Measles Vaccine Does NOT Cause Autism
ironjustice
Article Date: 04 Sep 2008 - 2:00 PDT
After a decade of controversy that has seen surges in measles
outbreaks because of many parents' mistrust of the vaccine, a new US-
led study concluded there is no link between the MMR vaccine and the
onset of autism or gastrointestinal symptoms in children who develop
both. The new study replicated the 1998 UK study that originally
suggested there was a link between MMR and autism because it found
measles virus in the bowels of a group of autistic children with
gastrointestinal disorders who had been vaccinated.
The study was led by Dr. W Ian Lipkin of the Mailman School of Public
Health at Columbia University, New York, New York, and is published as
an online open access article on 4th September in PLoS One, the
journal of the Public Library of Science.
According to MedPage Today, Lipkin told the press:
"We are persuaded that there is no link."
Many parents in Britain, US and other parts of the world have not
vaccinated their children against measles, mumps and rubella (MMR)
because they fear there is a link with autism, especially since the
1998 article in The Lancet where a UK team of scientists said there
was a link between autism and MMR because they found measles virus RNA
in the bowels of a group of autistic children with gastrointestinal
disorders.
Since the 1998 study, wrote Lipkin and colleagues in their background
information, several studies have failed to find a link between
exposure to the measles virus and autistic spectrum disorder (ASD).
But public concern may have persisted, suggested the authors, because
the studies did not test for evidence of measles virus in the
children's bowels, neither did they examine ASD in relation to
gastrointestinal problems, and nor did they try to replicate the
original study.
So Lipkin and colleagues carried out a case-control study to find out
if children with gastrointestinal disturbances and autism were more
likely to have measles virus RNA and/or inflammation in their bowel
tissue than children who had gastrointestinal disturbances without
autism. They also investigated whether the onset of autism and/or any
gastrointestinal disturbance was linked to the timing of receiving
MMR.
They took bowel tissue samples (ileal and cecal tissue) from 38 US
children who were already undergoing ileocolonoscopy for clinical
reasons because they had gastrointestinal disturbances. 25 of the
children also had autism, while the other 13 did not (these were age-
matched controls).
The tissue samples were tested for presence of measles virus in three
separate laboratories that did not know the reason for the test,
including one that was involved in the original 1998 study that
reported a link between measles virus and autism.
In their analysis, Lipkin and colleagues focused on three points: the
order of onset of autism, the onset of gastrointestinal episodes, and
the timing of the MMR vaccine. They reported finding "no differences
between case and control groups in the presence of MV [measles virus]
RNA in ileum and cecum", and the results were the same across all
three laboratories.
"GI symptom and autism onset were unrelated to MMR timing," wrote the
authors, who also found that 88 per cent of the children with autism
had behavioral regression. They concluded that:
"This study provides strong evidence against association of autism
with persistent measles virus RNA in the gastrointestinal tract or MMR
exposure. Autism with gastrointestinal disturbances is associated with
elevated rates of regression in language or other skills and may
represent an endophenotype distinct from other ASD."
People with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) have significant
difficulty interacting socially and communicating with others. They
also learn, pay attention and react to situations differently to
people who do not have ASD, with ability ranging from gifted to
severely challenged, according to information from the US Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, whose scientists also took part in the
study.
ASD usually starts before the age of 3 and lasts for a person's whole
lifetime. It is four times more prevalent in boys than girls and
occurs in all racial, ethnic and socioeconomic groups.
ASDs fall broadly into three types: autistic disorder, pervasive
developmental disorder - not otherwise specified (PDD-NOS, including
atypical autism), and Asperger syndrome, all of which share symptoms,
but differ in terms of onset, severity and characterization. With Rett
syndrome and childhood disintegrative disorder, ASDs make up the broad
diagnosis category of pervasive developmental disorders.
"Lack of Association between Measles Virus Vaccine and Autism with
Enteropathy: A Case-Control Study."
Hornig M, Briese T, Buie T, Bauman ML, Lauwers G, et al. 2008
PLoS ONE 3(9): e3140
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0003140
Open access article published online 4 September 2008.
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JOHN <jo...@nospam.com> wrote:
>bollocks http://www.whale.to/vaccine/study111.html
You're quite right, John -- the whale.to page is bollocks. Especially
the supposed "vindication" of O'Leary's lab. O'Leary was only allowed
to be involved once the lab was certified to have fixed all the
problems that allowed those bogus 2002 results to pop up.
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anon...@nowhere.you.know
ironjustice
the consumption of meat causes measles <<
It doesn't say that .. it says autism is NOT linked to the measles
vaccine.
anon...@nowhere.you.know
Autism has greatly increased in recent times without an increase in meat
consumption.
ironjustice
anon...@nowhere.you.know
Autism has greatly increased in recent times without an increase in meat
consumption.
It has disproportionately increased in western countries independent of
level of meat consumption.
ironjustice
anon...@nowhere.you.know
On the other hand if meat consumption were involved it would be expected
that places like india would find cases rare. It is not, the rate there
is about 1 in 500.
ironj...@aol.com
The article doesn't say anything about .. meat .. causing ..
measles ..
Meat isn't mentioned at all ..
Where did you get meat from anonymous .. ?
You got some sort of .. meat .. fetish .. ?
Curb it .. its' kind of .. creepy ..
--------------------
anon...@nowhere.you.know
ironj...@aol.com
Neither does iron because of the consumption of meat.<<
What part of meat wasn't mentioned .. don't you understand .. ?
What part of .. creepy .. don't you understand .. ?
On Sep 8, 11:21 am, anonym...@nowhere.you.know wrote:
Autism has greatly increased in recent times without an increase in
meat
consumption. <<
What .. meat .. again .. ?
Real .. creepy ..
On Sep 8, 11:21 am, anonym...@nowhere.you.know wrote:
It has disproportionately increased in western countries independent
of
level of meat consumption. <<
Meat .. ?
Again .. ?
On Sep 8, 11:21 am, anonym...@nowhere.you.know wrote:
On the other hand if meat consumption were involved it would be
expected
that places like india would find cases rare. It is not, the rate
there
is about 1 in 500. <<
Meat wasn't mentioned .. nobody mentioned meat ..
You believe meat has something to do with this thread .. ?
anon...@nowhere.you.know
Autism has greatly increased in recent times without an increase in meat
consumption.
It has disproportionately increased in western countries independent of
level of meat consumption.
On the other hand if meat consumption were involved it would be expected
ironj...@aol.com
Neither does iron because of the consumption of meat. <<
You are a twit ..
Everyone knows smallpox and measles and chicken .. notice how its
called chicken .. pox .. comes FROM .. meat you stupid .. fool.
So read my lips ..
Hit the road ..
You are too .. stoooooopid ..
Who loves ya.
Tom
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DEAD PEOPLE WALKING
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anon...@nowhere.you.know
called chicken .. pox .. comes FROM .. meat you stupid .. fool.
So read my lips ..
Hit the road ..
You are too .. stoooooopid .."
Huh? Chicken pox is caused by a virus and is spread from person to
person. Vegetarian folk get it just as quickly as any others.
If chicken pox is caused by eating chicken, one presumes, then what
causes small pox? Is it eating smalls?
vernono
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WEEELLLL
Chicken Pox is caught only from animals (other humans) :>) :>)
It's real name is Herpes Zoroster.
Vegetarians love organic grown vegetables. That way they get to eat more
varieties of animal feces.