I currently just read a magazine article titled 'Do vaccines really cause autism?' by Audrie Gingerford in Health magazine. It was about how over 5,000 females have filed court claims blaming vaccine makers for their children's autism cases, while the research says that they have no correlation. In the mid-1970's the autism rate was about 1 in 470 children, and today it is about 1 in 150. This is a very big increase for just thirty years. On the contrary many children who are diagnosed with autism today would have been diagnosed as mentally retarded or as having a speech disorder. This being said the number of autistic children today has increased, while the number of mentally retarded or children with a speech disorder have decreased. Which is the opposite from back in the mid-1970's. Researchers have done more research on this topic since a lawsuit was just settled about a young girl who was diagnosed with autism after she received a vaccine, and it still shows that there is no correlation between the two. Though some people have a hard time believing this, but as of now there is no correlation between the two.
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Maggie,
I think that Autism is a serious thing to think about in 2008. Just looking at the numbers rising is staggering. I know Jenny McCarthy's baby has autism, as do thousands of newborns around the planet. Is it the vaccinnes? My sister is a nurse and has three, beautiful, healthy babies. She has refused to give them any vaccinees as she doesn't believe in them. They have been perfectly healthy so far, I would say more so. I guess we won't know the true answers until the future research comes out huh? -Joe
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