Vaccination payout but what does it mean for autism in general?

The US has had its first government payout for vaccination damage in a case of autism.

According to internet newspaper The Huffington Post, officials at the Department of Health and Human Services concluded that the vaccines had "significantly aggravated an underlying mitochondrial disorder, which predisposed her to deficits in energy metabolism", causing brain damage with "features of autism spectrum disorder" (New Scientist March 2008).

This was not the case of a usual child developing autism after a vaccination regime even though she had not shown signs of autism until after these vaccinations. The child´s autism was not found to be caused directly by the vaccinations but by the impact of the vaccinations on an already present but undiagnosed genetic cellular disorder. The girl had a mitochondrial disorder, a disorder most children do not have (only 1 in 4000 US children will develop Mitochondrial Disease in which the mitochondria become damaged and can´t do their job, leading to systemic toxicity and nutrient starvation issues effecting the brain). Even most autistic children would not have this genetic disorder. This is because the underlying causes of autism is not always that of a physiological breakdown, even though this may be so for particular subgroups, such as those with marked cellular, metabolic, gut or immune disorders. The problem is that there is no pre-vaccination screening for which as yet not overtly autistic children have significant physiological mutations or predispositions to expressing gut, immune or metabolic disorders. If we had that vaccines and the world might be a safer place for all.

Whilst vaccinations should not cause autism in children without immune or cellular disorders

a bombardment of vaccinations in someone who already had such mutations could mean that

whee these mutations have not yet been diagnosed nor overtly shown symptoms,

the exaccerbating impact of vaccines in THESE people ´could´ theoretically lead to a cascade of issues resulting in autism like symptoms.

It is essential to remember however, that the diseases which the vaccines are protecting against

could, themselves, have significantly further damaged immune or cellular dysfunctions in children with these genetic mutations.

In other words, a damned if you do and damned if you don´t situation.

An unvaccinated child with immune or cellular dysfunctions may continue relatively healthy until and unless they caught such actual diseases.

HOWEVER, in a society in which parents of children WITHOUT these mutations, avoid vaccinations

the risks to those with immune and cellular dysfunctions of catching the very diseases which would put THEM more at risk of damage and death

than MOST children in society, would be dramatically increased.

The answers?

Pre-vaccination screening for all children to rule out pre-existing immune deficiency or cellular dysfunctions

then deal with THOSE cases on an individual basis whilst not increasing societal risk of serious diseases through widespread panic

uneccessarily linking vaccinations to all cases of autism.

My own case is one of having had two primary immune deficiencies (very few white cells and no Secretory IgA).

Although I had the DPT vaccination, I never had the MMR (it wasn´t around in the 60s).

I caught measles around age 2-3 (was assessed as psychotic at age 2 in 1965 when I´d developed tics, appeared deaf and developed mood fits by age 3).

Assessed as disturbed in the 70s ad diagnosed with autism in my 20s, I still had flare ups of measles in adulthood, which was explained as not having a strong enough immune system to fight the virus.

As an active carrier of that virus, a vaccinated society was relatively safe from me though the measles likely suppressed my immune function and development for years. I´ve now recovered from my immune deficiencies, which is a very long road for those with such disorders.

But understand that whilst I´m one of the types who did´nt have the physiology to be previously protected by vaccinations, may well have had my system thrown into chaos by any I did have whilst still immune deficient, it is equally a fact that the diseases themselves would put me at greater risk than others and that in an unvaccinated society, those with such immune disfunctions would stand even less of a chance.

Hence, I urge some sanity about the importance and safety of sensible levels of vaccinations against deadly diseases among those who have been screened and found to have the physiology to cope with such regimes.

Sincerely,

Donna Williams *)

author, artist, composer, screenwriter

http://www.donnawilliams.net