Scientists reiterate MMR vaccine link to autism.

May 28, 2006

US scientists back autism link to MMRBy Beezy Marsh and Sally Beck [article in Telegraph, UK](Filed: 28/05/2006)http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/05/28/wmmr28.xml & sSheet=/news/2006/05/28/ixnews.htmlThe measles virus has been found in the guts of children witha form of autism, renewing fears over the safety of the MMRjab.American researchers have revealed that 85 per cent ofsamples taken from autistic children with bowel disorderscontain the virus. The strain is the same as the one used inthe measles, mumps and rubella triple vaccine.The findings will spark fresh concern about MMR, becausethey back theories of a causal link between the jab, autismand painful gut disorders

suffered by a number of autisticchildren.The study replicates findings made by the gastroenterologistDr Andrew Wakefield in 1998 and Prof John O'Leary, apathologist, in 2002.Parents say their children were developing normally untilthey had the MMR jab, given when a child is between 12- and18-months-old. The children now suffer from regressiveautism.One theory is that the virus passes through the gut, causingdamage, and into the bloodstream, from where it is able toattack the brain.More than 2,000 families claim that their children havesuffered damage but the Department of Health reiterated lastnight that MMR is safe, a stance supported by the BritishMedical Association and all the Royal Colleges. Last yearGovernment scientists failed to reproduce research resultsby Dr Wakefield.Research to be presented this week in Montreal, Canada,provides fresh evidence that the measles virus

is presentin the guts of autistic children. Dr Stephen Walker, of theWake 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 arevaccine strain," he said. "Our ideal is not the spirituality that withdraws from life but the conquest of life by the power of the spirit." - Aurobindo.

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