Routine Safety Study That Government Scientists Refused
To Do Illustrates Vaccine Program And Mercury Health Risks
Says SafeMinds
ATLANTA, May 19
/PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Findings released Friday showed
that infant monkeys given vaccines officially recommended by
the CDC and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)
exhibited autism-like symptoms. Lead investigator
Laura Hewitson of the
University of Pittsburgh and colleagues presented study results at
the International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR) in
London. Safety studies of medicines are typically conducted
in monkeys prior to use in humans, yet such basic research
on the current childhood vaccination regimen has never
before been done.
The abstracts presented at IMFAR, the world's top autism
science conference, describe biological changes and altered
behavior in vaccinated macaques that are similar to those
observed in children with autism. Unvaccinated animals
showed no such adverse outcomes. The vaccines given were
those recommended for U.S. infants in the 1990s, including
several with the mercury preservative thimerosal and the
Measles-Mumps-Rubella vaccine. Rates of autism spectrum
disorder among children born in the 1990s surged
dramatically, from about 1 in 5,000 to 1 in 150 children.
"This research underscores the critical need for more
investigation into immunizations, mercury, and the
alterations seen in autistic children," stated
Lyn Redwood, director of SafeMinds. "SafeMinds calls for large
scale, unbiased studies that look at medical conditions
associated with autism and the effects of vaccines given as
a regimen."
The group's request for research echoes that of Dr.
Bernadine Healy, Former NIH Director, in a CBS
interview earlier this week. She asserted that public health
officials have been too quick to dismiss an autism-vaccine
connection when the research has been insufficient. The
government recently conceded a federal vaccine court case
which agreed that a child regressed into autism as a result
of 9 vaccines given on one day.
"The full implications of this primate study await
publication of the research in a scientific journal," noted
Theresa Wrangham, president of SafeMinds. "But we
can say that it demonstrates how the CDC evaded their
responsibility to investigate vaccine safety questions.
Vaccine safety oversight should be removed from the CDC and
given to an independent agency."
for more information:
http://www.safeminds.org/
http://www.nationalautismassociation.org/
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