RE-RUN: WE KNEW ALL ALONG? YES, WE REALLY DID.

BY DAN OLMSTED

Bernadine Healy's comments to CBS (and Imus) today are a landmark in the long, painful slog toward the truth about vaccine damage. Be excited -- be very excited. But believe me, it will take a while longer for the "mainstream" media to realize what a catastrophically mediocre job they've done -- and fix it. Too many egos (Dr. Nancy, Dr. Tim, "Dr." Harris...), too many careers, too much credibility are at stake. CBS's Sharyl Attkisson has been way ahead for a long time.

Meanwhile, I'm struck by Sharyl's remarks that brain injury from vaccines has been well documented since 1991 -- but that calling it autism has been a taboo.

Here's an article I wrote for UPI in 2005 about clear warnings to the CDC and FDA as early as 1991 from doctors linking autism and vaccines. Most chilling: The California doctor who reported in 1994 "there are currently 10 cases of autism in children who received DPT/OPV/MMR at 15-18 months." Isn't that a cluster? The response? Dismissive. In my view, most of the tens of thousands of autism cases since then are the responsibility of the CDC, the FDA, the AAP -- as well as Big Media for enabling them.

o cThe Age of Autism: Adverse events
Published: Sept. 21, 2005 at 12:59 PM (HERE)

By DAN OLMSTED
UPI Senior Editor
Years before the alarm sounded nationwide about a possible link between vaccines and autism, some doctors were making that connection themselves.

The evidence: 83 reports filed with the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System associating the onset of autism with childhood immunizations. The reports, compiled and catalogued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration, were analyzed by Age of Autism.

A report from 1992 listed Feb. 21 as both "vaccination date" and "adverse event date" for a 1-year-old boy: "Patient received MMR vaccination (measles-mumps-rubella) and experienced fever, autistic behaviors, encephalitic condition, began to tune out; sound sensitivity, hand-flapping, wheel-spinning, nighttime sweats, appetite increase."

The child's diagnoses included autism, encephalopathy (brain swelling), mental retardation, personality disorder and speech disorder.

Another report: Two days after being vaccinated in August 1994 a 1-year-old girl experienced "low fever, much discomfort. Patient laid in bed and cried and moaned; three-four days post-vaccination, rash traveled over patient's body and lasted at least one week. Within six weeks of vaccination patient was observed as losing previously gained language and social skills; diagnosed autistic."

The reports do not prove that any of the autism cases resulted from vaccination. Rather, their potential significance is that a number of qualified observers -- primarily doctors and other health professionals -- suspected a connection and made the effort to report it well before the issue was on the national radar.

In July 1999 the CDC and the American Academy of Pediatrics recommended that manufacturers begin phasing out a mercury-based preservative that was in several childhood vaccines. The concern: As the number of required vaccinations expanded around 1990, children inadvertently got too much mercury, a known neurotoxin.

Since then federal health officials, along with a panel of the Institute of Medicine, have dismissed the concern as unfounded. But some scientists and parent groups continue to assert that childhood immunizations are behind a major rise in autism diagnoses.

The adverse-event reports examined by Age of Autism were sent to VAERS between June 1991 and June 1999 -- the month before the CDC recommendation to phase out thimerosal.

Based on a 1994 report by a California physician, 10 of the 83 cases are unknown children "who received vaccination and (were) diagnosed with autism and encephalopathy." That doctor reported "there are currently 10 cases of autism in children who received DPT/OPV/MMR at 15-18 months." (The reference is to the diphtheria-pertussis-tetanus, polio and MMR vaccines.)

That report also cites a statement from an unidentified vaccine manufacturer: "Dr. ... is not treating physician and does not possess any original records; unclear whether reporter is suggesting possible causal association."

The following excerpts start with the date the report was received by VAERS and the age of the child when vaccinated. The type of vaccine is not always clear and is indicated here only when specified in the event narrative. Medical abbreviations are spelled out for clarity.

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-- June 5, 1991, age 1.5. Four days post-vaccination developed running fever. To emergency room, temperature 104 and very lethargic. Several tests for various things and couldn't find anything wrong; given antibiotics as a precaution; then lost speech and was diagnosed with autism.

-- July 7, 1995, age 1.9. Patient developed localized swelling with redness in injection site following vaccination. Also had high temperature, loss of balance, limping followed with high-pitched screaming and loss of speech. Diagnosed pervasive personality disorder/autistic.

-- May 29, 1996, age 1.3. Patient received vaccination, experienced a fever of 104.6 which lasted for approximately three to four days. Patient was very lethargic and appeared changed in temperament and abilities; symptoms of autism such as head banging were noticed.

-- April 3, 1997, age 1.2. Evening of vaccination, patient developed temperature of 104.2 and cried all night with high pitched screaming. (Next day) patient wouldn't eat and was listless; patient went off all solid foods; within next three months patient lost all speech abilities; diagnosed with autism.

-- April 15, 1997, age 1.3. Patient received vaccination and developed a big change in mental status that was described as an atypical infantile autistic state with mild seizures; at the age of one or two the patient started sleeping all the time.

-- Aug. 4, 1997, age 6 months. Patient received vaccination and immediately experienced a fever of 104 and developed a quarter-size lump at the injection site; 30 to 60 days post-vaccination patient developed autism; the quarter-size lump persisted for approximately six weeks.

-- March 2, 1999, age 1.3. Loss of all developmental milestones immediately post-vaccination; patient has autism; communication disorder, auditory processing disorder, asthma, food allergies, chronic diarrhea, digestive problems.

-- April 21, 1999, age 1.5. Patient received vaccination; (three days
later) after midnight patient woke up screaming unconsolably with hysteria. Later in morning, patient could not talk and could not comprehend anything. Extensive testing done; diagnosis: autism. Continues in this state today.

-- May 27, 1999, age 1.3. Fever immediately post-vaccination -- diarrhea, ulcers on diaper area; chronic digestive problems, loss of speech; stimming behavior; autism, seizure disorder. The patient's ulcerative colitis and gastritis are currently under the care of a physician.

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Since 1999, the federal government's vaccine databases have come under scrutiny from critics who charge they have been manipulated to show no connection between vaccines and autism. They also say the CDC has a built-in conflict of interest because it sets the universal childhood immunization schedule that is then adopted by the states.

The agency vigorously defends its research and denies that its role in vaccination policy compromises its objectivity.

Last week Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn., said he plans to seek funding for an independent review of another CDC vaccine database.

"Part of what I'm going to require in this amendment we're going to put up is that the independent studies not only look at the data, but actually talk to some of the -- examine some of the kids and families to go over family histories," Lieberman said.

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This ongoing series on the roots and rise of autism welcomes reader comment.

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[Craig Willoughby]

Spin on Numbers, yes, I saw that article. It goes to prove a point I made on another blog about how the medical industry doesn't want people to be healthy. There is a huge profit in sick people.

The whole supply and demand chain would be broken for the pHARMa industry if people started getting better. That is why pHARMa and the FDA are so vehemently trying to get alternative remedies banned; they can't make a profit from them.

Now, what if there were a way to ensure that they would always have a steady supply of sick people? What is one thing they can do to make sure that people would get sick and would therefore always need a supply of their drugs to "make them better?"

I know...seems like a stretch until you realize how eerily plausible it is that these money-grubbing corporate slimebags like For-Profit Offit would do something like that.

[Spin on numbers]

"For me, that's what the "ten foot pole" of real justice is for, to keep them far, far away, so that they can't form policies which are profitable to themselves and deadly to our children, so they can't spin and lie to cover it up, so they can't touch our lives anymore."

Gatagorra, couldn't agree with you more. Check out this article here on "More than half of Americans on chronic meds." Turns out I was grossly underestimating this number. See these numbers, and the demographics, and see what reasons they come up with as to why this is so. Public health is failing in a big way.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24603120

[Craig Willoughby]

Gatagorra, I got a good chuckle out of your 10-foot pole justice (unclean, UNCLEAN!!). However, when it all finally comes to a close (and the more I watch, it seems, the more it looks like we might see an end to this in our lifetime), these sick bastards will get no jailtime, or they will be "locked" in Club-med prison where they can play golf and relax on the beach. That is what I mean when I say that jail would be too good for them. Justice in this country is no where near what it should be, and this group of sadistic jerks who knowingly poisoned our children will walk free and probably start up practices or remain in the pHARMa industry.

That's why we should turn them over to the parents; this isn't about vigilantism, it's justice!

[Gatogorra]

Craig-- I am the parent of two injured children and if they (the proverbial "they") turned these people over to me, I'd put them in jail.

I appreciate your anger, but I consider the medical and bureaucratic thugs who are responsible for most of the epidemic to be so revolting that actual vigilante-style revenge is too "intimate" a concept and brings me into too much psychic proximity to people I regard as criminals. And they're just too gross. For me, that's what the "ten foot pole" of real justice is for, to keep them far, far away, so that they can't form policies which are profitable to themselves and deadly to our children, so they can't spin and lie to cover it up, so they can't touch our lives anymore.

The vaccine apologists and certain mainstream medical authorities have been very disappointed with how "Ghandi-ish" the environmental injury movement has been so far. They would like nothing more than to see something on which to pin some "homegrown terrorism" rap within these groups so there could be a crackdown and so that the public could be mobilized to view the movement as dangerous, as a pack of crazies.

I don't know about you, but I'm not Captain Ahab and have no intention of going down with the whale on this. Just put the whale in jail.

[Josh Day]

Seeing high profile MD's, former officials, and other talking heads begin to chink away at the universal THERE IS NO EVIDENCE propaganda is like watching rats bail from a burning, sinking ship. I wonder how many more will come out, and how the public, and history, will regard them. Personally, I consider them on par with Robert McNamara in regard to his confession of his Vietnam spinning.

[Diplomacy at its finest]

I think what Healey is trying to say very diplomatically to the public health officials (I think that her comments were directed completely and absolutely to them and not for our consumption) is that IF you want to save your system of medicine, get smart and do your homework before you assembly-line vaccinate kids (for greed, my addition). Because I know it and you know it, that there ARE susceptible groups out there. IF you do not listen to them and keep going, and EVERYONE (except for some as it is now) figures out that not only are you incapable of treating these people, but are actually MAKING them very very sick, there will be hell to pay.

The point she was making about the public being smart was that they are going to end up going completely to alternative medicine (because face it, it is a much more sophisticated method of treatment than your science) and so if you want to have mainstream medicine remain mainstream, you had better own up to your mistakes and *pretend* to do your homework, else ALL will be lost.

Actually I am hoping that there are MORE Offit type of people with verbal diarrhea so that more people get sick and then finally mainstream medicine will meet its DOOM. Because I am SICK of it and its people.

[Craig Willoughby]

Gatagorra, jail would be to good for them. Turn them over to the parents of the children they injured.

I'm a huge believer in the old sayin, "let the punishment fit the crime."

[Gatogorra]

You could cry blood thinking that they knew all along, that so many cases could have been prevented. The very first wave, an accident maybe. The next waves and what happened to most of our own children? The result of a conspiracy, a conscious crime.

If you reflect on the pain that each of these documented children endured and imagine that this pain had been the result of just a one-time assault by some abusive adult who crossed their path, then even barring *permanent* injury of the child, this abuser would be in jail for a very long time-- particularly if the adult was paid to commit the crime.

Contrary to what Dr. Healy recommends, I think we should be very, very hard on the pharmaceutical companies and all the public health officials involved in the cover-up. These people belong in jail.

[Sarah]

Big move from Bernadine Healy & Sen Lieberman. Question - what do parents, who are faced with the vax schedule, and especially live virus vaccines, do now? Wait until more evidence comes forward before vaxing, refuse vaxing altogether, go forward with live virus vax and cross fingers that everything will be ok, educate themselves on how to treat viruses like M, M, and R in the awful event these are caught in between waiting for (demanding) more evidence? It's a very hard place to be in.