Private Study Vaccinations to Neurological Disorders

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Private Study Links Vaccinations to Neurological Disorders

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Studies financed by pharmaceutical corporations and government agencies -

which are now largely under the control of big pharma - keep stating that there

is no link between autism and vaccinations or thimerosal. As a previous News

Target article, ( _http://www.NaturalNews.com/022237.html_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/022237.html) ) Dissecting A Thimerosal Study

demonstrates, these

studies are often tainted by their funding. Nonetheless, parents find

themselves under tremendous pressure, both overt and subtle, to have their

children

vaccinated, in spite of little or no documentation showing efficacy, let alone

safety. Worse, information produced by the American Medical Association

clearly demonstrates that _vaccinations_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/vaccinations.html) have done nothing to increase

longevity, and may have caused increases

in deaths from disease.

 

Vaccination's Smoking Gun

 

More dramatic, though, is a virtual _smoking_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/smoking.html) gun - a study showing a clear

connection between _neurological

disorders_ (http://www.naturalnews.com/neurological_disorders.html) and

vaccinations. The results are dramatic, showing that more than twice the number

of

vaccinated children had _autism_ (http://www.naturalnews.com/autism.html)

than those who had not been vaccinated. Worse, the rates of vaccinated children

with other neurological problems are even higher.

 

Done in June 2007, the study was financed by Generation Rescue, a group of

families with autistic children who have been working to find out why this has

happened to their youngsters and how to help them. The study itself is a

survey of 11,817 California and Oregon households, with a total of 17,674

children, 991 of whom had never been vaccinated. It was produced by SurveyUSA,

an

independent company.

 

The SurveyUSA Study

 

There seems little likelihood of bias in favor of results showing a link

between vaccinations and autism, as SurveyUSA includes several pharmaceutical

firms among its clientele, including Abbott Laboratories, Alcon Laboratories,

AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals, Bayer Corporation, GlaxoSmithKline, Merck

Laboratories, Monsanto Company, Nexium, Pfizer, and Schering Plough -- all

documented in the SurveyUSA list of clients

(_(http://www.surveyusa.com/index.php/who-..._

(http://www.surveyusa.com/index.php/who-does-surveyusa-poll-for/) ). If

SurveyUSA has a bias, it must be in favor of the pharmaceutical

_corporations_ (http://www.naturalnews.com/corporations.html) . Yet, this study

shows a

result that does not benefit any of these businesses.

 

The Study's Methodology

 

Nine counties in California and Oregon were selected for the study.

 

California counties:

 

San Diego

 

Sonoma

 

Orange

 

Sacramento

 

Marin

 

Oregon counties:

 

Multnomah

 

Marion

 

Jackson

 

Lane

 

 

Target households were those with children ages 4 through 17. Data were

gathered for 9,175 boys and 8,499 girls. Information elicited whether each

child

had been vaccinated and, vaccinated or not, whether the child had one or more

of the following disorders:

 

* Attention deficit disorder

 

* Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

 

* Asperger's syndrome

 

* Pervasive developmental disorder - not otherwise specified

 

* Autism

 

* Asthma

 

* Juvenile diabetes

 

Data were analyzed according to sex and county, and broken down by age rang

es 4 through 10 and 11 through 17. Percentages of children with these

disorders were noted according to whether they'd been vaccinated or not, and

the

correlation between the two numbers, called the Risk Ratio (RR), was

calculated.

 

The RR is a simple calculation that compares the percentage of vaccinated to

unvaccinated children with each disorder. Thus, if 4.5% of vaccinated

children have Asperger's and 2.7% of non-vaccinated children have the same

disease,

the RR is 4.5% divided by 2.7%, giving an RR value of 1.67. (4.5/2.7 = 1.67)

Thus, an RR over 1.0 indicates that vaccinations are related to a higher

disease incidence, and an RR under 1.0 indicate that vaccinations are related

to

a lower disease incidence.

 

All results of the study were tabulated and have been made available to the

public to assure complete transparency (

_http://www.generationrescue.org/pdf/survey.pdf_

(http://www.generationrescue.org/pdf/survey.pdf) ). In other

words, no attempt has been made to hide or otherwise manipulate the data.

 

The survey was automated, thus eliminating any chance that an individual

might mislead a respondent. Responses were given via telephone touchpads. This

is also the manner that the Centers for Disease Control says is most accurate.

The survey questions used in Sonoma County can be found here (

_http://www.generationrescue.org/pdf/questions.pdf_

(http://www.generationrescue.org/pdf/questions.pdf) ). In my reading of the

survey, there is no language that could

indicate a desired response either for or against vaccinations.

 

Survey Results

 

The results are stunning. The data shows dramatic increases in neurological

diseases and _asthma_ (http://www.naturalnews.com/asthma.html) in vaccinated

children. Generation Rescue is cautious in its interpretations. They have

taken a humble position, saying that, " We are a small non-profit organization.

For less than $200,000, we were able to complete a study that the CDC, with an

$8 billion a year budget, has been unable or unwilling to do. We think the

results of our survey lend credibility to the urgent need to do a larger scale

study to compare vaccinated and unvaccinated children for neurodevelopmental

outcomes. "

 

On the other hand, a survey, taken randomly from 17,674 children and focused

on nine counties in various areas separated by hundreds of miles, is a

significant number by itself. Unless the CDC should do an equivalent study,

done

with the same rigor, over a larger population, then this one must stand as

nothing less than a smoking gun for the link between childhood vaccinations and

neurological disorders, plus asthma. The only disease in the survey that did

not show an increase associated with vaccination was _juvenile diabetes_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/juvenile_diabetes.html) .

 

Results Summary

 

Vaccinated boys:

 

* Neurological disorder, RR = 2.55 (155% more likely to have neurological

disorder than unvaccinated boys)

 

* ADHD, RR = 3.24 (224% more likely to have ADHD than unvaccinated boys)

 

* Autism, RR = 1.61 (61% more likely to have autism than unvaccinated boys)

 

Vaccinated boys ages 11-17:

 

* Neurological disorder, RR = 2.58 (158% more likely to have neurological

disorder than unvaccinated boys)

 

* ADHD, RR = 4.17 (317% more likely to have ADHD than unvaccinated boys)

 

* Autism, RR = 2.12 (112% more likely to have autism than unvaccinated boys)

 

The study notes that older children are more likely to have been diagnosed

with a neurological disorder, because such diagnoses are often missed in

younger children. Therefore, this is likely the more accurate figure.

 

All vaccinated boys and girls were 120% more likely to have asthma than

unvaccinated children (RR = 2.20).

 

Vaccinated girls showed no significant difference from unvaccinated girls in

neurological disorders. Whether this is due to the relatively small number

of girls with these same disorders or because of the relatively small number

of girls with such disorders in the study is unknown.

 

Conclusion: Stop Vaccinating Our Children!

 

What more do you need to know? This study shows a clear link between

neurological disorders and vaccinations. It indicates that autism rates may be

more

than double in vaccinated boys than in those who were not vaccinated.

 

The question needs to be asked: Why doesn't the CDC or the FDA or the AMA do

a large-scale equivalent study to determine whether the

pharmaceutically-funded studies are valid? The methodology is simple, and it

adheres to the

techniques that the CDC has approved. Rather than continuing to spend huge

amounts of money on clearly flawed studies to placate the pharmaceutical

corporations and give a false sense of security to _parents_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/parents.html) , it's time for these organizations

to put their money where

their mouth is. It's well past time for them to use Generation Rescue's

methods on a national scale. This is the sort of study that can definitively

show

whether there's a link between neurological disorders and vaccinations.

 

Until these agencies produce such a study, it's time for them to stop

forcing vaccinations on our children. Let them try to prove, using transparent

studies in which all children of all families contacted are included, without

exception, unlike the recent one documented in Dissecting A Thimerosal Study

(_http://www.NaturalNews.com/022237.html_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/022237.html) ), in which the vast majority of

children were eliminated for specious

reasons. Until they're willing to do this, they must stop destroying the lives

of

our young for their profits.

 

 

About the author

Heidi Stevenson

Fellow, British Institute of Homeopathy

Gaia Therapy (_http://www.gaia-therapy.com_ (http://www.gaia-therapy.com/) )

The author is a homeopath who became concerned with medically-induced harm

as a result of her own experiences and those of family members. She says that

allopathic medicine is the arena that best describes the motto, " Buyer

beware. "

Iatrogenic disease is illness, disability, and death caused by medical

practice. It is common, resulting in huge costs to society and individuals.

It's

possible - even common - to suffer an iatrogenic illness without realizing its

source. Heidi Stevenson provides information about medically-induced disease

and disability so members of the public can protect themselves.