Re: Good News Week in the tradition of Tom Lehrer?

[Guest guest]

The chickens are globe-trotting, apparently, after first coming home

to roost. I hear rumors that rates in South America and Africa are

skyrocketing after mercury in vaccines was increased. Any

corroboration of this?

It there ANY reliable guide to rates in different countries along

side descriptions of each country's vaccine schedule and vaccine

content?

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> Autism is now booming in China.

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> How they brought the good news (mercury vaccines are good news?)

from USA to China

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> We now have autism in China:

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> Taizhou, China -- For nearly two years, Ma Chen and a group of

her friends have run a volunteer effort to help children with autism.

They opened three schools, raised $200,000 and brought in outside

experts. Now the 35-year-old mother of an autistic girl wants to turn

an overgrown plot of land into a working farm for the children when

they grow up.

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> But how and when did the 'good' news come to China?

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> In 2000, their daughter, Miao, was born. But after two years, Miao

seemed unable to interact with people. She could say only a few words

and threw tantrums, hitting herself violently. The family went from

hospital to hospital and finally found one able to make the

diagnosis: autism.

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> You then get the political position of the illness:

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> In China, as in many developing countries, disabilities like

autism were long ignored or considered taboo. According to

traditional views, birth defects were a sign that parents hadn't

lived a virtuous life. Some mentally disabled people found work in

the fields, but often were shut in to spare the clan a loss of face.

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> Then nearer the truth:

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> That has led to a dearth of knowledge on the condition. After Miao

was diagnosed, Ms. Ma couldn't get an answer on what autism was or

how to treat it.

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> You then get the growth of what will be another epidemic:

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> Three years later, she reapplied. By then, autism was a recognized

disorder.

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> Autism has at last arrived in China 2008 a new epidemic illness.

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> And what did the USA do with millions of mercury vaccines when

Verstraeten found a proven link of mercury vaccines to autism in 1999?

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> Who is the biggest vaccine company?

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> Who works there?

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