Hidden CDC Data Confirms Vaccine-Autism Link

Routine childhood vaccination should be continued to help reduce the morbidity and mortality associated with infectious diseases, but efforts should be undertaken to remove Hg from vaccines.

This study confirms what a lot of us have suspected for some time. It is encouraging to see the truth finally starting to come out. At the same time I am continually surprised and disappointed to see it proven that CDC and other governmental agencies have had this information for quite some time and not only did nothing with it - they did their best to cover it up. Shameful.

Regarding the first comment by Whyren:
Vaccines should be subject to the same guiding principle that all medicine has been founded upon, "First do no harm". If vaccines cannot be proven to be consistent with this guiding principle they should be stopped. If vaccines can be proven safe and effective they should be continued. The current system of approval and monitoring is broken. An independent body needs to be established to take those duties away from those currently responsible. Taking mercury out of vaccines and changing nothing else does not fix this problem. Unfortunately it only ensures that there will be similar problems in the future.

You know it's funny because I find the existing evidence for this connection to be quite strong, and have little doubt that such a connection exists and that specific populations of kids have a genetic profile that renders them vulnerable to developing neurodevelopmental disorders, and esecially autism, from thimerosal exposure, and more generally from environmental mercury exposure.

The problem I have with this study, at least as far as the description above goes, is that it calculates average exposures, and that it did not include later data, though that may be because the VSD doesn't contain later data (after 1996) Also would have liked to have data for the period immediately preceding, particularly 1980-1990.

The ideal database would span 1980-2006, and technically, can't be collected yet, because the later birth cohorts should be at least five years old in order to get the data for autism diagnosis rates (typically still diagnosed rarely before age three). I believe this data would show an steep upward slope change in the trend lines for rates of autism after 1987, and a gradual downward slope change after 2004, when the stockpiles of mercury-laced vaccines finally start to be replaced with thimerosal-free versions.

One of the many lies propagated by CDC, NIH, NIM, and their media lackeys, is that thimerosal was removed in 2001. Technically true, they uniformly omit mentioning that the several years of stockpiled neurotoxic vaccines were kept in circulation, distributed, and consumed, up into 2004.

Regarding the use of average exposures, that is one of the problems with epidemiological studies, which unlike laboratory experiments in animals, don't with certainty make a direct correlation between a specific exposure and specific outcome in each subject.

As a physician and one who uses and critically analyzes statistics on a daily basis, I would say the devil is in the details. The news exerpt is just enough to ruffle feathers but not enough to really have a person tease out the details. It sounds like the Avandia scare or the recent Vytorin controversy. Sensational headlines sell news but might not make good scientific sense.

I think I wait and reserve judgement until after I get more detailed info.

The correct address of the article is:

http://www.pharmalot.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/thimerosal-vaccine-study.pdf

Check it out for yourself. It appears not to be from an original source. It appears to be a scanned version. It seems to have at least a generation loss from scanning.

Another source of the article can be found at Science Direct. The location of the abstract is:

Click Here!

I don't think they'll like the fact that someone has copied and scanned multiple times the article at the location in my previous comment, if it is not truly a saved version of the original.

Is it right that the MSM has not purchased the article and not made public the findings? No! However, since the article or abstract at the Internet location of my previous comment does not appear to be an original, then the content cannot be verified as being the actual content. I don't profess to be an adobe expert, but when I zoomed in on the article, the font never cleaned up like original PDF files I create for my business.

A better study that was done in monkeys and shows a connection between autistic behaviors and thimerosal is this one.

Comparison of Blood and Brain Mercury Levels in Infant Monkeys Exposed to Methylmercury or Vaccines Containing Thimerosal

This one is interesting because it explores a potential biochemical pathway that is activated by thimerosal

Biochemical and molecular basis of thimerosal-induced apoptosis in T cells: a major role of mitochondrial pathway

There is no question about the existence of the connection for anyone who isn't either unable to see it due to an innate inability to think based on actual evidence (the syndrome of chimps who accept the 'findings' of the emperor's new clothes studies put out after looking at the serious faces of the researchers), or who is motivated not to see it due to conflicts of interest - being in the medical fields where they make a living by practicing status quo medicine, which originated from roots in quackery, has produced such wonders as thalidomide and countless other disasters, and is based on nothing but memorization of the latest 'studies' brought into doctor's offices by pharmaceutical sales reps.

Others refuse to see the obvious link because they are so vested in the truly miraculous public health benefits that vaccines have brought, and are unable to accept that part of the price has involved unethical cover-up of negligence in doing due-diligence regarding the effects of mercury (a deadly neurotoxin) as a preservative, the wholesale collusion between the biopharm/biomedical industry, health agencies, and media to continue to pretend that the emperor is clothed when it is clear to even a small child that it is a lie, which now even a former NIH director has suggested should be reexamined., not to mention the setup of special non-court court systems exclusively for vaccine trials, which enable government to funnel back-door hush money payments to families with the wherewithal to prosecute and force accountability for the neurological negligence and medical malfeasance that was practiced on entire generation of children.

All the while pretending to be reasonable. The banality of evil.

I'm just going to throw this out there--not so much commenting on the validity of the article one way or the other.

Do you know about Biomed central? Open access medical journals. Might not find what you need--but it is still a resource to use when you want to know what is going on in the literature.

http://www.biomedcentral.com/browse/journals/

You can also hit Pubmed--search google for pubmed and you will go right there.

There is also Google Scholar and another scientific search engine www.scirus.com

I always like to at least read the consensus of the abstracts if I can't get the full text to get a bigger picture of what is going on.

Forgive me if I sound patronizing, I don't mean too. I work in a medical research environment so its what we do. Not everyone has these skills. Just sharing.

njb are you asking me? Sorry can't quite tell!

If so I know pubmed, etc. I worked in biomedical research for nearly 10 years in both academia and industry.

Sorry if the reference is intended for someone else.

I am fed up with all the cover up about what we parents of a children living with autism has went through, we were there and we are still here. The thought that money is the bigger issue here then our children is very disturbing. We the parent have the children as living prove of what being a genny pig can get you and we want anwers for our children future. The products in the vaccines trigger autism in our children. Our children immune system was not strong enough to fight the attack and now we have an overwhelming number of children diagnosed with autism,not because we are better education, because parents know their child,but because parents are coming out and demanding answers. One is crying wolf, this many is failure on the companies that took a cheat route, to save money and brought cheaper ingredients from overseas and now our children suffer.

I don't understand how we have skyrocketing rates of autism still if we have taken the thimerosal out of vaccines, if this is the causing factor.

My nephew has autism, and was born in 2004. The only mercury he has had has been in flu shots, and the child dose of those only has .3 micrograms each. He showed signs of autism very young, before he got his first flu shot anyway.

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I think you also have to consider the maternal mercury burden. Not only did I receive numerous regular vaccines (I traveled all over the world), but I was given a number of vaccines while I was pregnant: flu shots, tetanus, shots because my blood was O- and my husbands A+. I've been told all of these contained mercury. As others have noted, there was still Hg in some childhood immunizations after 2004.

First thing, mercury/thimerosal has NOT been completely removed from all vaccines. Your child is still getting a trace amount large enough to contaminate a glass of water. I also believe in the maternal burden. If your child is born with a weakened immune system, something you will not know upon birth, and they are continuously injected with vaccines, you will see a decline or regression in them as they grow. That's why some people say their children are different from birth. I believe it all starts in the womb. That's another reason why children who are never vaccinated can have autism.

First thing, mercury/thimerosal has NOT been completely removed from all vaccines. Your child is still getting a trace amount large enough to contaminate a glass of water. I also believe in the maternal burden. If your child is born with a weakened immune system, something you will not know upon birth, and they are continuously injected with vaccines, you will see a decline or regression in them as they grow. That's why some people say their children are different from birth. I believe it all starts in the womb. That's another reason why children who are never vaccinated can have autism.