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Research into MMR and autism wanted by US official

May 18 2008 by Phil Doherty, Sunday Sun

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A FORMER top US official has admitted researchers

were told not to look for links between autistic children and vaccine jabs.

Doctor Bernadine Healy, the ex- head of the US

National Institute of Health, said the Government

there had not sought out children who might be susceptible to vaccine damage.

Research has shown that up to 38 per cent of

autistic kids have a DNA defect which can be

triggered by jabs, compared with 0.2pc in the general population.

Dr Healy, who worked for the American equivalent

of the British Medical Research Council,

dismissed claims by public health officials that

there was enough evidence to prove these jabs do not cause autism.

Shattock, of the University of Sunderland

Autism Research Unit, said: “Mrs Healy was a

major player in US Government healthcare. It is

the first time such an eminent medic has come out with such damning comments.

“She states healthcare officials were told not to

look for subsets in case they found a causal link

between vaccines and autism. This is outrageous.

“It’s time the British Government looked at this

issue and stopped burying its head in the sand.”

The Sunday Sun recently revealed that the US

Government conceded a girl with an underlying DNA

fault developed autism as a result of her inoculations.

Nine-year-old Hannah Poling of Athens, Georgia,

developed autism ­ a lifelong developmental

disability affecting social communication,

interaction and imagination ­ after she received

a cocktail of jabs. Experts believe her condition

was triggered by the jabs interacting with a DNA defect in her body.

Dr Healy made her comments in an interview with CBS News in the US recently.

She said: “What we are seeing is that, in the

bulk of the population vaccines are safe but

there may be this susceptible group.

“If you know there is a susceptible group, you

can save those children. If you turn your back on

the notion there is a susceptible group . . . what can I say?”

She said research was carried out on a random

sample of children who had had the vaccination.

Jackie Fletcher, founder of Jabs ­ a support

group for vaccine-damaged children ­ said: “What

Mrs Healy has said is what we have been saying for years.

“We collected 1200 children’s cases who were

alleged to have been damaged by vaccines and

presented this to the Government in 1997. They just chose to ignore them.”

A Department of Health spokeswoman said:

“Individual cases of 107 children with autism, or

bowel disease, whose parents alleged MMR was the

cause were reviewed extensively by the Medicines Control Agency.

“The working party concluded their study did not

give cause for concern about the safety of the MMR.

“The Department of Health does not plan to

conduct and support research into subsets. Given

the overwhelming body of evidence that no link

exists, this would not be an appropriate use of resources.”

MMR maverick in new autism scare

CONTROVERSIAL doctor Wakefield has been

involved in research that may renew fears over a

link between autism and the child MMR jab.

He was involved in research by a group of US

universities in which monkeys were treated with

the vaccines given to American children between

1994 and 1999, which contained mercury.

The vaccinated macaques exhibited brain changes,

autism-like symptoms and gene changes.

In 1998, Dr Wakefield sparked panic over anMMR

jab-autism link when his research, published in

The Lancet journal, reported bowel problems in

vaccinated children diagnosed with autism and

alleged a possible connection with the MMR vaccination.

He was later accused of a conflict of interest in

the trials, and The Lancet said it regretted publishing the research.

The new research is awaiting peer review.

The Department of Health said: “Dr

Wakefield has an established track record of

being wrong on vaccines, autism and Bell’s disease.

“Studies based on his previous theories are clearly going to lack credibility.”

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