Posted by margaret on May 28, 2000 at 05:27:24:

In Reply to: Vaccines and Autism from CDC posted by DRR on May 28, 2000 at 00:20:47:

: For those who haven't, please visit http://www.cdc.gov/nip/vacsafe/concerns/autism/default.htm

:
: What is Montel's e-mail address? I agree that vaccine and autism connection should be researched (today - now).

: I agree that some people may be quietened by CDC or whomever because of the perceived importance of vaccine to the rest of the human population.
: I guess someone has the responsibility to not cause panic without clear evidence.

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Subject: [autism] CDC Accused of Vax-Autism Misrepresentations / Spectrum
Center Is Expanding

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> May 25, 2000
>
> CDC Accused of Vax-Autism Misrepresentations / Spectrum Center Is
Expanding
>
> [On April 13, 2000, we published an item, "The Government's Official
> Position on Wakefield's Research - Vaccines". We reported that the CDC
just
> updated their website. We provided the CDC website address for the update
> http://www.cdc.gov/nip/vacsafe/concerns/autism/autism-mmr.htm and
reproduced
> the questions and answers from that page.
> Here rebutting some of the CDC's assertions is Elizabeth Birt,
> elizabeth.birt@rosshardies.com, founder of Andy Wakefield's new
non-profit
> organization, Medical Interventions for Autism.]
>
> Thanks to all who alerted me to the CDC web page. I will be
> contacting John Porter's and Dan Burton's office this morning. The
> following are misrepresentations contained in the CDC web site:
>
> Question 6: I heard that measles virus was found in specimens from
> intestines of children with autism. Have these data been reviewed by
other
> scientists?
> CDC Answer. "The recently released finding has not yet been
published
> in a scientific journal. This means that it has not been reviewed by
other
> medical experts, before and after publication to assure the methods of the
> study are sound. No other laboratories have had similar findings."
>
> Actually: Professor John O'Leary's work was reviewed by the Royal
> College of Pathologists in Dec. of 1999 and was found to be sound. The
> truth is that a Japanese research team not only found measles virus in the
> intestines of children with autism but isolated it to the vaccine strain.
> See, Detection and Sequencing of Measles Virus from Peripheral Mononuclear
> Cells From Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Digestive Diseases
and
> Sciences, April 2,000.
>
> Left Out: CDC also left out an important fact from Question 1: The
> Royal Statistical Society has criticized the Brent Taylor study that is
> uniformly cited by our government officials. So have other renowned
> epidemiologists such as Walter Spitzer whose testimony was given to the
> Government Reform Committee on April 6th.
>
> If you'd like to ask the CDC for their reasoning behind these
factual
> lapses, you can email them at http://www.cdc.gov/nip/contact.htm
>
>