Autism not found in un-vaccinated

[Roger]

The Age of Autism: 'A pretty big secret'

by Dan Olmsted

Consumer Health, 12/7/05 C 2006 United Press International, Inc

http://www.upi.com/ConsumerHealthDaily/ ... 0313-6829r

It's a far piece from the horse-and-buggies of Lancaster County, PA, to the
cars and freeways of Cook County, IL. But thousands of children cared for by
Homefirst Health Services in metropolitan Chicago have at least two things
in common with thousands of Amish children in rural Lancaster: They have
never been vaccinated. And they don't have autism.
"We have a fairly large practice. We have about 30,000 or 35,000 children
that we've taken care of over the years, and I don't think we have a single
case of autism in children delivered by us who never received vaccines,"
said Dr. Mayer Eisenstein, Homefirst's medical director who founded the
practice in 1973. Homefirst doctors have delivered more than 15,000 babies
at home, and thousands of them have never been vaccinated.
The few autistic children Homefirst sees were vaccinated before their
families became patients, Eisenstein said. "I can think of two or three
autistic children who we've delivered their mother's next baby, and we
aren't really totally taking care of that child - they have special care
needs. But they bring the younger children to us. I don't have a single case
that I can think of that wasn't vaccinated."
The autism rate in Illinois public schools is 38 per 10,000, according to
state Education Department data; the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention puts the national rate of autism spectrum disorders at 1 in 166
60 per 10,000.
"We do have enough of a sample," Eisenstein said. "The numbers are too large
to not see it. We would absolutely know. We're all family doctors. If I have
a child with autism come in, there's no communication. It's frightening. You
can't touch them. It's not something that anyone would miss."
No one knows what causes autism, but federal health authorities say it isn't
childhood immunizations. Some parents and a small minority of doctors and
scientists, however, assert vaccines are responsible.
This column has been looking for autism in never-vaccinated U.S. children in
an effort to shed light on the issue. We went to Chicago to meet with
Eisenstein at the suggestion of a reader, and we also visited Homefirst's
office in northwest suburban Rolling Meadows. Homefirst has four other
offices in the Chicago area and a total of six doctors.
Eisenstein stresses his observations are not scientific. "The trouble is
this is just anecdotal in a sense, because what if every autistic child goes
somewhere else and (their family) never calls us or they moved out of
state?"
In practice, that's unlikely to account for the pronounced absence of
autism, says Eisenstein, who also has a bachelor's degree in statistics, a
master's degree in public health and a law degree.
Homefirst follows state immunization mandates, but Illinois allows religious
exemptions if parents object based either on tenets of their faith or
specific personal religious views. Homefirst does not exclude or discourage
such families. Eisenstein, in fact, is author of the book "Don't Vaccinate
Before You Educate!" and is critical of the CDC's vaccination policy in the
1990s, when several new immunizations were added to the schedule, including
Hepatitis B as early as the day of birth. Several of the vaccines - HepB
included - contained a mercury-based preservative that has since been phased
out of most childhood vaccines in the
Roger Barr

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