Why Don’t the Amish Have Autistic Children?

Why Don’t the Amish Have Autistic Children?



Joseph Mercola, DO
May 4, 2005


Autism is a difficult disorder to miss, as it is characterized by
noticeably abnormal or impaired development in social interaction and
communication and a markedly restricted array of activities and
interests. And while scientific consensus claims autism has been around
for millennia at generally the same prevalence, that prevalence is now
considered to be one in every 166 children born in the United States.


Therefore, with this devastating statistic in mind, one reporter set
out to analyze the autism rates among Amish communities. Why? Because
perhaps searching for autistic Amish children would reveal clues to the
cause of autism … and it did.

The Clues Come Together

Since they have been cut off for hundreds of years from American
culture and scientific progress, the Amish may have had less exposure to
some new factor triggering autism in the rest of population. The
likely culprit: vaccines.
Traveling to the heart of Pennsylvania Dutch country in search of
autistic Amish children, the reporter, based on national statistics,
should have found as many as 200 children with autism in the community —
instead, he found only three, the oldest age 9 or 10:

• The first autistic Amish child was a girl who had been brought
  over from China, adopted by one family only to be given up after
  becoming overwhelmed by her autism, and then re-adopted by an Amish
  Mennonite family. (China, India and Indonesia are among countries
  moving fast to mass-vaccination programs.)
  
• The second autistic Amish child definitely had received a vaccination and developed autism shortly thereafter.
  
• The reporter was unable to determine the vaccination status of the third child.
  

Dangerous Effects of Thimerosal

In some vaccines, they use a mercury-based preservative called
thimerosal that keeps multiple-dose vials from becoming contaminated by
repeated needle sticks. After health officials became concerned about
the amount of mercury infants and children were receiving through
thimerosal-tainted vaccines, the toxin was phased out of U.S. vaccines
starting in 1999.
However, due to mislabeling and other problems, its presence is still
being felt, and more and more children are suffering because of it.

Does anyone out there really need more evidence than this?

Admittedly, this was not a placebo-controlled scientific trial but an
evidence-based fact analysis that, in my mind, provides an irrefutable
link to a lifestyle and, most likely, mercury-containing vaccine
connection to autism.

Folks, you don’t have to be a medical doctor, hold advanced
epidemiology degrees or teach molecular genetics to figure this one out.
You don’t even need a degree in rocket science. How much more obvious
could it be?
The link between autism and vaccines is certainly not a new idea. In
fact, suggestions of this link have been in the national news for at
least six years now. Just last year a study, that reviewed data from the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Vaccine Data Link,
concluded that children who receive thimerosal-containing vaccinations
are 27 times more likely to develop autism than children who do not.


That’s a 2,700 percent increase. The numbers just don’t lie.
Considering how important this issue is for nearly everyone you know,
it might be a good one to forward to your friends and relatives. You
can easily do this by using the E-mail to a friend button in the upper
right hand section of this page, just under the search box. You can make
a larger impact if you write them a personal message in the e-mail as
to why they should seriously consider the advice — and why they may
want to subscribe to the newsletter.

This most recent investigation simply provides the proverbial icing on
the cake. There aren’t too many other places, if any, in America where
you can find large groups of children who haven’t been vaccinated.

The reporter found three children with autism. One child was adopted
and previously vaccinated, another was one of the few Amish children who
were vaccinated, and the third had an unclear vaccine history. That
leaves, at most, potentially one child out of an expected 200 (from
national statistics) with autism. The odds of this being mere
coincidence are slim to none.
At Least Change the Rules Concerning the Hepatitis B Vaccine

Because of their religious beliefs, the Amish community chooses not to
give their children any vaccines. Understandably, many of you may not
choose such a radical approach. However, if you were to focus on just
one vaccine, I would encourage you to look at the issues surrounding the
hepatitis B vaccine.

The multi-dose version of this vaccine, which is typically administered
to newborns before they leave the hospital, still contains thimerosal.
This is reprehensible, irresponsible negligence of the highest
magnitude. The immature central nervous systems of these helpless
newborns are particularly susceptible to toxic insults, and thimerosal,
the mercury-containing preservative used in these vaccines, is one of
the worst.

It would be much easier to understand if the hepatitis B vaccine had
some value, but most natural health experts who study this are convinced
that this is nearly always an absolutely unnecessary vaccine.

There are only about 5,000 people a year who develop the most serious
consequence of hepatitis B infection, liver cancer. That means we are
immunizing tens of millions of infants and causing brain injury that has
caused an epidemic of autism to protect liver cancer in 5,000 adults.
And, many of these adults have serious social problems like IV drug
abuse, alcoholism and poor nutrition that seriously increases their risk
for this disease.

Source:-

http://www.vaccinationcouncil.org/2009/06/02/why-dont-the-amish-have-autistic-children/?utm_source=BlogGlue_network&utm_medium=BlogGlue_Plugin