mom's letter to FDA, HHS, AMA, White House

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From: XXXX XXXXX
Date: Fri Aug 3, 2001 3:28 pm
Subject: mom's letter to FDA, HHS, AMA, White House

I sent this to the FDA after receiving an outrageous reply from them to my first letter. It hit the desk of the Sec. of Health and Human Services. I understand it has also gone to the CDC. I also copied it to senators, congressmen, the AMA, and the White House. After receiving it, the Center for Biologics suggested I attend the IOM, which I did. Maybe some of you can send similar letters....

Center for Biologics
Evaluation and Research
1401 Rockville Pike
Rockville, MD 20852-1448

Dear -----
Thank you for your letter of April 23 regarding Thimerosal and my grave concerns that is has very possibly caused irreparable brain damage in my
son Wesley, who is now 5 and was diagnosed with autism at 2 ¼. His diagnosis has since been changed to multiple metal toxicity, with mercury being measured at 5 times the standard reference range for this known neurotoxin.

Let me repeat: my son’s mercury toxicity is not environmental. Were it,my husband, myself, and my seven-year-old should all be affected, as we
live in the same environment, share the same spaces, even in terms of buildings frequented, drink the same water, and eat the same food. My son received debilitating doses of mercury not from the environment, but from government approved and required pediatric vaccines containing "Thimerosal".

You seek well-constructed clinical trials to investigate this "hypothesis": they already are underway and in their second round. Fortunately, Dr. Megson is conducting these trials a mere two hours south of your location, in Richmond, Virginia. I suggest that your professional responsibilities make it incumbent upon you to contact Dr. Mary Megson at the Pediatric and Adolescent Ability Center with haste. Dr. Amy Holmes, who practices in Baton Rouge, currently has 500 patients undergoing chelation therapy as an effective and appropriate treatment for autism/mercury toxicity. I’ve also enclosed a recently published article by Dr. Stephanie Cave. Do you consider this tremendous research to be anecdotal?

Were Dr. Megson, my son’s treating physician, mistaken in her assumptions as to the causes and triggers of autism, how is it that many children walk into her office mute, and leave demonstrating not only the ability to speak but also to read after an initial administration of Bethanechol?

How do you discount the fact that 75% of the children in these trials have at least one parent with the defect for stationary night blindness? How many children have been thrown-away who are treatable and suffering viral injuries and/or metal toxicity from vaccinations? Dr. Megson and her colleagues are successfully unraveling a terrifying medical mystery to which you can only respond with the utmost urgency.

You suggest there is a ten-fold safety factor built into EPA standards for exposure to mercury. How misguided that we have violated those very
standards 30 to 100-fold with our newborn infants. My Masters Degree is in divinity, and yet I can see the folly of injecting such a large amount of neurotoxin into children who have not developed fully formed blood-brain barriers. It is a fact that a certain percentage of the population is mercury sensitive. Shall we just write this percentage of children off in the face of an unsound and antiquated medical practice that has the favor of the pharmaceutical industry? There have never been adequate safety tests on ethyl-mercury, which is more toxic than methyl mercury. If you delve into medical literature of the early 1900’s, you will note the children’s plague called pink disease. It was occasioned by mercury in infant teething powders, and resulted in a condition that looked in nearly every way like today’s autism. Why did we not learn then?

While you mention in your letter exposure in-utero of the fetus to toxic materials as a possible contributory factor to autism, you never acknowledged in your letter that the Rho-Gam injection is also laden with Thimerosal. The poisoning of my son began even before his birth. Whom shall I hold responsible for this?

I am dissatisfied with your suggestion that vaccines are safe because manufacturers are now reducing the Thimerosal component, as you fail to
mention the large stores of vaccines containing 12.5 or more micrograms of mercury per dose still on doctor’s shelves and in pharmaceutical warehouses. I understand there may be supplies of these tainted vaccines ample enough for some years yet to come. Am I to sit quietly by while yet more children around the world are devastated as mine has been? I may never reclaim my son’s health completely, but I can do all in my power, and I will, to prevent the continuing and unethical sacrifice of a precious and significant minority of our children.

Until vaccines with 12.5 or more micrograms of ethyl mercury are proven to be safe, I demand their immediate and urgent recall. Children diagnosed with autism, across the nation, are now being treated for and documented with excessive exposure to mercury, received even at the hands of their own pediatricians. Should the government continue to fail in responding to this crisis with the appropriate urgency, the obvious result will be end of any public faith and confidence in the vaccination policies of this nation. Certainly you are aware that several class action lawsuits are already under way: is this truly the best way for the American public to first hear of this likelihood?

Thimerosal in large quantities is an unnecessary component of childhood immunizations, and there are now ample reserves of Thimerosal-free
vaccines. Would it not be better to be the first to sound the alarm rather than the last to practice denial? Recall these unsafe vaccines. As one trained in ethics, and specifically in medical ethics, I challenge you to resist institutional inertia, and rapidly study the science that has already been worked out by Dr. Megson, Dr. Wakefield, Dr. McGinnis, Dr. Holmes and Dr. Cave. I find it deplorable that the American public must warn the American government that it is poisoning our children; is your mission statement not to protect the public health?

You suggest my evidence is "anecdotal." As the mother of a child who wasborn healthy, and developed normally until his first birthday, and who now faces a future of disability and dependency, I would call my evidence first-hand and iron-clad, especially in light of consultations with Dr. Mary N. Megson and Dr. Woody McGinnis. Would you like copies of the numerous chelation reports demonstrating mercury in my son’s urine?

First-hand, I have watched my child sickened by, and then healed, at least partially, from mercury toxicity. One thing you need never doubt: a mother’s knowledge of her child’s catastrophic illness.

The only ones I pity more than these children devastated in infancy are those on whose watch this indescribable tragedy has occurred.

Yours Sincerely,
Lisa

Once upon a time, there was a village that grew up on the bank of a river. It was a beautiful place. The people who lived in this village had good hearts and intentions.

One day, a woman from the village was walking by the river, when to her terror, she noticed an infant there. Unable to swim, it was struggling for its life. She dove into the river, and pulled the child out. It survived.

She told her village of this strange event, and so the next day, several others when walking with the woman along the river bank. To their amazement, there were again, not one, but now several, babies in the river. They all dove in, and rescued the infants. All the children survived but one.

The next day was like the one before, but this time there were twenty infants awash in the waters of the river. The people of the village organized themselves methodically. Some learned life-saving. Some, mouth-to-mouth breathing. Others prayed for those infants who could not be saved.

Most of the children lived, though not as they had before. Some limped. Others retreated from the world where they had known such fear. A few
were buried.

Many came to marvel at the village and what the people of the village had done to pull the children daily out of the water. How noble. How courageous. The people of the village were justifiably proud of all the lives they had saved.

Then, one day a stranger came to the village, a stranger who looked at things strangely. This stranger was shown about the town, and he witnessed the rescue of countless children. He remained oddly silent, gave very few compliments, and finally demanded to see the mayor of the village.

Stunned, the townspeople took him to the mayor.

"Why," asked the stranger, "…has no one gone upstream to find out how it is that these children are drowning in the water?"

All the people of the village looked at one another. The stranger led a troupe of people from the village up the river. It was an arduous journey, and tested their strength in every way. But having traversed the difficult terrain upstream, they discovered a terrifying sight. A madman throwing babies in the water.

The stranger looked at the people from the village and asked, "Which is noble and courageous and right? To pull children from the river, or to
stop the one whose practice it is to throw them in?"

The madman was led away, and the people of the village no longer needed to dive into the river to save children from drowning, for it never happened again.