"Could autism be another version of a PANDAS-like disease?
It’s possible, in some people. There is probably a group of people who have a genetic component to autism, and for them, there may not be much of a trigger or any trigger at all required. Another group is genetically predisposed, and if they encounter some factor or factors, individually or in combination, it could result in either the onset or the aggravation of the neurodevelopmental disorder; by factors, I include everything from heavy metals to infection. And lastly, there is a group that may be relatively or entirely normal but is exposed prenatally to some factor or factors that have an effect on their nervous system and that manifests as autism. This is the hypothesis, at least."
From Ian Lipkin, quoted earlier in this thread.
So as we can see that in some cases ME can immediately follow a vaccination (as an adverse reaction.)
These ME cases must be being reported to the vaccine manufacturers as mechanisms are set up to trace adverse reactions of this kind. So the pharmaceutical companies will be aware of this link.
If the articles on ASIA are correct, in some susceptible groups, adjuvants can also result in an immune dysfunction that can be triggered at a later stage, so some disease reactions would be delayed.
Could this be sensitising the population to respond with an ME like illness years later, perhaps, when exposed to a later immune challenge, such as an infection?
Could this account for the apparent rise in ME in the population since the eighties?
And the shift from ME being predominantly a disease of adults, into a younger age group - as we can see that children are now frequent sufferers from ME could reflect the practice of early childhood vacination.
If this is so, ME could also be an autoimmune neuropsychiatric disease.
And Dr Lipkin is particularly interested in these diseases, we know.
I think this disease connection has been suspected or known about for years, and has been ignored or covered up to avoid liability.
