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No evidence of persisting measles virus in peripheral blood mononuclear cells from children with autism spectrum disorder.

Yasmin D'Souza, Eric Fombonne, Brian J. Ward. Pediatrics. Oct 2006 v118 i4 p1664(12).

Author's Abstract:

OBJECTIVES. Despite epidemiologic evidence to the contrary, claims of an association between measles-mumps-rubella vaccination and the development of autism have persisted. Such claims are based primarily on the identification of measles virus nucleic acids in tissues and body fluids by polymerase chain reaction. We sought to determine whether measles virus nucleic acids persist in children with autism spectrum disorder compared with control children.

PATIENTS AND METHODS. Peripheral blood mononuclear cells were isolated from 54 children with autism spectrum disorder and 34 developmentally normal children, and up to 4 real-time polymerase chain reaction assays and 2 nested polymerase chain reaction assays were performed. These assays targeted the nucleoprotein, fusion, and hemagglutinin genes of measles virus using previously published primer pairs with detection by SYBR green I. Our own real-time assay targeted the fusion gene using novel primers and an internal fluorescent probe. Positive reactions were evaluated rigorously, and amplicons were sequenced. Finally, antimeasles antibody titers were measured by enzyme immunoassay.

RESULTS. The real-time assays based on previously published primers gave rise to a large number of positive reactions in both autism spectrum disorder and control samples. Almost all of the positive reactions in these assays were eliminated by evaluation of melting curves and amplicon band size. The amplicons for the remaining positive reactions were cloned and sequenced. No sample from either autism spectrum disorder or control groups was found to contain nucleic acids from any measles virus gene. In the nested polymerase chain reaction and inhouse assays, none of the samples yielded positive results. Furthermore, there was no difference in anti-measles antibody titers between the autism and control groups.

INTERPRETATION. There is no evidence of measles virus persistence in the peripheral blood mononuclear cells of children with autism spectrum disorder.

New research has placed yet more doubt
over any link between the MMR vaccine and
autism.Tara Horan reports
THERE is no evidence to support a link
between the MMR vaccine and the development
of autism in children, according to
new research published in the Lancet last
month.
Concern about a reported link between
the triple vaccine for measles, mumps and
rubella, and autism, and a consequent fall
in vaccine coverage prompted this
research, which was funded by the Medical
Research Council in the UK.
Researchers at the London School of
Hygiene and Tropical Medicine investigated
whether MMR vaccination is
associated with an increased risk of autism
or other pervasive developmental disorders.
Controversy over the vaccine was first
sparked by a small-scale study led by
Dr Andrew Wakefield, which suggested a
(ink with autism and bowel problems in
1998.This study was also published in the
Lancet, but has since been described as
'flawed' by the journal's editor. Meanwhile,
other larger-scale studies have failed to
find any evidence of a link and Dr Wakefield's
research has been discredited.
Indeed, 10 doctors who co-authored the
Wakefield study have since said there is
not enough evidence to conclude a link
between the MMR and autism.

Horan T
Source:
World of Irish Nursing (WORLD IR NURS), Oct2004; 12(9): 39

'Final word on the
MMR/autism myth'
The most comprehensive and
robust study to date has con-
HrmcLi there is no link between
MMR and atidsni after
analysing records fiom UK
general practice.
Immunisation experts hailed
the researeh as the final
word on the topic and said it
would be a significant confidence
booster for both parents
and health professionals.
Researchers found no eiidence
of an ass<K'iation with
MMR even when they reanalysed
the data to look at
children who had received it
before their tliird birthday and
children who were vaccinated
before the p<>ssibilit\' of a link
with autism was raised.
Ii-ad author Dr Liam
Smceth, senior lecturer in clinieal
epidemiology- at the London
School of Hygiene and
rr(.)pical Medieine and a GP in
north lAindon, said it was legitimate
to raise coticerns
a bo tit \accines btit it was now
time to 'draw a line under the
MMR debate' and investigate
other possible causes of
atidsm,
'We have done the best
stttdy we can and ptit it together
with evidence from
other stitdies. It's taken a l<mg
time and it's been hard work
but tliis really does pro\4de
concltisive e\'idence/ he said.
He added that he h<,>ped
the study e\'idence would
help GPs to con\ince worried
parents.
New research presented at a
British Psychological Stxriet)'
conference last week suggested
parents who refltsed to
have their children vaccinated
with MMR were heavily influenced
by research findings.
The case-control study,
published in The iMticct (September
11), used the L'K general
practice tlatabase to
analyse records from 1,294 patients
diagnosed with autism
and more than 4,400 controls.
JANSSEN-CILAG ,.

Pulse; 9/13/2004, Vol. 64 Issue 36, p4-4, 1/8p

I was invited here by Zarathustra. I can't think of any other reason why I would have been invited aside from helping you understand how you have been abused by the pharmaceutical industry.

If any of u want a tip Ignore Foresam your giving the Extravert Exactly what he want's......

Insomnikat,
Cured children are proof that, by removing mercury from the brain with chelation and causing normalcy, we have discovered the cause.

Just as there has to be one lone idiot who is the first car to stop on the highway to cause a 20 mile backup, I'd like to know who the first idiot was who suggested that autism is something to celebrate and accept.

Just as there has to be one lone idiot who is the first car to stop on the highway to cause a 20 mile backup, I'd like to know who the first idiot was who suggested that autism is something to celebrate and accept. You people who don't want a cure are all following that stupid driver instead of revoking his license.

It seems this nonsense began in 1999, the same year we discovered that mercury had caused the autism epidemic. I think some extremely intelligent, but evil people, came up with this insanity to sway the thinking of lots of young folks who are naive and easily led.

As an outsider looking at this, I'm telling you you have all fallen for an elaborate con job. The last thing the drug companies who poisoned you want is an angry bunch of young people standing up to them and demanding that they repair the damage they did to your brains. All of this acceptance BS can only have started from some con artists who are very skilled in propaganda.

The drug companies knew you were coming of age and they have corrupted your values. In America, we have a long history of not taking crap from anyone. As an American, it is your heritage to tell the politicians and the drug companies that it was not OK for them to poison you with mercury and screw up your lives. Instead of accepting your diminished capacities, you should be banding together to tell George Bush to go F*** himself, demand payment for your brain injuries and demand that Bush spend whatever it takes to giver you back the normal lives you were born with. Stop falling for this nonsense about "different wiring" and stand up for your rights!

How do you answer the brain scans that show differences in the way that autistics think?

Bush was also behind 9/11!!

NASA faked the moon landing

The CIA and KGB teamed up to kill John F. Kennedy.

(.....what other nonsense can I come up with......I think I'm running out.....)

Macallan,
You have been fed propaganda that convinced you to beleieve autism is some sort of "different wiring". That's not true. Autism and Asperger's are mercury induced brain damage. Sometimes the truth can sound insulting. Hey, I come from an age before political correctness was invented.