BOYD HALEY RESPONDS TO CA AUTISM NUMBERS

Thanks to www.vaccinationnews.com for allowing us to link THIS LETTER by Dr. Boyd Haley of the U. of Kentucky Chemistry department.

The title is: RESPONSE TO 2008 R. SCHECHTER AND J. GRETHER PUBLICATION “CONTINUING INCREASES IN AUTISM REPORTED TO CALIFORNIA’S DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES SYSTEM” WHICH ADDRESSES CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF DEVELOPMENT SERVICES DATA ON EVALUATION OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THIMEROSAL AND AUTISM

Comments

[LAURENCE MCFERREN]

I BELIEVE MEASLES IS MORE OF A CULPRIT THAN MERCURY. I WAS GIVEN CALOMEL (MERCURIC CHLORIDE) AND CHLORAMPHENICOL W/ THIMEROSAL MANY TIMES AS A CHILD AND DID NOT BECOME AUTISTIC. HOWEVER, MY 2 CHILDREN DID AFTER VACCINES. THE YOUNGEST HAS VERY HIGH TITERS OF MEASLES FROM MMR AND PATHOLOGICAL LEVELS OF CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE FROM DPT VACCINES-11 YEARS LATER! ALTHOUGH MERCURY ADVERSELY AFFECTED SULFUR ENZYMES & KIDNEY FUNCTION, IT DID NOT CAUSE AUTISM. MMR VACCINE GIVEN TO ME AT WORK CAUSED MASSIVE IMMUNE REACTION NECESSITATING 2 MONTHS OF ANTIBIOTICS AND PERMANENT SERIOUS DELAYED-REACTION FOOD ALLERGIES. SMITH-KLINE VERSION OF MMR LIKELY THE CULPRIT; IT HAS BEEN BANNED IN MOST ENLIGHTENED COUNTRIES-INTERESTINGLY, NOT HERE

[Raymond Gallup]

As a parent I feel strongly that vaccines are the biggest contributing factor to autism. I feel that the vaccines and ALL of the ingredients contribute to what is going on with the autism epidemic. There are over 200,000 cases in the Vaccine Adverse Event Report System (VAERS) that are held by the FDA and CDC. Any vaccine can cause an adverse reaction as reported in this system and autism is a factor.

Vijendra Singh found that children with autism tested positive for myelin basic protein antibodies (an autoimmune indicator) and elevated measles antibody titers. Andrew Wakefield found that children with autism had measles in the gut and spinal fluid. If mercury in the vaccines was the only issue then we could discount Singh's and Wakefield's research. It isn't the only problem.

The problem has been that there has been no independent long-term safety studies done on ANY vaccine. Generation Rescue did an informal telephone survey which suggests that vaccinated boys are more likely to develop vaccines.

More research needs to be done including an independent study on vaccinated versus unvaccinated population. Independent long term safety studies done on all vaccines wouldn't hurt as well. Lots more research on autism involving the environmental factors especially relating to vaccines.

Raymond Gallup

[Mr. Anonymous]

There has never been any study of generational toxicity of thimerosal (let alone enough direct toxicity of thimerosal). Our children are actually the 3rd generation to receive thimerosal. Studies in mice have shown that air pollution can have great effect on the health of future generation. The point is that until we have more direct toxicity testing of thimerosal and someone does generational toxicity of thimerosal we will not know the consequences of injecting three generations with thimerosal.

Also, someone needs to duplicates Thomas Burbacher's thimerosal vs methy-mercury study with primates on antibiotics. Mice given antibiotics before they were exposed to mercury showed much greater levels of mercury in their tissues than mice who were not exposed. Someone needs to study if this effect is also true in non-human primates. If it is true, then thimerosal would be significantly more toxic than methy-mercury in the presence of antibiotics because of it's half life being extended. It would also indicate that you would need to factor in the antibiotic status of children during thimerosal exposure to know the true toxicity in any linking study between autism and thimerosal.