Use of Aborted Human Cell Lines in Vaccines Linked to Rise in Autism

Brian Shilhavy
Health Impact News Editor

Researchers from the Sound Choice Pharmaceutical Institute recently published a study showing a correlation with the introduction of human fetal cell lines used as contaminants in childhood vaccines, and the rapid rise of autism. The study was published in the Journal of Public Health and Epidemiology, an open access Academic Journal.

With current bias in academic journals against anything critical published about vaccines, open access journals are one of the few places to find such research. While not as popular as Plus One, another open access collection of peer-reviewed scholarly research which is frequently indexed by the National Institute of Health’s PubMed system, Academic Journals represents a growing new trend in open access peer-reviewed research. Academic Journals has a 12 year history and publishes 111 open access journals covering art and humanities, engineering, medical science, social sciences, biological sciences, physical sciences and agricultural sciences.

The September issue of the Journal of Public Health and Epidemiology featured the study conducted by researchers at Sound Choice Pharmaceutical Institute: Impact of environmental factors on the prevalence of autistic disorder after 1979.

I reviewed the full length research paper and found the methodology of the research very thorough. The researchers tracked not only the introduction of aborted fetal cell lines introduced into vaccines used in the childhood vaccination scheduled in the United States, but they also tracked standards for autism diagnoses as published in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual. This manual is used in the field of psychology and has undergone several revisions. One of the claims made for the rising rate of autism in America today is that it is primarily related to changes of diagnosis. This study used sophisticated software to account for these changes in autism diagnosis, and found:

Autistic disorder change points years are coincident with introduction of vaccines manufactured using human fetal cell lines, containing fetal and retroviral contaminants, into childhood vaccine regimens. This pattern was repeated in the US, UK, Western Australia and Denmark. Thus, rising autistic disorder prevalence is directly related to vaccines manufactured utilizing human fetal cells. Increased paternal age and DSM revisions were not related to rising autistic disorder prevalence.

Many parents are probably not even aware that many childhood vaccines have these ingredients developed from aborted fetal cells. Here is a list of vaccines that contain fetal cell lines:

Why was this study funded?

Sound Choice Pharmaceutical Institute is not anti-vaccine. They manufacture what they call “ethical versions” of vaccines that do not contain human fetal cell lines, and use animal cell lines instead. Much of their research funding comes from pro-life Catholic Groups. Their website contains information about other products manufactured with human cell lines, such as pharmaceutical drugs and cosmetics.

For presentation by a medical doctor who believes that all vaccines are harmful, whether containing human fetal cell lines or not, see Dr. Suzanne Humphries’ interview: