I'm sorry, great to hear Dr. Wakefield's work replicated. My son was damaged by the MMR.
Kathy
http://www.sarnet.org/lib/todaySAR.htm Dr Andrew Wakefield was vilified after
claiming to have identified a combined syndrome of autism and bowel
disease in children who had been given the measles, mumps and rubella
injection.
Government scientists and the Department
of Health dismissed his findings as flawed and insisted the MMR jab was
safe.
Critics claimed that not a single piece
of research by Dr Wakefield and his colleagues had been replicated
elsewhere.
But now experts at New York University
School of Medicine have reported the first independent corroboration of
the findings that first sparked concern.
Dr Arthur Krigsman, a consultant
paediatric gastroenterologisthas observed serious intestinal
inflammation in 43 autistic children.
At a U.S. Congressional hearing on the
safety of MMR last week, he said his patients had inexplicably
deteriorated, losing language and other skills at around 12 to 18
months of age.
All the children had been referred to
him because they also had unexplained digestive problems such as pain,
constipation and diarrhea.
Tests revealed that 90 per cent had the
same inflammatory bowel disease reported by Dr Wakefield in patients he
examined at the Royal Free Hospital in London four years ago.
Dr Krigsman said last night: 'Our
findings, which are independent of Dr Wakefield's, completely support
his explanation and his observations of the abnormalities in the bowels
of these children.
'They mirror exactly what he has
described.' The doctor, an assistant professor at New York University,
said he did not know whether the illnesses were linked to MMR.
But he now plans to examine biopsies
taken from the children for evidence of infection with the measles
virus.
Pathologists at Trinity College, Dublin,
claimed earlier this month they had evidence from similar experiments
on 75 children, identifying measles virus from the MMR vaccine in bowel
tissue samples.
Though this is far from proof that the
jab actually triggered autism or bowel disease, some experts saw it as
significant.
Dr Krigsman said: 'Our concern was to
determine whether there was bowel inflammation in these autistic
children.
'The answer was yes. Now the question
is: "What is causing it?î.'
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