US scientists back autism link to MMR

Something to keep in mind, given that vaccinations on tour have happened.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/05/28/wmmr28.xml

US scientists back autism link to MMR
By Beezy Marsh and Sally Beck
(Filed: 28/05/2006)

The measles virus has been found in the guts of children with a form of autism,
renewing fears over the safety of the MMR jab.

American researchers have revealed that 85 per cent of samples taken from autistic
children with bowel disorders contain the virus. The strain is the same as the one
used in the measles, mumps and rubella triple vaccine.

The findings will spark fresh concern about MMR, because they back theories of a
causal link between the jab, autism and painful gut disorders suffered by a number of
autistic children.

The study replicates findings made by the gastroenterologist Dr Andrew Wakefield in
1998 and Prof John O'Leary, a pathologist, in 2002.

Parents say their children were developing normally until they had the MMR jab, given
when a child is between 12- and 18-months-old. The children now suffer from
regressive autism.

One theory is that the virus passes through the gut, causing damage, and into the
bloodstream, from where it is able to attack the brain.

More than 2,000 families claim that their children have suffered damage but the
Department of Health reiterated last night that MMR is safe, a stance supported by
the British Medical Association and all the Royal Colleges. Last year Government
scientists failed to reproduce research results by Dr Wakefield.

Research to be presented this week in Montreal, Canada, provides fresh evidence that
the measles virus is present in the guts of autistic children. Dr Stephen Walker, of
the Wake Forest University School of Medicine, North Carolina, studied children with
regressive autism and bowel disease. "Of the handful of results we have in so far,
all are vaccine strain," he said.

[more links]
-- 13 February 2006[Health]: Secret report reveals 18 child deaths following
vaccinations
-- 16 June 2002: Revealed: more evidence to challenge the safety of MMR




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