[AmericanChai]

please do not post entire articles

http://www.aapsonline.org/press/nr-03-02-2006.php

Medical Journal: Autism Rates Decline as Mercury Removed from Childhood Vaccines Independent Analysis Refutes Institute of Medicine Claims of "No Relationship," While Mercury Still Used in Flu & Other Vaccines
TUCSON, AZ -- A new study shows that autism may be linked after all to the use of mercury in childhood vaccines, despite government's previous claims to the contrary.
An article in the March 10, 2006 issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons shows that since mercury was removed from childhood vaccines, the alarming increase in reported rates of autism and other neurological disorders (NDs) in children not only stopped, but actually dropped sharply – by as much as 35%.

[BeccaRN1970]

OMG!! This is the most frightening thing I have heard (as a parent) in a long time! Wow - and to think that only 34 states are going to possibly have this stuff banned...so much for our government keeping us safe.

I feel terrible for the people who were trying to get this stuff banned to begin with - and were ridiculed!

[mercyteapot]

Last year, the California Dept. of Developmental Services also announced their first decline. Don't count on the naysayers to admit they might have been wrong, though. Last year's announcement from the DDS was pretty much ignored.

http://www.sacunion.com/pages/california/articles/5424

[SmilingBluEyes]

Please, in the future, when citing articles, do just print one or two paragraphs and then cite the source and refer the reader to the remainder of the article there. Copyright rules at allnurses.com prohibit our printing any article in entirety on this site. Thank you for understanding.

[EricEnfermero]

Call me a naysayer, but without even scratching my head too hard, there is a big red flag that makes me question the entire article. The thing that sticks out: The sentence about the dose of mercury (187 times the EPA daily exposure limit) received by these kids by the time they reach first grade. The problem: They're referring to an EPA daily exposure limit. This would be a really dramatic and eye-opening statement if we were administering all 22 vaccines on the same day (or even over the course of 187 days), but we're not doing that. These kids are receiving the vaccines over the course of several years, so their daily exposure would actually still be far less than the EPA recommended limits.

[Empress]

Some people do not feel that the Journal of Physicians and Surgeons is a reputable and objective source for medical information, particularly for autism information.

http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/20...physicians.php

http://conwebwatch.tripod.com/storie.../medicine.html (Not related to autism, but a site that questions the ethics behind the journal's practices.)

http://www.samefacts.com/archives/he...moking_gun.php

Also, there are other studies that indicate countries that removed thimersol sooner then the US have similar autism trends, I'll look for them.

[dnw826]

Read this (you may say it's biased, but I am busy looking up some proof you may deem objective that proves it):

EPA recently closed down schools when it was discovered that air mercury levels were at 30mcg/m. (EPA's action level in the air is 1mcg/m) Yet infants injected with multiple mercury containing vaccines in the 1990s received up to 187 mcg the first 6 months of life. A typical dose received by a 2 month old who received 3 mercury vaccines was 125 times EPA's daily allowable exposure levels.
In 2001, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) stated it is "biologically plausible" that ethyl mercury Thimerosal in vaccines caused neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism.

http://www.safeminds.org/mercury/

[dnw826]

I will post as I find info that is "credible enough"

Congressman Weldon:

The important thing in evaluating this study is that exposure in the Danish population to Thimerosal varied considerably from that in the United States. Danish children received 75 micrograms of mercury in their first 9 weeks of life and then another 50 micrograms at 10 months. By comparison, children in the United States received 187.5 micrograms of mercury by the age of 6 months, nearly 2 1/2 times as much mercury as the Danish population.

Dr. Boyd Haley has said that comparing the exposure of the U.S. children to these children in Denmark is like comparing apples and cows. I think there is a lot of truth to that. Hviid states that the rate of autism went up after they began removing Thimerosal from vaccines in 1992. The numbers in Hviid's study were skewed in that they began to add outpatient autism diagnoses after 1992.

http://weldon.house.gov/UploadedFile...donMDonIOM.pdf

[mercyteapot]

Originally Posted by Empress

Some people do not feel that the Journal of Physicians and Surgeons is a reputable and objective source for medical information, particularly for autism information.

http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/20...physicians.php

http://conwebwatch.tripod.com/storie.../medicine.html (Not related to autism, but a site that questions the ethics behind the journal's practices.)

http://www.samefacts.com/archives/he...moking_gun.php

Also, there are other studies that indicate countries that removed thimersol sooner then the US have similar autism trends, I'll look for them.

It isn't as if these sites are themselves affiliated with long standing organizations.

[dnw826]

Originally Posted by mercyteapot

It isn't as if these sites are themselves affiliated with long standing organizations.

No doubt about that one.

And I'm no right winger.