I have sat here and read all of your comments. Shock. Disgust. I have a 3 1/2 year old boy with High Func Autism. I had NO IDEA we got our meds from other countries, though I suspected since everything else comes out of there. That CNN article from Cherry left me numb.

Why? Ok, on a long road trip, my husband and I, talking about what else but autism...I said to him, "OK. I'm going to go out on a conspiracy theory here." Please note, I am NOT one of THOSE government-conspiracy-theory-people, at least I wasn't, but this is what I came up with. (and I may be ignorant--sorry, I'm not so versed on "government things" though I'm quickly educating myself!!)

I never ever thought I would share this to anyone but my husband that day in our car, but after reading all your comments, it's time to think outside the box!!! This is what I said to him:

Just like 9/11, it took years of planning to commit such a terrorist attack. So what if these vaccines are being made outside the US, with toxic stuff in them that will slowly disable our children? It may take years, but soon every boy or girl that wants to join the military to fight for our country will not be able to since they are "disabled" whey they are autistic. Next thing you know, as fast as the rates are climbing...Our military will consist of just a few people!!! Perfect time to attack the US since no one can defend it--our children and their children are disabled.

Am I completely insane and radical to entertain such a thought?!!!

rrrlll, I used to work in an institution and honestly (though this is admittedly anecdotal) most of the kids there had cerebral palsy, hydrocephalus, down syndrome or other syndromes that were known as a cause of MR. Sure, there was the odd kid back in the day for whom they could not find any etiology for their developmental delay (and some of those kids would be found to have a syndrome that has been more recently identified). Also, there is the pesky problem of the regression that so many parents see. Did you really hear of so many kids who were developing normally, then bam, they aren't the same? Other than Rett's syndrome, probably not. I realize that some of the childhood illnesses (measles) can result in brain inflammation but this whole vaccine agenda (with so many neurotoxins in the vaccine and many viruses combined) has caused a whole lot more problems than it has solved, I fear.

in 1952, at the height of the polio epidemic, around 60,000 cases of polio were reported in the United States.

The US population in 1952 was around 157,000,000, which would put the incidence of polio.... at the height of the epidemic, at around 1 in 2600.

Am I missing something here????

read this from a CNN report on drug oversight called:

"Are we sure our drugs are safe?" by John Dingell

"What most Americans don't realize is the staggering fact that the number of drug products manufactured outside the United States has doubled between 2001 and 2008. Nearly 40% of all drugs taken by Americans come from overseas, and nearly 80% of the active pharmaceutical ingredients used to make these drugs also come from foreign countries -- mainly China and India.

I support the global marketplace, but we must be aware that without the proper enforcement of quality standards, the trust we put in the safety of the prescriptions we take can be broken at any time by a supplier in China, a counterfeiter in India or an importer from Thailand.

Too many people believe incorrectly that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has the authority to properly monitor our drug supply system for safety. Under current law, the FDA does not have the authority to require a manufacturer to notify the agency if a drug has been corrupted, to recall pharmaceuticals that the FDA believes are unsafe, to refuse imported pharmaceuticals that are counterfeited at the border or to ensure that drug manufacturers are responsible for quality controls throughout their supply chain. These are authorities we must give to FDA if we are to truly oversee the safety of our drug supply."

read more:

http://www.cnn.com/2012/02/01/opinion/dingell-drug-oversight/index.html

In other words folks, the FDA has no control over trafficing of toxic counterfeit drugs into the US from overseas. Comforting thought huh?

The sad part about these numbers going up is that nothing will change. Obviously the Dept of HHS (FDA, CDC and NIH) are funded by the taxpayers who always get screwed since the Dept of HHS has close ties to the pharmaceutical industry. The politicians don't answer to the people/public/taxpayers, they answer to all the lobbyists that have offices in Washington, DC.

Those in the autism community that have the voices to be heard, well most of them are linked to the pharmaceutical companies. The names Geraldine Dawson of Autism Speaks and Alison Singer of the Autism Science Foundation come to mind along with the rest of the people in those two organizations.

Nothing will change. There will be no funding of immunology research by any of these organizations mentioned. One could go to sleep today and wake up 50 years from now like Rip Van Winkle and one would read stories that autism is 1 in 5, and there still would be no answers. Of course you would hear that the numbers are so high because there is better diagnosis....same refrain we here today.

Sad???? Yes!!!!!

Any one that has a child/adult with autism with an autoimmune link like our family realizes that news items will come out talking about the increase in autism. We also realize that nothing will come of it. At the end of the day, our kids will live permanently disabled for years to come and that they will never be helped by the likes of the Dept of HHS, Autism Speaks or the Autism Science Foundation. All of these organizations are in the business of keeping autism alive and well; and to thrive with increasing numbers of more disabled kids 10,20, 30, 40, 50 years and beyond. That is the nature of the Beast.

In a sense, it is pathetic that the CDC says they have these numbers and it is from data that they have from 2008. It is 2012, four years later and they have nothing in the way to end this epidemic??? What if this was a disease killing off adults and children and the CDC said they had these figures with no answer to ending it??? How sad is that??????

Unbelievable!!! Pathetic!!! We, the stupid taxpayers are funding this Dept of HHS that the CDC is part of. Why are they getting millions of dollars??? Do they deserve this funding?????

Raymond Gallup

It isn't just a generation of children who have been harmed by vaccines. It would be more accurate to say that several generations of children have been harmed by them. Autism is the most devastating and the most visible, but as someone already stated, there are many other kinds of vaccine damage, and until we get that vaxed vs unvaxed study done, we'll never know. That's the point. They don't want us to know what they already know. And, the longer they wait, the more obscure it all becomes, because I suspect that we are passing our vaccine damage on to our offspring. So, let's see....how many generations have been damaged by vaccines? When did it all begin? I was born in the early 40's and everyone had to have smallpox immunization before going to school. I don't know if mine was the first generation to be required to get vaccinated, but I think it might have been.

I don't know why, but I do, get emails from Autism Speaks (cough cough)...I do it so I can spy on what they are thinking...anyways, I got a grand and glorious email from them today, as if they are HAPPY almost Zealoutrous with the numbers, but, this is the email I sent back to them. I hope you all get a kick out of it as I did, LOL...

This is truly is pias psuedo concern email, when you don't do vaccinated unvaccinated studies, nor immune system autoimmunity studies seriously...do the homework and as you do, watch your funding go only towards research running in circles. Watch the autism rate jump EACH and every year. Autism is essentially a gene-programing disorder -- A condition in which environmental insults have altered chromatin bookmarks that determine genetic expression. Since the deviant marks survive cell division, the disorder doesn't go away by "just leaving alone to genetic mistakes". Methylation is the number one factor in epigenetic programming of genes, and nearly all ASD kids are undermethylated. In-utero undermethylation results in hypersensitivity to environmental insults, and weakness in combating oxidative stresses. Research has shown that cumulative oxidative stresses can reach a threshold in which gene marks are changed, resulting in a suddenly-appearing disease condition. This could happen in utero or after birth (regression event).

There is a good chance that deviant marks in autism may be normalized by future epigenetic therapies. Unlike genetic disorders that are extremely difficult to combat, epigenetic abnormalities are relatively easy to correct. Several years ago, it was discovered that many cancers are epigenetic in origin, and there are several experimental epigenetic therapies that are promising and undergoing FDA trials. They are getting quite good at identifying the specific DNA CpG island and histone tail abnormal marks. I wish these researchers would start similar research for ASD. Interestingly, XMRV, the retrovirus known to be in autism, and CFS (both methylation block disorders), affect DNA at CpG islands. By the way, you and others at AS shot that one down with all your chronies at CDC and NIH. You also shoot down that may of these kids have lyme, and other co pathogens, and you shoot down well OB GYN visits which include thyroid function analysis, proper birthing in hospitals (if there can be one), and or if the HEP B vaccine causes autism in monkey studies.

I see a future in which newborns will be tested for deviant epigenetic bookmarks, and aberrant marks corrected during the first few months. This new technology has potential for eliminating the onset of autism, and also improved treatment for children and adults who have the condition. Are you brave enough to WORK YOURSELF out of your SIX FIGURE JOB? I knew Geraldine In Washington, she saw my children. They are no better if I were the type of mom who believed it was all in their genes...but I knew better...thankfully not listening to the likes of these emails. I knew my kids had a biomedical condition that had promising treatments for them. I may not wish like Allison that I could get in a car and drive off a cliff with my kids (her words), and I will never give up making sure AS never has MY CHILD's VOICE~

Kathy

In 13 years, I have grown from a believer in the American "Health" system into a Conspiracy Theorist Mom. As I look at today's CDC report, then to the new autism definition coming up one year from now (upon the release of the DSM-5), I see another huge government fabrication in the wings. Can you imagine the headlines in 2018 or so? "Autism Numbers Plummet, Proving That It Was Never Vaccines, Only Faulty Reporting!"
Yeah, my boy is a 99-er too.

Taximom5

1 in 48 was an error in the original Canary Party press release which very swiflt corrected - check above.

John

I'm wondering--if the official numbers are 1 in 88 children, with 1 in 48 boys affected, then why does Insel say, "1 in 54 boys affected?"

Is there a typo somewhere, is he trying to soften the blow--or cover things up?

If autism affects boys 3-4 times as many boys as girls, shouldn't the rate of affected boys be more like 1 in 33? Or did the rate of affected girls increase?

well since it's not really such a big deal forthe CDC maybe they can take over education and rehabilitation costs. Then they'll care.

Better watch out if your child displays any of these personality traits as a baby (introversion)... some so-called expert may decide your child is showing signs of autism, when that child is actually just showing signs of introversion. Your introverted child may be more vulnerably sensitive to environmental injuries because of a biological difference in the brain seen on PET scans as more frontal lobe activity. And when, that introverted child is damaged from repeat vaccinations, they will tell you, that your child always displayed signs of developing autism and that vaccinations had nothing to do with it.

Is Your Child Introverted? A Quiz
http://www.justmommies.com/articles/introverted-chi
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Let's go to an imaginary land for a minute, and pretend the government did a legitimate vaccinated vs unvaccinated study. If the rate of autism in unvaccinated children was 1 in 10,000 what explanation might 'they' offer?

What is the new stat on developmental disorders? It was 1 in 6. What is it now? 1 in 5? 4? and I wish the word would get out in the public that these numbers only count for the children who are diagnosed. There are tons of kids out there undiagnosed for various reasons. I wish Katie's parents would get madder than hell.... but I think they are the gate keepers in someway.... or at least that is how they appear. They need to rant! If they ranted, they would be debunked from their positions, and the world will have more sunlight on this tradegy of errors.

You know, you don't need to be a rocket scientist to diagnose a kid with autism. I can walk into any store, restaurant, or public park and pick 'em out.

So why does the study and Dr. Insel's blog seem to think that it is "better" diagnosis, oh and by the way, MAYBE more are affected???

Holy Crap, MAYBE they should do something about it!!! I'm sick of studies that just cause more controversy...

They announced it on a Thursday, not a Friday. That makes us so wrong about CDC!!!!

Fox news announced it about an hour ago. They had an emergency room doctor on and she says it is better dignosis.
She said it use to be just rich, educated white people because they got the help that was needed -- but now it is in the hispanics and the blacks so you see it is better dignosis you bunch of sillies.

More stupid shock and awe by the media. I also would like to know what the real rates are now.

Bird Flu. Swine Flu. And suddenly the CDC is capable of telling the truth? Classes are consolidating. Reports across the country continue to express high-functioning, quirky kids are being pasted with ASD to maintain disability dollars that will be fall into the hands of general ed.

We see this numerical manipulation every year. Many times it's the same year re-fabricated to put figures on the cash barrel head.

It is impossible to not be able to see the entire picture.

More US CDC fraud because they're still causing Autism with Thimerosal-containing vaccines.

What happened to kids born in 1999? In my neck of the woods, 1999 was a bad year to be born male. My county has the most boys born in 1999 with severe autism. Thimerosal was in all the shots and HEP B at birth was routine in all the hospitals at that point.

My calculations in my county show 1 in 22 boys with autism born in 1999. If I were the CDC, I'd skip that year, too.

next step will be we are not counting autism anymore..sort of the swine flu fiasco..they really dont care about autism familys..as long as they get to keep pushing their pharm products and keep there fat cat status they simply dont care. Thats why parents have to take back control, if it mean no public school so be it, keep your off spring healthy and away from this danger.

Yikes! That is one scary looking, gigantic canary. Too bad the epidemic of autism is not yet impressive enough to our public health authorities. Too bad our public health authorities are so blinded by their power and scant vaccine-industry-funded research, that they cannot see that injecting aluminum and mercury into a babies on the scale they do, by adhering to the CDC approved vaccine schedule, is brain damaging lots and lots of babies.

My guess is that one day, very soon, the CDC will approve a bunch of new vaccines for children, likely with lots of antigens and lots of aluminum. These new vaccines will be thoughtlessly and recklessly added to the already overwhelming vaccine schedule. When that day arrives, the new vaccines will maim and kill enough babies and young children right there in the pediatrician's offices, before nary a Sesame Street sticker can be handed out. At that extraordinary tipping point, there will be no doubt as to the causal connection of the vaccines given and the deaths of those children. That day is approaching due to the alarming lack of concern shown by pediatricians to children who are harmed by vaccines. I do not look forward to that day when pediatricians realize with horror what they have done to our children, because when they finally "get it" it will signify that so many more children will have been harmed irreparably.

Lyn Adams:
Dr. Leo Kanner published his landmark study in which he used the term "autism" to describe the children with this new disorder in 1943, but he had been studying them for several years. The prototype of the pertussis vaccine had first been used on a very limited scale about 1903, followed by several experimental versions, given to children of rich, well-educated children to protect them from whooping cough with this new medical technology. It caused autism at a rate of about one in ten thousand for several decades. The first children with autism were probably given the vaccine and developed autism in the late 1930s.

I suppose when everybody is aware of it because everyone has an autistic child it will be the ultimate triumph of awareness!

I remember staring at the exponential progression 15 years ago and people thought I was crazy, and here we are today -it just marches on. It may not have yet reached the 1 in 38 ("no reason to be alarmed") of the Autism Speaks screening programme, but the ground is already being prepared. The pharmaceutical companies will rub their hands with glee, the politicians will shrug and health officials with mouth their usual smug platitudes and pretend not to know anything.

only quibble is with reference to no dx befroe 1930. the dx did not EXIST until 1943.....be careful with that kind of rhetoric!!