The Sunday Times reports vaccine outcry.

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Vaccine outcry

By LOUISE PEMBLE

12mar06

 

CHILD autism rates have fallen in the US since mercury was removed from

childhood vaccines, a breakthrough medical study has found.

 

The controversial finding – published recently in the Journal of American

Physicians and Surgeons – has reignited debate about whether a sharp rise in

childhood neurological disorders in the 1990s was triggered by some new vaccines

containing a mercury-based preservative (thimerosal). But the US Centre for

Disease Control has rejected the findings of medical expert Mark Geier,

president of the Genetic Centres of America. It denied thimerosal had caused

an increase in autism and learning difficulties. Yet for years devastated

parents have been telling how children suddenly developed autism after a

vaccination. They've been lobbying the government to investigate whether mercury

exposure in the first 18 months of life causes brain damage. When Dr Geier's

team examined figures from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, the US

Department of Education and the Vaccine Safety Data Link, they found strong

evidence to support this. In some cases, children exposed to mercury had

an eight-fold risk of developing a neurological disorder. Thimerosal was

phased out of US vaccines by 2003. In Australia, it had been removed from nearly

all vaccines on the Australian childhood immunisation schedule by 2000.

" Today, all vaccines used in the Australian Childhood Immunisation Schedule are

thimerosal-free, with the exception of one, a hepatitis B vaccine that still

contains a trace. "

 

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