MB Comment: Here is a smoking gun for vaccines cause autism. The CDC says vaccines cause seizures and a child who has a first vaccine-induced seizure has a 10% chance of developing epilepsy. This new study of epileptic children under five from the American Epilepsy Society finds 77% screened positive for developmental delay; of these participants, a strong proportion 36% had autism.
There is no mention of the vaccination status of these children, but with the medical profession’s robotic insistence on 95% immunization rates, you can safely assume there is a high probability that these epileptic children have been injected with every CDC-recommended vaccine since birth.
No doubt Offit and his minions would assert that these children spontaneously generated epilepsy, like Kangaroos leaping into existence on the moon; rather than the vaccine/seizure/epilepsy mechanism suggested by the CDC. Of course, that is Offit’s role: Chief enforcer of public ignorance of vaccine adverse reactions for the pharmaceutical industrial complex.
If you have a doctor that proclaims vaccines don’t cause autism, that theory has been refuted and the research retracted; you should politely ask them to read a medical textbook as you forever walk out the door of their medical practice. The Merck Manual (the largest selling medical textbook, paradoxically published by the largest US vaccine manufacturer) says that vaccines cause encephalitis (brain swelling) and the symptoms of encephalitis include seizures. As the CDC kindly points out, vaccine-induced seizures can lead to epilepsy. And numerous medical journal citations list developmental delays (aka autism) as a sequela of encephalitis.
To summarize: vaccines cause seizures that can lead to epilepsy and this new study finds an extremely elevated rate of autism in epileptic children. In other words: Vaccines cause autism.
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Autism Frequently Missed in Children With Epilepsy
Medscape – Dec 8, 2011
December 8, 2011 (Baltimore, Maryland) — Despite problems, many children with epilepsy are not evaluated for autism or developmental delay.
“Systematic screening should be routine for all children seen in epilepsy clinics,” Anne Berg, PhD, from Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago, Illinois, told reporters attending a news conference here at the American Epilepsy Society (AES) 65th Annual Meeting.
In a study presented here, the investigators tracked children younger than 5 years seen at an epilepsy monitoring unit and a ketogenic diet clinic for about half a year. They asked parents of the 44 children to complete the Ages and Stages Questionnaire, as well as an autism screening tool.
Most of the children (77%) screened positive for developmental delay; of these participants, a strong proportion (36%) had autism.
More than a third of patients had not been previously diagnosed as having developmental delay or autism and were referred for confirmatory evaluation.
Screening Gap
“It’s important that screening be right there at the beginning to help improve cognitive development,” Dr. Berg told Medscape Medical News. “We are concerned that when pediatricians send patients to neurologists, they assume additional screening is taking place, but neurologists may think pediatricians are taking care of that, and a gap is occurring.”
Breanne Fisher, RN, MSN, CPNP, and Catherine Dezort, RN, MSN, CPNP, both nurses at Children’s Memorial Hospital, described some of the referrals they typically make to psychiatrists; speech, occupational, and physical therapists; or educational specialists in their multidisciplinary approach.
Their team is now prospectively evaluating a more extensive battery of screening tools with new-onset patients.
Many questions remain about the association between epilepsy and autism. “We don’t know whether uncontrolled epilepsy may lead to autism,” Masanori Takeoka, MD, from Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts, said at the news conference. “But both tend to feature intellectual disabilities.”
Dr. Takeoka is senior investigator of another study presented at the meeting. His team found not only that autism is common in children with epilepsy but also that their seizures are surprisingly photosensitive.
Photosensitive seizures can be triggered by flickering lights; therefore, the self-stimulatory behavior of children with autism, such as flapping a hand in front of the face, has the potential to increase the risk for photosensitive seizures.
“Our study found a high overall incidence of photosensitivity in 25% of children over 15 years of age with autism spectrum disorder, and an even higher rate of 29% in that age group of children who had both epilepsy and autism,” lead investigator Jill Miller-Horn, MD, also at Harvard Medical School, told reporters. “This finding has not been previously described.”
Table. Incidence of Photoparoxysmal Response (n = 333)
| Children | Photoparoxysmal Response (%) |
| With autism | 7 |
| No epilepsy | 1 |
| With epilepsy | 12 |
| With autism and age older than 15 years | 25 |
| With both autism and epilepsy and age older than 15 years | 29 |
Dr. Miller-Horn also pointed to the relatively small size of the study. “Larger-scale prospective studies are needed to confirm this trend,” she said. “Further study is also needed to identify the importance of these findings in the pathophysiology of epilepsy in children with autism spectrum disorder.”
In October, another team proposed that a deletion on chromosome 2 is linked to epilepsy and autism (Am J Hum Genet. 2011;89:551-563).
“We identified a single gene, methyl-CpG-binding domain 5,” noted the team, led by Michael Talkowski, PhD, from the Center for Human Genetic Research at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.
Partial or complete deletion of the gene MBD5 on chromosome 2 was associated with intellectual disability, epilepsy, and autism.
The authors have disclosed no relevant financial relationships.
American Epilepsy Society (AES) 65th Annual Meeting: Platform A.02. Presented December 5, 2011.
When our son had his first seizure at 2 months ( right after his vaccines and when we were stupid) when we told his pediatrician about the seizure our doctor said “Oh no, it wasn’t a seizure, some children hold their breath on purpose…for attention” At 2 months??? Now if course at that time- the physician should have noted this as a vaccine related incident and had us stop all vaccines-he did not and we continued as told- never for a moment attaching his high fevers, lack of crawling, walking and then his not talking to his vaccines. He is now autistic. When we filed with the Vaccine compensation program- we had to start the first symptom from that two month mark of that first seizure-even though the physician said it was NOT a seizure. The 36 month statue of limitations goes pretty quickly when you keeping telling your doctor that something is wrong-but they keep giving you every other excuse in the world. We missed the statue to even be HEARD by the compensation program by one week.
Robin, our son had one vaccine – the hep B, when he was 28 minutes old. His reaction landed him in NICU for 3 days and an additional 5 days in the hospital before he could go home. The hospital never asked for consent before giving him the shot, so we didn’t know that his sudden decline was associated with a vaccine because, to our knowledge he didn’t get that vaccine until the day he left the hospital, when he was 8 days old. We didn’t find out the truth until we were taking him to be evaluated for autism. The children’s hospital where he was evaluated conveniently delayed his diagnosis until he was 39 months old. Considering he was unable to walk or crawl, didn’t speak at all until he was 4, I do not think it was a coincidence that they “just didn’t know” until he was just out of the VAERS compensation window.