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Autism: A Medical Mystery?

 

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In 1943 the well known child psychiatrist, Leo Kanner, announced his

discovery of eleven cases of a new mental disorder. He noted that " the

condition differs markedly and uniquely from anything reported so far... " (1)

This condition soon became known as autism.

 

What is autism?

Autism (alternately referred to as autistic disorder, childhood

disintegrative disorder, or pervasive developmental disorder) is a complex

developmental disability a neurological derangement that affects the

functioning of the brain. This condition usually appears during the first

three years of life, and often strikes following an early childhood of

apparently normal development. Mental and social regression is not uncommon.

Although the severity of the affliction varies from child to child, the

following symptoms are typical: inadequate verbal and social skills,

impaired speech, repetition of words, bizarre or repetitive behavior

patterns, uncontrollable head-banging; screaming fits, arm flapping, little

or no interest in human contact, unresponsiveness to parents and other

people, extreme resistance to minor changes in the home environment,

self-destructive behavior, hypersensitivity to sensory stimuli, and an

inability to care for oneself.(2-4)

 

What causes autism?

When the first cases of autism began to appear in the 1940s, researchers

were puzzled by the high incidence of autistic children being born into

well-educated families. Over 90 percent of the parents were high-school

graduates. Nearly three-fourths of the fathers and one-half of the mothers

had graduated from college. Many had professional careers. As a result,

scientists unsuccessfully tried to link autism to genetic factors in the

upper class populations.(5) Meanwhile, psychiatrists, unaware of the

neurological basis of the illness, sought psychological explanations. The

mother was often accused of not providing an emotionally secure home

environment, and was presumed to be the cause of her afflicted child's

ailment.(6,7)

 

Today, researchers have discounted these earlier notions but still do not

have an adequate explanation. Although autism has been linked to biological

and neurological differences in the brain, and genetic factors appear to

play a role in the etiology of this disease, no single cause has been

identified.(8) However, recent dramatic increases in the number of children

stricken with this debilitating ailment coincident with the introduction of

new vaccines may shed some light on this medical mystery.

 

How common is autism?

According to several researchers who investigated Kanner's claims, autism

was extremely rare prior to 1943.(9) By the 1980s, over 4500 new cases were

being reported every year in the United States alone.(10) By 1997, the

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was reporting that 1 of every 500

children is autistic.(11) Today, autism is a raging epidemic; in some parts

of the country 1 of every 150 children is permanently damaged by this

devastating disease.(12)

 

Autism and the pertussis vaccine:

The first cases of autism in the United States occurred at a time shortly

after the pertussis vaccine became available. When the pertussis vaccine was

initially introduced (during the late 1930s), only the rich and educated

parents who sought the very best for their children, and who could afford a

private doctor, were in a position to request the newest medical

advancements. (Remember how researchers were puzzled by the high incidence

of autistic children being born into well-educated and " upper class "

families.) However, by the 1960s and 1970s parents all over the country,

within every educational and income level, were seeking help for their

autistic children. Socioeconomic disparities began to disappear during this

period. Today, autism is evenly distributed among all social classes and

ethnic groups.(13) Once again this puzzled the researchers. Many simply

concluded that earlier studies were flawed. But there is an explanation.

Free vaccinations at public health clinics didn't yet exist in the 1940s and

1950s. Compulsory vaccination programs were still on the horizon. And as

vaccine programs grew, parents from across the socioeconomic spectrum gained

equal access to them. The growing number of children suffering from this new

illness directly coincided with the growing popularity of the mandated

vaccination programs during these same years. Autistic children were now

being discovered within every kind of family, and in dreadfully greater

numbers than ever before imagined.(14)

 

The same correlations between autism and childhood vaccination programs may

be found in other countries as well. In Japan, the first autistic child was

diagnosed in 1945.(15) When the United States ended the war and occupied

Japan, a mandatory vaccination program was established. Hundreds of new

cases of autism were being diagnosed annually in Japanese children shortly

thereafter.(16)

 

Europe began promoting the pertussis vaccine in the 1950s; the first cases

of autism began to appear there in the same decade. In England the pertussis

vaccine wasn't promoted on a large scale until the late1950s. Shortly

thereafter, in 1962, the National Society for Autistic Children in Britain

was established.(17)

 

 

 

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This article was excerpted from Vaccine Reactions: The Hidden Epidemic, a

soon-to-be-published book documenting many of the dangers associated with

mandatory vaccines. Expected date of availability: Spring 2002. For more

information about vaccines, please visit the Thinktwice Global Vaccine

Institute or the Thinktwice Vaccine Bookshelf.

References to this article will be published in the original book. All

rights reserved.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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