i got that ADHD

[SeventhSandwich]

I've found nothing on google so far. HIV is a bloodborne pathogen, so it only enters your body if contaminated blood enters your body.

To reiterate, the reason why the alternative medicine movement has caused the HIV epidemic in Africa to flourish is because they ran a massive anti-vaccine/anti-contraceptive campaign in the 90s that caused several African governments to ban flu vaccines and contraceptives. Furthermore, other than just HIV the sole reason why poliomyelitis even still exists outside of biological weapon research labs is because anti-vaccination activists caused the number of polio vaccinations to dramatically lower in countries like Ghana and Nigeria. Even worse, influenza kills thousands of people every year, but there are billboards in South Phoenix that are spouting nonsense like 'flu vaccines cause autism!'. If you really think this movement hasn't caused substantial damage to thousands of people's lives, you should probably change your google search terms.

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[Harm94]

Well something is causing the rise in ADD, ADHD, and Autism. Is it the increase in background radiation from electronics? Vaccines, medicine, or chemicals? Is it a left over from our ice age ancestors that has always been with us? Could be it evolution or are most of these disorders made up?

Maybe just maybe, science should be used to investigate these things.

[SeventhSandwich]

Well something is causing the rise in ADD, ADHD, and Autism. Is it the increase in background radiation from electronics? Vaccines, medicine, or chemicals? Is it a left over from our ice age ancestors that has always been with us? Could be it evolution or are most of these disorders made up?

This should probably answer your question:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classification_of_mental_disorders


If not, there's a really good video from my favorite youtube user 'C0nC0rdance' about common misconceptions about etiology between vaccines and autism rates:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VW1IEqKuf6s

[SeventhSandwich]

Did you know copper has anti-bacterial properties and animal's like the horseshoe crab have Hemocyanin which contains copper instead of hemoglobin. In their blood is Amebocytes which are like white blood cells, but more amoeba like. Some researchers have taken interest in this animal and harvest its blood.

Lots of things are anti-bacterial in vitro, such as grenades, handguns, and mortar shells. However, it's helpful to perform rigorous animal and human clinical studies before submitting hand grenades to market as antibiotics.

[Bloody Mary]

Well something is causing the rise in ADD, ADHD, and Autism. Is it the increase in background radiation from electronics? Vaccines, medicine, or chemicals? Is it a left over from our ice age ancestors that has always been with us? Could be it evolution or are most of these disorders made up?

Maybe just maybe, science should be used to investigate these things.

The reason autism rates have "risen" is because the autism spectrum used to be nonexistent, and the definition of autism was much stricter; it was reserved for what we now call severe autism and nothing else. These days, there's a large number of possible types, and since more children now fit into the spectrum in one way or another, the "rate" of autism appears to be  increased, but it is nothing more than a change in classification. I think. The same could probably be said for ADD and ADHD, but I have not researched those.

[SeventhSandwich]

The reason autism rates have "risen" is because the autism spectrum used to be nonexistent, and the definition of autism was much stricter; it was reserved for what we now call severe autism and nothing else.

This is the most plausible, logical answer to Harm94's question. What we know for sure though, through large-scale etiological studies of autism rates, is that the most commonly used vaccines are not the cause of autism.