Mom of an autistic child speaks out.

[Guest guest]

I know that the autism epidemic can't be genetic in nature. There never

has been nor never will be a genetic epidemic.

 

Per...................

http://www.informedvoice.com.au/

 

I'm writing this not as a doctor with a fancy degree from Harvard or

another school. I'm a parent who graduated from Queens College in 1975

with a B.A. degree in Economics and served in the U.S. Navy as a radioman

in 1966 to 1968. I was born on June 30, 1944 in St. Albans, Queens, New

York. I received the pertussis vaccine when I was six months old and in

the early 1950s I got a case of whooping cough despite getting the

vaccine. In the mid 1950s I got a case of measles and was out of school for

two weeks.

 

Before I tell my story about my son, Eric Gallup, I want to mention

some important facts. Autism is increasing at an alarming rate. Five years

ago, it was 1 in 500 that had autism spectrum disorders according to

the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Recently, the CDC and the American

Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) said that 1 in 6 children are diagnosed

with a developmental disorder and/or behavioral problem. Also, the CDC and

AAP said that 1 in 166 children are diagnosed with an autism spectrum

disorder.

See...http://www.taap.info/A.L.E.R.T.asp

I have been documenting the autism epidemic from the 1990s using the US

Department of Education figures. Here are the latest figures.

See...http://www.taap.info/epidemic.asp

 

I know that the autism epidemic can't be genetic in nature. There never

has been nor never will be a genetic epidemic. Like many parents who

know their children, I know that vaccines are responsible for my son's

autism disorder. In Washington, DC there is concern about Social

Security and Medicare/Medicaid running out of money. The politicians are only

thinking of the growing numbers of the elderly putting a strain on

system. They don't

realize that in 5 to 10 years from now, there will be a growing number

of children with autism that will reach adulthood and will be eligible

to collect SSI and Medicare benefits. What will happen then? Will the

Federal

government have unlimited resources to deal with this crisis. Will the

states have unlimited resources to deal with this crisis?

 

The vaccine link to autism goes beyond the thimerosal and

measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine as far as I'm concerned. Many in

the medical establishment and Federal government health agencies deny a

vaccine link to autism. Despite the denial, the Food and Drug

Administration (FDA)

keeps a record of adverse reactions to vaccines. It is called the

Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS).

See...http://vaers.hhs.gov

 

Eric Gallup was born normal on January 17, 1985. While Eric was in the

hospital with my wife, she was given the live virus rubella vaccine. He

was normal at birth but regressed into autism after receiving the

measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine on April 28, 1986. In an Internet

article by F. Edward Yazbak,MD (TLAutStudy) titled, " Autism: Is

There A Vaccine Connection? " Part 1 (there is also Part 2 and 3), Case

3 is

about my wife, Helen and Eric.

See

Vaccination....http://www.garynull.com/Article.aspx?article=Issues/Index.aspx & He\

ad=Issues

 

In 1995, Vijendra Singh, PhD. of Utah State University did blood work

on Eric and found that he tested positive for myelin basic protein

antibodies indicating an autoimmune dysfunction. That same year James

Oleske, MD of UMDNJ, Newark, NJ who is a world famous pediatric immunologist

who

specializes in AIDS, found the following in blood tests done on Eric.

" His measles antibody titers were extremely high, in fact, the highest I

have ever encountered. This marked elevation of measles titers, despite

normal Ig

levels, further supports an immune dysregulatory disorder that has been

associated with either debilitating neurological disorders such as

sub-acute sclerosing panencephalitis. " Dr. Singh later tested Eric for the

measles antibody titers and came up with the same results. Looking back

at home video-tapes, I could see what happened before and after the MMR

vaccine was given to Eric. His speech was progressing and then after,

nothing.

See...http://www.avn.org.au/Children%27s%20Gallery/eric.htm

 

 

In April 1995, September 1997 and November 2001 I went to the National

Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland and asked for

immunology funding for autism looking into the MMR vaccine link. To date

nothing has

been done. In October 1998, I started The Autism Autoimmunity Project

(TAAP)to fund independent research. To date we have raised over

$130,000.00 to fund such researchers as Dr. Vijendra Singh, Dr. James Oleske

and Dr. Andrew Wakefield. In 2002, we took Eric to see Dr. Arthur

Krigsman, a gastroenterologist. Dr. Krigsman found that Eric had colitis and a

very painful, quarter-size stomach tissue in Eric's throat.

 

In 2002, Eric started to develop aggressions where he would bite,

head-butt, kick, scratch and pull hair. Up to February 2004, we had to call

the police numerous times and Eric had to be taken to the hospital. He

was on various

anti-depressant medications over those two years and in February 2003,

Eric broke my left index finger with his teeth almost amputating it

off. Eric grew to be 6'2 " tall and I am 5'10 " so he was a handful. We

received no respite care from Eric's school or any state agency. We lived a

life of hell and we were under siege during that time. When Eric had an

aggression, we would have to go behind our bedroom or bathroom doors

and lock them so Eric

couldn't hurt us. Eric broke two bedroom doors by kicking on them and

we had to replace them with stronger doors that were kick-proof. At a

December 10, 2002 vaccine hearing by the Government Reform Committee in

Washington, DC, Congressman Dan Burton read my letter to the members at

the hearing.

 

Eric had aggressions at school and was suspended various times. In

February 2004, Eric was terminated from school and when I took Eric to the

store he had another aggression. The police were called and Eric was

taken to the hospital where he was born and put in their psychiatric

unit. After a couple of weeks, we were told by the hospital that he would

either have to be taken

home or put in Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital and if we didn't do

this we would be sued. So we took him to Greystone. The staff and

patients took good care of him and they said that Greystone wasn't the

appropriate place

for Eric. Eric had been on a waiting list for Kennedy Krieger Institute

in Baltimore, Maryland so they finally had an opening in March 2003.

 

He was released and taken to Kennedy Krieger Institute where they

treated him for his aggressions.

 

In August 2004 he was released from Kennedy Krieger Institute and was

placed in an out-of-state residential school. When we initially left him

there, he was running to the door to get out because he wanted to go

home with us. Since that time he has gotten better but he is on heavy

duty medication such as haldol and adivan. It takes us 2 and ½ hours to

drive one way to see Eric so we only see him every other weekend. In

January 2005, another patient punched Eric in the eye giving Eric a black

eye. Eric was on a couch and pushed the other patient and the patient

took exception and punched Eric. I worry about Eric constantly and at

times I wonder what his and our lives would be like if he wasn't damaged

by the MMR vaccine. Many a time, I shed a tear for him. In particular,

Helen and I had to make funeral arrangements

for Eric because the state said they had money for this. It was very

morbid and stressful for Helen and I to do this. One person asked me why

couldn't the state do this and not cause us more grief. I had no answer

for them.

 

Many times when we pick up Eric to go out for lunch he will ask us

about " home " in his picture/word book. It is difficult to respond to him

and we have to say not now. During the last year we have brought Eric

home for the

weekend but it is difficult for myself emotionally, the fact that Eric

is no longer living with us. I'm sure that we won't be the first family

dealing with this. Unfortunately, we won't be the last family dealing

with a

situation such as this.

 

Recently, I had a disagreement over Eric's medications at the school

that he attends. They have him on zyprexa, haldol, adivan and lithium. I

asked them to put Eric on extra doses of Vitamin B6 to reduce the

tremors he has from

the medications. Eric also has drooling problems and he stares off as

he is so heavily medicated. We now have to look for another facility

for Eric because of our

disagreement. Basically, the state, the education system and the

medical community want our children vaccinated. When something goes wrong

then none of these organizations are there to help. They leave it in the

parent's hands. It isn't their problem, it is the problem for the

families involved.

 

The most telling part of the vaccine/autism link controversy is how

three researchers who have looked into the autoimmune, MMR vaccine link to

autism have been dealt with. This is what has actually happened. Keep

in mind that

if these researchers were politicians and this happened to them it

would be reported all over the media.

Unfortunately because they are independent researchers who are trying

to help families and children with autism, their story is ignored by the

media.

 

Vijendra Singh, PhD of Utah State University has found it difficult to

get funding for any studies related to autoimmunity and autism after he

discovered and perfected tests that proved an MMR autism connection.

Prior to that, funding was easily available to him including from NIH

sources.

 

Famed researcher Andrew Wakefield, MD of London, England, the author of

over a hundred scientific articles (and his organization, Visceral

(http://www.visceral.org.uk) ) encountered worse persecution. His

research was closed down and he was told that he had to leave the Royal Free

Hospital in London, England because he found evidence of measles in the

gut of children with autism. His career came to a screeching halt in

the UK. His phone was electronically bugged and his attackers are still

after him, even now that he is in the US. Recently Dr. Wakefield has

reported evidence of vaccine-strain measles virus genomic RNA in the

cerebrospinal fluid of children with autism. This only accentuated his

enemies' attacks. Obviously all governmental funding had stopped years ago.

 

Arthur Krigsman, MD of Long Island, New York has replicated Dr.

Wakefield's research in the US. After doing some 250 ileal biopsies of

children with autism at Lenox Hill Hospital, he was not allowed to have them

further

tested for viral genomic RNA. Dr Krigsman was then so restricted that

he also had to leave his NY hospital base. The reason is obvious, he was

replicating Dr. Wakefield's clinical science and the powers that be

weren't happy with this. Congressman David Weldon (who is also an MD)

asked that the NIH fund Dr. Krigsman's research. To date, the NIH has not

honored Congressman's request.

 

Anybody looking at what happened to these researchers can see the

obvious. Why do this to these men if people were not afraid of the research

they were doing? It basically is a vaccine/autism Watergate cover-up

perpetrated by

the enemies of these excellent researchers. The sad part about this is

that families and children will never be helped and more and more

children will develop autism. Who will pay and care for these children when

they turn into adults like Eric? Especially when the parents get older

and can no longer care for them. Will they have enough group homes and

residential centers to care for the coming

adult epidemic of autism? It is a subject that should be addressed now,

but unfortunately only when something becomes a crisis is it addressed

in the US.

 

Ray Gallup, parent and Founder

The Autism Autoimmunity Project

http://www.taap.info/

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