APPENDIX I
DEGENERATION OF
OLIVER THROWER
INTO AUTISM
FOLLOWING VACCINATIONS
395. It is emphasised that the following
is offered as an example, not as a specific case to be investigated
by the Committee.
396. Oliver Thrower was born on 12 April
1987. For his first 14 months, apart from ear infections and a
virus at age seven months, he was perfectly healthy. He had his
monovalent measles vaccine on 7 June 1988, at 14 months. At about
15 months, his parents noticed with concern that all development
had stopped.
397. Oliver's loss of development and regression
appeared to follow a gradual course of degeneration in the following
weeks. All language development ceased at the same time. Creative
play ceased. Oliver was at 16 months unable to undertake many
of the tasks and actions that he had been able to do at 13 months.
His attention span broke down so that he would concentrate on
one activity for very little time, usually barely more than a
minute, or even less. He lost eye contact, would appear to be
in a "world of his own" for much of the time.
398. By 1991, at age three, his development
was still severely delayed. Little or no improvement in development
had taken place since his degeneration following immunisation
in 1988.
399. His MMR vaccination was on 16 April
1991, at age four years. Although already severely developmentally
delayed, his subsequent progress was halted completely, and, in
relation to his age, regressed even further:
— a reduction in his already limited
repertoire of activities;
— markedly greater destructiveness;
— his behaviour became markedly more
routinised;
— increased screaming and screeching;
— he would frequently bite us hard
and scratch our faces;
— he would pull our hair, and would
attack other children;
— his toilet behaviour worsened markedly,
with increased soiling out of the house being accompanied by ingestion
of faeces, smearing and irregularity of bowel movement.
400. Oliver's physical symptoms following
MMR were:
— excessive sweating, especially at
night;
— intermittent diarrhoea and constipation
(cycle);
— unawareness/lack of eye contact;
— acute sleeping problems;
— red cheeks and very bright hot ears
after eating;
— dark rings under the eyes;
— enlarged pupils at certain times
after eating.
401. Oliver's worsened condition remained
through the years beyond 1991, and continue up to the present
day. He has shown no remission. He continues to experience his
severe problems, such as a total lack of speech, poor self-help
skills (cannot dress himself, feeds messily, spills drink and
food, only limited ability to play with pre-school toys, etc),
almost total lack of toileting skills including smearing and ingestion
of faeces, and hyperactivity including jumping, running about,
screetching, and other intermittent behavioural difficulties.
His autism and his multiple food hypersensitivities are clearly
interconnected.
402. We are convinced that he was a normal
healthy child up to the age of about 14 months, when we believe
he was very severely damaged by monovalent measles vaccine. We
are also convinced that he was severely damaged a second time
at age four by MMR. We have since refused all vaccination.
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