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 Autism Research Institute

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BERNARD RIMLAND, Ph.D., Director                             

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February 12, 2001

 

PRESS RELEASE

The Autism Explosion, the Vaccine Connection, and the

Autism Research Institute’s Mercury Detoxification Consensus

Conference February 9-11, 2001, Dallas, Texas

An enormous and alarming unexplained increase in the prevalence of autism is being reported, on  an almost daily basis, in the U.S., the U.K., and elsewhere.

California maintains what is probably the world’s best and most systematic database on autism and other developmental disabilities, which includes children who are formally diagnosed by strict criteria for acceptance into a comprehensive entitlement program.  California reports an increase in the prevalence of autism of over 1,000% (in autism, not mental retardation, epilepsy nor cerebral palsy) over a 20-year period.  Similar enormous increases have been reported in New Jersey, and in several places in the U.K., in the Middle East, and in Asia.  The increase is certainly not the result of greater awareness nor better diagnosis.

While the reality of the increase is beyond reasonable doubt, there is great controversy over the cause.  The most plausible cause relates to changes in the vaccination programs over the past two decades.  These include:

1.   The extraordinary increase in the number of vaccines given to children from birth to age two, which has risen from 8 in 1980 to 22 in 2000.

2.   The amount of extremely toxic mercury (used as a preservative) in many vaccines.  Some infants have received in one day as much as 100 times the amount of mercury the Environmental Protection Agency says is the maximum allowable daily exposure for an adult.  Mercury is not only neurotoxic by itself, it also damages the immune system so the child becomes unable to protect itself against damage from the viruses in vaccines.

3.   The combination of three vaccines, Measles, Mumps, Rubella, previously given singly, into one, the MMR.  The  prevalence increase started in the U.S. in the early 1980s, shortly after the triple-vaccine MMR shot was introduced, while the increase in the U.K. started 10 years later, soon after the triple MMR was introduced there.

 

Much attention has been focused on the MMR shot itself, whereas in all probability it is a combination of the three factors listed above: the increasing number of vaccines, the large amount of mercury, and the inherent danger of the triple vaccine.  (In a January, 2001 article in the Journal of Adverse Drug Reactions, several British experts who were involved in the safety evaluation of the MMR vaccine stated that the vaccine safety testing had not been adequate and that the vaccine should not have been licensed).

The MMR vaccine is also especially suspect because laboratories in England, Ireland, and Japan have found evidence of MMR vaccine viruses in the intestinal tracts of autistic children, but not in control group, non-autistic children.

The role of mercury has come to light only in the past 18 months, after it was realized that the amount of mercury preservative in many vaccines (although not the MMR vaccine) is grossly in excess of the permissible standards.

During the past year, a number of physicians from throughout the United States who have been working with autistic children have reported extremely good results in improving the health and behavior of autistic children when the mercury in the children’s bodies were removed by a systematic process of detoxification.  Some of these physicians, who have specialized in the treatment of autistic children for a number of years, and who have treated many hundreds of autistic children, report that no other treatment has brought about the remarkable improvement that they have seen in many cases of mercury detoxification.  Detoxification is not simple, and there are many competing detoxification protocols.

In response to this situation, the Autism Research Institute convened a Consensus Conference on the Detoxification of Autistic Children in Dallas, Texas, February 9^th through 11^th, 2001.  The attendees were 25 carefully selected physicians and scientists knowledgeable about mercury and mercury detoxification.  The 15 physicians present included 7 who were parents of autistic children and who had detoxified their own children with excellent results.  The physician attendees present had treated well over 3,000 patients for heavy metal poisoning, about 1,500 of them being autistic children.  The chemists, toxicologists, and other scientists present had a combined total of almost 90 years of experience in studying the toxicology of mercury. 

The purpose of the meeting was to arrive at a consensus document which would delineate the safest and most effective methods of detoxifying autistic children.  Nine candidate detoxification protocols, including five submitted by non-attendees, were considered in detail by the conferees.

The meeting was an outstanding success.  Despite some initial concern that the various areas of disagreement would prove divisive, the participants resolved the controversial issues harmoniously and arrived at the consensus position that was hoped for.

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