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are not related!!! so don't be scared to vaccinate your babies  
i found this.....


WASHINGTON - New research further debunks any link between measles vaccine and autism, work that comes as the nation is experiencing a surge in measles cases fueled by children left unvaccinated.
Years of research with the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine, better known as MMR, have concluded that it doesn’t cause autism. Still, some parents’ fears persist, in part because of one 1998 British study that linked the vaccine with a subgroup of autistic children who also have serious gastrointestinal problems. That study reported that measles virus was lingering in the children’s bowels.
Only now have researchers rigorously retested that finding, taking samples of youngsters’ intestines to hunt for signs of virus with the most modern genetic technology. There is no evidence that MMR plays any role, the international team — which included researchers who first raised the issue — reported Wednesday.

“Although in fact there was evidence that this vaccine was safe in the bulk of the population, it had not been previously assessed with respect to kids with autism and GI complaints,” said Dr. W. Ian Lipkin of Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, who led the work published in PLoS One, the online journal of the Public Library of Science.
“We are confident there is no link between MMR and autism,” Lipkin said.
Added co-author Dr. Larry Pickering of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: “I feel very certain that it is a safe vaccine.”....

this is the link to read the whole article...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26532147/

i thought it was all bs to begin with

i'm still not getting my son those shots.

Well, thank goodness I was getting ready to sue some people. My son was diagnosed with High Functioning Autism last week  

Quoting ♥ Annette ♥:“ Well, thank goodness I was getting ready to sue some people. My son was diagnosed with High Functioning Autism last week  ”

aww i'm sorry to hear that  

well my MIL can shove this info.

she is 100% still thinks that her son, my hubby has Autism and HE DOES NOT!!! He has ADHD granted .

and she kept on telling me not to get my kid vaccinated blah blah blah.

my baby IS vaccinated

and I believed this crap was all b.s.

I believe that vaccinations are important, but the amount of things they put into their teeny bodies at such a YOUNG age is really scary. I just don't like the idea of having my new born injected with FIVE different vaccines during one visit and then not knowing which one they could've possibly had a reaction to if they did. This is why I will be giving one vaccine at a time.

It's better to know then not to, that's the way I see it. My Fiancee and I are learning to deal with it and trying to find ways to better approach our parenting skills for him. It's hard but I have been keeping my thoughts optimistic.

it's about time. But there will still be people who will argue these findings, I'm sure of it!

Quoting aryn12205:“ I believe that vaccinations are important, but the amount of things they put into their teeny bodies ... [snip!] ... not knowing which one they could've possibly had a reaction to if they did. This is why I will be giving one vaccine at a time.”

Exactly. I see absolutely no reason for them to get the vaccines all at the same time. And there is no reason not to do an alternative schedule. Which is what we are doing. I wish I had done that with her previous shots but her 12 months are coming up and we are for sure this time.

PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release:
September 3, 2008Contact:
Rita Shreffler, NAA (Nixa, MO) 401-632-6452
Wendy Fournier, NAA (Portsmouth, RI) 401-835-5828
CDC Misses Target With Flawed MMR/Autism Study
NAA says: Wrong Question Asked. Wrong Children Studied. Wrong Conclusions Reached.
Nixa, MO – A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) study released today claims there is no link between the MMR vaccine and autism. The National Autism Association (NAA) says this study does nothing to dispel the growing public concern over a vaccine-autism connection and raises several questions concerning design and methodology.
For years, parents have claimed that MMR triggered their child’s subsequent GI (gastrointestinal) disease and autism. In a 2002 paper where the majority of autistic children were found to have measles in their intestines, the children examined showed a clear temporal link between MMR exposure and regression. The CDC’s attempt to replicate the 2002 study fell far short of proving the safety of the MMR vaccine.
The CDC study was designed to detect persistent measles virus in autistic children with GI problems. The assumption being if there is no measles virus at the long delayed time of biopsy, there is no link between autism and MMR. But NAA says this underlying assumption is wrong. The questions should have been: Do normally developing children meeting all milestones have an MMR shot, develop GI problems and then regress into autism? Do they have evidence of measles and disease in their colons compared to non-vaccinated age and sex matched controls?
In the current CDC study, only a small subgroup of children was the correct phenotype to study. From page 7, “Only 5 of 25 subjects (20%) had received MMR before the onset of GI complaints and had also had onset of GI episodes before the onset of AUT (P=0.03).” The other 20 autistic children in the study had GI problems but the pathology developed before the MMR vaccine. Additionally, the controls all received the MMR vaccine and had gastrointestinal symptoms. The controls should have been free of exposure to vaccine measles in order to make a comparison relevant for purposes of causation.
Inflammatory bowel disease in the absence of MMR RNA does not mean that MMR shot didn't precipitate the GI disease and didn't precipitate autism. A similar example would be rheumatic fever where the infection is cleared quickly but damage to the heart and/or brain last a lifetime.
Public confidence in the safety of vaccines is at risk until safety studies are performed that are required by law, ethics, and science. NAA calls for a vaccinated vs. non-vaccinated study comparing all health outcomes including autism. The CDC is in charge of vaccine safety, owns patents to vaccines (according to a UPI Investigative Report from 2003) and is in charge of promoting vaccines. The public should demand that vaccine safety be taken away from an agency with such conflicts and support HR#1973, the Vaccine Safety and Public Confidence Assurance Act.”
For more information, visit www.nationalautism.org

Quoting Chistian's mommy  :“ are not related!!! so don't be scared to vaccinate your babies   i found this..... WASHINGTON - ... [snip!] ... certain that it is a safe vaccine.”.... this is the link to read the whole article... http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26532147/”

I love to see more research, but this particular study doesn't prove anything because it is so limited. One of the main concerns of parents who saw their children regress into autism after vaccines is the cumulative effect of some of the neurotoxic ingredients, such as aluminum.

MMR has never been the primary concern of parents...yes, it was the focus of one major study (which was credited, retracted, and is now being reviewed in court.)

We still have not seen major, long term INDEPENDENT studies done on the safety of vaccines...therefore we really don't know how safe they are. We DO know that over 14,000 adverse events are reported each year to VAERS, and that this is only 10% of actual reactions, according to the CDC. We DO know that there is a vaccine injury fund in which parents of vaccine damaged children are "compensated."

I don't think vaccine reactions, including brain damage (sometimes leading to regressive autism,) are as rare as we have all been led to believe.