| Have you noticed those Ad Council public service | | | | DTP, in three to four doses during the first year |
| announcements on TV lately...the ones about | | | | and a half of their fragile lives, and the vaccines |
| autism? While many aspects of the campaign | | | | are usually administered simultaneously (multiple |
| seem disconcerting (we'll get to that in a | | | | mercury-containing vaccines on the same day). |
| moment), its numbers are accurate: one child out | | | | It makes one wonder, at what point does a child's |
| of every 166 is now diagnosed with autism, up | | | | immunity reach a saturation point for toxic |
| from 1 in 10,000 just 13 years ago. | | | | chemicals in the body? The body will try to |
| With stats like that screaming at us, even parents | | | | process mercury. When it can't get rid of the |
| with normal, healthy children, like myself, wonder | | | | excess, it travels to the brain where it clings to |
| what this unprecedented spike in cases means, | | | | tissue in the cerebellum (the part of the brain |
| and why it is happening. | | | | affecting movement and balance), and in other |
| However, parents of autistic children started | | | | parts of the brain that control emotional |
| asking tough questions years ago. | | | | processing and the sorting and storage of |
| A visit to the Centers for Disease Control's | | | | information. |
| website to look for answers to those tough | | | | The vaccine/autism theory gains even more |
| questions doesn't yield much help. | | | | credence when the disease characteristics for |
| Moreover, the site's FAQ page for autism seems | | | | both autism and mercury poisoning are compared: |
| to dodge and duck those questions instead of | | | | sound and touch-sensitivity, inability or difficulty |
| answering them. What is unsettling is that the | | | | understanding abstract ideas and symbols, |
| CDC appears wishy-washy on the subject of | | | | clumsiness, rocking back and forth, speech and |
| increasing cases, and practically denies that the | | | | hearing problems, self-injury, social isolation, |
| surge in autism cases has anything at all to do | | | | gastrointestinal problems...you get the idea. |
| with vaccines. | | | | Removing The Mercury, Reversing Autism? |
| And who is collaborating with the Ad Council on | | | | Many doctors who treat autistic children seem to |
| the above-mentioned PSA project, called "Autism | | | | be aware of the mercury/heavy metal issue in |
| Speaks"? Why, it's none other than their friendly, | | | | relation to the disease. This is why chelators, |
| government big-brother, the CDC. | | | | substances that remove heavy metals, have |
| How ironic, given the proverbial duct tape that | | | | become a popular alternative treatment; albeit |
| seems to being placed over the mouths of the | | | | one that is gaining wide-stream acceptance as |
| concerned. | | | | well. |
| Yates' Story | | | | Recently, a different kind of chelator was |
| I picked up a local paper, The Jackson Sun, a | | | | patented, called liquid zeolite. A study is currently |
| couple of Sundays ago, and read about the | | | | being conducted using the liquid mineral, and |
| Hazelhurst family. The oldest of the couples' two | | | | remarkable anecdotal results have been recorded. |
| children, seven-year-old Yates, was diagnosed | | | | Zeolites could be called "super-chelators", in that |
| with autism shortly after his first birthday. | | | | they are extremely efficient in removing heavy |
| The Hazlehursts have filed a lawsuit, alleging that | | | | metals from the body. Zeolite is formed when |
| the vaccinations Yates received after his first | | | | lava meets ocean water, and it has been used in |
| year of life caused a gastrointestinal condition and | | | | Asia for hundreds of years as a treatment for |
| his autism, according to the Sun. The U.S. Court | | | | overall good health. The unique honey-comb shape |
| of Federal Claims in Charlotte, N.C. agreed to hear | | | | of the mineral traps toxins and other wastes |
| the family's claim, which was also filed on behalf | | | | from the body and safely removes them, without |
| of 5000 other families. | | | | stripping the body of vital nutrients and minerals. |
| The Hazelhursts were fortunate that Yates' | | | | Lucas' Story |
| father, Rolf (who is an attorney), documented the | | | | In one testimonial, available to read online, a little |
| first year of Yates' life with new-dad fervor. The | | | | boy named Lucas recovers completely from |
| "proud papa" videos made excellent fodder for | | | | autism. |
| the family's case. That video documentation made | | | | Lucas' family had spent $300,000 over three |
| the Hazelhursts the ideal to family to represent | | | | years, and he improved somewhat, having |
| the other plaintiffs in the lawsuit. | | | | progressed from extremely severe autism to |
| Videos of Yates' infancy show a healthy, | | | | mild autism. But after seven weeks on liquid |
| brighter-than-average baby. He made eye contact. | | | | zeolite at 45 drops per day (5 drops, 9 times per |
| He said several words like "please" and "thank | | | | day), combined with several complementary |
| you" before age one, and was videoed jabbering | | | | treatments, most of Lucas's autism symptoms |
| into a pretend phone while riding in the back of his | | | | just vanished. (The full report can be read at |
| cousins' toy car. | | | | zeolitesource dot com.) |
| Yates changed drastically, however, immediately | | | | Lucas' pediatrician and the general traditional |
| after receiving the MMR, Hib, Hepatitis B and | | | | medical establishment had ignored the fact that |
| Prevnar vaccination in February 2001. | | | | he had over six times the toxic level of mercury |
| His mother, Angela, says in the Sun interview, | | | | in his system. And that same pediatrician called |
| ""Three days past his vaccine, at his birthday, he's | | | | Lucas' parents "bleeping morons" for implying that |
| dazed," Angela said. "Twelve days after, he had a | | | | his toxicity levels had any connection to his |
| red, bumpy rash. We didn't recognize it as a | | | | autism. |
| reaction. A month after that, in the bathtub, I'm | | | | At last report, Lucas was a normal, healthy little |
| saying, 'Yates, Yates' and he won't look at us | | | | boy with no signs of autism. |
| anymore." | | | | Why Isn't More Being Done? |
| Yates was diagnosed with autism. | | | | The name, by the way, of the CDC's "autism |
| On the flip-side, Angela Hazelhurst, Yates' mom, | | | | awareness" program is "Learn The Signs; Act |
| said she wanted to clarify her stance on vaccines: | | | | Early". What kind of lame, contrite slogan is that? |
| "I'm not a mom who's against all vaccinations....but | | | | Any parent with more than noodles for brains |
| the rise in autism cases has parents worried | | | | would know when something is wrong with their |
| about what to do," she said. | | | | child, and they'd act upon it immediately. The |
| Do Our Kids Have Mercury Poisoning? | | | | CDC's program almost seems to imply that |
| According to the Florida-based watchdog group | | | | citizens need the government to tell us what is |
| K.N.O.W. Vaccines, the mercury-containing MMR | | | | happening to our kids, and not to worry because |
| was added to the vaccine schedule in the late | | | | they're doing something about it. |
| '70s. In 1988, the mercury-containing HIB vaccine | | | | As long as the CDC refuses to see the link |
| was added. Mercury-containing Hepatitis B for | | | | between autism and vaccines, sugar-coated public |
| newborns was added in the early 1990s. Children | | | | service announcements will do no good. |
| receive all these vaccines, plus mercury-containing | | | | |