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Rulings on autism-vaccination connection expected

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« on: February 12, 2009, 04:17:34 pm »

A Department of Justice special court will hand down rulings Thursday in cases asking whether certain vaccines cause autism, the lead plaintiffs' attorney told CNN Wednesday.

 A panel of "special masters" will issue decisions on three test cases heard in 2007 involving children with autism that their parents contend was triggered by early childhood vaccination, said attorney Thomas Powers.

The parents seek compensation, saying the "combined" exposure to thimerosal, a mercury-containing preservative, in some vaccines and the MMR vaccine led to autism, he said.

The three families -- the Cedillos, the Hazelhursts and the Snyders -- have been notified of the development, as have the more than 180 lawyers collectively representing the 4,800 families with claims in the Vaccine Court Omnibus Autism Proceeding, Powers said.

At 14, Michelle Cedillo can't speak, wears a diaper and requires round-the-clock monitoring in case she has a seizure. Her parents say their only child was a happy, engaged toddler who responded to her name, said "mommy" and "daddy" and was otherwise normal until at 15 months she received a measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine combined with thimerosal, found in that and other vaccines a the time.

The other two families described similar alterations in their children's development after receiving vaccinations in their first two years of life.

The government argued during the 2007 bench trials that the plaintiffs' claims linking the vaccines with autism are not supported by "good science."

Likewise, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the World Health Organization and the Institute of Medicine have found no credible link between vaccinations and autism.

Powers' litigation steering committee is representing thousands of families that fall into three categories: those that claim MMR vaccines and thimerosal-containing vaccines can combine to cause autism; those who claim thimerosal-containing vaccines alone can cause autism; and those who claim MMR vaccines, without any link to thimerosal, can cause autism.

Thursday's rulings will only affect the families that fall under the first category, Powers said.
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Since 2001, thousands of parents with autistic children have filed petitions seeking compensation with Vaccine Injury Compensation Program at the Department of Health and Humans Services.

By mid-2008, more than 5,300 cases were filed in the program -- 5,000 of those await adjudication, according to the agency.
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/02/11/autism.vaccines/index.html?eref=rss_topstories
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« Reply #1 on: February 12, 2009, 04:44:24 pm »

I have never believed that the MMR vaccination that sp2 received at 15 months was connected to her loss of speech 3 months later.

Although 15 - 18 months was when the first worrying symptoms appeared in hind sight sp2 had many of the less signs well before that e.g. she didn't make eye contact except for a brief period at around 12 months of age, she didn't wave before the age of one and didn't learn to point until she was 3½ years old.

Loss of speech where speech has started to develop at around 15 - 18 months is one of the classic symptoms.
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« Reply #2 on: February 12, 2009, 04:48:54 pm »

I wondered about that SP - and I guess as you had noticed there was perhaps already an issue these parents had felt their kids were having no issues b4 the vaccination.

I doubt this would prove vaccinations are the only cause of autism, even if it does come out in support of the parents.  Maybe its another one of those things where some are more susceptible than others.
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« Reply #3 on: February 12, 2009, 04:57:55 pm »

FIGURE 1: ICD-10 criteria for autism

A. Abnormal or impaired development is evident before the age of 3 years in at least one of the following areas:

1. Receptive or expressive language as used in social communication
2. The development of selective social attachments or of reciprocal social interaction
3. Functional or symbolic play.

B. A total of at least six symptoms from (1), (2), and (3) must be present, with at least two from (1) and at least one from each of (2) and (3):

1. Qualitative abnormalities in reciprocal social interaction are manifest in at least two of the following areas:

a. Failure adequately to use eye-to-eye gaze, facial expression, body posture, and gesture to regulate social interaction
b. Failure to develop (in a manner appropriate to mental age, and despite ample opportunities) peer relationships that involve a mutual sharing of interests, activities, and emotions
c. Lack of socio-economic reciprocity as shown by an impaired or deviant response to other people's emotions; or lack of modulation of behaviour according to social context; or a weak integration of social, emotional, and communicative behaviours
d. Lack of spontaneous seeking to share enjoyment, interests, or achievements with other people (e.g. lack of showing, bringing, or pointing out to other people objects of interest to the individual).

2. Qualitative abnormalities in communication are manifest in at least one of the following areas:

a. Delay in, or total lack of, development of spoken language that is not accompanied by an attempt to compensate through the use of gesture or mime as an alternative mode of communication (often preceded by a lack of communicative babbling)
b. Relative failure to initiate or sustain conversational interchange (at whatever level of language skills is present), in which there is reciprocal responsiveness to the communications of the other person
c. Stereotyped and repetitive use of language or idiosyncratic use of words or phrases
d. Lack of varied spontaneous make-believe or (when young) social imitative play.

3. Restricted, repetitive, and stereotyped patterns of behaviour, interests, and activities are manifest in at least one of the following areas:

a. An encompassing preoccupation with one or more stereotyped, restricted patterns of interest that are abnormal in content or focus; or one or more interests that are abnormal in their intensity and circumscribed nature though not in their content or focus
b. Apparently compulsive adherence to specific, non-functional routines or rituals
c. Stereotyped and repetitive motor mannerisms that involve either hand or finger flapping or twisting, or complex whole body movements
d. Preoccupations with part-objects or non-functional elements of play materials (such as their odour, the feel of their surface, or the noise or vibration that they generate).
 

FIGURE 2: Criteria for Asperger syndrome

A. Qualitative abnormalities in reciprocal social interaction - criteria as for autism. However, lack of social reciprocity is more typically manifest by an eccentric and one-sided social approach to others, rather than social and emotional indifference

B. Restricted, repetitive, and stereotyped patterns of behaviour, interests, and activities - criteria as for autism
However, motor mannerisms, preoccupations with parts of objects, rituals and marked distress at change tend to be less common than in autism. Instead, encompassing preoccupations about a circumscribed topic or interest are characteristic.

C. The disturbance causes clinically significant impairment in social, occupational or other important areas of functioning

D. There is no clinically significant general delay in language (i.e. single words by 2 years; communicative phrases by 3 years

E. There is no significant delay in cognitive development, of age-appropriate self-help skills, adaptive behaviour, and curiosity about the environment

F. Criteria are not met for another specific pervasive developmental disorder or schizophrenia
<a href="http://www.intellectualdisability.info/mental_phys_health/autisticspec_ph.html" target="_blank">http://www.intellectualdisability.info/mental_phys_health/autisticspec_ph.html</a>

Sp2 meets all of the criteria (if only to a mild degree in some instances) in the for autisum not just the six required for diagnosis. She doesn't meet D in the criteria for Asperger Syndrome although if you were meeting her for the first time now you would think that is where she fits.

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« Reply #4 on: February 12, 2009, 05:28:03 pm »

This debate has been around for years. Does the vaccine cause autism, or is it just coincidental that the vaccine is given at the same age that autistic symptoms start to be displayed?
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« Reply #5 on: February 13, 2009, 06:19:03 am »

A special court ruled Thursday that evidence presented in three cases by parents of children with autism did not prove a link between autism and certain early childhood vaccines.

 The ruling came from a panel of "special masters" who began hearing three test cases in 2007 involving children with autism -- a disorder that their parents contend was triggered by the vaccine against measles, mumps and rubella combined with vaccines containing thimerosal, a preservative containing mercury.

Three families -- the Cedillos, the Hazlehursts and the Snyders -- sought compensation from the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, but the panel ruled that they had not presented sufficient evidence to prove that the childhood vaccines caused autism in their children.

"I feel deep sympathy and admiration for the Cedillo family," Special Master George L. Hastings Jr. wrote in his ruling in the case involving 14-year-old Michelle Cedillo, who cannot speak, wears a diaper and requires round-the-clock monitoring in case she has a seizure.

"And I have no doubt that the families of countless other autistic children, families that cope every day with the tremendous challenges of caring for autistic children, are similarly deserving of sympathy and admiration. However, I must decide this case not on sentiment, but by analyzing the evidence," Hastings wrote. "In this case the evidence advanced by the petitioners has fallen far short of demonstrating such a link."
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« Reply #6 on: February 13, 2009, 06:30:22 am »

What confuses the issue is that the symptoms of mercury poisoning are very similar to autisum and the age that speech development (or rather lack of), the most noticeable of the early symptoms, occurs at the same age that most vaccines (including the first dose of MMR) are administered.
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