Vaccine Injuries: Documented Adverse Reactions to Vaccines by Lou Conte Tony Lyons

Author:Lou Conte, Tony Lyons
Format: epub
Publisher: Perseus Books, LLC
Published: 2013-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

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HISTORICAL DECISIONS REGARDING ENCEPHALOPATHY MANIFESTING AUTISM

What is autism?

Many people have come to believe that autism is a disease. We see autism represented in the media as a puzzle piece—a mystery, an enigma. We hear about research focused on finding “the autism gene.” Yet the genetic research has yielded little progress.

And, while we hear about autism almost daily in the media, we are all reassured that autism is just believed to be more common because clinicians are better at diagnosing it now than they were in the past.

All of this thinking is flawed.

Children and young adults with autism are more common today than they were in the past because more individuals are suffering brain injuries than in the past. How much of the increase in autism is due to vaccine injury is not known. That question (and answer) is beyond the scope of this book. However, as the reader will soon realize, vaccine injury is one route—by no means the only route—to this behavioral disorder.

Autism is not defined in the medical literature as a disease. It is described by some in medicine as an indication of encephalopathy, a long acknowledged vaccine injury outcome.

Autism is defined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the DSM, as a behavioral disorder. In other words, if you have the behavior deficits described in the DSM—deficits in social-emotional reciprocity, deficits in nonverbal communicative behaviors, or deficits in developing, maintaining, and understanding relationships—it is quite possible that you are on the road to an autism diagnosis. If a person also exhibits “restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior, interests, or activities . . . stereotyped or repetitive motor movements, an insistence on sameness, inflexible adherence to routines, or ritualized patterns,” a clinician is more likely to impart an autism diagnosis.

As the following publicly available case documents will show, the behavioral diagnosis of autism has long been known to occur in the presence of vaccine injuries that result in encephalopathy. While this claim is controversial, the cases speak for themselves.

Kienan Freeman, by his Mother, Rebekah Smothers, Petitioner v. Secretary of Health and Human Services, Respondent

Summary: In this MMR injury case, the special master finds that the child’s seizure disorder and developmental delay (“retardation”) likely were the result of his MMR vaccination. In a footnote it is reported that the child also developed an autism spectrum disorder.

Case No: 01-390V

Date Filed: September 25, 2003

Kienan Freeman, by his Mother, Rebekah Smothers, Petitioner v. Secretary of Health and Human Services, Respondent

Hastings, Special Master

This is an action in which the petitioner seeks an award under the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program on account of an injury to her son, Kienan Freeman. For the reasons stated below, I conclude that petitioner is entitled to such an award, in an amount yet to be determined.

Kienan Freeman was born on March 21, 1998. For the first 16 months of life, although he experienced a number of ear infections, Kienan seemed to develop normally and experience generally good health.

On July 30, 1999, at the age of 16 months, Kienan received a measles-mumps-rubella (“MMR”) inoculation.

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