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"MYTH" WEBSITE SUMMARY SUBJECT: VACCINATED MONKEYS DEVELOP AUTISM SYMPTOMS National Autism Association Infant Primates Given Vaccines On U.S. Children's Immunization Schedule Develop Biomedical And Behavioral Symptoms Of Autism Article Date: 20 May 2008 A primate model for autism using the U.S. children's immunization schedule was unveiled at the International Meeting For Autism Research (IMFAR) this weekend. The research underscores the critical need for studies into vaccine safety and the immune and mitochondrial dysfunction of autistic children. The National Autism Association (NAA) questions why the government hasn't undertaken these vital studies and why researchers have had to depend on private money to perform this critical science that will surely impact the health of millions of children worldwide. Using infant macaque monkeys, University of Pittsburgh's Dr. Laura Hewitson, Ph.D., described how vaccinated animals, when compared to unvaccinated animals, showed significant neurodevelopmental deficits and "significant associations between specific aberrant social and non-social behaviors, isotope binding, and vaccine exposure." Researchers also reported, "vaccinated animals exhibited progressively severe chronic active inflammation whereas unexposed animals did not" and found "many significant differences in the GI tissue gene expression profiles between vaccinated and unvaccinated animals." Gastrointestinal issues are a common symptom of children with regressive autism. NAA calls for the NIH to conduct large scale, non-epidemiological studies into the biomedical symptoms surrounding young children and all vaccines, including those containing the mercury-based preservative thimerosal and other additives like aluminum. This request for further research echoes that of Dr. Bernadine Healy, Former NIH Director in a CBS interview earlier this week. "I think public health officials have been too quick to dismiss the hypothesis as 'irrational,' without sufficient studies of causation...without studying the population that got sick," Healy said. "I have not seen major studies that focus on 300 kids who got autistic symptoms within a period of a few weeks of the vaccines." Recently the government's vaccine court conceded the case of Hannah Poling, admitting that vaccines triggered her regression into autism by exacerbating mitochondrial dysfunction. "The recent Poling case and this new research provide further evidence that the CDC has fallen down on their job to protect children from harm. The biomedical research to date suggests that parental reports of regression following vaccination is not only plausible, but likely in certain individuals," said Scott Bono, NAA Chairman. "To date, the CDC has conducted no safety testing on the possible harmful effects of simultaneously administering multiple vaccines to infants, and has steadfastly refused to state a preference for mercury-free vaccines to be given to children and pregnant women. It's time for HHS and Congress to step in and take vaccine safety away from the CDC." On June 4th, parents of vaccine-injured children will rally for toxin-free immunizations in Washington, DC. For more information about the "Green Our Vaccines" rally or the new primate study visit http://www.nationalautism.org SICK MONKEYS: RESEARCH LINKS VACCINE LOAD, AUTISM SIGNS BY DAN OLMSTED http://www.ageofautism.com/2008/05/sick-monkeys-st.html 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 such as the 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 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 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 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 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 The studies address 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 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 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 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 … brainstem
anomalies were evident in vaccinated animals that may be relevant
to some aspects of autism. The findings raise -- Dan Olmsted is Editor of Age of Autism.
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