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posted by martyb on Tuesday September 17 2019, @02:02AM   Printer-friendly
from the No-kidding? dept.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12267795

Danielle Rizzo's son is screaming. He is planted in the middle of the lobby of his elementary school, clinging to rainbow-coloured blocks as she gently explains that she is here - off schedule, in the middle of the day - to take him to a doctor's appointment. But the first-grader is not listening.

"Happy Meal," he repeats over and over again. "Happy Meal!"

His little brother, who is also going to the appointment, is nearby, not moving. Rizzo is relieved that the two of them are not melting down at the same time, which happens all too often, and firmly guides them out the door.

Rizzo's children, ages 7 and 6, were at the center of one of the most ethically complex legal cases in the modern-day fertility industry. Three years ago, while researching treatment options for her sons, Rizzo says she made an extraordinary discovery: The boys are part of an autism cluster involving at least a dozen children scattered across the United States, Canada and Europe, all conceived with sperm from the same donor. Many of the children have secondary diagnoses of ADHD, dyslexia, mood disorders, epilepsy and other developmental and learning disabilities.

The phenomenon is believed to be unprecedented and has attracted the attention of some of the world's foremost experts in the genetics of autism, who have been gathering blood and spit samples from the families.


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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by black6host on Tuesday September 17 2019, @02:08AM (5 children)

    by black6host (3827) on Tuesday September 17 2019, @02:08AM (#894951) Journal

    First I was going to say that Hey! It's not vaccines! Reality kicked me in the face and reminded me that for sure, a vaccine must have screwed up donor H898. : (

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  • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 17 2019, @02:34AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 17 2019, @02:34AM (#894958)

    So that is APK's origin story! He's donor H898! A poet and a scholar wrecked by vaccination.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 17 2019, @03:24AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 17 2019, @03:24AM (#894978)

    No, something the storage media for the sperm is also present in vaccines.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 17 2019, @04:13AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 17 2019, @04:13AM (#894983)

      If you are unable to write correct English, shut the fuck up.

      • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 17 2019, @04:29AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 17 2019, @04:29AM (#894991)

        Trump isn't maternal enough for you.

    • (Score: 2) by Reziac on Wednesday September 18 2019, @03:11AM

      by Reziac (2489) on Wednesday September 18 2019, @03:11AM (#895477) Homepage

      Sperm are fragile. Storage media is basically egg yolk and milk. Anything the least bit toxic kills or disables sperm.

      Also, if it were "something in the media" then every donor should produce similar numbers of defective offspring.

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