and so many other conditions.
All the walking, talking and everything he should have been doing – as he had been prior to the jab – had disappeared. When I look at photographs of Angelo taken before he had the jab he looked quite normal, and there was good eye contact. Afterwards, his eyes just had a glazed look about them and all eye contact disappeared. He would have major tantrums, scream and clap hands violently, fixate on the patterns on the wallpaper and play inappropriately with toys.
What’s going on with this boy? I’d wonder. What’s going on in his head? Sometimes when his behaviour got extreme I would become angry with him, then I would get angry with myself because it wasn’t his fault. I just wanted to take away this horrible autism that had taken over my son’s life.
There’s an organisation known as Justice Awareness and Basic Support (JABS), through which parents have collected video evidence of their children prior to and after receiving the MMR vaccinations.
Members of JABS, a self-help group that neither recommends nor advises against vaccinations, has campaigned to sue the British Medical Council. JABS was set up to promoteawareness and understanding about immunisations and to offer basic support to parents whose children have developed problems with their health after receiving vaccinations. The organisation has been battling for justice for vaccine-damaged children and for their rights to receive compensation. I have to say I have some sympathy with it, particularly as its views seem to back up my own doubts about the safety of the triple vaccination.
JABS’ website claims the government accepts that childhood vaccinations could seriously damage a child and that a vaccine-damage payment unit has been set up to evaluate parents’ claims on behalf of their injured children. But, according to JABS, the criteria are so strict that most claims are rejected, a child having to be 80 per cent disabled by vaccine with the onus on the parent to provide proof. After listening to some of the parents at JABS, I’m now convinced the MMR vaccination, at the very least, made Angelo’s condition far worse than it might have been, had he been given the injections separately.
The British Medical Council tells us that autism manifests itself if it’s not very severe when a child reaches 18 months, and that’s when Angelo had his MMR jab – though they would probably insist that’s when he would have shown clearer signs of autism in any case. But, to my mind, it’s all to do with saving money. Why can’t they give the measles, mumps and rubella injections separately as they still do in so many other countries?
The rise in confirmed cases of autism has soared in the UK since awareness and detection of the condition have improved. Is that anything to do with the introduction of the multipleinoculation? I’m convinced the MMR jab pushed Angelo over the edge and into a world of his own.
This argument received high-profile backing when seven medical experts – six of whom were from the Autism Research Centre – monitored 12,000 primary-school children and came to the conclusion that one in 58 of them may be showing signs of the condition. This is a staggering figure that almost doubled the previously believed number – and a figure that two of the experts involved in the study believed may be linked to the MMR jab. The study was conducted over a three-year period between 2001 and 2004. Two of the authors of the report, Dr Fiona Scott and Dr Carol Stott, suggested that the MMR jab could be a factor in this estimate.
Nationally, if the findings of the study are accurate, this could mean that 210,000 children under 16 may have an autistic spectrum disorder, compared with the one in a hundred that had been believed from previous studies.
We have to bear in mind, though, that this research was based on statistics, which is one of the reasons why the leader of the team, Professor Simon Baron-Cohen,
All the walking, talking and everything he should have been doing – as he had been prior to the jab – had disappeared. When I look at photographs of Angelo taken before he had the jab he looked quite normal, and there was good eye contact. Afterwards, his eyes just had a glazed look about them and all eye contact disappeared. He would have major tantrums, scream and clap hands violently, fixate on the patterns on the wallpaper and play inappropriately with toys.
What’s going on with this boy? I’d wonder. What’s going on in his head? Sometimes when his behaviour got extreme I would become angry with him, then I would get angry with myself because it wasn’t his fault. I just wanted to take away this horrible autism that had taken over my son’s life.
There’s an organisation known as Justice Awareness and Basic Support (JABS), through which parents have collected video evidence of their children prior to and after receiving the MMR vaccinations.
Members of JABS, a self-help group that neither recommends nor advises against vaccinations, has campaigned to sue the British Medical Council. JABS was set up to promoteawareness and understanding about immunisations and to offer basic support to parents whose children have developed problems with their health after receiving vaccinations. The organisation has been battling for justice for vaccine-damaged children and for their rights to receive compensation. I have to say I have some sympathy with it, particularly as its views seem to back up my own doubts about the safety of the triple vaccination.
JABS’ website claims the government accepts that childhood vaccinations could seriously damage a child and that a vaccine-damage payment unit has been set up to evaluate parents’ claims on behalf of their injured children. But, according to JABS, the criteria are so strict that most claims are rejected, a child having to be 80 per cent disabled by vaccine with the onus on the parent to provide proof. After listening to some of the parents at JABS, I’m now convinced the MMR vaccination, at the very least, made Angelo’s condition far worse than it might have been, had he been given the injections separately.
The British Medical Council tells us that autism manifests itself if it’s not very severe when a child reaches 18 months, and that’s when Angelo had his MMR jab – though they would probably insist that’s when he would have shown clearer signs of autism in any case. But, to my mind, it’s all to do with saving money. Why can’t they give the measles, mumps and rubella injections separately as they still do in so many other countries?
The rise in confirmed cases of autism has soared in the UK since awareness and detection of the condition have improved. Is that anything to do with the introduction of the multipleinoculation? I’m convinced the MMR jab pushed Angelo over the edge and into a world of his own.
This argument received high-profile backing when seven medical experts – six of whom were from the Autism Research Centre – monitored 12,000 primary-school children and came to the conclusion that one in 58 of them may be showing signs of the condition. This is a staggering figure that almost doubled the previously believed number – and a figure that two of the experts involved in the study believed may be linked to the MMR jab. The study was conducted over a three-year period between 2001 and 2004. Two of the authors of the report, Dr Fiona Scott and Dr Carol Stott, suggested that the MMR jab could be a factor in this estimate.
Nationally, if the findings of the study are accurate, this could mean that 210,000 children under 16 may have an autistic spectrum disorder, compared with the one in a hundred that had been believed from previous studies.
We have to bear in mind, though, that this research was based on statistics, which is one of the reasons why the leader of the team, Professor Simon Baron-Cohen,
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