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Autism Research Institute
4182 Adams Avenue
San Diego, California 92116
BERNARD RIMLAND, Ph.D., Director
(619) 281-7165
February 12, 2001
PRESS RELEASE
The Autism Explosion, the Vaccine Connection, and the
Autism Research Institute's Mercury Detoxification Consensus Conference
February 9-11, 2001, Dallas, Texas
An enormous and alarming unexplained increase in the prevalence of
autism is being reported, on an almost daily basis, in the U.S., the
U.K., and elsewhere.
California maintains what is probably the world's best and most
systematic database on autism and other developmental disabilities,
which includes children who are formally diagnosed by strict criteria
for acceptance into a comprehensive entitlement program. California
reports an increase in the prevalence of autism of over 1,000% (in
autism, not mental retardation, epilepsy nor cerebral palsy) over a
20-year period. Similar enormous increases have been reported in New
Jersey, and in several places in the U.K., in the Middle East, and in
Asia. The increase is certainly not the result of greater awareness
nor better diagnosis.
While the reality of the increase is beyond reasonable doubt, there
is great controversy over the cause. The most plausible cause
relates to changes in the vaccination programs over the past two
decades. These include:
1. The extraordinary increase in the number of vaccines given to
children from birth to age two, which has risen from 8 in 1980 to 22
in 2000.
2. The amount of extremely toxic mercury (used as a preservative) in
many vaccines. Some infants have received in one day as much as 100
times the amount of mercury the Environmental Protection Agency says
is the maximum allowable daily exposure for an adult. Mercury is not
only neurotoxic by itself, it also damages the immune system so the
child becomes unable to protect itself against damage from the
viruses in vaccines.
3. The combination of three vaccines, Measles, Mumps, Rubella,
previously given singly, into one, the MMR. The prevalence increase
started in the U.S. in the early 1980s, shortly after the
triple-vaccine MMR shot was introduced, while the increase in the
U.K. started 10 years later, soon after the triple MMR was introduced
there.
Much attention has been focused on the MMR shot itself, whereas in
all probability it is a combination of the three factors listed
above: the increasing number of vaccines, the large amount of
mercury, and the inherent danger of the triple vaccine. (In a
January, 2001 article in the Journal of Adverse Drug Reactions,
several British experts who were involved in the safety evaluation of
the MMR vaccine stated that the vaccine safety testing had not been
adequate and that the vaccine should not have been licensed).
The MMR vaccine is also especially suspect because laboratories in
England, Ireland, and Japan have found evidence of MMR vaccine
viruses in the intestinal tracts of autistic children, but not in
control group, non-autistic children.
The role of mercury has come to light only in the past 18 months,
after it was realized that the amount of mercury preservative in many
vaccines (although not the MMR vaccine) is grossly in excess of the
permissible standards.
During the past year, a number of physicians from throughout the
United States who have been working with autistic children have
reported extremely good results in improving the health and behavior
of autistic children when the mercury in the children's bodies were
removed by a systematic process of detoxification. Some of these
physicians, who have specialized in the treatment of autistic
children for a number of years, and who have treated many hundreds of
autistic children, report that no other treatment has brought about
the remarkable improvement that they have seen in many cases of
mercury detoxification. Detoxification is not simple, and there are
many competing detoxification protocols.
In response to this situation, the Autism Research Institute convened
a Consensus Conference on the Detoxification of Autistic Children in
Dallas, Texas, February 9th through 11th, 2001. The attendees were
25 carefully selected physicians and scientists knowledgeable about
mercury and mercury detoxification. The 15 physicians present
included 7 who were parents of autistic children and who had
detoxified their own children with excellent results. The physician
attendees present had treated well over 3,000 patients for heavy
metal poisoning, about 1,500 of them being autistic children. The
chemists, toxicologists, and other scientists present had a combined
total of almost 90 years of experience in studying the toxicology of
mercury.
The purpose of the meeting was to arrive at a consensus document
which would delineate the safest and most effective methods of
detoxifying autistic children. Nine candidate detoxification
protocols, including five submitted by non-attendees, were considered
in detail by the conferees.
The meeting was an outstanding success. Despite some initial concern
that the various areas of disagreement would prove divisive, the
participants resolved the controversial issues harmoniously and
arrived at the consensus position that was hoped for.
The Autism Research Institute will issue its consensus report on the
detoxification of autistic children at the earliest possible
date--most likely in mid-March--after the participants have had an
opportunity to review and approve the document.
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