Research presented at the conference showed that tests on blood and tissue samples from autistic children have detected auto-antibodies to proteins in the brain, gastrointestinal system and other organs.  As Dr.Bradstreet puts it: "The child becomes the victim of his immune system.” The speakers also agreed that autism happens more often in families suffering autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, inflammatory bowel disease and even asthma and eczema. The incidence of all such diseases has markedly increased in recent decades, they note. According to research by Dr. Anne Comiand colleagues at Johns Hopkins Hospital division of pediatric neurology in Baltimore that was cited at the conference, there is a nine-fold increase in the incidence of autism in children born to mothers with immune illnesses.

Andrew Wakefield has since been asked to resign because of his work. "I have been asked to go because my research results are unpopular," said Dr. Wakefield, an academic at the Royal Free Hospital Medical School in London." I did not wish to leave but I have agreed to stand down in the hope that my going will take the political pressure off my colleagues and allow them to get on with the job of looking after the many sick children we have seen. "They have not sacked me. They cannot; I have not done anything wrong. I have no intention of stopping my investigations." He left his £50,000 job  after 14 years having been told that his ideas were "unwelcome" at University College London, which controls the Royal Free. Dr Wakefield's research has made him a pariah of the medical establishment". I realize now that everything that has happened to me was inevitable from the beginning. If you offend the system, then the system will take its revenge." This is really scary as well: Click here 

So far a few doctors have come forward with similar study results.  Dr Arthur Krigsman, a pediatric gastroenterologist from  the New York University School of Medicine, told a US congressional  committee on autism that he had found an identical pattern of  inflammatory bowel disease in 90 per cent of his 43 young autistic  patients, to that reported by Dr Andrew Wakefield four years ago when he first raised questions over MMR.

 Dr. Timothy Buie, a pediatric gastroenterologist from Harvard Mass General Hospital has performed over 400 gastrointestinal endoscopies with biopsies, as well as evaluation of digestive enzyme function in children diagnosed with autism and finding a connection.  Dr. Buie announced his findings last Saturday at the Oasis 2001 Conference for Autism in Portland, Oregon, the day before the announcement of Wakefield's forced departure from Royal Free in the UK.  The biopsy results indicated the presence of chronic inflammation of the digestive tract including esophagitis, gastritis and enterocolitis along with the presence of Iymphoid nodular hyperplasia in 15 of 89 children.

Additionally the results of the enzyme testing of Dr. Buie’s patients paralleled that of Dr. Karoly Horvath and colleagues at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.  Dr. Buie found that the autistic children he examined showed disaccbaride/glucoamylase enzyme levels below normal. Some 55% of these children had lactase deficiencies (which breaks down lactose in milk) as well as deficiencies of the enzyme sucrase (responsible for digestion of table sugar).  The findings also lend support to anecdotal reports of improvement of some autistic children on wheat and dairy (gluten, casein) free diets.  Buie says that Harvard wants to do research into the use of protein enzyme supplements, which aid in the digestion of wheat and milk products for treatment.

 
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/05/28/wmmr28.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/05/28/ixnews.html

US scientists back autism link to MMR
By Beezy Marsh and Sally Beck
(Filed: 28/05/2006)

The measles virus has been found in the guts of children with a form of autism, renewing fears over the safety of the MMR jab. American researchers have revealed that 85 per cent of samples taken from autistic children with bowel disorders contain the virus. The strain is the same as the one used in the measles, mumps and rubella triple vaccine. The findings will spark fresh concern about MMR, because they back theories of a causal link between the jab, autism and painful gut disorders suffered by a number of autistic children.

The study replicates findings made by the gastroenterologist Dr Andrew Wakefield in 1998 and Prof John O'Leary, a pathologist, in 2002. Parents say their children were developing normally until they had the MMR jab, given when a child is between 12- and 18-months-old. The children now suffer from regressive autism. One theory is that the virus passes through the gut, causing damage, and into the bloodstream, from where it is able to attack the brain.

More than 2,000 families claim that their children have suffered damage but the Department of Health reiterated last night that MMR is safe, a stance supported by the British Medical Association and all the Royal Colleges. Last year Government scientists failed to reproduce research results by Dr Wakefield.

Research to be presented this week in Montreal, Canada, provides fresh evidence that the measles virus is present in the guts of autistic children. Dr Stephen Walker, of the Wake Forest University School of Medicine, North Carolina, studied children with regressive autism and bowel disease. "Of the handful of results we have in so far, all are vaccine strain," he said.

The child psychologist Lisa Blakemore-Brown believes that her outspokenness has made her enemies in the pharmaceutical business and in the Government. Ms Blakemore-Brown, 57, has expounded the theory that diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis inoculations routinely given to babies at two months could be linked to autism and a range of allergies. She is facing disciplinary charges after being officially accused by the British Psychological Society of being potentially unfit to practice and of being paranoid.

Whenever ignorance, envy, greed and suppression dominate the business of a state (or a profession), there will always be heroes who step forward to challenge the status quo. They are usually individuals who lead ordinary lives until, one day, they are faced with an extraordinary situation and make a conscious decision to do the right thing no matter what price they have to pay. Video on Autism done by the TV show 60 minutes.

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Here is a letter from a doctor that sums up this controversy in a most articulate way please read her entire article it is excellent.

'These are Medically Sick Children'

 To the LA Times

 I am a physician in Southern California, certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.  I am currently specializing in bio-medicine of autism from both personal interest and sheer demand by ever-increasing numbers of parents seeking help for their children with this diagnosis. I was disturbed by the report released Monday and published in the LA Times April 23 by IOM.  Though I agree that long-term peer reviewed studies do not yet prove the relationship between the MMR and autism, I believe the report was misleading to the general public and especially to parents or parents-to-be.  There is overwhelming clinical evidence by those of us out in the fields dealing with rapidly increasing numbers of autistic children that vaccine safety needs a great deal more investigation. As a clinician, my current belief which guides my practice with these children is that any child given the HepB vaccination at birth and subsequent boosters along with DPT has received unacceptable levels of neurotoxin in the form of the ethyl mercury in the thimerosal preservative used in the vaccine.  In any child with a genetic immune susceptibility (probably about one in six) this sets off a series of events that injure the brain-gut-immune system. By the time they are ready to receive the MMR vaccination, their immune system is so impaired in a great number of these children that the triple vaccine cannot be handled by the now dysfunctional immune system and they begin their obvious descent into the autistic spectrum disorder.  The histories are very similar in the majority of these children.  Dutiful parents get their child all mandated vaccinations, then come the multiple ear infections, multiple courses of antibiotics, development of food sensitivities (especially wheat and milk products) and allergies, chronic diarrhea/and or constipation, gradual marked restriction of food intake, and evidence of cognitive deficits in the form of gaze avoidance, intolerance of changes in routines, lack of interest in socialization and interacting with others, and lack of language development.  This latter is finally what gets most  parents to seek help for their child if they are not familiar with the autistic spectrum syndrome, which most parents are not.

 The next thing that frequently happens is that the pediatrician tells the parents that "it's just toddler diarrhea" (the child hasn't had formed stools in months) or "he/she looks fine, some children just talk later than others" (no words at 18-24 months), etc. and the diagnosis is further delayed.  THESE ARE MEDICALLY SICK CHILDREN!!  Their gastrointestinal system is so injured first by the injected toxins, then by the ensuing invasion of pathogens, especially yeast infections, and then by the ingestion of foods they cannot process, like milk and wheat, and the end-point is a malnourished brain that cannot develop and process the world the way a normal child does.  They desperately need special early educational intervention to help their brains be receptive, and fortunately this is already well known and happening to some extent.  Concomitantly, these children need early bio-medical intervention to help the gastrointestinal, immune, and neurological systems heal and begin to function appropriately.  They need dietary intervention and removal of toxic foods and substances, including gut and brain pathogens, so their starving brains can develop properly.

 They need special vitamins and minerals to offset the chemical aberrations produced by the toxins and subsequent neurological malnutrition.  In the last few years thousands of children have been treated with oral chelation methods to reduce their toxic load of heavy metals such as lead, mercury, arsenic, and aluminum in their bodies, and the results by the clinicians who are willing to step out of the "medical box" to use this form of treatment are having good and sometimes amazing results with a therapy that is very safe.  As in all treatment, the earlier the children are treated, the more likely they respond.  The protocols are still changing for this new kind of treatment, but children are followed very closely with blood and urinary tests to make sure they remain in good health throughout the process.   It is a prolonged process; heavy metals that have become a part of their cellular make-up do not leave easily.  The children need to be monitored carefully and strict attention must be paid to their nutritional/vitamin/mineral intake throughout this therapy.   In my practice, I have been amazed by the improvement in many children who are started on a good vitamin/mineral/ nutrient program even before they receive any chelation medications. Each child is a complex, unique  biochemical/psychological system, and must be evaluated and tested and treated individually. Therefore this kind of therapy is much more prolonged and complicated and demanding both on the parents, the child, and the practitioner than usual forms of medicine dictated by pharmaceuticals, and is not cost-effective for busy practitioners particularly dictated by bottom-line-money-saving health plans.  There is a desperate need for doctor education in this arena, as well as need for insurance carriers to recognize new treatments that in the long run stand to save them a great deal by helping early in the course of these disorders.

There is a desperate need for screening clinics where interested physicians and health workers can evaluate these children and counsel parents on the best way to prevent life-long disability.  At a meeting I recently attended at the annual NIH conference on children's health in Bethesda MD, one of the directors at that meeting said that the estimated life-long cost of educating and treating a child with autism is $2,000,000! 700 new cases have been added to the California school system in less than the last 3 months. Our educational and medical systems are woefully inadequate to this incredible challenge.  Spending most of the millions allocated to autism on obscure genetic rodent studies in universities by persons who may have never encountered a child with autism is tantamount to neglect of many thousands of children who need medical evaluation and treatment as well as proper educational intervention RIGHT NOW!! In my opinion, to take the MMR vaccine out of context of the entire vaccine program and state that it is safe stands to create complacency in parents and researchers, and will continue to endanger many more children before the full truth of this very complicated picture is understood.

Jaquelyn McCandless, M.D

 Measles

In 1900 before the measles vaccine came out, there were 13.3 measles deaths per 100,000. By 1955 the death rate was 0.03 per 100,000 a decline of 97.7% eight years before the 1st vaccination. The course of this disease is usually between three to seven days in which the patient should stay home. During measles, the body literally burns up the cells containing the invading virus. This incineration takes place at the site of the spots or rash. If this is stopped, as by vaccination, then the virus lives on only to cause problems later. It is vital to note that MMR vaccine, and the chronic measles infection so often following, depletes the body of Vitamin A. In Africa, the death toll was reduced to virtually zero by administering 250,000 units of vitamin A with the MMR vaccine. Vitamin A beforehand will prevent damage from the MMR vaccine that has now been shown to infect the gut of at least 1/3 of the children with autism.

Dr. Sam Katz, one of the developers of the measles vaccine, in a chapter from his book “Vaccines”, he writes with two others;  “The risk of serious complications and death is increased in infants and adults.”  And later, “The highest risk of death was in children younger than one year and adults. Neither vaccination nor revaccination is a guarantee that one will be protected from the measles and could well be a significant problem in the future. Boosting of antibody titers appears to be transient, with several investigators finding antibody levels to the pre-revaccination level within months to years.” 

 It is attested to by the outbreaks among 100% vaccinated populations, presenting as full-blown, mild or sub clinical measles cases. When we dig a little further into medical statistics surrounding this disease we find out that as of 1984, 58% of measles contracted in the US were by individuals already vaccinated for the disease. If children were allowed to get the measles, he or she would not be at risk for measles as an adult where the danger is much higher. The most feared complication is Meningitis. However, this occurs with the same frequency after the disease as after vaccination. This fact alone questions the need for vaccinating against this. Measles is harmless in healthy well fed kids. It confers lifelong immunity, and benefits the immune process.  I wonder how many measles deaths are due to immune suppressing drugs such as steroids?  Click here. At the Oklahoma State University's Center for Health Sciences in Tulsa, clinical trials of a new measles vaccine are being  conducted.   Doctor Stanley Grogg says the trials are in the third phase of a four-phase national study to find a new measles vaccine. He says the pharmaceutical company that makes the vaccine used a 1967 measles virus to make the original vaccine and that vaccine will be used up in two to three years, so a new vaccination must be found. Hmmm....patent running out? I will do more research on this. I thought you could use a cell line indefinitely. More on this later.....Here is the original article. OSU-Tulsa Selected To Hold Trials For New Measles Vaccine

Here is an article about Atopic dermatitis and the measles vaccine.

 Mumps

Mumps is a very benign childhood disease. Generally it is not treated at all. Inflammation of the testicles is rare and generally one sided. So infertility is extremely rare and does not justify the use of a vaccine.  The Lancet reported that in West Germany, authorities had listed twenty-seven neurological reactions to the mumps vaccine including Meningitis, febrile convulsions, and epilepsy. There are 30,000 new cases of epilepsy; 10,000 of which are children, in the UK alone.  

Take a look at this article. Is the mumps vaccine really working?

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“Recent Resurgence of Mumps in the United States”, New England Journal of Medicine, April 10, 2008, Vol 358:1580-1589, No.15.Key line: “Despite a high coverage rate with two doses of mumps-containing vaccine, a large mumps outbreak occurred…”

Recent Resurgence of Mumps in the United States

Gustavo H. Dayan, M.D., M. Patricia Quinlisk, M.D., M.P.H., Amy A. Parker, M.S.N., M.P.H., Albert E. Barskey, M.P.H., Meghan L. Harris, M.P.H., Jennifer M. Hill Schwartz, M.P.H., Kae Hunt, B.A., Carol G. Finley, B.S., Dennis P. Leschinsky, B.S., Anne L. O'Keefe, M.D., M.P.H., Joshua Clayton, B.S., Lon K. Kightlinger, Ph.D.,
M.S.P.H., Eden G. Dietle, B.S., Jeffrey Berg, Cynthia L. Kenyon, M.P.H., Susan T. Goldstein, M.D., Shannon K. Stokley, M.P.H., Susan B. Redd, Paul A. Rota, Ph.D., Jennifer Rota, M.P.H., Daoling Bi, M.S., Sandra W. Roush, M.T., M.P.H., Carolyn B. Bridges, M.D., Tammy A. Santibanez, Ph.D., Umesh Parashar, M.B., B.S., M.P.H.,William J. Bellini, Ph.D., and Jane F. Seward, M.B., B.S., M.P.H.

ABSTRACT

Background The widespread use of a second dose of mumps vaccine among U.S. schoolchildren beginning in 1990 was followed by historically low reports of mumps cases. A 2010 elimination goal was established, but in 2006 the largest mumps outbreak in two decades occurred in the United States. Methods We examined national data on mumps cases reported during 2006, detailed case data from the most highly affected states, and vaccination-coverage data from three nationwide surveys. Results A total of 6584 cases of mumps were reported in 2006, with 76% occurring between March and May. There were 85 hospitalizations,
but no deaths were reported; 85% of patients lived in eight contiguous midwestern states. The national incidence of mumps was 2.2 per 100,000, with the highest incidence among persons 18 to 24 years of age (an incidence 3.7 times that of all other age groups combined). In a subgroup analysis, 83% of these patients reported current college attendance. Among patients in eight highly affected states with known vaccination status, 63% overall and 84% between the ages of 18 and 24 years had received two doses of mumps vaccine. For the 12 years preceding the outbreak, national coverage of one-dose mumps vaccination among preschoolers was 89% or more nationwide and 86% or more in highly affected states. In 2006, the national two-dose coverage among adolescents was 87%, the highest in U.S. history.

Conclusions Despite a high coverage rate with two doses of mumps-containing vaccine, a large mumps outbreak occurred, characterized by two-dose vaccine failure, particularly among midwestern college-age adults who probably received the second dose as schoolchildren. A more effective mumps vaccine or changes in vaccine policy may be needed to avert future outbreaks and achieve the elimination of mumps.

Source Information

From the Division of Viral Diseases (G.H.D.,A.A.P., A.E.B., S.T.G., S.B.R., P.A.R., J.R., D.B., U.P., W.J.B., J.F.S.), the Immunization Services Division (S.K.S., T.A.S.), the Bacterial Diseases Division (S.W.R.), and the Influenza Division (C.B.B.), National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta; the Iowa Department of Public Health, Des Moines (M.P.Q., M.L.H.); the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, Topeka (J.M.H.S.); the Illinois Department of Public Health, Springfield (K.H., C.G.F.); the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services, Lincoln (D.P.L., A.L.O.); the South Dakota Department of Health, Pierre (J.C., L.K.K.); the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, Jefferson City (E.G.D.); the Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services, Madison (J.B.); and the Minnesota Department of Health, St. Paul (C.L.K.).