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Teresa
Binstock
Researcher in Developmental & Behavioral
Neuroanatomy
September 25, 2009
On Sept 25, 2009, the Los Angeles
Times published an article by Melissa Healy. The article can be
read online (1) and summarizes a survey of parents.
She
wrote, "In a poll of 1,678 U.S. parents conducted by the
University of Michigan's C.S. Mott Children's Hospital, 40% said
they would get their children immunized against the H1N1 virus --
even as 54% indicated they would get their kids vaccinated against
regular seasonal flu."
Thimerosal is not mentioned in
the article despite the facts (i) that many and perhaps most "flu"
influenza and H1N1 vaccines will contain thimerosal, and (ii)
that, among male infants, vaccinal thimerosal injections are
associated with a tripled rate of autism and with a nine-times
increase in the need for special education services (2-3).
Thimerosal injected by physicians and nurses is more harmful than
the CDC, FDA, AMA, and AAP would have us believe.
Here is
my letter to the LATimes reporter:
Dear Ms. Healy,
Your
article is appreciated. Please consider an additional point
summarized in a recently published, peer-reviewed abstract (2).
The point is, vaccines that contain thimerosal have been found to
cause neurologic damage consistent with autism (2). This finding
clarifies a more general analysis wherein the researchers found
that boys who had received thimerosal-containing vaccines were 9
times more likely to be receiving special-education services
(3).
Contact information for the researchers who published
those two studies is included hereinbelow (4-5).
There
seems to be a story here. Why are the FDA, CDC, and others
recommending vaccinations containing thimerosal while ignoring
findings of adverse effects associated with thimerosal injected
during vaccinations?
Teresa Binstock
Researcher in
Developmental & Behavioral Neuroanatomy
P.O. Box 1788
Estes
Park CO 80517
References:
1. Most parents
won't have kids get H1N1 flu shots, study finds
A national
survey suggests parents are confused about the risks of the virus
and its vaccine.
By Melissa Healy
September 25,
2009
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-sci-parents-flu25-2009sep25,0,579663.story
2.
Hepatitis B vaccination of male neonates and autism
Annals of
Epidemiology
September 2009: 651–680 p. 659
CM
Gallagher, MS Goodman, Graduate Program in Public Health,
Stony
Brook University Medical Center, Stony Brook, NY
PURPOSE:
Universal newborn immunization with hepatitis
B vaccine was
recommended in 1991; however, safety
findings are mixed. The
Vaccine Safety Datalink Workgroup
reported no association
between hepatitis B vaccination
at birth and febrile episodes
or neurological adverse
events. Other studies found positive
associations between
hepatitis B vaccination and ear infection,
pharyngitis, and
chronic arthritis; as well as receipt of early
intervention/
special education services (EIS); in probability
samples of
U.S. children. Children with autistic spectrum
disorder
(ASD) comprise a growing caseload for EIS. We
evaluated
the association between hepatitis B vaccination of
male
neonates and parental report of ASD.
METHODS: This
cross-sectional study used U.S. probability
samples obtained
from National Health Interview Survey
1997–2002 datasets.
Logistic regression modeling was used to
estimate the effect of
neonatal hepatitis B vaccination on
ASD risk among boys age
3–17 years with shot records, adjusted
for race, maternal
education, and two-parent household.
RESULTS: Boys who
received the hepatitis B vaccine during
the first month of life
had 2.94 greater odds for ASD (nZ31
of 7,486; OR Z 2.94; p Z
0.03; 95% CI Z
1.10, 7.90)
compared to later- or
unvaccinated boys. Non-Hispanic white
boys were 61% less likely
to have ASD (ORZ0.39; pZ0.04;
95% CIZ0.16, 0.94) relative to
non-white boys.
CONCLUSION: Findings suggest that U.S. male
neonates
vaccinated with hepatitis B vaccine had a 3-fold
greater risk
of ASD; risk was greatest for non-white boys.
3.
Hepatitis B triple series vaccine and developmental disability in
US children aged 1-9 years
Gallagher C, Goodman M.
Toxicol
Environ Chem 2008 90(5):997-1008.
{free
online}
http://fourteenstudies.org/pdf/hep_b.pdf
4.
Carolyn Michele Gallagher
Stony Brook...
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this url}
5. Melody Goodman
Stony Brook...
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