The Yazbak comments - (November 2002)

F. Edward Yazbak, MD, FAAP

E-mail: tlautstudy@aol

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I am most grateful to Gary S. Goldman, Ph.D., for his help in refining the hypotheses presented.

I wish to thank Else Jensen of Vaccinationforum for her assistance and support.

Conflict: Grandfather of a beautiful boy with regressive autism, autistic entero-colitis and measles genomic RNA in the gut wall. His regressions at 18 months and 60 months have been clearly documented.