Timothy Cacciatore Rayvn Davis Essay 4 11/22/13

Vaccines, The Cause of Autism

As we look at the increasing numbers o autism !iagnosis in America" many who are concerne! have to ask the #uestion$ what is causing the nationwi!e e%i!emic in our chil!ren& 'any e(%erts in the heath iel! in!icate that there is no cause an! that it is sim%ly a mass change in genetics across our nation) * this was the case why !oes it not e ect other countries as well& *t is obvious there is some sort o e(%lanation as to what cause! the increase since the 1++,-s) A ma.or issue with %arents an! other health e(%erts is that the increase! number o vaccinations a chil! will receive in our country in the !evelo%mental stages o li e are the concerne! cause or a chil! to !evelo% autism) 'any %arents have re%orte! that their chil! was on the normal !evelo%mental track be ore receiving roun!s o vaccinations !uring an annual !octors visit) *t is a ter these vaccinations that %arents notice a change in their chil!-s !evelo%ment" soon lea!ing to a !iagnosis o A/D 0Autism /%ectral Disor!er1) The statistics must be ignore! any longer" an! as continue! increase in our countries autism rate" an! the increase in number o vaccinations" these statistics %rove that this is no mere coinci!ence) 'any e(%erts an! ske%tics however believe that the vaccines are not to blame or the mass e%i!emic o autism !iagnosis) *n 2elley 2ing 3eyworth-s Article" 45accines Do 6ot Cause Autism7 she re utes the i!ea that vaccinations are the cause o autism through many other me!ical stu!ies) As she goes about the me!ical community su%%orting vaccination" she #uotes 4The Centers or Disease Control an! 8revention 0CDC1 an! the American Aca!emy o 8e!iatrics

) 0AA81 recommen! that healthy Chil!ren get vaccinate! against 14 !iseases by age 27 ) These e(%erts believe that without all o these immuni9ations" chil!ren will be !eeme! 4unhealthy7 an! may be !enie! su icient me!ical care an! chil! services may get involve!) :ohn E Cal ee-s article 4Concerns About a ;ink <etween 5accines an! Autism are =n oun!e!7" he claims that 4Checks an! balances are %otent) 6aturally overcautious" the >oo! an! Drug A!ministration is a nearly insurmountable barrier between chil!ren an! ba! vaccines7) This is soli! evi!ence an! may convince some to believe that .ust because the >DA has release! a vaccine they claim to be sa e there is also room or error .ust as :ohn E Cal ee claims 4.unk science7 so ignorantly in the stu!y o autism relations to vaccines) ?hile it is un!erstan!able that vaccines are nee!e! to kee% our chil!ren sa e rom in ectious !iseases such as measles" mum%s" an! %ertussis" the combination vaccines such as the ''R 0measles" mum%s" an! rubella1 vaccine have came un!er ire) *t is state! that there has been no !irect link to this vaccine an! autism through at least seven !i erent large stu!ies in ma.or me!ical .ournalist) 3owever this is only a stu!y on one vaccine" yet our chil!ren receive many more an! many other statistics have viable in ormation su%%orting the cause o autism through the large amount o vaccines) /herri Ten%enny-s article" 45accines 3ave 6ot <een 8roven to <e /a e or E ective7" goes into !etails about the 4Dogmas7 in me!icine" or those un amiliar with the term" ?ebster-s !ictionary !e ines !ogma 4a !octrine$ a %ositive arrogant assertion o o%inion7) /herri-s article %rocee!s to the history o the %olio vaccine an! how Dr) /imon >le(nor hel! the belie the virus entere! through the res%iratory system" his solo assum%tion or 4!ogma7 remaine! untouche! or 2@ years until it was !iscovere! %olio was a gastrointestinal virus) This is relate! to the conte(t o vaccines an! autism link !ue to the 4!ogma7 o the CDC-s %ublication in their in ectious !iseases book otherwise re eree! to as The Pink Book that 4There is no !istinct syn!rome rom vaccine a!ministration" an! there ore" many tem%orally associate! a!verse events %robably re%resent

backgroun! illness rather than illness cause! by the vaccine)))7 *n other wor!s" this !ogma without any contrasting research o a !evelo%ment in a chil! who will un!ergo no vaccines in there !evelo%mental stages will remain the truth) :)< 3an!ley is the oun!er o 4Aeneration Rescue7" a non %ro it organi9ation that investigates the statistics o autism an! researches the causes an! treatments) *n his article 4Com%elling Evi!ence /hows That 5accines Trigger Autism7 he %rovi!es signi icant statistics o our nations e%i!emic in the rise o A/D !iagnosis in relation to the substantial amount o vaccines a chil! will receive by the age o @) 3e %rovi!es the statistic that be ore 1+B+ chil!ren only receive! u% to 1, vaccinations by their @th birth!ay" now chil!ren will receive u% to 3C) The 1 in 1@, number in the cases o autism use! to!ay is a number re%orte! by the census in 2,,2" since then it is re%orte! in !i erent states that numbers are well below 1 in 1,," the number o cases in autism in the 1+D,s were 1 in 1,",,, showing that autism has increase! in tenE ol! or 1,",,,F) The vaccines %rovi!e! to!ay have also been shown to cause brain in.ury as the =/ government has %ai! out in over 1)B billion in com%ensation or vaccine in.ury) These numbers show that there is obviously more than a scienti ically im%ossible 4s%ontaneous genetic e%i!emic7) Another #uestion that %rovi!es com%elling evi!ence an! statistics is 4how come other countries are not increasing in A/D !iagnosis7) An! the answer is sim%le" other countries !o not %rovi!e as many vaccinations as the =nite! /tates) Com%are! to our 3C vaccines %rovi!e! the average o 3, other irst worl! countries only %rovi!e 1B) * these vaccines our so sa e where !oes the =)/ stan! on countries with the lowest morality rate or chil!ren un!er @& The answer is 34th" however the amount o vaccines the countries with the lowest morality rates& *celan!" /we!en" /inga%ore" :a%an" an! 6oway each give un!er 1@ vaccines be ore the age o @) These countries give as little as 1/3 o our vaccines an! have autism rates as low as oneEtenth o ours)

*n conclusion" the irm belie that autism is cause! by vaccines is a com%elling argument that shows many %romising results) >ortunately this is an a!vance! age in me!ical science an! the rate o technology is increasing" in or!er to %ut an en! to this sky rocketing rate o autism !iagnosis in our country" we have to look %ast the common stan!ar! belie %rovi!e! by the government health cor%orations) * we continue the in!e%en!ent research o causes or autism an! consi!er less vaccinations or our youth" we may see a !ecrease in the amount o autism in our ne(t generation) 8erha%s with a !ecrease in the amount o vaccinations an! rates o autism we will then be able to ocus on a cure or this un ortunate !isability that has %lague! many o our young generation)