[FLPERMACULTURE] ny vaccines

Sat May 31 11:11:25 PDT 2008

Maybe we need to really be talking about healthful decisions in general.  Wouldn't a healthy diet and lifestyle do more to protect us from disease and illness than receiving untold numbers of vaccines, which it has been pointed out, are being lobbied for by huge Pharma-business. 

I too have been exposed to many illnesses, such as the flu. and have come away free. And I believe it's because of my lifestyle choices, that I don't consume toxins, that I practice yoga and exercise, that I eat fairly well.

Let's look to ourselves and see what we are doing to our own bodies to cause a ripe playground for illness to spread in us, and then to others, and stop looking to the government and special interest groups to tell us how we can "prevent" illness, when their answers are so far off it's comical.

Chris

> Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 21:44:04 -0400
> From: nidus at pinax.com
> To: fingerlakespermaculture at lists.mutualaid.org
> Subject: Re: [FLPERMACULTURE] ny vaccines
> 
> I, too, have worried about big pharma foisting drugs on those who 
> apparently don't know better--especially the physicians who prescribe 
> the medications and treatments. Parents have to be mindful of the risks 
> they take with their children and with themselves. One of the tools to 
> assist in developing that mindfulness is the internet, making each of us 
> almost expert after researching topics on the web. I encourage people to 
> take great care in drawing conclusions about immunizations, which means 
> avoiding a decision based on fears, inadequate evidence, what-ifs, and 
> purely personal concerns. Immunizations don't just have the potential to 
> treat the person immunized but to treat the whole community.
> 
> (I take the flu vaccine, too, less to protect myself than to protect my 
> husband and daughter, and *I* haven't had the flu in many years, 
> although I've been exposed to it many, many times in my workplace and 
> practice.)
> 
> Bethany
> 
> Linda Voith wrote:
> > 
> > I appreciate the advice given by Joe about the need for vaccines. 
> > However, the mandatory vaccine schedule is getting so large and long 
> > that it is raising other health concerns, such as the link with increase 
> > in autism, which is suspected to be cause by the mercury in the 
> > vaccines.  Certain parts of this bill,  like mandatory flu vaccines 
> > every year- (when their effectiveness is questionable, due to the large 
> > number of flu strains), seems to be based just as much  on lobbying from 
> > drug companies selling vaccines than on actual public health.  Below is 
> > research outlining one more perspective to add to the knowledge base 
> > upon which to make decisions. Linda
> > 
> > SICK MONKEYS: RESEARCH LINKS VACCINE LOAD, AUTISM SIGNS
> > 
> > BY DAN OLMSTED
> > 
> > http://www.ageofautism.com/ <http://www.ageofautism.com/>
> > 
> > The first research project to examine effects of the total vaccine
> > load received by children in the 1990s has found autism-like signs
> > and symptoms in infant monkeys vaccinated the same way. The study's
> > principal investigator, Laura Hewitson from the University of
> > Pittsburgh, reports developmental delays, behavior problems and brain
> > changes in macaque monkeys that mimic "certain neurological
> > abnormalities of autism."
> > 
> > The findings are being reported Friday and Saturday at a major
> > international autism conference in London.
> > 
> > Although couched in scientific language, Hewitson's findings are
> > explosive. They suggest, for the first time, that our closest animal
> > cousins develop characteristics of autism when subjected to the same
> > immunizations &ndash; such as the MMR shot -- and vaccine
> > formulations &ndash; such as the mercury preservative thimerosal --
> > that American children received when autism diagnoses exploded in the
> > 1990s.
> > 
> > The first publicly reported results of this research project come in
> > both oral and poster presentations on Friday and Saturday at the
> > International Meeting For Autism Research in London. Poster
> > presentations must go through a form of peer review before they are
> > presented at the conference; the papers have not yet appeared in a
> > scientific journal.
> > 
> > In addition to Hewitson's oral presentation today, on Saturday in one
> > of two related poster presentations, the researchers also are
> > reporting in their abstract that "vaccinated animals exhibited
> > progressively severe chronic active inflammation [in gastrointestinal
> > tissue] whereas unexposed animals did not. We have found many
> > significant differences in the GI tissue gene expression profiles
> > between vaccinated and unvaccinated animals." Numerous scientific
> > studies, as well as many parents, report severe GI ailments in
> > children with regressive autism.
> > 
> > The results are sure to be controversial, in part because they lend
> > credence to studies first published in 1998 by British pediatric
> > gastroenterologist Andrew Wakefield, one of Hewitson's co-authors on
> > these findings. He described an unusual inflammatory bowel condition
> > in children who had regressed into autism after they received the
> > measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccination. Wakefield is currently
> > fighting charges of medical misconduct in Britain over allegations of
> > conflict-of-interest and improper procedures related to that paper. He
> > denies the charges.
> > 
> > In the program for the conference, the 7th Annual International
> > Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR), there are three separate
> > presentations listed that report results from the overall research
> > program. The first, an oral presentation entitled "Pediatric Vaccines
> > Influence Primate Behavior, and Amygdala Growth and Opioid Ligand
> > Binding" (the "amygdala abstract") was led by Dr. Hewitson and lists
> > 12 co-authors, including five of her colleagues from the University
> > of Pittsburgh and Dr. Wakefield. Other authors are chemists,
> > pathologists and psychologists from the universities of Kentucky,
> > California-Irvine, and Washington.
> > 
> > Hewitson's introductory presentation will be followed by two poster
> > presentations on Saturday; one of the two, "Pediatric Vaccines
> > Influence Primate Behavior, and Brain Stem Volume and Opioid Ligand
> > Binding", was led by Wakefield and includes six additional
> > co-authors.
> > 
> > It focuses on the developmental effect of vaccine exposures on brain
> > growth during infancy. The second, "Microarray Analysis of GI Tissue
> > in a Macaque Model of the Effects of Infant Vaccination," was led by
> > Steven Walker of Wake Forest University and performed gene array
> > analysis on the intestinal tissues of the vaccinated and unvaccinated
> > monkeys.
> > 
> > The studies address &ndash; albeit in animals, not children -- one of
> > the major criticisms by parents and scientists concerned about a
> > possible link between the greatly stepped-up immunization schedule in
> > the 1990s, including higher exposure to the mercury preservative, and
> > autism. While the Food and Drug Administration approves individual
> > vaccines as safe and effective, and an advisory committee to the
> > Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends the childhood
> > immunization schedule adopted by the states, the overall health
> > outcomes from the total vaccine load, versus no vaccinations at all,
> > have never been compared, the authors said.
> > 
> > A bill requiring the government to conduct a study of autism rates in
> > unvaccinated American children is pending in the U.S. House of
> > Representatives, co-sponsored by Reps. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) and
> > Tom Osborne (R.-Neb.). Just this week, former National Institutes of
> > Health Director Bernadine Healy called for more research into a
> > possible vaccine link to autism and said the question had not been
> > settled, despite repeated assertions to that effect by the CDC, the
> > Institute of Medicine and the American Academy of Pediatrics.
> > 
> > In the abstract for today's oral presentation, the authors noted that
> > macaques, the type of monkey used in the study, "are commonly used in
> > pre-clinical vaccine safety testing, but the combined childhood
> > vaccine regimen, rather than individual vaccines, has not been
> > studied. Childhood vaccines are a possible causal factor in autism,
> > and abnormal behaviors and anomalous amygdala growth are potentially
> > inter-related features of this condition."
> > 
> > The study found evidence of both behavioral and biological changes
> > after the 13 macaque monkey infants were administered proportional
> > doses, adjusted for age, of the vaccines recommended between 1994 and
> > 1999. Three monkeys were not given any vaccines.
> > 
> > "Primate development, cognition and social behavior were assessed for
> > both vaccinated and unvaccinated infants using standardized tests
> > developed at the Washington National Primate Research Center." MRI
> > and PET scans looked for brain changes after administration of the
> > MMR.
> > 
> > "Compared with unexposed animals, significant neurodevelopmental
> > deficits were evident for exposed animals in survival reflexes, tests
> > of color discrimination and reversal, and learning sets," the authors
> > reported. "Differences in behaviors were observed between exposed and
> > unexposed animals and within the exposed group before and after MMR
> > vaccination. Compared with unexposed animals, exposed animals showed
> > attenuation of amygdala growth and differences in the amygdala
> > binding of [11C]diprenorphine. Interaction models identified
> > significant associations between specific aberrant social and
> > non-social behaviors, isotope binding, and vaccine exposure."
> > 
> > One of the Saturday abstracts makes the further point that the
> > research "revealed significant differences between exposed and
> > unexposed animals" in the kinds of developmental behaviors a mother
> > might be able to observe, "with delayed acquisition of root, suck,
> > clasp hand, and clasp foot reflexes." They conclude by noting that
> > "This animal model examines the neurological consequences of the
> > childhood vaccine regimen, Functional and &hellip; brainstem
> > anomalies were evident in vaccinated animals that may be relevant to
> > some aspects of autism. The findings raise important safety issues
> > while providing a potential animal model for examining aspects of
> > causation and disease pathogenesis in acquired neurodevelopmental
> > disorders."
> > 
> > 
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