Monkeys Get Autism-like Reactions to MMR & Other Vaccines In University of Pittsburgh Vaccine Study

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A University of Pittsburgh study showed vaccines altered the behavior in monkeys.

Someone did perform safety studies the U.S. Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) should have mandated be performed and vetted BEFORE
numerous vaccines were released into the public sector for mass
vaccinations.

Lead investigator Laura Hewitson, PhD, probably
dropped a bombshell when she and her colleagues completed a macaque
monkey (primates) study of the very same vaccines given to children
during 1994-1999, i.e., the Measles-Mumps-Rubella (MMR) vaccine and
several Thimerosal mercury-containing vaccines injected into children
during that time frame when the autism spectrum disorder skyrocketed.

The results of that pilot study were published as a Research Paper in Acta Neurobiological Experimentals in
2010 and titled “Influence of pediatric vaccines on amydgala growth and
opioid ligand binding in rhesus macaque infants: A pilot study.” [1]
Even though there was alleged controversy revolving around Hewitson’s
monkey studies, e.g., charges of conflicts of interest since she filed a
claim with the vaccine court on behalf of her child, [2] the
information generated needs to be revisited and duplicate studies need
to be undertaken. Why haven’t they? Is there too much
influence from vaccine makers not to do them? Parents need to make
demands on the U.S. Congress to require such safety studies on monkeys
be duplicated immediately, plus suspend all mandates on vaccinations
until the study results are in. Did Dr Hewitson become another professional persona non-grata because she may have been on the right track?

Congress needs to consider seriously the Hewitson, et al. report that stated:

“Vaccine-exposed and saline-injected control infants [monkeys] underwent
MRI and PET imaging at approximately 4 and 6 months of age,
representing two specific timeframes within the vaccination schedule. …

“These results suggest that maturational changes in amygdala volume and the binding capacity of [11C]DPN in the amygdala was significantly altered in infant macaques receiving the vaccine schedule.” [1]

That alone should be the explicit reason for
duplicating the monkey study with independent non-pharmaceutical
industry conflict of interest scientists.

In this
author’s opinion, no one has bigger conflicts of interest in study
outcomes than the pharmaceutical makers who routinely perform them. Those are the very studies that should be subject to the same criticism as Dr Hewitson’s. Why aren’t they? Good question?

For those keeping track data, ASD went from 1 in
5,000 in the 1990s to the recently acknowledged [March 2012] figures of 1
in 88 along with 1 in 6 children in the USA having developmental
disabilities. These stats were generated for data in the years 2006 to 2008. [3] There’s a 4 to 6 year lag time. Could ASD be 1 in 50 by now at the rate it is escalating?, especially since there’s a heavier push on mandates for vaccinations.

According to the Hewitson, et al. research study, biological changes and altered behaviors did occur in vaccinated monkeys, which resembled and were similar to those observed in ASD diagnosed children. However, there were no such symptoms showing or present in unvaccinated monkeys. Don’t you just gotta love those little monkeys! Guess
what else the ASD monkeys came up with, and Dr Wakefield is gonna like
this one: Gastrointestinal problems manifested in vaccinated macaques
such as “many significant differences in the GI tissue gene expression profiles between vaccinated and unvaccinated animals.” [3] It’s been a deeply debated topic within medicine that vaccinated children who contract ASD also have GI tract issues. Personally, I gotta wonder how the British Medical Journal is going to deal with encrusted dried egg on its face when duplicate studies confirm the Hewitson monkey results. Perhaps the infamous BMJ retraction
of the Wakefield article and Doctor’s professional evisceration,
commonly referred to as the “Wakefield Syndrome,” euphemistically
speaking is medicine protecting its vested interests.

Those little monkeys, however, came up with some
other significant information that led former National Institutes of
Health director Dr Bernadine Healy to voice some bon mots like:

“I think public
health officials have been too quick to dismiss the hypothesis as
‘irrational,’ without sufficient studies of causation…without studying
the population that got sick.”

“I have not seen
major studies that focus on 300 kids who got autistic symptoms within a
period of a few weeks of the vaccines.” [4]

Perhaps the most on-point quote regarding the
monkey study came from Scott Bono, the National Autism Association
chairman, i.e., something those who are accused of being against
vaccinations have been questioning and demanding:

“To date, the CDC
has conducted no safety testing on the possible harmful effects of
simultaneously administering multiple vaccines to infants, and has
steadfastly refused to state a preference for mercury-free vaccines to
be given to children and pregnant women. It’s time for HHS and Congress to step in and take vaccine safety away from the CDC.” [4]

This author’s retort to Mr. Bono’s remark is that vaccine safety should be taken away from the Food and Drug Administration too! I’d like to remind readers that Congress is more at fault than anyone in this vaccine debacle. Congress
has oversight and it has dropped the ball big time, probably due to all
the lobbyists from Big Pharma who prowl the halls of Congress with deep
pockets and nice expensive luncheon dates.

One of the issues I feel Congress has been remiss
about is that it has not demanded safety studies and interaction of
multiple vaccines studies BEFORE being placed into the marketplace. According
to common and accepted knowledge, no such safety research or studies
have been done on the current childhood vaccination regimen, except
until the Hewitson ‘monkey business’ that was funded by independent,
private money, for which everyone, I think, should be eternally
grateful. However, the study had to be shot down since it was not
favorable to vaccine makers. Why isn’t someone else duplicating the monkey studies? Are they afraid of becoming another victim of science? Why,
when isn’t that what medical science should be all about: investigating
problems and theories, publishing results, and interacting with other
sciences, NOT excommunication as if they were breaking some religious
dogma. Or, do they, in some vested interests minds?