Dachel Media Review: Continued Hijacking of Autism for Vaccine Policy
By Anne Dachel
Read Anne's commentary and view the links after the jump. The Dachel Media Update is sponsored by Lee Silsby Compounding Pharmacy and their OurKidsASD brand.
April 24, 2014, US News & World Report: Measles on Upswing Despite Vaccines' Effectiveness: CDC
April 24, 2014, USA Today: CDC: Vaccines save hundreds of thousands of lives
April 23, 2014, News 9 Oklahoma City, OK: Funding For Oklahoma Autism Program Cut
April 16, 2014, Financial Post (Canada): Lawrence Solomon: The untold story of measles
Although these outbreaks start outside the country, measles infection spreads rapidly among unvaccinated people, CDC director Dr. Tom Frieden said during an early afternoon press briefing. . . .
"This was a wake-up call and it impressed upon me how infectious measles is, because a single undiagnosed case in a hospital could result in dozens of secondary cases," he explained.
The program also saves money, Frieden said. Fewer hospitalizations and more lives saved will cut nearly $295 billion in direct costs and $1.38 trillion in total societal costs, estimates indicate. . . .
"Measles caused about 3 million cases a year in the United States before there was a vaccine in 1963," said Dr. Paul Offit, chief of the division of infectious diseases at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
We're sick of hearing from Paul Offit while we're not told about his vaccine.
We're sick of the CDC caring more about vaccines than sick kids.
I posted comments.
Doubts about vaccines safety - and fading memories of vaccine-preventable diseases - have contributed to a resurgence of nearly forgotten diseases such as measles, which was officially declared eradicated in the USA in 2000. Numerous studies have debunked the notion that vaccines cause autism or other chronic diseases, says William Schaffner, an infectious disease specialist and professor at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville.
Liz Szabo at USA Today cities Dr. William Schaffner as an expert who denies vaccines cause autism. She forgot to mention all his pharma ties. I posted comments.
A statewide program for children with autism could soon be eliminated. Critical funding for the program has been cut. Now The Oklahoma Autism Center is scrambling to keep its doors open.
The center was founded eight years ago. The organization says it offers support and services that autistic children can't get anywhere else in the state.
"He started out, you know, everything was typical and then around 15 to 16 months, he stopped responding to his name and stopped making eye contact," said parent, Kayleigh Brosh.
These stories of regression are so common now that no one is alarmed if their child suddenly regresses, especially the doctor. I posted a comment. I asked what legislators are going to do when all these kids age out of school
Clearly, the science is not settled, making for parents a numbers game of the decision to vaccinate their children. Some parents rely on the press or health authorities to interpret the numbers. Others defy the authorities and weigh the risks in the numbers differently, in deciding what's best for their own families. Who are these others? According to a survey in Pediatrics, unvaccinated children in the U.S. have a mother who is at least 30 years old, who has at least one college degree and whose household has an annual income of at least $75,000. In the absence of studies showing vaccinated children to be healthier than those unvaccinated, the parents in these educated households have determined that the numbers argue against vaccination.
Excellent facts on the dubious history of the measles vaccine.
While there is no mention here of the link between the MMR and the epidemic increase in autism, I'm sure parents in the autism community will be interested in this.
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Thanks Cia,
I think I had measles before Tylenol came on the scene. But I may have had aspirin, though not in the amounts people use fever reducers now. My mother would have thought it was too expensive and not necessary to dish out like candy. Of course they didn't dish out candy back then either. Today, pediatricians recommend using Tylenol and motrin together to the max to reduce fevers.
Posted by: Betty Bona | April 29, 2014 at 12:48 PM
Betty,
Part of the reason for the apparent higher death rate now is that parents didn't use to automatically give a drug to reduce fever as soon as it hit 100. Now nearly EVERY medical authority advocates doing so. Measles usually causes a fever as high as 105 for two and a half or three days. What do you want to bet that every person who died of measles in recent decades had been given Tylenol to reduce his fever and hamper his immune system's best efforts to save his life? Dr. Spock in 1957 said that fever was your friend, and yet he immediately then advocated cool baths to reduce fever. Just what doctors do, since there is really nothing they can do to treat a viral illness other than give a dangerous antiviral drug.
Posted by: cia parker | April 29, 2014 at 12:10 PM
Im sure that measles DID kill children back in the days of mercury-laden vaccines- which , Im told started in the 1930's. When you give a child a mercury laden vaccine, you severely impact his immune system,which is required for battling the measles virus. Could we hypothesize that the employees of the CDC have too much mercury in THEIR brains? - that they cannot understand this simple science , and till TODAY still insist on giving pregnant women and small babies vaccines containing mercury. Oh yes, and who can we thank for approving Tylenol for little kids- a drug that depletes the body's glutathiones, which are needed for disabling viruses ? Damage the kid's immune system with mercury and then give an extra kick with Tylenol. Way to go, geniuses- No wonder all you can manage to do to prevent disease is to tell people to wash their hands.
Everyone- Lets stand in front of the CDC and shout- Mr. Obama, Tear down this hall !
Posted by: Cherry Sperlin Misra | April 28, 2014 at 05:09 PM
Hello Steve,
Go and ask your parents and grandparents, aunts and uncles, friends born in the 1950's and before, how many people they knew that died of measles. Then ask them how many people got sick from the measles, how many were hospitalized from the measles. Ask how they felt when their own children came down with the measles, as we all did in those days. I do not know of anyone who died or even got very sick from the measles - don't know of anyone who had complications (but I personally know of many children who have had serious life altering complications from the vaccine). I'm sure that complications from the measles exist, but it is not even close to what is claimed, or we all would have very different memories of the measles and there would be graves of measles victims from that era everywhere.
Then go to Dr. Jayne Donegan's site for the facts about the measles: http://www.jayne-donegan.co.uk/measles-2013
Posted by: Linda | April 28, 2014 at 04:11 PM
@ Steve,
I'm sorry we have so many more immune compromised people today than when I had the measles that could make measles more dangerous for them. It's not my fault. If I hadn't already vaccinated my kids before I knew the dangers of the vaccine, your guilt trip wouldn't work on me. When did we go from the low death rates we had back in the 60s to the rates you talk about? Or are those rates just a lie. We're certainly not a third world country. If death rates have really gone up because of a severe increase in immune system damage among today's Americans, then the CDC needs to recognize this problem and do something about it. That's their job. If the vaccines are causing immune system weakness as many suspect, the solution is not to increase vaccination rates.
Posted by: Betty Bona | April 28, 2014 at 12:39 PM
"Even if measles outbreaks were really happening, who gives a shit. It's just measles for crying out loud."
1-3 in 1,000 people with measles will die. If you're an infant or have a compromised immune system, your odds are worse. 1 in 20 people with measles will contract pneumonia. Encephalitis will arise in 1 in 1,000 cases of measles. In the third world, measles kills tens of thousands of children a year (figures above from the CDC).
So, it's just measles, eh?
I don't expect this comment will stay here long. I know that while you all love to post on other blogs, you don't allow contrary views on your own blog.
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You're preaching to someone who both had measles, and who has a son who was brain injured by the MMR vaccine.
I know the TRUTH about how benign measles really is, and how poisonous the MMR vaccine really is.
So yeah, it IS just measles. And you can save your bullshit CDC guilt story for someone else.
Posted by: Barry | April 28, 2014 at 07:20 AM
"Even if measles outbreaks were really happening, who gives a shit. It's just measles for crying out loud."
1-3 in 1,000 people with measles will die. If you're an infant or have a compromised immune system, your odds are worse. 1 in 20 people with measles will contract pneumonia. Encephalitis will arise in 1 in 1,000 cases of measles. In the third world, measles kills tens of thousands of children a year (figures above from the CDC).
So, it's just measles, eh?
I don't expect this comment will stay here long. I know that while you all love to post on other blogs, you don't allow contrary views on your own blog.
Posted by: Steve | April 27, 2014 at 11:41 PM
I looked it up. Measles vaccine available (but not widely given) in 1963, separate mumps in '67 (I stand corrected), separate rubella '69, improved measles (probably live virus) '68), MMR '71. I don't know yet when they were put on a universal vaccine schedule, I don't think there were vaccine requirements for school until the '70s.
Posted by: cia parker | April 27, 2014 at 11:23 PM
I think they started giving the measles vaccine separately in some places in the mid-'60s, a killed virus vaccine that caused so much damage and atypical, dangerous measles, that they replaced it with the killed-virus vaccine. Rubella vax started separately in 1968. I don't think the mumps vaccine was ever given separately because it was such an even milder disease: it was just thrown in as a freebie with the MMR, which I think started in the '70s, I"ll look it up, I was about to say early and then thought '78 in the US, '88 in the UK, and their rise in autism started around that time, just as ours did around '78 (but didn't climb precipitously until 1987 with the Hib and then in '91 with the hep-B vaccine).
Posted by: cia parker | April 27, 2014 at 11:09 PM
You're right, Autismmom. The CDC report you linked to shows 120 cases for the first 4 months of this year. But in 2011, there were 220 for the year. I don't remember there being such a big deal in the media about measles 3 years ago. Even if we're on track for 360 cases this year, is that such a bigger deal than 220 in 2011? I don't think so.
Posted by: Kristina | April 27, 2014 at 07:47 PM
Ah, I guess if the college age kids at that time were coming down with measles in the 90s then that would mean they started vaccinating for the MMR back in the 70s. then -- wouldn't it.
All I know - was - when it came time to vaccinate my kids with the MMR --in the 80s - I thought it was a new vaccine or had not been around very long.
Posted by: Benedetta | April 27, 2014 at 12:33 AM
I thought that the MMR vaccine did not start to be given untill the 80s?????
Mid 80s???
Not sure, but I thought it was all new and had not been around very long.
By the time my daughter was in the 7th grade -- and the first measle breakout occurred in some college some where -- the CDC and NIH was kind of panicking because they had given this vaccine and it turned out to delay - this horrible rubella hmmmmm and maybe the mumps too -- about the time these young adults were child bearing age.
That is when the school nurse gets ahold of me while I am teaching and informs me they are revaccinating everybody.
That would be about early 90s????
Posted by: Benedetta | April 27, 2014 at 12:24 AM
A bad case of measles in the 1950's looked like this:
Week #1: Lying in bed with a rash and a fever and maybe a visit from the doctor - they made house calls in those days - who came armed with a tongue depressor (ugh!) to look at your throat. The upside was lots of extra love and attention and chicken soup from Mommy, who was in no danger of catching it because she'd already had it as a kid, like everyone else.
Week #2: You felt fine but were still contagious, so you stayed home. It was a perfect opportunity to indulge in solitary activities like reading (if you knew how), bouncing on the bed, and playing with your Tinker Toys.
Posted by: Rae | April 27, 2014 at 12:12 AM
Barry,
They are flat out lying to the public to get people to vaccinate. Check out this CDC surveillance report for the week of April 19. Look at the disease incidence tables. No measels cases reported.
CDC disease report: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/pdf/wk/mm6316md.pdf
Posted by: Autismmom | April 26, 2014 at 08:27 PM
I'm not yet 50, and when I was a kid we ALL got measles. And mumps. And chicken pox.
What I also remember was how those who didn't have them, sometimes envied those who did. Because everyone knew that they were all benign. And if you could handle a bit of itching, it meant time off school, plenty of ice cream to eat, and as much Sesame Street as you could handle.
It boggles my mind that a few 'suspected' measles cases has set the media on fire. While a conspicuously crafted autism incidence of 1 in 68 …. doesn't spark the interest of even ONE of them!!
Something stinks really, really bad here.
Posted by: Barry | April 26, 2014 at 06:56 PM
Exactly Barry. They just make it up as they go. When I was a kid I remember when the family of five boys who lived street all got the measels. Their mother let them go out and play even though they were still covered in pox. None of us cowered inside and no one reported it to the police. Today the mother would have been reported and the kids quarantined. Much ado about nothing IMO.
Posted by: Autismmom | April 26, 2014 at 05:36 PM
Here is another gem from the USA Today article: The current measles outbreak in the U.S. has been caused by unvaccinated kids of rich parents, who vacation in Europe (because they're so rich).
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The curent measles outbreaks has been caused by the main stream media. Because that's the only place where any measles outbreaks are happening.
Even if measles outbreaks were really happening, who gives a shit. It's just measles for crying out loud.
Posted by: Barry | April 26, 2014 at 05:04 PM
I read the news story about the mother in BC who just killed her severely autistic 16 year old son and then committed suicide. As I scrolled down I noticed on the side bar I saw a headline attacking Alicia Silverstone calling her an "Clueless and Anti-vaxxer"..These people are harassing the autism community at every opportunity even exploiting this tragedy. They are such scum!!!
Here is the story (the "Discussing the Issue" commentary at the end is very good):
"Distraught mother kills herself, and son with severe autism"
http://globalnews.ca/news/1290526/distraught-mother-kills-herself-and-son-with-severe-autism/
Posted by: autismmom | April 26, 2014 at 11:54 AM
Here is another gem from the USA Today article: The current measles outbreak in the U.S. has been caused by unvaccinated kids of rich parents, who vacation in Europe (because they're so rich).
Posted by: Kristina | April 26, 2014 at 01:25 AM
According the the USA Today article, the vaccine program is making it possible for more kids to grow up and become productive members of society!
Posted by: Kristina | April 26, 2014 at 01:21 AM
Interesting article:
Brooker: I remember the measles and it was no big deal
http://www.calgaryherald.com/health/Brooker+remember+measles+deal/9735786/story.html#Comments
Posted by: Danchi | April 25, 2014 at 11:33 PM
Anne--Here is a heart breaker for you.
http://www.wtoc.com/story/25345084/psychiatric-evaluation-factor-in-teens-sentencing
Posted by: David Taylor | April 25, 2014 at 10:38 PM