As the gospel of vaccinations began to spread throughout the world, reaching 3rd world countries on “mercy” missions from more-developed 1st world countries, that number has steadily increased. In 1997, the CDC (Center for Disease Control) reported the rate to be 1 in 500. Today, autism has a global presence with the rate of 1 child in 150 born now exhibiting signs of autism. For those not old enough to remember, vaccines and vaccinations have not always enjoyed a great reputation. In 1955, Cutter Laboratories was ordered by the Laboratory of Biological Control that all polio vaccinations be suspended following reports that 94 vaccinees and 166 close contact of vaccinees were diagnosed with polio. Vaccinations were unreliable enough that a schedule of basically how much monetary compensation you were entitled to based on how much and what kind of suffering you had experienced was established.
If you haven't already been introduced to the white hot debate that is currently raging on the topic of vaccinations and autism, you need to join, especially if you have infants or kids, or are planning to have children someday. At the center of the controversy lies the very simple question, "Are vaccinations safe?" Are vaccines safe for babies? Are vaccines safe for children? This was not something that was ever questioned, it was always assumed that if you were a responsible parent or parent to be, a vaccine immunization schedule was a given.
If you were a loving parent who wanted only the the best for your future child, if you wanted your future child to have every opportunity in the world, shielded against the dangers of viruses and infections, and preventable diseases, you would not spare the cost. Never in a parent’s wildest dream could they imagine that they were doing the exact opposite of that which they intended. It was absolutely unfathomable for a parent to think that they were literally and figuratively injecting a disease into their own children, at the most vulnerable age: infancy. Is that even possible? More and more evidence is mounting that the relationship of vaccines autism is real, and more prevalent that we would like to admit.
If we start at the beginning, we’ll see that autism was first seen in 1943 by the child psychiatrist, Leo Kanner. He describes his diagnosis of this new condition, “the condition differs markedly and uniquely from anything reported so far…” This condition was eventually given the name, “autism.” It is extremely interesting to note that the first vaccines were introduced in the United States in the late 1930s, beginning with the first one in 1935 (yellow fever vaccine). By the 1980s, the number of vaccinations that a child was to receive within the first 18 months of birth had jumped to over a dozen; is it really surprising that by the late 1980s the cases of autism also jumped to over 4500 annually? Need more evidence? When then Us occupied Japan following WWII, they instituted a mandatory vaccination program for kids and infants alike, the results being that the first autistic child was diagnosed in 1945. . The National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program as it was known, is as current as 1988. And perhaps the biggest empirical case demonstrating the ties between autism and vaccination: There is simply no autism in unvaccinated children.
Autism and Vaccinations
