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Press Release/CDC VACCINE SAFETY DATA LEADS SCIENTISTS TO SHOCKING

DISCOVERY

 

CDC VACCINE SAFETY DATA LEADS SCIENTISTS TO SHOCKING DISCOVERY

 

PRESS RELEASE

 

 

For Immediate Release: February 9, 2004

 

Contact: Lori McIlwain, National Autism Association, (919) 272-8192

 

 

CDC VACCINE SAFETY DATA LEADS SCIENTISTS TO SHOCKING DISCOVERY

 

 

CHILDREN 27-TIMES MORE LIKELY TO DEVELOP AUTISM WITH EXPOSURE TO

 

MERCURY-CONTAINING VACCINES, FINDINGS REVIEWED AT TODAYS IOM MEETING IN DC

 

 

Washington, DC Today, the Institute of Medicine will hold a one-day meeting

 

to review important new research on the link between thimerosal, a

 

mercury-based preservative in vaccines, and neurodevelopmental disorders

 

such as autism. One of the larger studies under review comes from the CDCs

 

own Vaccine Safety Datalink. Under independent investigation, CDCs data

 

concludes children are 27-times more likely to develop autism after exposure

 

to three thimerosal-containing vaccines (TCVs), than those who receive

 

thimerosal-free versions.

 

 

The findings are not only disturbing to government officials like U.S. Rep.

 

Dave Weldon, M.D. (R-FL), who is also scheduled to speak before the IOM

 

panel, they suggest autism via TCVs has a higher relative risk than that

 

between lung cancer and smoking, which according to the American Cancer

 

Society is only 22 for men and 11 for women. This absolutely confirms what

 

parents have been saying for years, says Jo Pike, President, of the National

 

Autism Association. Like Pike, thousands of parents have reported sharp

 

regressions in their children following a TCV and many of those children

 

have gone on to receive a label of autism. An easy mistake to make since the

 

symptoms of autism and mercury poisoning are almost identical.

 

 

Dr. Mark Geier is the lead investigator in the discovery. A medical doctor

 

with a Ph.D. in genetics, he, along with fellow researcher, David Geier,

 

will discuss their findings of the CDC data in front of an IOM panel. Among

 

a host of other physicians and researchers presenting will be Dr. Jeff

 

Bradstreet. Unlike the Geiers, Bradstreet has actually studied the children.

 

He will discuss the results from his peer-reviewed, recently published study

 

where he found urinary mercury concentrations were six times higher in

 

children with autism vs. normal age and vaccine matched controls.

 

 

The presentations will begin at 8:00 AM at The National Academy of Sciences,

 

Auditorium 2100 C Street NW. Dr. Mark Geier and David Geier are scheduled to

 

present their findings at 12:15 PM. Weldon speaks at 8:00. Bradstreet at

 

4:00. For an agenda, go to: http://www.iom.edu/event.asp?id=17047. For

 

information about the National Autism Association, go to

 

www.nationalautism.org.

 

 

Click to visit our website

 

http://www.nationalautismassociation.org/pdf/release020904.pdf

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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