Fw: Autism and the MMR

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Autism and the MMR

Dear MP:

The MMR jab was always a nasty piece of work. Vulnerable children, be that

from genetics or thimerosal poisoned immune systems (thimerosal being 50%

mercury found in many of the other jabs children received in the 1990's

through 2002) were unable to eradicate the live virus found in the MMR. Just

like some people can't shake a herpes infection, the Measles virus took up

residence in the tissues of their intestines just as Wakefield

pointed out.

There the virus sets off a horrible cascade of immune reactions making the

inflammation of these children's guts untenable. These inflamed and leaky

guts filled with opportunistic infections from other organisms, spilled

untoward chemicals and toxins into the children's blood stream and

eventually their brains. This is, perhaps, the largest public health caused

disaster in the world. It is time to end the cover-up and get these children

the help they need.

K Stoller, MD

President, International Hyperbaric Medical Assoc

Medical Director, Hyperbaric Medical Center of New Mexico

www.hbotnm.com

We STILL Don't Know If MMRis Safe ; And Even One of Our Top .

We STILL Don't Know If MMRis Safe ; And Even One of Our Top Vaccine Experts

Admits It

Feb 07, 06:38 PM

By MELANIE PHILLIPS

Daily Mail

EVER SINCE the MMR controversy burst upon a bemused world back in 1998, the

battle lines have been very clearly drawn. In one camp is Wakefield,

the gastroenterologist who started the whole furore when he claimed to have

discovered a new syndrome in children combining autistic symptoms with a new

type of bowel disease.

Parents of the affected children believed that this was the result of their

triple measles, mumps and rubella jabs. Mr Wakefield took theire fears

seriously and suggested that, for the sake of prudence, children should be

vaccinated with single jabs rather than MMR.

In the uproar that has ensued ever since, virtually the entire medical

establishment, headed by the Department of Health, has lined up in the

opposite camp to denounce Mr Wakefield's claims in the most vitriolic terms

as 'junk science' with no substance to them whatsoever. MMR, said all these

experts with one voice, had been proved to be safe.

As a result, Mr Wakefield's reputation has been systematically trashed and

his research is said to be discredited. Yet many parents remain concerned.

Only about 70 per cent of children are being vaccinated with MMR, raising

fears of future epidemics of measles, mumps and rubella. Indeed, as figures

published yesterday revealed, in some areas as few as one in ten children

has the triple jab.

Yet as the controversy deepened, there was never a chink in the united front

the health department presented to the world.

It painted the anti-MMR camp as a bunch of hysterical and grasping parents

desperate to blame someone for the inexplicable tragedy that had befallen

their children, exploited by a cranky and irresponsible doctor who was

putting the health of the nation's children at risk by terrifying parents

into avoiding giving them the MMR jab.

At the very core of the department's case was its assertion that all the

evidence was on its side. There had been no serious corroboration of Mr

Wakefield's claims and all reputable studies had shown MMR to be safe.

There was simply no scientific case to answer.

Now, however, that united front has been shattered. A former senior

government medical officer has broken ranks to say that, on the contrary,

the evidence suggests that for a small proportion of children MMR is not

safe and that the Government is guilty of 'utterly inexplicable complacency'

The person saying this cannot easily be dismissed. Dr Fletcher, a

former Chief Scientific Officer at the Department of Health in the late

1970s, is a former medical assessor to the Committee on the Safety of

Medicines and had responsibility for deciding whether new vaccines were safe

For years, therefore, he was at the very heart of the vaccine policymaking

and regulatory establishment. If anyone knows how to assess all the

available evidence on such matters, he surely does.

But now just look at what he has said. Having agreed to be an expert witness

for lawyers of the affected children, he had studied thousands of documents

relevant to the MMR issue. And these, he found, revealed 'a steady

accumulation of evidence' from scientists around the world that the MMR jab

was causing brain damage in certain children.

The clinical and scientific data that was now accumulating that MMR could

cause brain, gut and immune system damage in a small proportion of

vulnerable children was, he said, 'far too much to ignore'.

In other words, Mr Wakefield's evidence was in the process of being

corroborated. What price, then, the health department's insistence that such

corroboration didn't exist?

Other assertions by the meddeniedical establishment were similarly shredded.

They had tried to explain away the tenfold leap in autism and related brain

damage in children over the past 15 years as a statistical illusion arising

from improved diagnosis.

But according to Dr Fletcher there was 'no way' this could add up - and it

failed to address the additional 'extremely worrying increase' in

inflammatory bowel disease and immune disorders among children in this

period.

'It is highly likely that at least part of this increase is a

vaccine-related problem,' he said, questioning why the Government wasn't

taking 'this massive public health problem' more seriously.

Reputations Why indeed? Dr Fletcher himself has suggested the answer: that

there are very powerful people who have staked their entire reputations and

careers on proving Wakefield wrong - and they are willing to do

almost anything to protect themselves.

This was a remarkable allegation from someone who was himself at the very

heart of that particular establishment. But it is clear to anyone who has

studied the evidence - as Dr Fletcher has done - that the bland assurances

of the Government are simply not supported by the facts that they claim back

them up.

While Mr Wakefield is being subjected to a witchhunt, and while the parents

of the affected children are scandalously legal aid to pursue the court case

which might well have finally brought to light the truth about MMR, those

powerful people in the medical establishment are continuing to misrepresent

the evidence.

In particular, they claim that epidemiological studies show the triple

vaccine is safe.

But these studies are based on population-wide surveys too large and

insensitive to get at the truth.

This is because, for the vast majority of children, the vaccine poses no

problem at all. Only a very small proportion are said to have been badly

affected, possibly through a combination of environmental or genetic factors

Population-wide studies are considered unlikely to pick up small numbers

like this.

Worse still, the evidence has actually been distorted. Take, for example,

the recent study by the respected Cochrane Library, which was said to have

proved that Mr Wakefield was wrong. In fact, far from saying MMR was safe,

the study said explicitly that the evidence for its safety was not good

enough.

Dr Fletcher himself has previously protested at such misrepresentation.

In 2001, the Government's Chief Medical Officer, Professor Liam son,

said concerns over the safety of MMR were considered by the Committee on the

Safety of Medicines and other expert bodies to have been refuted. But, in

fact, the CSM had expressly said it was impossible to refute them and that

the question was still open.

In a letter to a clinical periodical, Dr Fletcher noted 'the curious turn of

events which has now led to the Department of Health, the Medicines Control

Agency, the Committee on Safety of Medicines and other eminent bodies citing

negative studies as absolute evidence of safety'.

No one listened.

He also said at the time that the MMR safety trials conducted before its

introduction in Britain were inadequate.

No one listened.

Instead, the relentless drive to introduce more and more vaccines continues.

This week, the Government is reported to be planning to announce yet another

jab for babies, this time against pneumococcal meningitis.

Vaccination plays a vital role.

But are we yet sure that we understand the full effects of so many vaccines

on immature immune systems?

Now the Chancellor has urged all parents to vaccinate their children with

MMR. Yet we still don't know the truth about this vaccine. The pieces of

this most complex of scientific jigsaws have not yet fallen into place.

What is clear is that the assertions made by the Government about its proven

safety and about the absence of any evidence that might cause concern are

simply not true.

Dr Fletcher's intervention is devastating. As he says, if it is proved that

MMR can cause autism after all, this will become one of the greatest

scandals in medical history.

Are they listening now?