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Autism–The Skyrocketing Epidemic

Kathryn Picoulin, BSRN, N.D., Ph.D

The incidence rate of autism has skyrocketed by 500 % in the last ten years. Between July 2001 and October 2001 California alone has had a record number of new cases of autism (705), a 54 % increase in just three months. In Ohio there was a 6,822 % increase within the last 6 years.

Autism is a collection of disorders rather than a specific disease. It is characterized by abnormal language and social development, with social withdrawal, such as lack of attachment, avoidance of eye contact and failure to cuddle. Other symptoms include depression, poor memory, self-injurious behaviors, anorexia, tremors, seizures, poor concentration, delayed speech, increased sound and touch sensitivity, sleeping disorders, rashes and accelerated death of brain cells. It also includes motor movement disorders, impairment in hearing and vision.

At the Second International Public Conference of the National Vaccine Information Center held two years ago, many researchers, doctors, and professors presented the links between the MMR vaccine and autism.

The MMR vaccine was introduced in 1988. Even though the incidence of measles had dropped by 85 % by the time the MMR was introduced, it was believed that this vaccine would help to eradicate three common childhood diseases, measles, mumps and rubella. By 1994 researchers began to link the MMR vaccine to autism.

Two studies done in 1969 and 1974 respectively showed that when measles, mumps and rubella were put into one vaccine, the viruses interfered with each other. The measles virus settled in the intestinal tract and caused a type of irritable bowel. The measles virus has also been found to create autoimmune antibodies in the brain.

A blind study done by a Dr. Andrew Wakefield who tested 25 autistic children against 25 healthy children found that all 25 autistic children had the measles virus in their intestines. When the 25 healthy children were tested only one had the virus in the intestines.

F. Edward Yazbak, MD, a pediatrician and school physician in Rhode Island had conducted research evaluating the impact of live virus vaccinations to women before, during or after pregnancy. He found that the infants born to 20 out of 25 women who received a MMR vaccine postnatally developed autism. He found that the live rubella virus from the vaccine would pass on to the suckling infants through the breast milk.

A 1980 study showed that the rubella live virus persisted in the body for many years. It infected the islets of langerhans in the pancreas and severely reduced the amount of insulin secreted by the pancreas causing juvenile diabetes.

Dr. Vijendra Singh, PhD, a research associate of immunology at Utah State University, and specialist in autistic children reported that 80 % of the autistic children are suffering from abnormal immune response in the brain from the nicks in the developing myelin sheath on brain cells caused by the viruses.

Dr. Mary Megson, assistant professor at the Medical College of Virginia reports that the live measles vaccine depletes the child’s body of vitamin A. The current vaccination recommendation for the MMR vaccine is that the first shot be given when the infant is between 12-15 months. But, because it is felt that the first shot may not provide adequate lifetime immunity, a second MMR is recommended at 4-6 years or at 11-13 years. There are states that recommend the second MMR before the child enters kindergarten.

The adverse effects of the MMR vaccine are the following: seizures, learning disabilities, encephalitis, neurologic disorders, muscle incoordination, autism, optic neuritis that can lead to blindness, deafness, Guillain Barre syndrome (paralysis), demyelination of the nerve sheaths, fever, joint pain, headache, blood clotting disorders, inflammatory bowel disease, ulcerative colitis, Crohn’s disease, diabetes, meningitis, anaphylactic shock (severe allergic reaction) and death.

Many researchers believe that all the new vaccines released in the last decade, especially hepatitis B and the mandates requiring the vaccine are the main cause for this epidemic. Adding the series of Hepatitis B (12.5mcg mercury) and the HIB vaccine more than doubled the mercury intake for infants through vaccines.

The EPA set the maximum mercury exposure limit at .1mcg/kg/day. Let’s look at some numbers. A newborn that weighs nine pounds is 4.8kg. The most mercury that he or she can receive through the vaccine system is .4mcg. Yet the hepatitis vaccine that the newborn receives before it leaves the hospital is 12.5mcg. One month later the newborn is required to receive hepatitis B for the second dose of 12.5mcg. At the two month checkup the series of shots that the infant receives totals 50mcg. By the time the infant gets the MMR at age 15 months, he or she would have received 237.5mcg of methyl mercury at a time the neurological system is developing.

If the mother received Rhogam for Rh negative blood, or a flu shot during pregnancy the unborn fetus would be hit by the mercury from these two vaccines. Several studies have shown that mothers, who were vaccinated with the MMR and Hepatitis B vaccine even 5 months before becoming pregnant or even during the pregnancy, increased the risk of having an autistic child by 85%. Mercury easily crosses the placenta and the blood brain barrier to deposit itself into the brain tissue of the developing fetus.

The CDC (Center for Disease Control) reported that exposure to more than 62.5 mcg of mercury in the first three months of life caused a significant increase in the incidence of autism. Next month we’ll see what is being done to make vaccines safer and what can be done to help the child.

Next month we’ll explore why the incidence rate of autism has increased by 500% in the last ten years.

We are deeply appreciative of Kathryn’s monthly contribution to our paper. Her office is located at 701 High Street, #205, Auburn. She can be reached at 530-823-5903.

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