CDC Study Expected to Announce 1 in 100 Autism Rate—A Startling 50% Jump in Just Two Years. Evidence Points to an Environmental Trigger.

CDC Study Expected to Announce 1 in 100 Autism Rate—A Startling 50% Jump in Just Two Years. Evidence Points to an Environmental Trigger. SafeMinds calls for more targeted environmental research and vaccine safety studies to begin immediately.

Atlanta, GA – Researchers report that autism has risen to an epidemic rate of 1 in 100 children in a study to be released on Friday by the Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring (ADDM) Network office of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), This rate represents a 50% increase between the two birth cohort years of 1994 and 1996 and mirrors a recent study released by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), which found a rate of 1 in 91 children, 1 in 58 boys.

In 2007, the ADDM released a similar study conducted in 2002 examining children born in 1994 that found the autism rate to be 1 in 150. In the study to be released Friday, the CDC looked at children born in 1996 (8 years old in 2004) and determined that there was a substantial increase of 50% between those two birth years.

This study and other recently published research clearly indicate that autism cannot solely be caused by genetic differences because it is impossible for genetic diseases to increase at such astronomical rates. It also cannot be explained by better diagnosing, changes in diagnostic criteria or migration patterns. It is clearly triggered by the environment. It’s well past time that CDC and NIH treat the autism epidemic with the national emergency status it deserves and act with crisis level response.

Though alarming, researchers MUST acknowledge the obvious trend and its connection to the environment to help children. This conclusion is supported by an NIH funded study released earlier this year by the UC Davis M.I.N.D, Institute which “found that the seven- to eight-fold increase in the number children born in California with autism since 1990 cannot be explained by either changes in how the condition is diagnosed or counted — and the trend shows no sign of abating.” The study’s lead investigator, Dr. Irva Hertz-Picciotto , a professor of environmental and occupational health and epidemiology and an internationally respected autism researcher, added, “It’s time to start looking for the environmental culprits responsible for the remarkable increase in the rate of autism in California.”

The two ADDM reports from 1994 and 1996 birth years provide autism researchers a significant investigative clue by narrowing the years needed to investigate what changed in the environment to trigger such an increase in autism in such a short time frame.

The skyrocketing increase in autism in the 1990’s and 2000’s came at a time when mercury emissions have been increasing worldwide, the content of mercury in infant vaccines more than tripled, and the number of vaccines given to children went from 18 shots to 36 shots today. Now, it is determined that autism increased at an incredible 50% between 1994 and 1996 at the same time that the uptake rate of the Hepatitis B vaccine among infants accelerated immensely. This vaccine series added 62.5 more micrograms of mercury to babies, putting them over the the dose considered safe by the EPA for an average weight infant.

The Hepatitis B vaccine at birth has also received sharp criticism from advocates after a recent study by Laura Hewitson, University of Pittsburgh, which found that infant macaques given the Hep B birth dose, adjusted for macaque weight, showed statistically significant developmental delays.

SafeMinds calls on the CDC and the National Institutes of Health Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC) to close vaccine safety research gaps identified by the National Vaccine Advisory Committee (NVAC) in an independent and transparent manner. We ask that the government appropriate money immediately to compare ALL health outcomes among fully vaccinated children with those of unvaccinated children. Incredibly, such a study has never been done for any single vaccine nor the entire vaccine schedule collectively and has now been officially identified as a vaccine safety gap by NIH’s own scientific advisory committee, the National Vaccine Advisory Committee (NVAC).

The US government has spent billions on a failed H1N1 vaccination program, and to date, the CDC has yet to respond to the NVAC's Recommendations to the to improve vaccine safety. These recommendations for greater vaccine safety were echoed in an Institute of Medicine (IOM) report released Friday (11th).

They stated that the United States needs to establish a permanent group that advises the government on vaccine safety and substantially increase research monies to improve vaccine safety and address public concern. “How many more scientific advisory reports need to be issued before the government chooses to protect vulnerable populations from vaccine injury?”, asked Theresa Wrangham, President of SafeMinds.

Additionally, SafeMinds calls on the IACC and National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) to initiate research using existing data from the CDC’s National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) to facilitate the establishment of reference ranges for mercury and other developmental toxicants, especially for vulnerable subgroups like women of child-bearing age and young children. Such a study could look for associations between higher body burdens of toxicants and a range of childhood health outcomes could help to assess levels of exposure that are unsafe, and could help set research priorities for toxicants which have the greatest potential to diminish human health. This information would facilitate the type of cause and treatment oriented research that is so desperately needed.

SafeMinds is a charitable non-profit and leader in funding and advancing the science regarding mercury exposure as it relates to autism. Our expertise extends beyond mercury-related exposures to broader vaccine safety issues, as many of our Board Members hold government agency committee positions such as the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee, various CDC Vaccine Committees, the Department of Defense Autism Spectrum Disorder Research Program and the National Vaccine Advisory Committee’s Vaccine Safety Working Group.

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[herve leger]

Why not add some shag carpeting and make everyone grow mustaches?

[nfl jerseys]

It is the genetic transmutation of genes based on GMO's that is causing this and many other health problems in America today.

Note America. You don't see these rates in Europe that do not allow GMO products.

[patrons99]

@ Sue - For the most part, I agree with your comment. I'm not sure where your harsh tone arises, with respect to homeopathy, however. The homeopaths are NOT your adversary. It's the allopaths we have to worry about. I have several concerns with your viewpoint. I'm not sure that we should collectively develop a case of "tunnel vision". Unless we are speaking with absolute certainty, it might be prudent to keep an open mind. If the cause can be attributed to one or more xenobiotics in the "environment", then the treatment could easily exist with homeopathy and restoration of balance.

Of course, putting mercury in the vaccine schedules is a horrific crime against humanity, or at the very least, sheer idiocy, if you don't wish to invoke actual malice. Of course, we desperately need comparative studies looking at the never vaccinated versus fully-vaccinated.

Even if we were to immediately eliminate all mercury from the vaccine schedules, the incidence of ASD will very likely not drop to ZERO. Then, what will the ASD-nay-sayers say? Will they say that we were wrong and that thimerosal does not cause ASD? Will they say that the "benefit" of leaving mercury in the vaccines outweighs the risk of ASD?

Even use of the word autism or ASD may actually limit the effectiveness of our argument. The vaccine schedules are responsible for MANY vaccine-associated diseases. Autism or ASD is likely not the only vaccine-associated brain injury. ASD is the prototypical, quintessential, vaccine-associated brain injury.

I’m not saying that a “single-minded” or nuanced approach to vaccine safety is necessarily the wrong approach to take. But, let’s try to think this thru. A nuanced strategy seems to ignore OTHER environmental sources of mercury poisoning, e.g. from amalgam dentistry. A nuanced strategy seems to ignore the concept of toxic synergy between the mercury in the vaccine schedules and the hundreds of other toxins in the vaccine schedules. A nuanced strategy seems to ignore the completely unknown risk of biotech-enhanced adventitious presence of biologic recombinants and horizontal transfers of DNA between species. Personally, I think that ALL vaccines are dangerous.

Certainly, complete elimination of mercury is a positive step in the right direction, but what about all of the aluminum adjuvants, squalene, and saponin, "super adjuvants"? Look at what happened with pharma's innovative new flu inoculations in Australia in 2010.

The Law of Unintended Consequences probably applies to this discussion. We're running out of time. There's simply not enough time to take a nuanced approach to vaccine safety, even if one of them was actually safe. There are too many “suspect” vaccines on the schedules.

Let's do the vaccinated versus unvaccinated studies. In animals, first, then in humans. It's got to be done. It is unethical to NOT do these studies. These studies should have been done long ago. It is unethical to hope that vaccines are safe, while dutifully “administering” them. It is criminal to pretend that they are safe, when it's known that they are not.

[Büyü Nasıl Yapılır]

But if not, then think about your child's mother. Mercury fillings? Flu shot every year? Been exposed to smoke from forest fires a lot? (Or smoke from other fires?)

Loved sushi and ate lots of it? Loved tuna and ate tuna for lunch almost every day that she was pregnant?

Is she from gold mining area of California? The legacy of the '49ers lives on; mercury in streambeds and in the sands that line the banks.

Putting mercury into vaccines is inexcusable, intolerable, irreedemable.

[Büyü Nasıl Yapılır]

Did your child receive the hepatitis shot with a day or two of being born? And did your child seem to be autistic 'from birth'?

Don't discount the possibility that the hep vaccine your child received might have contained almost ALL of the mercury from a multi-dose vial.

In that case, no other trigger or cause needs to be looked for. For sharing :)

[NFL Jerseys]

In the real world, this rate is still too low. From my reality, the rate is more like 1 in 20 boys.

[Sevgi Büyüsü]

I thought the number was declared 1 in 91 some months ago???

[kathy blanco]

Mercury may be more than we think as trigger. Teresa Binstock posted this this morning...
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Studies find remarkably high levels of flame retardants in California's children. 3 May 2010
Two new studies show remarkably high levels of PBDE flame retardants in the bodies of California children. PBDE body burden levels in two separate populations of California children were 10 to 1,000 times higher than European children, 2 to 10 times higher than other U.S. children and adults, and approached levels measured in occupationally-exposed adults.
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1. Preliminary evidence of the in vitro effects of BDE-47 on innate immune responses in children with autism spectrum disorders.
Ashwood P, Schauer J, Pessah IN, Van de Water J.
J Neuroimmunol. 2009 Mar 31;208(1-2):130-5.

2. Polybrominated diphenyl ethers: neurobehavioral effects following developmental exposure.
Branchi I, Capone F, Alleva E, Costa LG.
Neurotoxicology. 2003 Jun;24(3):449-62.

3. Endocrine disrupting polyhalogenated organic pollutants interfere with thyroid hormone signalling in the developing brain.
Darras VM.
Cerebellum. 2008;7(1):26-37.

Flame retardants are in everything, even our kids pajamas and mattresses. I believe a child may have a predisposition to injury, such as mast cell activation (damaging blood brain barriers/mastocytosis), XMRV which hides in T and B cells and awoken by a challenge of T and B lymphocytes (see YouTube, XMRV Dr Mikovitz), aka, vaccines, damaged blood brain barriers by low blood volume via immediate cord clamping, and generally a very weak SOD system (ability to make enough glutathione and methylation-even the DOWNS society knew that mercury could damage the brain see Autism One lecture, fascinating). Thusly why some kids fair "ok" with vaccines, but some others are toast. If mother had an infection with resultant immune malfunction in utero, like lyme, or strep, or HHV6/CMV, another dimension of the problem, as her immune system has basically subverted/changed brain tissue/mapping and development. Autoimmunity in families, even depression in moms set up shop for autism (does she have an infection or toxins like amalgam fillings seeping mercury into her 24 7 as baby chelates it), or the use of antipyretics used and approved by ACIP as a "safe" way to control fevers after a vaccine. Levels of antioxidants is far more important than we think it is...eating right AKA....not exposing yourself to chemicals, pesticides and pharmaceuticals (abx's only for lyme positive only)..so, I not only blame vaccines, I blame the set up for the perfect storm. Celiac in moms untreated/unrecognized, sets up autism in baby. MSG diets, another...the list goes on, they are very common to our world, practices, suggestions...the believing sheeple will pay the price, and the ones who "know" what is going on, won't...sadly, this will be a continuing maiming/knowingly experimenting project on us as citizens, to make sure we don't have developing babies who will question these practices and change policy. Welcome to the elitist agenda. Welcome to a world which blames genes on autism, and neuroimmune disorders, when in reality, they are either generational infections as in infectious to placenta/STD, toxic soups, american food, and recommendations that injure the brain. Oh, and less I forget, no one cares once your kid is damaged...and why should they acknowledge what they have done? We are talking national product industries, defence and it's protection of defence intelligence, and lastly but not leastly, power and greed and "we surely don't want to live our lives out in jail" type of people. Our economy, will be strken by all of us coming to bare what mandates were injuring our kids, and they know that...they know, but we know...that they actually pay out more money in the LIFETIME of caring for our children, then compensating us over their lifespans. Something, has got to give, the truth must come out. Right now, it's a slow leak, and mostly on the internet. The powers that be who control our media, who are often planted by EIS officials from the CDC, are controlling the strings of this puppet show. It's time, that we fund an unvaccinated vaccinated population, it's time we found out how toxic we are, and what infections, (probably from contaminated vaccines by the way, aka retroviruses), are in our bodies and treat them, and lastly, stop trusting our media and their helpful "sound bites" of what health is.

[Vinson34JOLENE]

If you are willing to buy a house, you will have to get the home loans. Moreover, my sister always uses a commercial loan, which supposes to be the most fast.

[Sue]

Hmm. The last three posts suggest to me that the quackosphere skeptic society deniers of reason have a new approach. If you can't beat em, join em--and try to confuse and divide them.

I would suggest that people not allow the EMR, EMF, weather modification and GMO crop posts to distract attention from mercury and/or vaccines. Vaccine administration is the event that a great number of parents report was a turning point in their child's development of symptoms. Mercury is the neurotoxin that was injected directly into our kids.

There is evidence that autism rates are higher closer to sources of mercury pollution. There is a strong similarity between symptoms of mercury toxicity and many "autism" symptoms. There is evidence that kids diagnosed with autism tend to have higher body burden's of mercury and possibly be less able to excrete it. Treatments that increase excretion of this element (and other heavy metals) appear to improve the health and behaviors of a significant portion of those with "autism" symptoms. Ergo, regardless of how many other "suspects" are out there (and there may be 80,000 some untested manmade chemicals), very clear, transparent, invivo tests (on monkeys) need to be done on to test the hypothesis about the primary suspects BEFORE diverting attention to any other potential cause. I am fully with J.B. Handley on this. Show me the monkeys!

In addition, I want to see real vaccinated vs never vaccinated studies by unbiased researchers. If the results of the above research clearly shows that mercury and/or vaccines do not cause health and behavior problems in developing monkeys or children, then it will be time to examine alternative hypotheses and to pursue less obvious "environmental" suspects.