Mercury Study Released Early to Help AAP Bash ABC

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Thursday, January 31, 2008

Mercury Study Released Early to Help AAP Bash ABC

by Barbara Loe Fisher

The AAP leadership is just not going to give up insisting that it is a

very, very good thing to inject mercury into infants and children. They are

going to twist themselves into pretzels trying to defend the indefensible

premise that a known neurotoxin belongs in childhood vaccines, as evidenced

by today's early release of a methodologically questionable " study " by

Pichichero, M.D. purporting to exonerate the mercury-based vaccine

preservative, thimerosal, from any responsibility for children developing

vaccine- associated autism.

http://www.pharmalive.com/News/index.cfm?articleid=510116 & categoryid=40

The study, originally scheduled to be published Feb. 4 in the AAP journal,

Pediatrics, was released " early " in an effort to blunt the impact of

tonight's broadcast of a fictional drama on ABC-TV that highlights the

ordeal of a family whose son developed autism after receiving

mercury-containing vaccines.

http://www.forbes.com/forbeslife/health/feeds/hscout/2008/01/30/hscout612206

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Here is what all the fuss is about (for today at least): Pichichero claims

his study of about 200 babies and children, who were injected with vaccines

containing ethyl mercury (thimerosal), showed that measurable mercury

levels in the blood of the children were gone within 3.7 days. This, says

Pichichero, is much quicker than the average 44 days it takes for methyl

mercury (found in fish) to be undetectable in the blood. Ergo, he says,

exposure to thimerosal does not cause brain damage or autism!

Not so fast, says Thomsas Brubacher, M.D., a scientist who studies the

biological effects of ethyl mercury on primates. " Just because it came out

of the blood doesn't mean it is excreted from the body. It could have gone

to the brain. In primates, you actually get more mercury in the brain after

exposure to ethyl mercury than with methyl mercury - it has an easier time

crossing the blood brain barrier. "

http://www.webmd.com/brain/autism/news/2008

0130/vaccine-mercury-leaves-blood-fast

Now, whether you think that all or part of the autism epidemic has been

caused by children getting too many mercury containing vaccines or whether

you think that a subset of children suffering with autism have been

affected by mercury containing vaccines or you believe mercury containing

vaccines do not play any role at all in the autism epidemic:

MERCURY IN ANY FORM DOES NOT BELONG IN VACCINES OR ANY OTHER PRODUCT

CONSUMED BY HUMANS.

News Flash for the AAP and pediatricians everywhere: there is no mother on

this planet who would, willingly, ask you to inject her baby with mercury.

It does not matter if ethyl mercury has been " proven " or " not proven " to be

the cause of the autism epidemic. It is simple from a parent's perspective:

WHEN IN DOUBT, TAKE IT OUT.

The AAP leadership and doctors inside and outside of government, who have

become apologists for unsafe vaccines and one-size-fits-all vaccine

policies, are dancing like clowns as they threaten freedom of the press and

attempt to cover-up vaccine injuries and deaths not only potentially caused

by thimerosal - but also potentially caused by many other biological

mechanisms involved in vaccine induced brain and immune system dysfunction,

including autism. The dance would be almost comical if their stubborn

defense of mercury in vaccines did not reveal so much more about a cavalier

disregard for scientific truth and human life.

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" The latest chapter in the debate over whether childhood vaccines can cause

autism was written Wednesday with release of a study that showed the

controversial mercury-containing preservative thimerosal is rapidly

excreted from babies' bodies and can't build up to toxic levels..... " Though

it's reassuring to affirm that these immunizations have always been safe,

our findings really have greater implications for world health, " Pichichero

said. " Replacing the thimerosal in vaccines globally would put these

vaccines beyond what the world community could afford for its children. "

The study findings were to be released Monday in the February issue of the

journal Pediatrics. But they were released early by the American Academy of

Pediatrics, which is requesting that the ABC network cancel the premiere

episode of a new show Thursday dealing with the thimerosal-autism

controversy...... Still, at least one vaccine critic worries that

inoculations are making children prone to autism, a developmental disorder

characterized by impaired social interaction, communication problems, and

unusual, repetitive, or severely limited activities and interests. And if

it's not thimerosal, then it must be some other vaccine-related

interaction, said Barbara Loe Fisher, co-founder and president of the

National Vaccine Information Center. " There are many biological mechanisms

involved in vaccine-induced brain and immune system changes that could

quite well lead to autism, " she said. " Mercury doesn't belong in any

product, " Fisher added. " Mercury doesn't belong in vaccines whether it's

proven or not proven that mercury is a problem in vaccines. " - Forbes

(HealthDay News) January 30, 2008

http://www.forbes.com/forbeslife/health/feeds/hscout/2008/01/30/hscout612206

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" One of the few researchers who studies the effects of ethyl mercury is

Burbacher, PhD, professor of environmental and occupational health

sciences and director of the infant primate research lab at the National

Primate Research Center, University of Washington, Seattle. Burbacher's

studies of ethyl mercury and thimerosal in primates are cited by both sides

of the thimerosal debate. Burbacher says that just because ethyl mercury is

gone from an infant's blood soon after it receives a dose of thimerosal --

a half-life of just 3.7 days in the Pichichero study -- doesn't mean it's

gone from the body. " Just because it came out of the blood doesn't mean it

is excreted from the body. It could have gone to the brain, " Burbacher

tells WebMD. " In primates, you actually get more mercury in the brain after

exposure to ethyl mercury than with methyl mercury -- it has an easier time

crossing the blood-brain barrier. " Sallie Bernard is co-founder and

executive director of SafeMinds, an organization that advocates " sensible

action for ending mercury-induced neurological disorders. " Bernard says the

Pichichero study is valuable because it makes it clear that the body

handles ethyl mercury very differently from the way it handles methyl

mercury. " That is why we need real safety studies to look at the effects of

ethyl mercury, " Bernard tells WebMD. " We need not look at blood levels and

excretion times, but at what goes on in the brain and what any ethyl

mercury-induced changes in the brain are doing to children. " -

DeNoon, Web MD (January 30, 2008)

http://www.webmd.com/brain/autism/news/2008

0130/vaccine-mercury-leaves-blood-fast

posted by Barbara Loe Fisher @ 3:57 PM 3 comments

Wednesday, January 30, 2008

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