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August 9, 2004

 

EXPLORING IMMUNOLOGIC VULNERABILITIES AS A KEY TO

THIMEROSAL INDUCED AUTISM

 

An animal model has been specified for thimerosal

induced neurotoxicity in

an immunologically vulnerable mouse strain. Mady

Hornig, et. al. in a

Molecular Psychiatry advance online publication of 8

June 2004 ;

(doi:10.1038/sj.mp.4001529) described growth delay,

reduced locomotion,

exaggerated response to novelty, and densely packed

hippocampal neurons with

altered glutamate receptors and transporters in

autoimmune disease sensitive

mice. They were administered the thimerosal challenge

at approximately the

same developmental stage and dose as human

immunizations. Mouse strains

resistant to autoimmune diseases showed no such

changes. These findings

parallel those reported for autistic children -

reduced environmental

exploration and abnormal cerebellar and limbic system

findings. The

researchers posited techniques for stratifying

thimerosal exposed children

with regard to various immune system competencies.

 

Alan Bachers. PhD

 

 

 

ERIC WAS BORN NORMAL AND REGRESSED INTO AUTISM AFTER

THE MMR VACCINE

 

 

I'm the parent of Eric Gallup, age 19. Eric was born

normal and regressed into autism after the MMR

vaccine. I'm founder of The Autism Autoimmunity

Project, and an accountant by trade.

 

Eric was released from Kennedy Krieger Institute on

Tuesday, August 3, 2004 in Baltimore, Maryland. and

Helen and I drove Eric to the out-of-state residential

school that he will attend. It is one of the best;

they have security cameras and locks on the doors.

 

Eric went to Kennedy Krieger on March 23, 2004 from

Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital in NJ because of

his aggressions - he would bite, head-butt, kick,

scratch and pull hair. He is 6'2 " tall, weighing 210

pounds.

 

When we picked him up at Kennedy Krieger, Eric was

smiling when he left. Also, when he got to the school,

he was asking about the car and trying to find ways to

get out. Helen told Eric that we were taking him to

his new house. It was a difficult time for Helen and

myself. In the past month or so that I visited Eric at

Kennedy Krieger he could hardly do anything he was so

drugged up. He would lay on the floor a lot. Also, he

began to have tremors and drool a lot.

 

 

As Helen said, if we took him home he could wind up in

Greystone or Trinitas Hospital and we would have no

help again. I think about Eric constantly and feel

very bad that if he weren't vaccinated, he would have

a productive life now. If he didn't get an adverse

reaction from the MMR vaccine, he would have the

chance to go to college and have a life that we all

aspire to. Unfortunately, it will never be. I had

hoped that through my organization we could have

raised funds that would have made a difference---a

treatment to get Eric and others like him better.

Again, it was not meant to be since many studies have

come out, though not one clinical, to disprove a

connection between autism and the MMR vaccine. These

studies prevented the research from going

further....and in turn hurt Eric and all the other

Erics out there.

 

A tragedy. So we will never know what we could have

done, because the funding wasn't there.

 

Ray Gallup