New York – There is no link between receiving a number of vaccines early in life and autism, researchers said on Friday.
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In a study slated to appear in The Journal of Pediatrics, researchers said there is no association between receiving “too many vaccines too soon” and autism, despite some fears among parents around the number of vaccines given both on a single day and over the first 2 years of life.
As many as one in 50 U.S. school-age children have been diagnosed with autism, up 72 percent since 2007.
Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Abt Associates analyzed data from children with and without autism spectrum disorder (ASD), according to a statement from the journal.
Researchers examined each child’s cumulative exposure to antigens, the substances in vaccines that cause the body’s immune system to produce antibodies to fight disease, and the maximum number of antigens each child received in a single day of vaccination, the journal’s statement said.
The antigen totals were the same for children with and without ASD, researchers found.
Autism runs a spectrum from a profound inability to communicate and mental retardation to milder symptoms seen in Asperger’s Syndrome.
While scientists believe genetics account for 80 to 90 percent of the risk for developing autism, a growing number of studies are beginning to suggest that a father’s age at the time of conception may play a role by increasing risks for genetic mistakes in the sperm that could be passed along to offspring.
Worries about a link between vaccines and autism have persisted for years, despite a growing body of scientific evidence disproving such an association.
This study only confirms what has been known from prior studies but there is still a small cadre of crazies who will not be convinced by ANY study, and will continue to believe that there is some big conspiracy that is hiding the causal link between autim and childhood vaccinations. It doesn’t help that some right wing nutcases like Michelle Bachman and Sarah Palin keep questioning the legitimacy of these studies and indirectly suggest a coverup or that government sponsored studies cannot be trust. There are also the misguided parents of Autistic children that cannot accept that their own genetic attributes or somthing they did during pregnancy might have contributed to their child’s Autism and thus a “vaccine theory” shifts the blame to a third party.
Now that we have all these profound announcements about what is not likely causing autism; what explains the increasing rates.
I and many in the field are seeing what seems like more cases. These cases are not easily explained by increased awareness nor by age of father (pretty young in our community).
Wake up and smell the coffee. The findings of the study are falsified by payments of shoched and political favors. The true facts prove the report is false. Vaccines damage children severly. The child vaccine business is a multi-billion dollar industry. Those big corporations are not letting some concerned parents in Crown heights, Monsey, KJ, Boro Park, Lakewood and the rest of the world ruin their business. If you love your children, don’t trust the ignorant or those that are simply bought off, inquire as to the truth of child vaccines.
I do not know what causes autism or the perceived increased rate. Experts in the field, when discussing vaccines use terms like unlikely, no evidence seen. VIN experts are more expert and know everything.
I do not know why my son is autistic. There does not seem to be a genetiissue nor can we think of anything during pregnancy. We eliminated microwave use and even Feta cheese due to possible risks during pregnancy. Consider this my reply to #1 .
To those that feel their Rov blames the parents, I personally would choose a different Rov. This is said without knowing who the Rov is, I mean nobody personally.
Remember, you need to pay liability insurance for your car and should do the same for your home but vaccine makers have gotten the USA to insure this risk for them. Why?
Replying to an earlier poster who wrote:
” It doesn’t help that some right wing nutcases like Michelle Bachman and Sarah Palin keep questioning the legitimacy of these studies “
Not to mention “left wing nutcases” like RFK, jr., and his actress gal, Jenny McCarthy. Eyup, despite your blinders, stupidity and irrationality isn’t just in the minds of the Right Wing.
To those that feel their Rov blames the parents, I personally would choose a different Rov.
AMEN!!
Government program has been quietly paying awards to vaccine-injured children with autism for two decades but continues to deny vaccine-autism link. SafeMinds calls for immediate Congressional investigations.
WASHINGTON, May 10, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The following is being released by SafeMinds (www.SafeMinds.org):
For over 20 years, the federal government has publicly denied a vaccine-autism link, while at the same time its Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) has been awarding damages for vaccine injury to children with brain damage, seizures and autism. A new investigation, based on verifiable government data, breaks ground in the controversial vaccine-autism debate.
The investigation found that a substantial number of children compensated for vaccine injury also have autism and that such cases have existed since 1989, the year after the VICP was formed.
SafeMinds’ Executive Director, Lyn Redwood, RN , MSN comments, “This study dramatically shifts the debate on autism and vaccines.
The question is no longer, Can vaccines cause autism?
The answer is clear.
Now, we have to ask, How many cases of autism have vaccines caused and how do we prevent new injuries from occurring?”
The government has asserted that it “does not track” autism among the vaccine-injured. SafeMinds responds that not looking is the easiest way not to find something. SafeMinds is calling for immediate federal research into the mechanisms of injury in these children in an effort to protect other children from harm and Congressional action to reform the VICP.
The peer-reviewed study looked at cases of vaccine injury that have been monetarily compensated by the federal Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. It was published today in the Pace Environmental Law Review.
The study investigated approximately 1300 cases of childhood brain injury as a result of vaccines in which the Special Masters ruled for the plaintiffs, looking for references to autism, symptoms of autism or disorders commonly associated with autism. It reports that twenty-one cases actually stated “autism or autism-like symptoms” in the court records.
The researchers then identified and contacted 150 more compensated families to find out whether the children had autism.
They were able to find an additional 62 cases (greater than 40% of their sample) for a total of 83 cases of autism.
In 39 cases (47%) there was confirmation of autism beyond parental report.
The federal government has called autism a “national health emergency,” conservatively affecting 1 in 110 children and costing the country billions of dollars each year.
If a portion of autism cases are vaccine-induced and there is evidence that officials have been “looking the other way,” this cannot be tolerated.
The VICP’s recent attempt to dismiss the over 5000 cases in the Omnibus Autism Proceedings is suspect in light of these new findings based on its own records.
It’s so nice to see junk science defending vaccines, as in this article without any real evidence.
For Example
The Big Shots of the Junk Scientists boast that no evidence exists to prove that Autism is caused by Vaccines
But the joke’s on them, because neither do they provide conclusive evidence that it vaccines are 100% guaranteed safe and are guarantee not to cause any harm.
What’s far worse and a much bigger joke, on these Junk Scientists who defend vaccines, is the fact that Vaccines have not only not been “proven safe” – in addition they have also never been proven 100% conclusively as even being effective at all whatsoever!
I repeat
There is absolutely ZERO evidence that can prove 100% CONCLUSIVELY (as opposed to methods of junk science) that all these vaccines really protect anyone from anything effectively. Instead all the evidence that vaccines are effective are extremely flimsy and not conclusive, i.e. in other word the evidence is what is called “junk science”
Just as an illustration:
In recent years there have been several outbreaks in the frum community and the majority affected WERE immunised and the Majority of those NOT immunised did not get sick
I’m amazed at all of you who willingly vaccinate your infants whose immune systems have not developed while willingly allowing your Mohel to put his mouth where it don’t belong.
Additionally all of you whining about those of us who refuse vaccines should visit any random public school and look around at the thousands of Eastern cultured children whose parents don’t vaccinate because it’s against their religion.