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Autism and Vaccines: a new scientific review

Vaccines have been investigated as a possible cause of autism since 1943?! Repeatedly?

This should get interesting...

Ms. Ratajczak betrays a fundamental failure to comprehend teratogenetics. Unlike comic books, out here in the real world, you can't cause a living human being to mutate into a new form by injecting them with DNA. Sorry, everybody who was hoping to get superpowers from a spider bite, but DNA doesn't get "rewritten" that way. Any genetic change to sex cells can result in mutations in the following generation; however, it's fairly clear that this can't be a cause of autism, as if it were, one would expect to see a rate of much greater than 1% in ensuing generations.

There are a few substances that can cause substantive change to DNA in existing cells. We call those "carcinogens", and they cause cancer, not autism.

Ms. Ratajczak really needs to go review what has been learned about the nature of genetics since Watson and Crick first published...

I'm not sure we read the same article...

Technically, all news articles are biased in whatever direction the writer favors.

I was more taken by the once dedicated vaccine research doctor questioning vaccines and the staunch vaccine safety doctor surprised to learn that human DNA is present in vaccines. It did not state that the DNA in vaccines is 'mutating' healthy human cells. It suggested that the foreign DNA is causing an immunological response, thus swelling and tissue death in the brain.

The suggestion is that vaccines are causing enchephilitis and brain damage. I really wish everyone would take the autism label out of this issue because it is clear that vaccines are not causing a genetically based autism as we know it. The possible brain damage may, in some ways be mimicking autism causing autistic like symptoms. Cross wired brains and brain damage are two different pathologies even if they present similarly.

I know all the percentages of mercury... less than tuna... not the same as elemental mercury... I get all that. And I agree that there is not an immediate, identifiable impact of small doses of mercury. My concerns are with the slow insidious build up of toxins over the course of a lifetime. The compound effect of passing possibly minute genetic damages on to our offspring over the course of generations, not just from mercury but from a build of of multiple toxins. Mercury IS a toxin. We just don't know what effect low doses over long periods can do.

There is no proof. It's just a theory. We live in an increasingly toxic environment. I do not believe that it has no effect.

Have you ever explored where your water comes from? Or what is in it? There isn't an urban public water supply anywhere in the country without multiple medications suspended in it. Medications do not become inert after we take them... most of them pass through to the water supply and remain there, in the environment, indefinitely. They haven't determined the effective half life of chemical medications yet. Or the effect to cocktail of medications can have on the environment or on us.

We just do not know what we are doing to ourselves. And anyone who suggests that maybe we should take a look at theses things is branded a heretic. Just like people who say vaccines are causing harm are vilifed.

I had my daughter vaccinated slowly... not out of autism fears (surprise.surprise... I got an Aspie anyway:) ) but because I didn't want to overload her immune system. We vaccinate puppies and kittens with more forethought than our own children. I do not believe in taking a medication for every little thing. I want antibiotics and antivirals to actually work for us if we should ever need them. Most colds and flus can be treated at home. Antibiotics are reeking havoc on us and our environment. My daughter is fully vaccinated, it just took a few extra weeks. We just need to be smarter and more cautious before rushing every new thing to market and into the environment.

That's the point... all kinds of toxins are everywhere and the levels are not lessening, they are ever growing. Will there be a toxic tipping point? Eventually, yes. No one knows where that point is though.

I'm talking homegrown anti-vaccine advocates - not the professional ones. The actual people trying to protect their kids. On one hand, I understand where they are coming from. on the other, it's only a matter of time before one of their kids dies from something preventable.

I'm not so much concerned with fecal matter in and of itself. Medication is our water supply is changing the biological course of life in river systems and in coastal ocean life. Not to mention that pregnant women and children are now exposed to low doses of, as many as 20 different medications every day. Do we KNOW what that will do - no. But maybe we should.

Having a strong immune system is exactly the point. Autoimmune disorders are on the rise. Why tempt an already highly efficient system into overdrive? I'm suggesting we let our immune systems do their thing and to stop thinking that we know better than it does. We need to work with it - not try to override it with drugs.

My puppies had a vaccination schedule designed to not overwhelm their immune system. Maybe I just had a different type of vet? I live close to the University of Pennsylvania - their school of vet medicine regulary runs trials into all sorts of veterinary medications including vaccines. Somebody is researching them but i have no idea how or if that information is disseminated to the profession.

http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/recs/schedu ... ule-pr.pdf

Top of the list - the good old CDC schedule. The 12month vaccine recommendation - 10 vaccines in one visit. The CDC does not expressly recommend that all 10 are given at one time but many doctors just load them all up at once.