From: JOHN on
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-kirby/pediatricians-abc-and-ce_b_83472.html

"The Federal Government recently conceded a real vaccine-autism lawsuit in a
real court and will soon pay a real (taxpayer-funded) settlement to a real
American family and a very real child with autism......If I were the AAP, or
ABC for that matter, I would feel downright silly stating that "no
scientific link exists," so soon after the Journal of Child Neurology
published a study titled, "Blood Levels of Mercury Are Related to Diagnosis
of Autism: A Reanalysis of an Important Data Set." I would also worry about
parental reaction to learning that researchers had done due diligence and
reanalyzed data from a prior, hugely influential study that (erroneously)
found zero connection between mercury levels and autism......
Another study, freshly out of Harvard, likewise shows a potential link
between mercury and the autopsied brains of young people with autism. The
American Journal of Biochemistry and Biotechnology reports that a marker for
oxidative stress was 68.9% higher in autistic brain issue than controls (a
statistically significant result), while mercury levels were 68.2% higher.
.....
In the article, "Delay in DPT vaccination is associated with a reduced risk
of childhood asthma," Anita Kozyrskyj, an asthma researcher at the
University of Manitoba, and other scientists combed the medical records of
14,000 children born in Manitoba in 1995 (when many Canadian shots still
contained mercury, by the way). They found that children who received the
DPT (diphtheria, pertussis and tetanus) vaccine at two months of age were
2.63 times more likely to develop asthma (at a rate of 13.9%) than children
who were not given the shot until after four months of age (5.9%)."