Recent Vaccine-Autism Case

[Debi]

I would imagine some of you have heard the news of the past 24 hours or so regarding the case of little Hannah Poling developing autism from vaccines & the government's concession. What you're not hearing is the entire story.My husband laughed at my ignorant thought that the news media would actually report the story as factual. I think my favorite report was NBC's constant emphasis of autism SYMPTOMS.

Please let me clarify: Hannah Poling has autism. Autism, in its most simple form, is a set of symptoms in three areas, social, stereotypical, and language. If a child meets at least two symptoms in teach category, it's autism, per DSM-IV. There is one little disclaimer, "...not attributable to any other condition." Let me tell ya, especially here in East TN, if a child has symptoms, there's not gonna be any further testing, unless the parent is a health care provider or has enough gumption to force the issue and drive to far away states for competent medical care; it doesn't happen in East Tennessee to little children with autism characteristics. In other words, mito or not, it's autism.

The fact is, we don't know how many kids with autism have mitochondrial disorders, or if the mito disorder happened before or after the shots. Thimerosal, which is STILL in most vaccines in at least trace amounts, full dose in several others (see http://www.fda.gov/cber/vaccine/thimerosal.htm#t3 ) can cause mito disorder. It's possible she never had mito issues until the vaccines damaged her mitochondria. When was the last time your child was tested for a mito disorder? Same with out kids with autism, NEVER! In East TN, you suspect your child has autism, chances are your child will be recommended for a hearing test, a speech assessment, occupational/physical therapy assessment, and a neurology assessment. The neurology assessment for us consisted of a simple office exam and an EEG; doc never wanted CT scan, MRI, etc. The pediatrician never offered the first kind of blood work or referral to anyone beyond a hearing test. My daughter being hospitalized three times for metabolic acidosis of unknown etiology was never tested for mito disorder, though we were referred to a geneticist, who tested a few things like fragile X, Rett, chromosomes; all came up clean. Six years later and screaming symptoms of mito disorders, I'm STILL chasing a doctor who will test for mito issues.

Back to little Hannah Poling. Her parents reported she was fine until she got, what, 9 shots in one day. Now I'm far from anti-vaccine. I whole-heartedly accept the polio vaccine probably saved millions of people, pertussis vaccine prevents pertussis ~ 50-80% of the time, according to CDC lit I haven't the link to the studies. The flu vaccine may decrease the rate of the disease, but it's still uknown. We all know vaccines can be good, but at what cost with the current schedule/ingredients?What we don't know is what the downside of vaccines are. Temple Grandin, a famous person with autism stated in her Book Thinking In Pictures that everything has a pro and a con. She told when chickens are bred to be meatier, they often loose the ability to walk because their legs cannot support the weight. Heck, going to the grocery store has its own set of issues, yes you get food, but you lose money.

So, while vaccines have obvious benefit, what are the cons? And why is the media so against reporting them? There are hundreds of thousands of us parents that didn't dream a sudden regression within hours of vaccines. No matter how much the press wants to make us crazy (according to hubby I don't need the press to prove that on me) the mamma gut knows better.My point in all this blabbering is to bring it back to the education issue.

Think about this. We are told we have to immunize our children in order to attend school, which is a lie in an of itself. That aside if vaccines are causing a percentage of children to be permanently injured, what is the cost to our educational system? As those of us who have filed for vaccine compensation have our cases heard, where is the taxpayer case being heard? What is the duty owed to the school systems who are incurring the increased cost of supposedly educating these kids who may have otherwise been typical kids? The ASA states that the lifelong care of a person with autism from onset to death is around $3.2 million. Will we families receive this in so-called "compensation?" WIll the school systems receive compensation?

If current birth rates in Knox Co continue along with autism rates, we will be adding approximately ~ 70 new autism cases per year to Knox County alone. Are we all prepared to continue to ignore the vaccine-autism connection that was medically established this week, or are we as a community ready to accept it happens and come up with solutions?

The worst part of all this isn't the bad reporting, the constant denying of science in favor of vaccine religion, it's the idea that any amount of money is "compensation" for my child being permanently injured.Don't believe everything you hear in the media, I can assure you you aren't even getting a fraction of the truth.

Below is a link to a scientific study about autism and mitochondrial disorder, if anyone is interested.http://www.scipub.org/fulltext/ajbb/ajbb42208-217.pdf