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Last Updated: Apr 16, 2008 - 5:52:06 PM |
SATURDAY April 5, 2008 (foodconsumer.org) -- On April 3, CNN published an article by Jenny McCarthy and Kim Carrey about McCarthy's son, vaccines and autism, telling the readers that vaccines caused autism in her son, they believe children are given too many vaccines and her son is recovering from autism by following a healthy diet and taking a vitamin therapy. Autism, a once-rare disorder, now affects one in every 150 children in the United States and is more common than pediatric cancer, diabetes and AIDS combined.
McCarthy said she met some patients whose children had recovered from autism or vaccine injury as they called it and started a regimen in her son Evan including "a gluten-free, casein-free diet, vitamin supplementation, detox of metals, and anti-fungals for yeast overgrowth that plagued his intestines". She attributed her son's recovery to these "unapproved" medical treatments.
Evan, now 5, has recovered so well his doctors suspected that he was misdiagnosed or might never have suffered autism in the first place. McCarthy said doctors and authorities do not believe people can ever recover from autism. In spite of her son’s remarkable recovery, McCarthy said no single member of the CDC, the American Academy of Pediatrics or any other healthy authority has ever requested to evaluate and understand how Evan recovered from autism.
McCarthy and Carrey suggested the reason for the indifference is that officials and doctors don't want to open a can of worms when it comes to the safety of vaccines. Vaccines with mercury used as a preservative have been long suspected to be at east part of the culprit of autism. Recently a couple in Georgia has sued the U.S. government alleging that vaccines given their daughter Hannah Poling caused autism in her and they won the case. The government acknowledged that Hannah's autism was triggered by vaccines aggravating an underlying disorder.
According to McCarthy and Carrey, many parents whose children recovered from autism through the non-conventional treatments blamed vaccines for their children's autism. McCarthy and Carrey wrote in their article "in the 1980s our children received only 10 vaccines by age 5, whereas today they are given 36 immunizations, most of them by age 2. With billions of pharmaceutical dollars, could it be possible that the vaccine program is becoming more of a profit engine then a means of prevention?"
The authors made a point with regard of vaccinations. They said for any drug, the government and drug companies agree that some children may have a reaction or be allergic to certain drugs. But when it comes to vaccines, no government officials, drug companies' officers and doctors ever think of the possibility that some children might actually be allergic to vaccines and they should be exempt from the state-mandated vaccination for young children.
In the case of Hannah Poling, the U.S. government said in a leaked court document that vaccines aggravated a rare underlying condition known as a mitochondrial disorder that led to a brain disorder featured with autism symptoms. The government did not admit vaccines given to the young girl had any direct association with her autism. Evidence has merged to suggest that mitochondrial disorders may mediate the effect of vaccine on autism. A recent Portuguese study reported that 7.2 percent of children with autism had also mitochondrial disorders. Some estimated the rate of mitochondrial dysfunction in autistic children can be up to 20 percent or more, or higher in children with the regressive sub-type of autism.
News media has recently reported that those studies have drawn the CDC officials’ attention. The triangle association among vaccines, mitochondrial disorder and autism is a thorny issue because both the government and drug companies have denied any link between vaccines and autism with or without any other disorders involved.
For more information, reads
Huffington Post March 26, 2008
National Autism Association March 28, 2008
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