Here you go, 30 scientific studies that show the link between
vaccines and Autism.
(Article by Sean Adl-Tabatabai, republished from http://www.trueactivist.com)
These papers can be shown to medical doctors and public health
officials who wish to see peer reviewed scientific studies to back up the
claims that autism is a direct result from receiving a vaccination[2].
The first research paper presented was the first one ever written on the subject, from 1943. Child Psychiatrist Leo Kanner discovered 11 children over the course of several years who displayed a novel set of neurological symptoms that had never been described in the medical literature, where children were withdrawn, uncommunicative and displayed similar odd behaviors. This disorder would become known as “autism.” In the paper, Dr. Kanner noted that onset of the disorder began following the administration of a small pox vaccine. This paper was published in 1943, and evidence that vaccination causes an ever increasing rate of neurological and immunological regressions, including autism[3], has been mounting from that time until now.
Autistic Disturbances of Affective Contact[4]
Leo Kanner, Johns Hopkins University, 1943
“Since 1938, there
have come to our attention a number of children whose condition differs so
markedly and uniquely from anything reported so far, that each case merits –
and, I hope, will eventually receive – at detailed consideration of its
fascinating peculiarities.”
All of Kanner’s cases were born after, and began to appear
following, the introduction of Eli Lilly’s new form of water-soluble mercury in
the late 1920s used as an anti-fungal in forestry, a wood treatment product in
the lumber industry and as a disinfectant and anti-bacterial in the medical
industry under the name of “Thimerosal” that was included in vaccines[5].
As I testified to at the hearing, there is abundant research
supporting the vaccine-autism[6] link. I have included 49 research papers for
your review, and only included research published in the last ten years or so.
This is by no means a complete list, but it one that I have been compiling for
the last few years as relevant research came to my attention. I have ONLY
included autism-related information, not research on other vaccine injuries of
which there are many.
As you can see, the medical professionals testifying that there
is no scientific support for the vaccine/autism[7] causation theory are
uninformed about the current state of the science. When vaccination decisions
are made based on an uninformed opinion, it means serious potential damage to
the patient, and because of the law preventing lawsuits for vaccine injury, it
also means that the uninformed medical professionals making bad recommendations
CANNOT be held accountable in any way for giving the patient bad information.
Parents want to know if their child can develop autism from
their vaccines[8]. If they believe that the answer is yes, and the risk of
brain injury from vaccination is higher than their risk from a disease, it is
their right to decline vaccination for themselves and their children without
coercion.
Patients MUST be able to make their own informed vaccine
decisions, because often, they know more about potential vaccine risks that
even top public health officials do.
1. Hepatitis B Vaccination of Male Neonates and Autism
Annals of Epidemiology, September 2009
CM Gallagher, MS Goodman, Stony Brook University Medical Center
Boys vaccinated as neonates had threefold greater odds for
autism diagnosis compared to boys never vaccinated or vaccinated[9] after the
first month of life.
2. Porphyrinuria in childhood autistic disorder: Implications
for environmental toxicity
Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology, 2006
Robert Natafa, et al, Laboratoire Philippe Auguste, Paris,
France
These data implicate environmental toxicity in childhood
autistic disorder.
3. Theoretical aspects of autism: Causes—A review
Journal of Immunotoxicology, January-March 2011
Helen V. Ratajczak, PhD
Autism could result from more than one cause, with different
manifestations in different individuals that share common symptoms. Documented
causes of autism[10] include genetic mutations and/or deletions, viral
infections, and encephalitis following vaccination.
Environmental Health Perspectives, July 2006.
Samuel R. Goth, Ruth A. Chu Jeffrey P. Gregg
This study demonstrates that very low levels of Thimerosal can
contribute to immune system dysregulation.
5. Gender-selective toxicity of thimerosal
Exp Toxicol Pathol. 2009 Mar;61(2):133-6. Epub 2008 Sep 3.
Branch DR, Departments of Medicine and Laboratory Medicine and
Pathobiology, University of Toronto
A recent report shows a correlation of the historical use of
thimerosal in therapeutic immunizations with the subsequent development of
autism[11]; however, this association remains controversial. Autism occurs
approximately four times more frequently in males compared to females; thus,
studies of thimerosal toxicity should take into consideration gender-selective
effects. The present study was originally undertaken to determine the maximum
tolerated dose (MTD) of thimersosal in male and female CD1 mice. However,
during the limited MTD studies, it became apparent that thimerosal has a
differential MTD that depends on whether the mouse is male or female.
Environmental Health Perspectives, Aug 2005.
Thomas Burbacher, PhD, University of Washington
This study demonstrates clearly and unequivocally that ethyl
mercury, the kind of mercury found in vaccines, not
only ends up in the brain but leaves double the amount of inorganic mercury as
methyl mercury, the kind of mercury[12] found in fish. This work is
groundbreaking because little is known about ethyl mercury, and many health
authorities have asserted that the mercury found in vaccines is the “safe
kind.” This study also delivers a strong rebuke of the Institute of Medicine’s
recommendation in 2004 to no longer pursue the mercury-autism connection.
Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology, 1994
Charleston JS et al, Department of Pathology, School of
Medicine, University of Washington
The identities of the reactive glial cells and the implications
for the long-term function and survivability of the neurons due to changes in
the glial population following subclinical long-term exposure to mercury are
discussed.
8. Neuroglial Activation and Neuroinflammation in the Brain of
Patients with Autism
Annals of Neurology, Feb 2005.
Diana L. Vargas, MD [Johns Hopkins University]
This study, performed independently and using a different
methodology than Dr. Herbert (see above) reached the same conclusion: the
brains of autistic children are suffering from inflammation.
9. Autism: A Brain Disorder, or a Disorder That Affects the
Brain?
Clinical Neuropsychiatry, 2005
Martha R. Herbert M.D., Ph.D., Harvard University
Autism is defined behaviorally, as a syndrome of abnormalities
involving language, social reciprocity and hyperfocus or reduced behavioral
flexibility. It is clearly heterogeneous, and it can be accompanied by unusual
talents as well as by impairments, but its underlying biological[13] and
genetic basis in unknown. Autism has been modeled as a brain-based, strongly
genetic disorder, but emerging findings and hypotheses support a broader model
of the condition as a genetically influenced and systemic.
Molecular Psychiatry, July 2004.
Richard C. Deth, PhD [Northeastern University]
This study demonstrates how Thimerosal inhibits methylation, a
central driver of cellular communication and development.
11. Validation of the Phenomenon of Autistic Regression Using
Home Videotapes
Archives of General Psychiatry, 2005
Emily Werner, PhD; Geraldine Dawson, PhD, University of
Washington
Conclusion This study validates the existence of early autistic
regression[14].
Journal of Child Neurology, 2007
M. Catherine DeSoto, PhD, Robert T. Hitlan, PhD -Department of
Psychology, University of Northern Iowa
Excerpt: “We have reanalyzed the data set originally reported by
Ip et al. in 2004 and have found that the original p value was in error and
that a significant relation does exist between the blood levels of mercury and
diagnosis of an autism spectrum disorder. Moreover, the hair sample analysis
results offer some support for the idea that persons with autism may be less
efficient and more variable at eliminating mercury from the blood.”
13. Developmental Regression and Mitochondrial
Dysfunction in a Child With Autism
Journal of Child Neurology, February 2006
Jon S. Poling, MD, PhD, Department of Neurology and
Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins Hospital
Excerpt: “Children who have (mitochondrial-related)
dysfunctional cellular energy metabolism might be more prone to undergo
autistic regression between 18 and 30 months of age if they also have
infections or immunizations at the same time.”
14. Oxidative Stress in Autism: Elevated
Cerebellar 3-nitrotyrosine Levels
American Journal of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, 2008
Elizabeth M. Sajdel-Sulkowska, – Dept of Psychiatry, Harvard
Medical School
Excerpt: The preliminary data suggest a need for more extensive
studies of oxidative stress, its relationship to the environmental factors[15]
and its possible attenuation by antioxidants in autism.”
15. Large Brains in Autism: The Challenge of Pervasive
Abnormality
The Neuroscientist, 2005.
Martha Herbert, MD, PhD, Harvard University
This study helps refute the notion that the brains of autistic
children are simply wired differently and notes, “neuroinflammation appears to
be present in autistic brain tissue from childhood through adulthood.” Dr.
Herbert suggests that chronic disease or an external environmental source (like
heavy metals) may be causing the inflammation.
16. Evidence of Toxicity, Oxidative Stress, and Neuronal Insult
in Autism
Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, Nov-Dec 2006.
Janet Kern, Anne Jones, Department of Psychiatry, University of
Texas Southwestern Medical Center
“This article discusses the evidence for the case that some
children with autism may become autistic from neuronal cell death or brain
damage sometime after birth as result of insult; and addresses the hypotheses that
toxicity and oxidative stress may be a cause of neuronal insult in autism… the
article discusses what may be happening over the course of development and the
multiple factors that may interplay and make these children more vulnerable to
toxicity, oxidative stress, and neuronal insult.”
17. Oxidative Stress in Autism
Pathophysiology, 2006.
Abha Chauhan, Ved Chauhan
This study provides a helpful overview of the growing evidence
supporting the link between oxidative stress and autism.
Neurotoxicology, Jan 2005[16].
S. Jill James, PhD, University of Arkansas
This recent study demonstrates that Thimerosal lowers or
inhibits the body’s ability to produce Glutathione, an antioxidant and the
body’s primary cellular-level defense against mercury.
19. Aluminum adjuvant linked to gulf war illness induces motor
neuron death in mice
Neuromolecular Medicine, 2007
Christopher Shaw, Ph.D., Department of Ophthalmology and Program
in Neuroscience, University of British Columbia
This study demonstrates the extreme toxicity[17] of the aluminum
adjuvant used as a preservative in vaccines.
Health & Place, 2006
Raymond F. Palmer, University of Texas Health Science Center
This study demonstrated the correlation between environmental
mercury and autism rates in Texas.
Environmental Health Perspectives, September, 2006
Gayle Windham, Div. of Environmental and Occupational Disease
Control, California Department of Health Services
Excerpt: “Our results suggest a potential association between
autism[18] and estimated metal concentrations, and possibly solvents, in
ambient air around the birth residence.”
Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, 2007
David A. Geier, Mark R. Geier
This study reviewed the case histories and medical profiles of
nine autistic children and concluded that eight of the nine children were
mercury toxic and this toxicity manifested itself in a manner consistent with
Autism Spectrum Disorders.
Neuropediatrics, August 2006 – P.R. Kong
Excerpt: “There was significant difference in blood mercury
levels between cases and controls, which persists after adjustment for age,
gender and parental occupational status. The geometric mean blood mercury level
was also significantly higher in children with inattentive and combined
subtypes of ADHD. High blood mercury level was associated with ADHD. Whether
the relationship is causal requires further studies.”
24. The Changing Prevalence of Autism In California
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, April 2003
Mark F. Blaxill, David S. Baskin, and Walter O. Spitzer
This study helps to refute the supposition made by some
researchers that autism’s epidemic may only be due to “diagnostic
substitution”.
25. Mitochondrial Energy-Deficient
Endophenotype in Autism
American Journal of Biochemistry and Biotechnology 2008
J. Jay Gargus and Faiqa Imtiaz, School of Medicine, University
of California, Irvine,
While evidence points to a multigenic etiology of most autism,
the pathophysiology of the disorder has yet to be defined and the underlying
genes[19] and biochemical pathways they subserve remain unknown.
American Journal of Biochemistry and Biotechnology 2008
Matthew P. Anderson, Brian S. Hooker and Martha R. Herbert,
Cambridge Health Alliance/Harvard Medical School/Beth Israel Deaconess Medical
Center
We review evidence to support a model where the disease process
underlying autism may begin when an in utero or early postnatal environmental,
infectious, seizure, or autoimmune insult triggers an immune response that
increases reactive oxygen species (ROS) production in the brain that leads to
DNA damage (nuclear and mitochondrial) and metabolic enzyme blockade and that
these inflammatory and oxidative stressors persist beyond early development
(with potential further exacerbations), producing ongoing functional
consequences.
27. Heavy-Metal Toxicity—With Emphasis on
Mercury
John Neustadt, ND, and Steve Pieczenik, MD, PhD
Conclusion: Metals are ubiquitous in our environment, and
exposure to them is inevitable. However, not all people accumulate toxic levels
of metals or exhibit symptoms of metal toxicity, suggesting that genetics play
a role in their potential to damage health.
28. Evidence of Mitochondrial Dysfunction in
Autism and Implications for Treatment
American Journal of Biochemistry and Biotechnology
Daniel A. Rossignol, J. Jeffrey Bradstreet
MtD and oxidative stress may also explain the high
male-to-female ratio found in autism due to increased male vulnerability to
these dysfunctions[20].
29. Proximity to point sources of environmental mercury release
as a predictor of autism prevalence
Health & Place, 2008
Raymond F. Palmer et al, University of Texas Health Science
Center
This study should be viewed as hypothesis-generating – a first
step in examining the potential role of environmental mercury and childhood
developmental disorders. Nothing is known about specific exposure routes,
dosage, timing, and individual susceptibility. We suspect that persistent
low-dose exposures to various environmental toxicants, including mercury[21],
that occur during critical windows of neural development among genetically
susceptible children (with a diminished capacity for metabolizing accumulated
toxicants) may increase the risk for developmental disorders such as autism.
Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, 2007
Guiomar Oliveira MD PhD et al, Centro de Desenvolvimento da
Crianca, Hospital Pediatrico de Coimbra; Assuncao Ataide BSc, Direccao Regional
de Educacao do Centro Coimbra;
The objective of this study was to estimate the prevalence of
autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) and identify its clinical characterization,
and medical conditions in a pediatric population in Portugal.
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