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Research into MMR and autism wanted by US official

May 18 2008 by Phil Doherty, Sunday Sun

http://www.sundaysun.co.uk/news/north-east-news/2008/05/18/research-into-mmr-and-autism-wanted-by-us-official-79310-20926734/

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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