Father: Research needed to explore vaccine-autism connection
April 11th, 2008Dr. Jon S. Poling, the father of Hannah Poling, is a guest columnist on the opinion page of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution today. Dr. Poling, a neurologist and a clinical assistant professor at the Medical College of Georgia, says there is proof his daughter contracted mitochondrial autism from a series of nine vaccines administered when she was 19 months old. As a health professional he does not want to outlaw all vaccines, rather:
Whether we find that mitochondrial autism is rare or common, there is urgent research left to be done to fully understand the interrelationship of vaccines, autism and mitochondria.
Reform of the vaccine schedule will be an important part of the solution, whether vaccines play a major or minor role in autism. Our public health agencies and programs need a reconstruction plan. Day one of the reconstruction hopefully starts at the Vaccine Safety Advisory Committee’s Working Group, to be held at HHS headquarters today in Washington.
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April 11th, 2008 at 5:53 pm
I believe there is an urgent need to face the fact of “mitochondrial autism” and change the vaccination schedule and test for mitchondrial disorders before vaccinating babies. There is also a need to face the fact that there is “paternal age autism” and urge men to father babies in their 20s to very early 30s for less sporadic autism. Then there is autism caused by the mother having had an older father, fragile X and tuberous sclerosis are two manifestions of this. There is familial autism and probably autism caused by toxic/drug exposures of all kinds of the mother and/or father. All these avenues to autism need to be faced. We need to become educated on the variety of ways to autism and make necessary changes to the vaccination requirements and to our lifestyle of waiting to father children in our 30s, 40s, 50s and beyond.