Commentary: Mercury no more-Dr. Stoller

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Commentary: Mercury no more

Studies prove that it's a danger; N.M. must ban it in vaccines

By K. Stoller

February 7, 2006

We know mercury is deadly to humans, and we're working to eliminate exposure

to this element. That effort should include removing the mercury-based vaccine

preservative called thimerosal. Six other states have already restricted its

use, including New York and California. Thimerosal has a pathetic history. It

was tested once over 75 years ago by the company that invented it, Eli Lilly

Pharmaceutical. They studied the effect it had on 22 adults dying of meningitis.

The patients were all dead by the end of the experiment, but amazingly,

thimerosal was pronounced " safe " and later grandfathered in after the creation

of the Food and Drug Administration.

In 2004, amid the growing controversy over mercury use in vaccines, the

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention directed the Institute of Medicine to

produce a study clearing thimerosal. They actually ignored all the toxicological

studies showing that thimerosal is a deadly additive in announcing their

findings and used easily flawed and manipulated population studies to " prove " it

is safe when injected into babies.

Thimerosal is the subject of House Bill 271 in the New Mexico Legislature. We

have the chance to remove thimerosal from our children's vaccines. More and more

evidence is linking it to a host of neurological disorders.

Well-credentialed scientists, such as Mady Hornig of Columbia University, Jill

of the University of Arkansas and Boyd Haley of the University of

Kentucky, have produced research that shows that thimerosal has no place in

vaccines.

In 1999, our federal government finally added up all the mercury kids were

getting as the vaccine program expanded the number of recommended immunizations.

They realized the total was over 100 times the Environmental Protection Agency

limit for mercury exposure. They then asked, but didn't mandate, that vaccine

makers eliminate it.

In the face of the lack of federal oversight, shouldn't New Mexico's

Legislature err on the side of caution and vote to protect our children from

mercury?

The vaccine makers were warned seven years ago to stop using thimerosal. It's

time for New Mexico to act.

Stoller is presiden of the International Hyperbaric Medical Association and

medical director of the Hyperbaric Medical Center of New Mexico, in Santa Fe.

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