I spend time on a website called Topix which offers a large number of forums, including ADHD, autism and more. There is the usual confusion, anger and misinformation being thrown about. Some new contributers would be helpful.

ME/CFS Worldwide Patient Alliance - This is a major media campaign to get funding for reearch on ME/CFS and the newly discovered family of retroviruses. This retrovirus family may cause CFS, Autism, MS, other diseases and cancers. Federal funding must be forthcoming quickly as researchers DO NOT KNOW what this newly discovered retrovirus family may cause. It is believed that this retrovirus has been in the nation's blood supply for over 30 years and now 7% or 20 million Americans are carriers of this retrovirus. Funding for research must be gotten NOW before millions more become ill with possible disabling and/or deadly diseases and cancers.
http://www.causes.com/causes/511536?m=f042604e

http://www.wpinstitute.org/xmrv/index.html The spectrum of neuro-immune diseases including: Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS), Atypical MS, Fibromyalgia and Gulf War Syndrome, share common abnormalities in the innate immune response, which result in chronic immune activation and immune deficiency.
We have detected the retroviral infection XMRV in greater than 95% of the more than 200 ME/CFS, Fibromylagia, Atypical MS patients tested. The current working hypothesis is that XMRV infection of B, T, NK and other cells of the innate immune response causes chronic inflammation and immune deficiency resulting in an inability to mount an effective immune response to opportunistic infections. (See XMRV paper in Science.)
This discovery opens an entirely new avenue of Neuro-Immune Disease related research and our discovery has brought to this field world-renowned immunologists and retrovirologists building our team of collaborators to translate our discoveries into new treatments as soon as possible.
Because retroviruses are known to cause inflammatory diseases, neurological disease, immune deficiency and cancer, the discovery of XMRV has far reaching implications for the prevention and treatment of not only lymphoma, one of the potentially devastating complications of ME/CFS, but prostate cancer and perhaps many others.

@angie...
I think that another avenue to prevent further mistreatment of these children is to sue the doctors and other specialists who have labeled children with autism. It is a misdiagnosis that sends children down a path of treatment denial...., either on purpose or naively they are being negligent in using the word. I know that sounds harsh... but it will stop the cycle of labels being attached to children without proper medical assessment for medical ailments

Here is the 'thing'...plain and simple...black and white...

Its OBVIOUS that cases that DO NOT use the words/phrases/intent that "VAccines cause AUTISM"...well, they ARE awarded damages...

Look at all of the cases that have been awarded damages...including the Polings..its all about symantics and THAT is just plain HORRIBLE!

All of the cases that we have all read that were awarded damages used different phrases/words/etc..some used "PDD-NOS", some just used enceph., some used other 'words'...BUT ALL DESCRIBE the outcome as what the definition of AUTISM IS.

All of us parents in the Omni-bus have to get out and pursue 'table' injuries, with the medical records we have to back it up...forget using the word "Autism"...play their 'game' and low and behold we will start to finally get the damages our kids so rightly deserve. Count on it...between the Polings case as a precedent, Baily Banks, and others...find which case is the mirror of yours and file outside of the omnibus..plain and simple...

Very clearly, we all know that there is a case that MATCHES each of our kids cases that HAVE been compensated for damages, just those cases never used the word AUTISM, just used the combos/names of the table injuries that led to/made worse things that eventually caused 'Autism'...but knowing those cases are out there and already compensated, we need to all go find our 'match'and instead of saying bluntly, 'this vaccine caused autism'...we play their game and use their terms/etc...and then when they start paying all of us...because surely they will have too since they have already compensated others like ours...THEN we can all stand together and say "SEE, its all just a GAME, because in order to get compensated we had to playaround with words...eliminate the 'word' Autism, and THEN we get compensated....so whatever way you want to look at it...whether you say "VAccine caused Autism" ...OR ...it seems the more 'compensatable' or 'winnable' term would be "the table injury which was from this vaccine led to a diagnosis of Autism"....which, certainaly couldnt ever possibly MEAN THE VERY SAME THING RIGHT>!?!?!?

We need to stop fighting them and play by their black and white rules, forget using the word 'autism' and go from there...

At least that is what I am doing right now...as soon as I got my letters for my boys last week, I started to prepare my withdrawl from the omnibus papers along with the copies and clear outlines to their medical histories, one mirrors one already compensated case,and my other son matches another case...

its not 'hard'...just look at what has been compensated and findwhich one is exactly like your childs journey...

To me, it seems that the more complicated they want us to think this whole process is, we just need to beat them at their own game...because certainly the courts have already AGREED and compensated cases whose "person suffered a table injury from a vaccine which led to further developmental disorders/delays/regressions, or to even use the terminology of pdd-nos"...NOT that "Vaccine caused autism"...even IF Autism was the dx later on, the 'injury' . ...all of ours can easily be attributed to a table injury...just by finding a case whose like our individual case...

Then, after we all get what our kids rightly and honestly deserve from the VICP, then and only then I think will we be able to stand up and SHOUT TOGETHER..."SEE...SEE EVERYONE, its all been a matter of wordplay"...and WHO CARES the order of events..plain and simple...if we didnt get the vaccine that caused the table injury it wouldnt have led to a dx of Autism...

sounds so simple doesnt it?

argh!

Angie

Kathy Blanco, Your comment on HIV-infants/kids having brain damage and assorted other terribly serious health issues is missing the most critical factor.

Starting day of birth and continuing every day for 6 weeks, a suspected HIV-baby is given the chemotherapy drug called zidovudine (otherwise known as AZT, short for azidothymidine, also brandname Retrovir) in doses that unfailingly bring damage to mitochondria, neurological systems, gut tissues, cause anemia, bone marrow damage, etc.

Zidovudine in fact was a failed cancer drug because it was too toxic in every which way (and has now been stopped for adult "HIV" patients after its certain lethality could not be ignored any longer).

More horrifying, after 6 weeks of constant zidovudine, if an infant still tests indeterminate or "positive" for HIV, then the zidovudine is continued indefinitely, and at higher doses. Sometimes, other similar "antiviral" DNA chain-terminator drugs may be substituted in lieu of zidovudine.

Thus, it is inevitable and certain the infant will be constantly poisoned until he/she dies or is taken off this insane treatment. Perhaps this is useful, since you brought up the topic of HIV.

What Kathy said!

Please support the WPI, every little counts :) http://www.wpinstitute.org/xmrv/index.html

on HIV in children and our kids' "autism":

http://autismcalciumchannelopathy.com/HIV_and_Autism.html

What do the "special basters" use for evidence to drop 5000 cases ???

Epidemiology from the missing Dr. Thorsen ???

Material from a doctor who has had his vaccines pulled off the market ???

Hang in there....

Brava, Mary and Dana. All: please contact Fox and tell them you want more! They get great ratings... and let's see what happens when we shine a little light on these stories. (Big thanks to Becky and Lyn)

Great job both Mary and Dana. And much thanks to Becky Estepp and Safe Minds for helping to make this happen.

So how does it work exactly? The parents and medical records say that the child was developing normally until he received one or more vaccines after which he screamed for days on end, had seizures, lost motor skills, language and eye contact, developed obsessive behaviors, echolalia, explosive diarrhea, etc. and the epidemiologists come in and say, "Our studies show no link." Is that how it works?

By the way, has anyone seen Poul Thorsen lately? Here's an interesting article addressing the interconnectedness of the authors of some of these supposedly independent studies. (Check out Thorsen's centrality):

http://vaccineinfo.dk/i/AutismAuthorsNetwork-18May04.pdf

Kathy Blanco - You crack me up re:fox news. You're right - I hated Fox News - hmmmm. Now, I'm going to have to reconsider my position. :)

Mary Holland & Dana Hall - You rock. Thank you.

Nice work Mary & Dana.

to all you Fox news haters, maybe it's time we write them, and thank them for being above board? That said, I think the new angle to sue is this? What if, my son (who has XMRV), had an underlying retrovirus reservoring in his B and T Cell lymphocytes, and when vaccinated, it allowed the retrovirus to replicate at a faster more evil and damaging rate, which would damage the brain like those seen in HIV children (many simularities between an HIV infected child, gut problems, brain problems, immune dysfunction)? HINT HINT autism america...this is probably why our kids have damaged BBB's, and inability to detox, because they had huge oxidative stress from the GET GO, thereby, allowing mitochondrial dysfunction, microglial activation and disruption of key developmental timings of pruning and maturation of the brain, both in utero and after a series of vaccines. Mercury makes things worse. Or allows such pathogens to have entry into the brain. New angle folks, new angle. I am sure all the environmental toxicants also take advantage in the body with a retrovirus on board. Many with HIV Aids are highly infected with co pathogens like HHV6, Lyme, Syphillis, CMV, EBV...just like our kids they have gut problems, bacterial and fungal problems (which sometimes kill before the "hiv" does)....so...there you go...there's your new angle.

So Hannah Poling's parents are medical and legal professionals - a neurologist and a nurse/lawyer - and they WIN in Vaccine Court where vaccines "RESULTED" in their child's autism.

This tells the world that a family pedigree in Medicine and Law gives that family an advantage in the vaccines-caused-my-kids-autism court. The theories and medical expertise, connections and savvy legal maneuvers come easily with this background. And hence they won a large settlement in vaccine-induced-autism court.

So that's 1 family with an autistic child with a win in vaccine court. And now the 5,000 other families who likely have no medical or legal background are outright dismissed and asked to put forth new causation theories and provide new medical evidence....

....seriously...lay people come forth with your next best theory and some medical professional to back it...this court is a disfunctional, yes, administrative joke dishing out nothing remotely close to equality, justice and fairness for all.

In a jury of peers, the eye-witness accounts of family, friends and care providers of children who were normal on Tuesday, got shots on Wednesday and were totally different kids on Thursday would be sufficient to win in a regular court.

Time for change. Time to End the Age of Autism.

"I believe at the end of the day, we will look back at these proceedings in shame."

Thank you Mary Holland for stating this on LIVE national television.

And thank you Dana for sharing your letter with America. You both did a fantastic job.

It sure brought out the pharma concern trolls over at Media Matters

I saw the letter too--up close and personal. Thanks, Mary--you did a great job of explaining it.
Maurine

Great clip! When I first saw part of the clip over the weekend, I didn’t even have my first cup of coffee on board, missed about half of it, but I heard enough of it to know that it was important. Thanks to those responsible for the interview. Thanks to FOX news and Ms Camarata for being out in front of the MSM on this extremely important topic.

Couple of questions come to mind. Is the vaccine court the best venue for the NEXT test cases? How will the upcoming Supreme Court ruling impact future test cases? We should consider each possible Supreme Court ruling in the alternative, and analyze how that will change the current legal landscape with respect to vaccines.

I still believe that the 500 pound gorilla is still out there. The science MUST go forward. It is probably neither cost effective nor time effective to analyze each and every individual vaccine for each and every toxin for causing injury, when none of them are safe, and they all cause injury.

It’s been said many times before, but it bears repetition: we need a prospective double-blinded, placebo-controlled, comparison of fully vaccinated versus unvaccinated, looking at the entire vaccine schedule. These studies MUST be done. It is unethical to force the vaccine schedules on the unsuspecting public. It is unethical not to have done these studies. They can be done with proper informed consent and full adherence to the Nuremberg Code and Articles of Helinski, first in non-human primates, then in humans. The conduct of such studies has to be completely transparent and unbiased, i.e., completely free of pharma's influence.

One of our leaders should stand up NOW and champion such a cause. How about our President? Such courage would restore my faith in government.

The Polings did it right: gave the government a (cheesie) way out. Would a theory of triggering a retrovirus also give the government a same way out?