Are Autism and Vaccines Linked?

Are Autism and Vaccines Linked?

Over the last decade, autism has gone from a rare and misunderstood condition to a disorder that may affect as many as 1.5 million Americans. Without a clear explanation in sight, parents and doctors have worked tirelessly to pinpoint the cause of autism, but the answer remains elusive. Are vaccines the missing link?

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100% safe?
  • tmaxredalia
    10,000 Vaccines?

    Here's a word from Dr. Paul Offit: “Our analysis shows that infants have the theoretical capacity to respond to about 10,000 vaccines at once,”

    What response would that be? Exploding? That's several liters of vaccine.

    He seems to think vaccines are über safe. Not the 100 percent quote you asked for, but a rather telling example of how far the vaccine industry will go to avoid responsibility. Another good example is the Vaccine Court, which bills taxpayers for vaccine injury costs.

    And there's this: "This vaccine has proved to be 100% safe and over 90% effective. Since the use of these two methods of control, the disease caused by T. annulata in cattle in China has been controlled."

    and this:
    “The public in general has been conveyed the message that OPV is absolutely safe vaccine and there is no contraindication to its administration. Can we be accused of withholding vital information from the parents?”
    Paul Y. Contraindications of OPV. Indian Pediatr 1999; 36: 318 – 319."

    and this
    "The availability of an absolutely safe vaccine means that a policy of active immunization for those at risk from infection with HBV can be implemented."
    From " drugs and addictive behaviour: a guide to treatment" By Hamid Ghodse

    and this
    "The oral polio vaccine is an absolutely safe vaccine which cannot cause death even if it loses potency."
    Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare A. Raja

    and this
    "Scientists developed an absolutely safe vaccine some
    years ago and we in Western Europe are obliged by law to have our pets
    immunised annually from the age of six months."
    Mrs. Barbara Locher

    and this
    "A few days ago, a friend kindly broke my long writer’s block (so many subjects, so little time), with a question about vaccines. She had heard a radio ad for a study in which a new AIDS vaccine candidate would be tested. The ad stated that the vaccine was perfectly safe.

    and this
    "At the moment, the only “perfectly safe” vaccine is the subunit vaccine (with the caveat as long as your not allergic to what its grown in, like yeast or eggs – the vaccine itself, however, is perfectly safe)."
    Ubergeek Theatre

    and this
    "Lastly, there is a perfectly safe vaccine for the flu, easy to make, costing only $1.50 a shot."
    reply posted on 13-7-2009 @ 08:36 AM by Kailassa

    and this
    "What kind of sick fool thinks it is okay for babies to die of pertussis when there is a perfectly safe vaccine to prevent that event?"
    HCN

    and this
    "We have developed a fully effective, perfectly safe vaccine for HPV -- unless it mutates, this should be an extinct affliction."
    Posted by Ezra Klein on November 17, 2005 10:50 AM | Permalink

    and this
    "However, due to fear of using blood products, a completely new and totally safe vaccine was made by genetic engineering using no blood products at all."
    Dr. Bornstein
    http://www.ibabydoc.com/online/diseasehepatitisb.asp

    and this
    "These proteins include insulin for the treatment of diabetes , tPA and streptokinase for cardiac treatment, human growth hormone, a vaccine against hepatitis B (modified virus without genetic information resulting in a totally safe vaccine), chymosin (animal rennet) for cheese manufacture, enzymes for detergents, monoclonal antibodies, interferon, and a range of many other therapeutic proteins and industrial enzymes."
    Juan A. Asenjo
    http://www.ejbiotechnology.info/content/vol3/issue2/editorial.html


    Perhaps the translator made a mistake? But there are doctors making the same safety claim to their patients.

    - tmaxredaliaUS August 22, 2009 5:19PM

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