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5-year-old develops autism after receiving 18 vaccines in one day

In 2016, David Ihben moved his wife and three children from Chicago to Jamestown, in rural Tennessee, with high hopes for a new and calmer life.

But the dream turned into a nightmare for David and his children in December 2019, when divorce proceedings and a subsequent custody battle resulted in the forced vaccination of the children — and changed the family’s fortunes forever.

Ihben said his ex-wife decided “this wasn’t the life she wanted.” So they were attempting to develop a parenting plan in family court — when Tennessee judge Todd Burnett “pulled up the vaccine issue” after discovering the couple’s children were unvaccinated — and forced the parents to vaccinate their children.

Ihben’s two oldest children — daughter Hannah and son Joseph — were spared significant adverse events following their vaccination.

But his youngest son, Isaac, wasn’t so fortunate. After receiving 18 vaccines in one day, Isaac developed severe regressive autism. Today, he requires around-the-clock care.

The children’s mother soon abandoned the children, leaving Ihben to raise them as a single parent — even though he is still obliged to pay child support.

Ihben shared his story with Children’s Health Defense’s (CHD) Vax-Unvax bus. In a subsequent interview with The Defender, he detailed the challenges he faces in caring for Isaac and the harassment he endured from officials in his community. Ihben shared documentation with The Defender verifying his story.

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It’s Been 10 Years Since a Whistleblower Exposed the CDC’s Cover-up of the Link Between Vaccines and Autism. The Agency Has Done Nothing.

Ten years after a whistleblower at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) leaked data showing the agency identified a link between the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine and autism in African American boys, the agency has done nothing to address the issue.

William Thompson, Ph.D., a CDC senior scientist, on Aug. 27, 2014, issued a statement through his attorney revealing that he and his colleagues at the CDC omitted data from a 2004 article in Pediatrics that “suggested that African American males who received the MMR vaccine before age 36 months were at increased risk for autism.”

“Decisions were made regarding which findings to report after the data were collected, and I believe that the final protocol was not followed,” Thompson wrote.

Since then, the CDC has continued to assert that “studies have shown there is no link between vaccines and ASD,” autism spectrum disorder.

Meanwhile, the agency also reports that autism rates have continued to climb — 1 in 36 children now have autism according to its most recent study.

For the first time since the agency began doing autism prevalence studies in 2000, in 2023 the CDC also reported that autism rates were higher among Black, Hispanic and Asian/Pacific Islander children than among white and biracial children.

Since then, the agency has continued to add more vaccines to its list of recommended childhood immunizations, including the flu, COVID-19 and RSV monoclonal antibody shots.

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It’s not just the MMR vaccine that triggers autism

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a complex neurodevelopmental condition characterised by difficulties in social interaction, communication, and restricted or repetitive behaviours. The exact causes of autism remain unclear, but extensive research points to a combination of genetic and environmental risk factors that influence early brain development. In addition, known triggers of autism are communicated by the mother’s of autistic children, the most common being vaccines.

Genetic Factors in Autism

Whilst twin and family studies have consistently shown that autism has a strong genetic component, it is clearly influenced by environmental factors. A meta-analysis of twin studies estimated the heritability of ASD to be between 64% and 91%, indicating that genetic differences account for a substantial proportion of the likelihood of developing autism. Siblings of individuals with ASD have a 10-20 times higher risk of also being diagnosed compared to the general population .

While ASD is highly heritable, its genetic architecture is complex, involving a combination of rare and common genetic variants [2,3]. Rare mutations, including copy number variants (CNVs) and single nucleotide variants (SNVs), are found in 10-30% of individuals with ASD and often have a large effect size . Common variants, such as single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), individually have small effects but cumulatively can contribute to a significant proportion of ASD risk [2,3]. Genetic studies have implicated hundreds of genes in ASD, many of which are involved in key processes like synaptic function, transcriptional regulation, and chromatin remodelling [2,3]. However, translating these genetic findings into clinical practice remains challenging due to the heterogeneity of ASD genetics and the variable expressivity and penetrance of identified variants .

Environmental Factors

While genes play a major role, environmental factors also contribute to the development of ASD, likely through complex interactions with genetic susceptibility. Several prenatal and perinatal exposures have been associated with increased autism risk, including parental age, air pollution, maternal infections and immune activation, maternal metabolic conditions, pregnancy and birth complications, drugs and medications

Both older maternal and paternal age at conception are linked to higher rates of ASD. A meta-analysis found that mothers over 35 had a 1.5 times higher odds of having a child with ASD compared to mothers aged 25-29 . Advancing paternal age over 40 also confers increased risk, possibly due to the accumulation of de novo mutations in sperm .

Exposure to traffic-related air pollution, particularly particulate matter, during pregnancy and early life has been associated with ASD . A study in California found that children living in areas with the highest levels of traffic-related air pollution were 3 times more likely to be diagnosed with ASD .

Maternal influenza infection, prolonged fever, and autoimmune conditions during pregnancy may increase the likelihood of ASD in offspring, potentially by altering foetal brain development . In the CHARGE study, mothers who reported influenza or fever lasting over one week had a 2-fold increased risk of having a child with ASD. Diabetes, hypertension, and obesity during pregnancy have been linked to elevated autism risk. A study found that mothers with gestational diabetes had a 1.4 times higher chance of having a child with ASD, while pre-pregnancy obesity conferred a 1.6 times greater risk . Preterm birth, low birth weight, and neonatal hypoxia have shown associations with ASD [8,9]. In a study of ex-preterm infants, those who screened positive for ASD had higher rates of low birth weight, neonatal seizures, and brain abnormalities on MRI .

The use of valproic acid, an anticonvulsant and mood stabiliser, during pregnancy has been associated with a 3-5 fold increased risk of ASD in offspring . Prenatal exposure to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) has also been suggested to influence ASD risk, although evidence is mixed . It’s important to note that these exposures show an association, not necessarily a causal link, with ASD. Most children exposed to these risk factors do not develop autism, and conversely, many children with ASD have no known environmental exposures. The timing, duration, and intensity of exposures likely interact with genetic predisposition in complex ways .

Rather than acting in isolation, genetic and environmental factors probably combine to influence ASD risk through gene-environment interactions. Certain environmental exposures may have different effects depending on an individual’s genetic background. For example, some studies suggest that prenatal vitamin supplementation or higher folate intake may reduce ASD risk, but this protective effect may depend on the mother’s and child’s genotype related to folate metabolism . Variants in genes involved in detoxification and immune function could also modify the effects of toxicant and infection exposures .

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Connecticut Officials Vote To Add Female Orgasmic Disorder And Autism As Medical Marijuana Qualifying Conditions

Connecticut is on track to allow access to medical cannabis for the treatment of female orgasmic disorder (FOD) following a decision on Friday by the state Medical Marijuana Program Board of Physicians.

Doctors on the state panel unanimously agreed that cannabis is more likely than not to have a beneficial effect on FOD, which they acknowledged as a debilitating condition. Orgasms in people with FOD are delayed, infrequent or entirely absent.

The body also signed off on a separate proposal to add autism spectrum disorder as a qualifying condition for Connecticut’s medical cannabis program.

The push to add FOD as a condition for marijuana access stems from a petition submitted last year by Suzanne Mulvehill, a clinical sexologist who’s working to expand access to cannabis for people with FOD.

The executive director of the Female Orgasm Research Institute and the related Women’s Cannabis Project, Mulvehill has published research indicating that cannabis use increased orgasm ease and frequency in more than 70 percent of patients with FOD. Her study also found that marijuana improved sexual satisfaction in about two thirds (67 percent) of those with FOD.

Despite the promising results, Mulvehill told the panel, discussing women’s sexual satisfaction still carries stigma.

“We rarely talk about this topic, but I think it’s time,” she said, “because up to 41 percent of women suffer from it, and that statistic has not changed for more than 50 years.”

Referencing drugs for erectile dysfunction, such as Viagra, Mulvehill argued that “there is a solution for men, you know, but there really isn’t one for women.”

“This can be that solution,” she said of medical marijuana.

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Childhood vaccines and autism: Things have got out of control

In January 2019, Full Measure, a weekly Sunday television news programme broadcast to about 43 million households, reported on the link between vaccines and autism.

“A respected pro-vaccine medical expert used by the federal government to debunk the vaccine-autism link, says vaccines can cause autism after all. He claims he told that to government officials long ago, but they kept it secret.

“Meantime, CDC – which promotes vaccines and monitors vaccine safety – never disclosed that the government’s own one-time medical expert concluded vaccines can cause autism – and to this day public health officials deny that’s the case.”

You can read a transcript for the video above on Full Measure’s website HERE.

Last Friday, during an event titled ‘Art of War’ held in Chattanooga, USA, Dr. Peter McCullough gave a speech titled ‘Who is Winning the Information War?’.

Toward the end of his speech, Dr. McCullough spoke about the twin epidemic of autism and gender dysphoria (see video clip below).

“Autism was 1 in 10,000 when I was a kid,” Dr. McCullough said, “it’s now 1 in 36.  It’s the biggest epidemic of childhood in US history.”

He acknowledged there is some increase in the number of cases due to improved screening and detection but there is “a massive bona fide increase.”

“What we know is that it appears to be associated with the expanding childhood vaccine schedule,” he said.  In 1960 a child was given 3 vaccines. Now a child is given 108 vaccines.  In one of the vaccine visits, a child is given 13 vaccines at one time.

“It has been well demonstrated that if a child gets sick with a big round of shots and they have a seizure, there’s about a 40% chance that their brain is injured and they that they develop autism,” Dr. McCullough told the audience. “There are 200 studies now linking excessive vaccination in childhood to autism,” he said.  Adding that other factors also cause autism, so no one knows for sure.

But “things have gotten so out of control on childhood vaccines and autism that World Council for Health are saying: ‘Parents are urged to adopt a common sense. ‘Safer to Wait’ approach’,” he said.

What does that mean?  That means deferring on the childhood vaccine schedule.

“Five studies show children who take no vaccines, none – they’re born healthy, they take no vaccines, they’re healthier than the kids who take the vaccines.  There are lower rates of food allergy … there are lower rates of asthma, allergic dermatitis, need for tympanostomy tubes, lower rates of attention deficit disorder, Asperger disease, lower rates of autism spectrum disorder … massive excessive vaccination is likely harming our children today,” Dr McCullough said.  “50% of all the sudden infant deaths that occur, occur within a week of taking a battery of these shots.”

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Children’s Health Defense Supports the Motion Against U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Alleging Fraud in Omnibus Autism Proceeding

Children’s Health Defense (CHD) Senior Staff Attorney Rolf Hazlehurst filed a motion in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims alleging that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), representing the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), committed fraud in its representation of HHS in the Omnibus Autism Proceeding (OAP) in the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (NVICP).

The OAP was established to consolidate and adjudicate the approximately 5,400 claims filed on behalf of children who regressed into autism following vaccination.

In 2003, Hazlehurst filed a claim in the program on behalf of his son Yates, diagnosed with autism after suffering adverse reactions following routine childhood vaccines. Hazlehurst’s claim was one of six original “test cases” in 2007 that would decide the fate of all the other claims in the OAP.

According to the newly filed motion, the DOJ attorneys engaged in a series of acts of fraud upon the courts, beginning in the NVICP and ultimately impacting the Supreme Court of the United States.

In the NVICP, DOJ attorneys concealed from the special masters and petitioners that the government’s top expert witness, a world-renowned pediatric neurologist, revised his opinion on whether vaccines can cause autism.

The expert explained to the DOJ attorneys that vaccines can cause autism in a subset of children. The witness had been scheduled to testify in the first test case in the OAP.

However, the DOJ abruptly dismissed him as a witness once they learned of his clarification. Without the witness’s knowledge, DOJ attorneys repeatedly misrepresented his prior case-specific written opinion in the OAP to argue there is no scientific basis that vaccines cause autism.

Ultimately, all of the 5,400 OAP claims were dismissed, leaving vaccine-injured children and their families with no recourse.

“The DOJ’s first act of fraud upon the court snowballed into a massive scheme of deception with far-reaching implications. Their fraudulent scheme denied justice to Yates and the thousands of other children in the OAP,” said Hazlehurst.

“By hiding that their own expert’s opinion had changed to favor Yates and other children in the OAP, the DOJ effectively closed the NVICP’s doors to the injured children with similar claims who have followed.”

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COVID-19 Shots Linked To Autism In Vaccinated Rats: Study

A study from Turkey discovered that female rats injected with mRNA COVID-19 vaccines gave birth to offspring exhibiting symptoms of autism and lower neuronal counts in the brain.

The peer-reviewed study, published in the Neurochemical Research journal on Jan. 10, examined the links between COVID-19 mRNA vaccines and neurodevelopmental disorders, with a focus on autism. It analyzed the offspring of pregnant rats injected with Pfizer’s mRNA COVID-19 vaccines during gestation. Researchers found that the vaccines had a “profound impact on key neurodevelopmental pathways,” with the male offspring exhibiting “pronounced autism-like behaviors, characterized by a marked reduction in social interaction and repetitive patterns of behavior.”

“Furthermore, there was a substantial decrease in neuronal counts in critical brain regions, indicating potential neurodegeneration or altered neurodevelopment. Male rats also demonstrated impaired motor performance, evidenced by reduced coordination and agility.”

In the study, female rats were randomly assigned into two groups. Those in Group 1 received an intramuscular saline injection on the thirteenth day of gestation, while rats in Group 2 received Pfizer shots on the same day. There were seven female rats in Group 1 and eight in Group 2, totaling 15 rats.

A total of 41 offspring were born—20 among the saline group and 21 among the vaccinated. The offspring were subjected to multiple behavioral tests 50 days after their birth, with researchers noting down their performances:

  • Open Field Test, which tested for general locomotor activity and anxiety.
  • Novelty-Induced Rearing Behavior, which evaluated the offspring for their exploratory behaviors.
  • Three-chamber Sociability and Social Novelty Test, which assessed the offspring’s sociability.
  • Rotarod Test, which analyzed the offspring’s motor skills and endurance.

Researchers found a “significant difference” between males and females in the vaccine group in terms of motor coordination and balance, with the male offspring exhibiting “more pronounced” impaired abilities.

However, no such sex-based differences in motor coordination and balance were observed in the offspring born from rats administered with saline.

In sociability tests, the male offspring in the vaccine group were seen spending “significantly less time” with rats who were strangers to them compared to the male offspring of the saline group.

This difference did not exist when comparing the vaccine group’s female offspring with the saline group’s female offspring.

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Doctor is stripped of his medical license after selling bogus $15,000 fecal transplants he claimed could treat AUTISM in toddlers

A Canadian doctor has been stripped of his medical licence after conning families out of thousands of dollars for bogus autism cures.

Charlatan Jason Klop charged $15,000 for fecal transplants which involved taking bacteria from the poop of healthy patients and transferring them to autistic children as young as two.

He claimed the treatment – carried out either with pills or enemas – caused ‘dramatic improvements’ in autism symptoms and offered them at clinics in Mexico, Hungary, Australia and Panama.

Klop admitted that his business violated multiple Health Canada rules as well as those standards set by the College of Naturopathic Physicians and will pay a meager $7,500 fine.

A notice by the College of Naturopathic Physicians of British Columbia said Klop was removed from the institution on Wednesday. He will have the right to apply for reinstatement in five years.

As well as admitting to promoting and selling fecal transplants that are not approved for autism, he admitted making ‘unverifiable statements’ in his advertising.

He has claimed to have seen ‘dramatic improvements’ in autism symptoms of young children he has treated at his clinics in Mexico, Hungary, Australia and Panama, for a measly $15,000. 

Klop also claimed to have met donor screening requirements from the Food and Drug Administration and American Gastroenterology Association. But it was later revealed that his lab had no protocols for screening donors or analyzing product, and disposed of fecal waste with household garbage.

Court documents reveal that he had ‘treated’ at least 60 children in this way.  

Fecal transplants are only approved in Canada and the US for the treatment of C.diff – a nasty and recurrent stomach infection. 

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Drinking Tap Water Containing Lithium While Pregnant Could Raise Autism Risk For Children

Pregnant women who drink tap water containing high levels of lithium are more likely to have children with autism, a new study warns. Researchers analyzed data from Denmark and found that mothers-to-be drinking water with the highest lithium levels were almost 50 percent more likely to have autistic children.

The team from UCLA found that the higher the lithium levels in the water supply, the more likely women were to give birth to babies with autism. Study authors warn that lithium levels in water could become more widespread in the near future due to lithium battery use and disposal in landfills — which could lead to an increase in developmental disabilities such as autism.

Researchers say this is one of the first ever studies to identify naturally-occurring lithium in water as a potential risk factor for autism. The team studied data collected from Denmark over 16 years, between 1997 and 2013. They chose to use the Danish data due to the country having the lowest consumption of bottled water in Europe, meaning most of the population drinks tap water.

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Virginia Teacher Reveals The Left’s Next Public School Quest: Convincing Autistic Kids They’re Trans

During a county school board meeting in Arlington, Virginia, on Oct. 13, Carly Hughes, a teacher in Long Branch Elementary School’s Multi-Intervention Program for Students with Autism (MIPA), spoke against Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s proposed public school policies for transgender-identifying students. Her reason? She believes her autistic students “may experience gender queerness more than other students.”

“I did my master’s study in queer inclusion in public schools,” Hughes told the school board. “My study told me that including trans students in all spaces is best practice. It also told me there are trans kids of every age — one I actually worked with in my student teaching. He was in the third grade.” 

Youngkin’s model policies specify that taxpayer-funded public schools cannot facilitate a child’s so-called “transition” without written consent from a parent. Additionally, the guidance prescribes that bathroom and locker room access and sports participation should be based strictly on a student’s sex. These policies are a reversal of previous guidance from former Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam, which asked schools to hide a student’s “gender identity” from his or her parents. 

Hughes herself identifies as a “queer” special education teacher. “I found that autistic students, the population I work with, may experience gender queerness more than other students,” she said. “These students … have helped me learn so much about myself as well.” 

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