Subject: Re Autism cluster - EMF concentration?? (guru)(O'Riordain)..
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 071906 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Roy L. Beavers"
To: emfguru
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.........Response from EMF-L........
.....It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.....
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Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 12:17:00 +0100
From: Donal O'Riordain
To: "Roy L. Beavers"
Subject: Re: Autism cluster - EMF concentration?? (guru)
Sorry Roy,
To quote yourself all ills are not caused by EMF, vacines recently
recieved major bad publicity in Ireland.
15 Irish autistic people were tested and 14 were found to have live measles
virus in their stomachs it had long been suspected that the vacine was
causing the autism increase and now ... well the stats speak for
themselves.
There is still a debate to vacinate.
Donal O'Riordain
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> From: Roy L. Beavers
> To: emfguru
> Subject: Autism cluster - EMF concentration?? (guru)
> Date: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 11:23 AM
>
>
> .......The thing that caught my eye in the following news story ...
> is the belief that the rate of autism illness in our society is on
> the increase..... So is the rate of EMF/EMR exposure..... And
> some of the EMF bioeffects appear to be of a nature that the brain
> and nervous system are being affected.....
>
> Of course -- none of the investigators are looking at EMF/EMR
> exposure......??
>
> Cheerio......
>
> Roy Beavers (EMFguru)
> roy@emfguru.com
>
> .....It is better to light a single candle than to curse the
darkness.....
> NEW!!! Website... http://emfguru.com
> ...................People are more important than
profits.................
>
>
> _________________________________________________________________
>
> 10:08 PM ET 04/18/00
>
> Feds: Autism Cluster Found in N.J.
>
> By LINDA A. JOHNSON=
> Associated Press Writer=
>
> BRICK, N.J. (AP) _ A federal investigation of a possible autism
> cluster here found that worried parents who pushed for the study
> were right: The neurodevelopmental disorder is far more common here
> than once thought.
>
> But the investigation stopped short of finding an autism
> cluster, a higher-than-average rate of the disorder in an area.
> Officials said there is not enough data on autism nationwide to say
> that a cluser exists.
>
> The investigation did find that the water was not contaminated.
>
> Still, a father who led the fight for the study said he's not
> convinced that there's no environmental cause for the high number
> of autism cases in Brick or the apparent increase in the disorder
> around the country.
>
> ``I'm slightly disappointed that (the federal experts) aren't
> staying in town long enough to answer the questions in the
> community this is going to provoke,'' said Billy Gallagher, a
> commercial fisherman with two autistic children, Alanna, 9, and
> Austin, 7.
>
> After the most intensive federal study of autism prevalence ever
> conducted, researchers said Tuesday that they found a rate of 4 in
> 1,000 children with autism in Brick and 2.7 in 1,000 with
> autism-like disorders.
>
> The rate is several times higher than past estimates, although
> the true rate of autism is controversial because there has never
> been a nationwide study.
>
> Until the early 1990s, autism was thought to afflict 1 in 2,000
> children. Preliminary data from a just-completed federal study of
> children in the Atlanta area show a rate of 2-3 in 1,000 with
> autism.
>
> ``The major question for me is whether it's just more prevalent
> (than previously thought) or it's on the rise,'' as some parents
> and doctors suspect, said Dr. Eric London, vice president of
> medical affairs at the National Alliance for Autism Research in
> Princeton and a consultant for the investigation.
>
> A poorly understood disorder, autism is thought to occur early
> in pregnancy. In moderate to severe cases, autism makes it
> difficult to communicate or relate to the outside world, and drives
> some to obsessively repeat certain motions, even hurt themselves or
> others.
>
> Data from California, South Florida and other areas have shown a
> sharp increase in recent years in children receiving special
> educational services for autism, and parents in New York's Staten
> Island and other communities have complained of possible autism
> clusters, though no autism cluster has ever been documented.
>
> In 1997, a group of worried Brick parents conducted a survey
> that found a high enough level of autism in this coastal town of
> 71,000 that state health officials and politicians won federal
> funding for a comprehensive investigation.
>
> The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Agency
> for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry began investigating in
> January 1999.
>
> The CDC found 60 children ages 3 to 10 who had autism or
> autism-related disorders, said Jacquelyn Bertrand, a developmental
> psychologist at the CDC.
>
> ``I think this (study) is going to bring more and more attention
> to autism and the fact that it's not a rare disorder, that we need
> more attention to diagnosis,'' so affected children can get
> treatment earlier and reach a higher level of function, said Dr.
> Audrey Mars, an assistant pediatrics professor at the University of
> Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey who examined many of the
> children.
> ___=
> On the Net: CDC report:
> http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/programs/cddh/dd/brick.htm
> National Alliance for Autism Research: http://www.naar.org
>
> _________________________________________________________________
>
>
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