Has the Vaccine Court Conceded a Link Between Autism and Vaccines? What's Your Opinion?
The story itself actually refers to an event that occurred last November. At that time, the Vaccine Court (a special court specifically formed to manage cases of vaccine-related injury) "quietly" conceded that an individual case of autism, linked to mitochondrial disease, was likely exacerbated by vaccines:
Seven months after vaccination, the patient was diagnosed by Dr. Andrew Zimmerman, a leading neurologist at the Kennedy Krieger Children's Hospital Neurology Clinic, with "regressive encephalopathy (brain disease) with features consistent with autistic spectrum disorder, following normal development." The girl also met the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) official criteria for autism.The idea that autism may be connected to mitochondrial disease is not new, but as Kirby notes, mitochondrial disease is very rare in the general population. According to Kirby's blog, however:In its written concession, the government said the child had a pre-existing mitochondrial disorder that was "aggravated" by her shots, and which ultimately resulted in an ASD diagnosis.
Mitochondrial disorders are now thought to be the most common disease associated with ASD. Some journal articles and other analyses have estimated that 10% to 20% of all autism cases may involve mitochondrial disorders, which would make them one thousand times more common among people with ASD than the general population.Logically, if a combination of mitochondrial disease and vaccines is responsible for a significant number of autism diagnoses, and the vaccine courts paid out for at least one such case, then all other such cases should be eligible for compensation.
Is this case a breakthrough event? Is it the thin end of a wedge which will split open the floodgates of federal monies (and confessions of intentional harm)? Or is it just a single, interesting case that may have significance to only a very few families? What's your opinion?
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No, this is not a precedent case. It has no application to the Omnibus action. For one thing, the case was originally supposed to be one of the three test cases, and the PSC seems to have been trying to slip it through the cracks. They got caught, and they dropped it from the three.
For another thing, the ruling does not say *Autism*. People should read the actual words, not what they want to hear.
Kirby says: 3) If the government is claiming that vaccines did not “cause” autism, but instead aggravated a condition to “manifest” as autism, isn’t that a very fine distinction?
However, Dan Olmsted drew the same distinction when he said the Amish kids that he missed have a different type of autism that the type he was looking for.
No, this is not a “victory” for the PSC.
What does it take for people to understand, admit, come to the conclusion, whatever you want to call it that vaccines DO trigger Autism?
Just like vaccines have been proven to “trigger” Arthritis and Guillian Barre (sp) syndromes, so do vaccines cause and trigger Austism.
It doesn’t help that our food is a poor fake of what it used to be. It doesn’t help that our food is full of additives, preservatives, pesticides, flavorings, coloring, MSG and aspartame. It doesn’t help that parents let their kids drink toxic soda instead of fresh clean water.
It doesn’t help that moms have stopped breastfeeding almost entirely.
None of this helps. We are overloading our children, taking away all the natural immunities that our bodies were designed to provide for themselves and killing ourselves and our children with toxins.
Wake up and smell the common sense.
Arthritis has different types and causes and has been around in history for centuries, we talking BC.
Guillain-Barre Syndrome is rare. occasionally, surgery or vaccinations will trigger the syndrome. no one yet knows why Guillain-Barre strikes some people and not others or what sets the disease in motion and it is not clear that a specific disease-causing agent is involved.
you also don’t build natural immunities and if people did, vaccines would never had been invented or needed. when a person is exposed to another having something, you just don’t build immunities. science tried that with smallpox and it didn’t work and you still can see it doesn’t work with many things like the measles.
Mitochondrial diseases are inherited, which is interesting.
First, we need to see proof that the mitochondrial disease was indeed caused/triggered by the vaccination. And then, I want to know if that child really has autism or some other type of developmental delay. I won’t base any conclusions on David Kirby’s conspiracy mongering articles.
Autism & Immunizations will the TRUTH ever be uncovered. I personally feel that there definitely is a link between vaccines and Autism but with BIG BUSINESS involved we perhaps will never know the truth. HOW SAD!!!!
I don’t think it means anything it was a test case and a lot of people beilive the myth.
Autism is a term from the psychiatric DSM-IV manual. There will never be an identifiable cause for this. Children, who are labeled autistic, have neuroinflammatory disease. Mercury, a potent neurotoxin, causes neuroinflammatory disease. Mercury from vaccines dwarf all other sources of mercury in kids. Read the paper, “Neuroglial activation and neuroinflamation in the brain of patients with autism. Annals of Neurology 57:67-81.” Then lets debate on whether mercury causes neuroinflammatory disease, otherwise known as brain death.
Perhaps the vaccines did not cause Autism. They caused a condition that has “manifested” as Autism as stated in the text of this case.
I have said for years that because so many children are recovering, perhaps they don’t have Autism, they have another condition which is being misdiagnosed as Autism.
It is possible that vaccines are causing neurological damage to these kids, and the doctors are calling Autism because it is so similar. Perhaps there are two different things going on…Autism and vaccine induced brain damage.
You are a human being.
You are not a person, you “have” a person.
A person is your agent in commerce,. A fictitious entity to which rights and duties are ascribed.
To the government and industrialists you are an indentured slave or as the media refers to us, “consumers”.
Before you enter into the world arena let alone the Austim arena you must see where, as an individual, you stand.
Here in Ontario Canada there are over 1000 citizen children on a shameful waitlist to receive funding for ABA/IBI therapies. Time is their enemy. After four years and the Senate / Eggleton paper “Pay Now or Pay Later” and the Canadian National Autism Strategy lies dormant. (Although it is a good document , worth reading)
Canada is founded upon the principles that recognize the Supremecy of God and the Rule of Law.
Both of which are being broken by the Canadian governments both Federal and Provincial.
The Magna Carta, the British North American Act, The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the U.S. Constitution were all written to protect us from the Sovereign.
To all of us parents in the front lines all over the world “Hallelujah to Ya !
At the end of the day it’s just us, our little team and the clinic we run from our homes.
Why is the focus always only on thimerosal? Included on this list of chemical concerns should also be formaldehyde, M.S.G., aluminum, Butylated hydroxytoluene or B.H.T. and many others. Don’t let the mainstream media and pharma spin doctors lull you into only focusing on the thimerosal. Remember these corporations would no doubt lose everything if a connection is made between the preservatives and the world wide vaccine programs.
Our great grandparents our grandparents and our parents were all infected with toxic preservatives through the inoculation programs.
I saw my 5yr old son’s live blood analysis taking place. I saw live candida yeast in his blood. I saw the heavy metals as well. Where do you think it came from? Leaky gut syndrome comes from the M.M.R jab.
We saw the change in our child right after the second round of vaccinations.
Freedom of the person requires not only, or not even especially, the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts. The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity, but the one that removes awareness of other possibilities. I have come to the conclusion that those who benefit from any societal mechanism rarely wish to understand that mechanism, especially if it appears to grant them power or authority and understanding it or any alternatives would restrict, diminish or destroy that power apparently granted. They live in a vapid world of learned assumptions. Lets face it if you have acronyms after your name your whole goal is to get published and funded no matter how ridiculous your position is. Most if not all of the researchers and their research are in the pocket of Big Pharma. They have lobbied their way into the core of our societies. I feel sorry for the caregivers who actually administer the jab and wonder how they are going to live with themselves after the truth comes out.
If we put up with this our children will be next.
It’s not the vaccines it’s the toxins therein.
A child on the spectrum is born every 20 minutes. What do they all have in common?
Wake up people.
I wished as much time were spent on reading about the science that’s behind whatever ails autistic children and adults as is being taken to write about it. Vaccine makers hide behind pseudo-scientific studies, and many consumers take their pronouncements on faith. David Kirby hints at the possibility that MT might be caused by mercury, i.e that, in effect, the ailment is not autism, and not that MT was a pre-existing condition. In the face of a growing “autism” crisis, wouldn’t it be worthwhile to investigate whether mitochondrial disease is caused by Thimerosal? That can be done on animals, and nobody would have to rely on epidemiological studies. My guess is that vaccine manufacturers would not touch that because they already know that Thimerosal causes “autism” or shal I say heavy metal poisoning. Birgit
Mary wrote: “What does it take for people to understand, admit, come to the conclusion, whatever you want to call it that vaccines DO trigger Autism?”
Answer: Evidence. Clear, convincing evidence. Evidence based on empirical facts, and untainted by observer bias. Evidence that’s been tested and vetted, and applied to studies that can be replicated.
The vaccine autism myth is dead. Deal with it. Grieve if you want. Don sackcloth and parade through the town square, wailing and slapping your ash-stained forehead with a dog-eared copy of “Evidence of Harm”. Curse the cold, mechanistic universe for its indifference to our suffering.
It will change nothing. There. Is. No. Evidence. It doesn’t matter what Gene “personally feels”, or what cherry picked abstract Mike can quote.
Remember, even vaccine manufacturers say some people have a bad reaction to vaccines. I believe that a newborn baby getting the Hepatitis B shot in the 90’s — like my son— who already had a traumatic birth, is far more likely to respond negatively to a shot than a healthy baby with an uncomplicated delivery and no other problems.
My son was the youngest of four. All of the other children are typically developing with healthy births. Jalen had a tough birth, was under lights for having trouble keeping his body temperature up. Then they gave him the shot a few hours after birth. He turned bright orange and developed this strange cat-cry. He wasn’t treated adequately for the jaundice and I do believe the shot (in his condition) has much to do with his problems.
Cyn
L’asperge, the “myth” is not dead.
What aspies like you fail to realize, is that things CAN make autism “worse”. L’asperge, have you ever asked yourself, what makes you an aspie, and others lfa? What could that be? What causes you to be at the other end of a spectrum of the same disorder? What made them severe, and you high functioning?
I can tell you, my daughter, who I feel was born as aspie- as both my husband and I are, developed typically until after she had seizures, and encephalitis 3 wks after the MMR and Varivax. She has an immune system disorder, that we did not know about upon vaccination. She built no antibodies to these viruses. She should have not had the vaccines, as they are live viruses and can replicate in an improperly responding immune system. There is a reason we vaccinate against these diseases, as they cause neurological damage.
Do you not think that as our brains are wired differently, that they may respond to viral insult differently than the neurotypical population? What do you think encephalitis would do to an autistic brain?
I only wish those with Asperger’s would stop speaking for my daughter on topics they know nothing about.
Mike says:
Autism is a term from the psychiatric DSM-IV manual. There will never be an identifiable cause for this. Children, who are labeled autistic, have neuroinflammatory disease. Mercury, a potent neurotoxin, causes neuroinflammatory disease.
You do realize there is more the one form of mercury don’t you? And the form that ends up in your body is only ethylmercury and is not nearly as dangerous as the methylmercury you are trying to scare people with.
Let me get this straight. We have an exponential increase in the number of childhood cases of autism - a new class of autistic citizens have been created over the past couple of decades. The prime suspect is vaccines. The emphasis is on the mercury preservative..Other culprits include the weird cocktail that comprise children vaccines. We are talking human diploid cells (derived from aborted fetuses), other animal cells, formaldehyde, etc….In other words we are talking about a toxic liquid - by the most optimistic definition.
All of the above aside - we are talking about a serious debate over whether or not vaccines harm (i.e. autism). Just look at the HPV live virus - good lord girls are being damaged by the day - paralysis, etc…..We are talking major bucks for corrupt officials. We know the officials and agencies and folks who benefit via grants, etc are corrupt or silently complicit - but folks are still injecting their kids with this crap.
Bottom line, if there is a debate over safety. If there is debate within the scientific community over whether or not a particular substance can cause significant harm to the child or recipient - then it should not be administered until the issue is resolved - that’s the bottom line!! How stupid can parents be! Apply the same logic to other suspect products. Would you continue to use the product despite suspicion that it may harm you?? You always (at least before 3/4’s of the country was brainwashed via flouride and mass media scientific experts encouraging you to do whatever will make big pharm bucks - under the guise of a burning desire/commitment to keep you safe. Suckers!!!
Millions of kids with autism and other maladies, seem to correlate with the massive # of shots (which by the way exceed EPA levels of mercury and other toxins for adults - let alone an infant) that are now given to kids. Heck just today the news encouraging people to get all children their flu shot (30 million extra doses for big pharm) despite two years of news that the flu shot is worthless, not to mention contaminated batches and series after series that consistently fail to match the prevalent strain (over 4-5 thousand variations of influenza, etc…and the shot may protect me from some statistically prevalent subset) - yeah right.
Does it matter that in this case the vaccines caused AUTISM? What does matter is that these vaccines caused HARM. Most are missing this main point of distinction! Yes, we should vaccinate because we know that disease kills children, but are we OVER vaccinating? Should we continue to vaccinate against disease that is not life threatening? And, should be continue along this overly aggressive vaccine schedule? Does it really feel “right” to let your child receive 4, 5 or 9 vaccinations at a time? And, more and more vaccines are being added to the ‘mandatory’ list. When is enough, enough? If vaccines aren’t the culprit, then why are so many parents convinced it is? Can that many people really be wrong? Let’s all take a step back and remember that too much of ANYTHING is bad!
How about some evidence that the alleged court documents even exist before we discuss what it means. He doesn’t list a source. Doesn’t provide a reproduction of the documents. Doesn’t indicate that he’s attempted to verify their authenticy by contacting the individuals named in his story.