Originally published January 9 2006
Chicago healthcare authority says his practice has never cared for an autistic child who wasn't vaccinated
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Dr. Mayer Eisenstein, founder and current director of Homefirst Health Services, discusses his belief that vaccines are the major contributor to the rise in autism, a belief that several studies in recent years have supported with a growing body of evidence.
It's a far piece from the horse-and-buggies of Lancaster County, Pa., to the cars and freeways of Cook County, Ill.
But thousands of children cared for by Homefirst Health Services in metropolitan Chicago have at least two things in common with thousands of Amish children in rural Lancaster: They have never been vaccinated.
The few autistic children Homefirst sees were vaccinated before their families became patients, Eisenstein said.
No one knows what causes autism, but federal health authorities say it isn't childhood immunizations.
Some parents and a small minority of doctors and scientists, however, assert vaccines are responsible.
Several of the vaccines -- HepB included -- contained a mercury-based preservative that has since been phased out of most childhood vaccines in the United States.
"Because of that, we tend to attract families that have questions about that issue," said Dr. Paul Schattauer, who has been with Homefirst for 20 years and treats "at least" 100 children a week.
They tend to be better educated, follow healthier diets and breast-feed their children much longer than the norm -- half of Homefirst's mothers are still breast-feeding at two years.
An office manager who has been with Homefirst for 17 years said she is aware of only one case of severe asthma in an unvaccinated child.
His daughter has been home-schooled, he describes himself as a "Christian family physician," and he knows many of the leaders in the home-school movement.
In that subset, he said, "unless they were massively exposed to mercury through lots of amalgams (mercury dental fillings in the mother) and/or big-time fish eating, I've not had a single case."
this year, next year and for many years to come ...
and that will have to be with thimerosal-containing vaccines," said John Clements of the World Health Organization at a June 2000 meeting called by the CDC.
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