was sent this today

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I think that this will prove out that A toxic effect is not autism

and that medicine will be taking a long hard look at it's free reign

actions. The public will no longer be fooled by companies with

vested intrests promoting themselves claiming victories and patting

themselves on the back.

Journal of Child Neurology, Vol. 22, No. 11, 1308-1311 (2007)

DOI: 10.1177/0883073807307111

© 2007 SAGE Publications

Blood Levels of Mercury Are Related to Diagnosis of Autism: A

Reanalysis of an Important Data Set

M. DeSoto, PhD

Department of Psychology, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls,

Iowa, cathy.desoto@...

T. Hitlan, PhD

Department of Psychology, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls,

Iowa

The question of what is leading to the apparent increase in autism is

of great importance. Like the link between aspirin and heart attack,

even a small effect can have major health implications. If there is

any link between autism and mercury, it is absolutely crucial that

the first reports of the question are not falsely stating that no

link occurs. We have reanalyzed the data set originally reported by

Ip et al. in 2004 and have found that the original p value was in

error and that a significant relation does exist between the blood

levels of mercury and diagnosis of an autism spectrum disorder.

Moreover, the hair sample analysis results offer some support for the

idea that persons with autism may be less efficient and more variable

at eliminating mercury from the blood.

Key Words: autism • mercury • environmental health • neuro-toxin •

neurodevelopment • blood

this part is a news story:

dramatic new study soon to appear in the Journal of Allergy and

Clinical Immunology.

In the article, " Delay in DPT vaccination is associated with a

reduced risk of childhood asthma, " Anita Kozyrskyj, an asthma

researcher at the University of Manitoba, and other scientists combed

the medical records of 14,000 children born in Manitoba in 1995 (when

many Canadian shots still contained mercury, by the way).

They found that children who received the DPT (diphtheria, pertussis

and tetanus) vaccine at two months of age were 2.63 times more likely

to develop asthma (at a rate of 13.9%) than children who were not

given the shot until after four months of age (5.9%). " We're thinking

that maybe if you delay this allergic response until a bit later, the

child's immune system is more developed and maybe you're not seeing

this effect, " Kozyrskyj told the Winnipeg Free Press, which just

broke the story.

No one wants infant children to go unprotected from whooping cough

(or pertussis, the " P " in DPT). But what if delaying that vaccine

could have prevented more than half of the asthma cases in the United

States? With millions of children currently suffering from the

disease, at the cost of billions of dollars a year, would waiting

another two months improve the risk-benefit ratio for society (save

for the companies that market those asthma medications)?

Even more importantly, if too-early vaccination causes asthma in some

kids, could the practice cause other disorders? There is absolutely

nothing to link this vaccine study to autism, of course. But consider

the following:

1) Many asthma cases have been linked to autoimmunity. The same with

autism.

2) Childhood asthma has been dramatically increasing for two decades.

The same with autism.

3) Most of the children with asthma in the vaccine study were boys.

The same with autism.

Any way you look at it, this study is hardly reassuring news to

parents who are about to vaccinate their kids (though think how

comforting it would be to allow them to delay this shot by two

months). Medicine and the media constantly tell us that all vaccines

are safe for all children. When parents try to jive that information

with studies that imply the opposite, their faith and trust in public

health and the immunization program begin to take a nosedive, along

with vaccination rates.

Mimi->I was told a long time ago that We vaccinated too much and too

early and that left children at risk. Medicine has to stop making

people sick so that they can line their pockets