Holy Batman Cyber Law ! you and I agreeing in a thread LOL
Seriously this is one of the hottest and biggest debates on any parenting forum.
The really sad thing is that people are like sheep. This is a fact They will follow (in the main) what everyone else is doing.
In 1998, British gastroenterologist Dr. Andrew Wakefield published a paper suggesting a possible association between childhood MMR (Mumps/Measles/Rubella) immunization, bowel disease and autism. Wakefield proposed the idea that Interaction between viruses could (1) have a negative impact on a childs immune system; (2) lead to persistent infection in the gastrointestinal tract and (3) lead, in the long run, to possible brain damage and autism.
Wakefields study was published by the Lancet, one of the worlds top medical journals. Later, however, they called the study fatally flawed. Among the flaws: Wakefield, a gastroenterologist, was studying children who had originally presented with gastrointestinal problems -- hardly a random sample. In addition, the group studied was very small -- and no conclusive proof was offered that the measles virus found in autistic childrens guts was causally connected to their autism.
Wakefield was asked to leave his position in Britain, and retracted some of the study outcomes. Today, he is the head of a Texas-based research group called Thoughtful House. There, he and his colleagues continue their research. Meanwhile, various large-scale studies in the US and Denmark seem to refute Wakefields initial findings. The official perspective of the CDC is that there is no proven connection between live-virus vaccines and autism.
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http://autism.about.com/od/causesofautism/a/MMRVaccine.htm
It was conceded that Thimersol (mecury) was not a good component and the companies manufactured the vaccines without. However I believe that SOME surgeries/hospitals rather than throwing these out continued to give these.
always ask your dr whether this is the vaccine without.
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/concerns/thimerosal.htm
Since 2001, with the exception of some influenza (flu) vaccines, thimerosal is not used as a preservative in routinely recommended childhood vaccines.
I honestly believe that its like Cancer, you have the gene and its triggered by something.
We are a preservative free Household
I personally believe that the food we buy off our shelves contribute far more to our childrens health or rather demise of it than Vaccines do.
The horrific stuff that is in packaged foods, the preservatives, colors, additives and genetically modified foods is doing our children far more harm than good.
People who are refusing to vaccinate their children are allowing the diseases that we once had eradicated to come back into our lives. The really sad thing is that because people have not lived through the times before vaccines were invented , and disease wiped out entire towns they have no concept of how horrific major scale disease can be.
So they think ah well I won't take the chance of my child getting autism - I'll skip the needles , he''l/she'll be safe then.....sadly this is a misnomer there are other things that can trigger all sorts of health issues with out children , but what they can guarantee is that they are adding another person into the mix to spread these deadly diseases.
My anger at this man who caused this wide spread panic is very intense.
I believe he acted irresponsibly and did not have concrete proof or any basis to make this statement about Autism and Vaccines. And sadly he had put many people in jeopardy
This is of course just my opinion