AUTISM: BLAME IT ON THE VACCINE?

Published in Apothecary

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News (Pharmacy

Jan 2009 (Issue 1)

of the research done by scientist originally ran at Environmental Health Issue , a news source published by Environmental Health Sciences,, a nonprofit media company. Environmental pollutants or MMR vaccine, either one should have possibly hit the childrens normal livelihood as much as it concerns with exposure during prenatal period with pollutants may somehow contribute to the higher incidence of autism. MMR vaccine branded as Priorix has undergone various processes during manufacturing to ensure quality. One of them is sterilization process. Single dose vial vaccine should not contain preservative if sterilization is effective. In certain type of vaccines, several processes are added since multiple entries predisposes to microbial contamination that shown to result in a variety of conditions, from local abscesses to septicemia. In 1928, during a diphtheria immunization campaign, staphylococcal contamination of a multidose vial led to the septic deaths of 12 of 42 immunized children. This tragic eventually enforced the use of preservative especially thimerosal as to maintain a safety profile of the vaccine Pharmaceutical community and scientist keep being challenged in nailing down the causes of autism and plan for more innovative mechanism to ensure that all vaccines should not just effective to the children but also safe. Latest report on thimerosal test on Priorix marketed in Canada in year 2007 had shown that it is free of such preservative. However, circulating around of thimerosal - containing vaccines inadequate to accept or to reject them, furthermore it may not have led to conclusion that they are associated with autism. The latest research found that there still lack of this association, since multifactorial factors like environmental pollutant, increase of cumulative dose of vaccines throughout childhood growing years and genetic factor may contribute to increase number of children with autism. Further research also found that it is not just preservative but the life vaccine itself also has potential risk for autism. However, with increase population and widespread of infectious diseases (that code breaking predicts that SARS and Ebola are going to spread around this year) have come to where the vaccination is the most needed.
NORLIZA MAT ARIFFIN CLINICAL PHARMACY COORDINATOR, SELAYANG HOSPITAL, 2009

The world has seen a strong inspirational speaker delivering a speech in front of sea of people. His influential motive towards people regarding health issues was so strong, as Barack Obama delivered inappropriate information about the adverse effect of MMR vaccine which causes a great concern. Although the cause of it is still not found, the increasing trend of autism incidence in some part of North America associated with the MMR vaccine had triggered his thoughts. He made a stand in his one of his campaign brigades that research should be done to investigate it especially the issue of preservative inside it which gives us a global heads-up. Then, there is an issue of environmental pollution caused by dioxin (code breaking through biblical New Testament unfolded the future prediction), which revealed that dioxin was a true culprit in causing autism. Amazingly this is actually consistent with the finding in one