{"id":36022,"date":"2025-10-27T20:07:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T21:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=36022"},"modified":"2025-11-01T08:23:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T08:23:08","slug":"a-west-texas-childrens-clinic-where-vaccine-suspicion-is-encouraged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=36022","title":{"rendered":"A West Texas Children\u2019s Clinic Where Vaccine Suspicion Is Encouraged"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On a warm October day, Victoria Rodriguez tried to soothe her restless daughter as the girl fidgeted on an examining table of a West Texas children\u2019s clinic. Pia Habersang, the registered nurse who runs the clinic, leaned closer. \u201cHow is her speech?\u201d she asked.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe doesn\u2019t talk,\u201d Ms. Rodriguez said, paused and then added, \u201cShe is kind of saying \u2018no\u2019 more.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ms. Rodriguez was insistent that her daughter, diagnosed with autism, needed care from the Pediatric Wellness Center of Amarillo, where parents are greeted with messages professing the side effects of vaccinations and possible connections to autism \u2014 connections that medical experts say have been debunked in several medical studies.<\/p>\n

Dr. Habersang is a registered nurse with a doctorate in child and youth studies from Nova Southeastern University, but is not herself a medical doctor; she runs the center with her husband, who is a physician. She begins her initial medical sessions with new patients\u2019 parents by discussing her concerns about vaccines, the addition of aluminum salts to shots and the rise in autism diagnoses that she insists is connected to vaccination rates.<\/p>\n

If a child has a genetic predisposition to autism, she tells parents, early exposure to a vaccine that contains small amounts of aluminum salts, as well as factors like a diet high in saturated fats and sugar, can accelerate toxicity in the body and worsen the condition.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cIf you look at lists like that, the autism increase, there has to be a reason,\u201d Dr. Habersang said.<\/p>\n

Virtually all immunologists, pediatricians, virologists, microbiologists and other medical experts have rejected her ideas and have hailed vaccines as lifesavers, extending life expectancy, improving childhood health immeasurably and saving millions of people from life-threatening or debilitating diseases like measles, polio and cervical cancer<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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On a warm October day, Victoria Rodriguez tried to soothe her restless daughter as the girl fidgeted on an examining table of a West Texas children\u2019s clinic. Pia Habersang, the registered nurse who runs the clinic, leaned closer. \u201cHow is her speech?\u201d she asked.\u201cShe doesn\u2019t talk,\u201d Ms. Rodriguez said, paused and then added, \u201cShe is kind of saying \u2018no\u2019 more.\u201dMs. Rodriguez was insistent that her daughter, diagnosed with autism, needed care from the Pediatric Wellness Center of Amarillo, where parents are greeted with messages professing the side effects of vaccinations and possible connections to autism \u2014 connections that medical experts say have been debunked in several medical studies.Dr. Habersang is a registered nurse with a doctorate in child and youth studies from Nova Southeastern University, but is not herself a medical doctor; she runs the center with her husband, who is a physician. She begins her initial medical sessions with new patients\u2019 parents by discussing her concerns about vaccines, the addition of aluminum salts to shots and the rise in autism diagnoses that she insists is connected to vaccination rates.If a child has a genetic predisposition to autism, she tells parents, early exposure to a vaccine that contains small amounts of aluminum salts, as well as factors like a diet high in saturated fats and sugar, can accelerate toxicity in the body and worsen the condition.\u201cIf you look at lists like that, the autism increase, there has to be a reason,\u201d Dr. Habersang said.Virtually all immunologists, pediatricians, virologists, microbiologists and other medical experts have rejected her ideas and have hailed vaccines as lifesavers, extending life expectancy, improving childhood health immeasurably and saving millions of people from life-threatening or debilitating diseases like measles, polio and cervical cancer.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36024,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36022"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36025,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36022\/revisions\/36025"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}