I have an autistic son who is 14 years old, he has never had a shot or a vaccine in his life. I am so happy for the families and children who have found hope in the vaccine theory by Jenny McCarthy. I just want to let people know that we are fighting the fight and don't want people to fight one another, maybe every childs case is different maybe they aren't. Please focus on these childrens futures, as parents we know we probably won't out live these children, that is more traumatic than the disability itself. We are starting to build homes and schools for their futures, focus on that please.

thank you for posting that minority view!
my son got MRSA when he was just 6 months old. no one ever cultured him so his poor body tried to fight it off for a year and a half! he was on anti biotic after antibiotic and the whole time they kept vaccinating away. he was so immunocompromised and they still didn't hessitate to vaccinate. now come to find out that maybe the prevnar vaccine started this mess! i am stunned and i feel betrayed. my poor son is so sick and we are just starting the biomedical approach. i am happy to report we are seeing good progress. and we have changed pediatricians!

Carolyn M., did you know why staph is going up?
http://insidevaccines.com/wordpress/other-stuff/the-interspecies-competition-library/

“These findings suggest a natural competition between colonisation with vaccine-type pneumococci and S aureus, which might explain the increase in S aureus-related otitis media after vaccination. “

AND
"The bactericidal activity of Streptococcus pneumoniae toward Staphylococcus aureus is mediated by hydrogen peroxide. Catalase eliminated this activity. Pneumococci grown anaerobically or genetically lacking pyruvate oxidase (SpxB) were not bactericidal, nor were nonpneumococcal streptococci. These results provide a possible mechanistic explanation for the interspecies interference observed in epidemiologic studies."

see also:
http://insidevaccines.com/wordpress/2008/05/05/mrsa-and-child-flu-deaths/

“Being a carrier of MRSA has increased a lot, especially among school-aged kids,” said Lyn Finelli, chief of influenza surveillance at the CDC. “And being colonized may put them at risk for a severe staph aureus infection when they get the flu.”

This particular news story blames the problem on antibiotic overuse, and, of course, recommends the flu vaccine to save children from this dangerous situation.

for the real story, read the article.

Basically, the rise in staph infections is another nifty side-effect of certain vaccines...but they'll never pull the vaccines...instead they are working on a new anti-staph vaccine!

God help anyone who will defend the thousands and upon millions of children who will die, or be maimed for the common good. How many really die of simple and necessary and undeadly non scary childhood infections? How many of them were vaccinated? I personally would have loved, adored and embraced a weeks worth of febrile fever and spots on my kids skin, rather than a lifetime of seizures, and autism. There are no true numbers for this, nor tally of the untold suffering in these familes, and I hope the smily doctors/pharma gets a giant slap in his/her face, or his/her pocketbook, jailtime, or his/her professional and personal self esteem/conduct. None of that can equal the pain of holding your son through a seizure on a weekly basis that could kill them, or never hearing the words mommy I love you? I would and could never understand a society which allows modern day child sacrifice to the Gods of medicine, what is this, the AMAZON INCAS? Especially,... when they are not studied to the extent to satisfy even the most curious and obvious questions, such as what is the health of the unvaccinated, vs the vaccinated, and do vaccine viruses persist, lay dormant for future immuno events or change our very DNA? My God would not allow this anymore, therefore, watch out the likes of those who tout they are so right, when they are so wrong. Right, always wins, eventually. I think parents know their children intimately, and know vaccines were giant triggers, even if there were extenuating circumstances, such as a genetic immune defect, in utero viruses, metabolic problems, nutritional imbalances, weaknesses within their own genome etc. Even the AIDS people know, that some medicines cause mitochondrial collapse, and vaccine fevers cause oxidative stress to mitochondria? They know thimerosol and aluminum open up the Blood Brain Barrier?

Whoever thought of the brilliant concoction of neurotoxins, vaccine automimcry viruses, pus, Human Aborted tissue, and the like, should be shot, hung and petrified of what they have caused. I sure would not like to be them at judgement bar, but I would be a willing participant in being a mouse in heavens corner to see "what they get".

I hope this family gets so much money, they can not only help their child, but contribute to the real answers to autism. Think aobut it? What if, those families that are awarded put their monies together to put a study forth of what vaccines REALLY do in an immature immune system? THEN, and only then, will all our answers be satisfied. I hope we distrust the pharma/medical system, as much as we distrust the inside traders and wall street crooks. I put the pharma hidden agenda people in the category of worse than they. Herod is still alive, in the form of self righteous money grubbing pharma SH&* heads. Truly, their brain material does not consist of one form of compassion.

Kudos to Anne Dachel for finding these "gems" today, from Dr. Wiznitzer:

http://www.cleveland.com:80/living/index.ssf/2008/10/with_1_in_166_children_having.html

"Is there an epidemic? No." said Dr. Max Wiznitzer, a pediatric neurologist at Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital.

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"Why can't you be a little quirky?" Wiznitzer asked. "Why can't you be a bit different? How come we need to have labels?"

For those who are wondering what the latest scare is Fox, CNN, ABC, and MSNBC all have online stories dated today: "More Children Dying from Combination Flu, Staph Infection" (www.foxnews.com), "Jump Seen in Staph-Linked Flu Deaths in Kids" (abcnews.com), "Flu Deaths Up Among Children for 2006-2007 Season (www.cnn.com), and "Flu Deaths linked to Staph Infections" (www.msnbc.msn.com).

Some quotes: "Public health officials say the numbers underscore the importance of a brand new recommendation that all children, from 6 months through 18 years, get routine flu shots.", also: "Only 6% of the children studied who died had been fully vaccinated against the flu." and flu "puts 20,000 US kids in the hospital each year."

I wonder how effective this will be in scaring people into vaccinating. I also wonder what they will come up with next.

Karen-

Good one on Tina Fey....I do think the whackosphere is going to go into panic alert too. It may put a damper on all the cheerleading for their fearless leader's book. Expect some glum yet highly vicious blogs coming our way. This was another "goalpost" that they will not like.

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Pissing off the whackosphere...."priceless".

In a landmark decision, the state high court unanimously!!!!!
UNANIMOUSLY RULED!!!!
Amazing that pharma is still pushing mercury flu shots after they were told over a decade ago to stop with the mercury!!! Let them argue why a decade after it was bought to their attention they still have not complied with the removal of mercury from vaccines.

Well, this has got to be the most sane, logical, legal, and humane thing I have seen in ages. I can feel Indiana and New Jersey moving with great haste though to stop this. No comments yet from Dr Profit or CDC? I predict less than 24 hours. Oh, and this comment and many more in the AJC are indicative of the past and present..but not the future..as it is medically and ethically a bullshit propaganda plea.

"If you had lived during the Polio epidemic like I did and like my parents did you would be thankful for vaccines and understand the benefits to the many far out weigh he risks to the few."

Such fantastic news!
May this be the one time renegade judges make history and free our kids from this miscarriage of justice.

Outstanding! It's about time and it makes me proud to be from Georgia.

I wanted to reach into my television and slap the smile off of Wizzpisser's face when he was interviewed by Larry King after the Savage comments. What the f*ck was he smiling about? Did anyone else see his "odd" behavior that evening?

He was one of the first "experts" I heard speak after my son was diagnosed. It's "experts" like him that prevent/delay parents from searching for real tangible help for their kids. He was supposed to evaluate my son, but we moved and ended up at the U of C with Dr. Leventhal. Which one is worse?