Autoimmunity

The most important part of this research: Dr. Len Horowitz, author of the best selling book Emerging Viruses, outlines the way vaccines can cause autoimmune diseases. As the ingredients in the vaccine are injected in your body, the foreign cells attached themselves to your own host cell proteins and form what is called and antigenic complex. This is your own protein combined with a foreign virus or bacterial protein that now your body recognizes as foreign.  It mounts an immune response against the entire complex called autoimmune or self-destruct. Depending on where your body stores the antigenic complex is where the damage occurs. For example, if the antigenic complex attaches to the myelin sheath, neurological disorders such as Multiple Sclerosis, Guillan-Barré syndrome, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), will result. Myelin is designed to protect the outer coating of neurons, much like the plastic outer coating over an electrical wire.  When this myelin is damaged, the nerves are short-circuited and do not function normally.

In a paper by Singh, Warren, Odell, Warren and Cole, published in Brain Behavior 1993 March 7(1) 97-103, they investigated the possible pathological relationship between autoimmunity and autism.  They reported antibodies reactive with the myelin basic protein had been found in the sera of autistic children.  Other studies have show autism is a result of a demyelination disorder.  

If the antigenic complex attaches to the Islet of Langerhan, diabetes results. This could be the reason behind autoimmune diseases. After heart disease and cancer, autoimmune diseases have become the third leading cause of illness in the U.S.  According to the AAAI (Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology).   The autoimmune disease Asthma is the most common disorder in children.  Take a look at this study

The occurrence, pathogenesis and significance of autoimmune manifestations after viral vaccines

Ami Schattner

Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, School of Clinical Medicine, Level 5, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 2QQ, UK

Received 2 August 2004; revised 2 February 2005; accepted 4 March 2005. Available online 7 April 2005.
Abstract

Background:

Viruses and virus-induced lymphokines may have an important role in the pathogenesis of autoimmunity (Schattner A. Clin Immunol Immunopathol; 1994). The occurrence and significance of autoimmune manifestations after the administration of viral vaccines remain controversial.Methods:

Medline search of all relevant publications from 1966 through June 2004 with special emphasis on search of each individual autoimmune manifestation and vaccination, as well as specifically searching each viral vaccine for all potential autoimmune syndromes reported. All relevant publications were retrieved and critically analyzed.Results:

The most frequently reported autoimmune manifestations for the various vaccinations, were: hepatitis A virus (HAV) — none; hepatitis B virus (HBV) — rheumatoid arthritis, reactive arthritis, vasculitis, encephalitis, neuropathy, thrombocytopenia; measles, mumps and rubella vaccine (MMR) — acute arthritis or arthralgia, chronic arthritis, thrombocytopenia; influenza — Guillain–Barre syndrome (GBS), vasculitis; polio — GBS; varicella — mainly neurological syndromes. Even these ‘frequent’ associations relate to a relatively small number of patients. Whenever controlled studies of autoimmunity following viral vaccines were undertaken, no evidence of an association was found. Conclusions:

Very few patients may develop some autoimmune diseases following viral vaccination (in particular — arthropathy, vasculitis, neurological dysfunction and thrombocytopenia). For the overwhelming majority of people, vaccines are safe and no evidence linking viral vaccines with type 1 diabetes, multiple sclerosis (MS) or inflammatory bowel disease can be found.

Keywords: Pathogenesis; Viral vaccines; Autoimmune manifestations
 

Wouldn't you hate it if your child was one of the few patients?
 

Asthma has increased 52% between the ages of five and thirty-four years old and sadly, Asthma deaths have increased 42%. Some physicians consider cancer an autoimmune disease. Estimations points to one in three people have some form of cancer. A German study found correlations between vaccinations and twenty-two neurological conditions including Attention Deficit Disorder and epilepsy. They found the viral elements, some from animals, might mutate with unknown consequences perhaps even changing our genetic code.

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