SchaferAutismReport: Vaccine Proponents Not Immunized From Criticism

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PUBLIC HEALTH

Vaccine Proponents Not Immunized From Criticism

Swedish Doctors Urge Action Over Autism-Sunlight Link

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RESEARCH

Autism Speaks Announces More Than $4.5 Million In New Research Grants

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PEOPLE

Police Find Missing Michigan Autistic Boy

Pasadena Autistic Boy Found Safe

Former Student Beats Jail For Making Bombs

Autistic Boy Faces Wait For Canine Companion

Surgeon Heads West With Family

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MEDIA

Vaccine Nation - Directors Cut

Another Station Drops Savage Over Autism Cracks

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COMMENTARY

Public Places Can Be Minefields For People With Autism

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PUBLIC HEALTH

Vaccine Proponents Not Immunized

From Criticism

Posted by Mundy, WSJ blog.

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Many parents, concerned about risks from

childhood vaccines, are putting the kibosh on shots for their kids despite

advice from government officials, the medical establishment and academics.

Gaps in immunization are starting to show. A

lack of vaccination against measles was known or suspected in 63 of 64 U.S.

cases of the disease in the first third of the year, according to a report

from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Measles was declared

eliminated in the U.S. in 2000, after decades of vaccination.

Still, consumers’ suspicion of vaccine

advocates runs deep. On Friday, the CBS Evening News took a look at the

financial ties between advocates of vaccines and makers of the shots. The

CBS report came in the wake of the network news’ ongoing stories on

vaccines and autism.

The CBS report focused on the American

Academy of Pediatrics, the pro-vaccine group Every Child by Two, and

Offit, a vaccine researcher and staunch defender of immunization.

Drugmakers have given millions in grants and

other kinds of payments to the AAP and helped build its headquarters, CBS

reported, noting specific payments of $433 million from Merck and $342

million Wyeth.

Another recipient of industry funds is Every

Child By Two, a nonprofit organization co-founded by former First Lady

lynn , which told CBS that it has doesn’t have any conflicts of

interest. CBS said that AAP treasurers have included a former Wyeth

executive and a Big Pharma consultant.

Offit, chief of infectious diseases at

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and a professor at the University of

Pennsylvania, declined to be interviewed by CBS for the piece. But the

story pointed out that Offit’s $1.5 million chair is funded by Merck and

that he shares a patent with the company for a vaccine against rotavirus, a

cause of childhood diarrhea.

All three subjects of the CBS report told

the network they are “upfront about the money they receive and that the

funding doesn’t sway their opinions. "

Vaccine makers have been worried by the

federal vaccine court’s decision in March to compensate Hannah Poling, a

child who developed autism, though the court did not specifically link

autism to the medicines. At the time, Offit wrote an op-ed in the New York

Times saying that the vaccine court had been turning its back on scientific

evidence.

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