out at five US research centres, including The University of California, Washington National Primate Research Centre, Seattle, The University of Kentucky and the Thoughtful House Centre for Children, Texas (founded by the man at the eye of this storm, Wakefield) has not yet been published in a peer-reviewed journal. Some suspicious minds may think (however unfairly) that Wakefield’s involvement taints it. And it must be stressed that the other American developments involve certain differences from the British childhood vaccination regime, including multiple jabs in the course of one day and the use of mercury-based preservatives. Nevertheless, it should be noted that the suspicion gathering momentum in the US, that a vaccine schedule including MMR may trigger a catastrophic reaction in both brain and gut among a small proportion of children who are in some way vulnerable, is almost exactly the claim made by Wakefield, now fighting for his professional life before the GMC for making it -- in the teeth of a medical establishment in Britain which states categorically there is no truth in it whatsoever. -------------------------------------------------------- Sheri Nakken, former R.N., MA, Hahnemannian Homeopath Vaccination Information & Choice Network, Nevada City CA & Wales UK Vaccines - http://www.wellwithin1.com/vaccine.htm Vaccine Dangers & Homeopathy Online/email courses Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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