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February 21, 2001 Search www.feat.org/search/news.asp

Autism Explosion, Vaccines and Mercury Detox

Conference

[by Bernard Rimland, Ph.D., Director Autism Research Institute]

http://www.autism.com/ARI

An enormous and alarming unexplained increase in the prevalence of

autism is being reported, on an almost daily basis, in the U.S., the U.K.,

and elsewhere.

California maintains what is probably the world's best and most

systematic database on autism and other developmental disabilities, which

includes children who are formally diagnosed by strict criteria for

acceptance into a comprehensive entitlement program. California reports an

increase in the prevalence of autism of over 1,000% (in autism, not mental

retardation, epilepsy nor cerebral palsy) over a 20-year period. Similar

enormous increases have been reported in New Jersey, and in several places

in the U.K., in the Middle East, and in Asia. The increase is certainly not

the result of greater awareness nor better diagnosis.

While the reality of the increase is beyond reasonable doubt, there is

great controversy over the cause. The most plausible cause relates to

changes in the vaccination programs over the past two decades. These

include:

1. The extraordinary increase in the number of vaccines given to

children from birth to age two, which has risen from 8 in 1980 to 22 in

2000.

2. The amount of extremely toxic mercury (used as a preservative) in

many vaccines. Some infants have received in one day as much as 100 times

the amount of mercury the Environmental Protection Agency says is the

maximum allowable daily exposure for an adult. Mercury is not only

neurotoxic by itself, it also damages the immune system so the child becomes

unable to protect itself against damage from the viruses in vaccines.

3. The combination of three vaccines, Measles, Mumps, Rubella,

previously given singly, into one, the MMR. The prevalence increase

started in the U.S. in the early 1980s, shortly after the triple-vaccine MMR

shot was introduced, while the increase in the U.K. started 10 years later,

soon after the triple MMR was introduced there.

Much attention has been focused on the MMR shot itself, whereas in all

probability it is a combination of the three factors listed above: the

increasing number of vaccines, the large amount of mercury, and the

inherent danger of the triple vaccine. (In a January, 2001 article in the

Journal of Adverse Drug Reactions, several British experts who were

involved in the safety evaluation of the MMR vaccine stated that the

vaccine safety testing had not been adequate and that the vaccine should

not have been licensed).

The MMR vaccine is also especially suspect because laboratories in

England, Ireland, and Japan have found evidence of MMR vaccine viruses in

the intestinal tracts of autistic children, but not in control group,

non-autistic children.

The role of mercury has come to light only in the past 18 months,

after it was realized that the amount of mercury preservative in many

vaccines (although not the MMR vaccine) is grossly in excess of the

permissible standards.

During the past year, a number of physicians from throughout the

United States who have been working with autistic children have reported

extremely good results in improving the health and behavior of autistic

children when the mercury in the children's bodies were removed by a

systematic process of detoxification. Some of these physicians, who have

specialized in the treatment of autistic children for a number of years, and

who have treated many hundreds of autistic children, report that no other

treatment has brought about the remarkable improvement that they have seen

in many cases of mercury detoxification. Detoxification is not simple, and

there are many competing detoxification protocols.

In response to this situation, the Autism Research Institute convened

a Consensus Conference on the Detoxification of Autistic Children in Dallas,

Texas, February 9th through 11th, 2001. The attendees were 25 carefully

selected physicians and scientists knowledgeable about mercury and mercury

detoxification. The 15 physicians present included 7 who were parents of

autistic children and who had detoxified their own children with excellent

results. The physician attendees present had treated well over 3,000

patients for heavy metal poisoning, about 1,500 of them being autistic

children. The chemists, toxicologists, and other scientists present had a

combined total of almost 90 years of experience in studying the toxicology

of mercury.

The purpose of the meeting was to arrive at a consensus document which

would delineate the safest and most effective methods of detoxifying

autistic children. Nine candidate detoxification protocols, including five

submitted by non-attendees, were considered in detail by the conferees.

The meeting was an outstanding success. Despite some initial concern

that the various areas of disagreement would prove divisive, the

participants resolved the controversial issues harmoniously and arrived at

the consensus position that was hoped for.

The Autism Research Institute will issue its consensus report on the

detoxification of autistic children at the earliest possible date--most

likely in mid-March--after the participants have had an opportunity to

review and approve the document.

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