Guest guest Posted November 18, 2006 Report Share Posted November 18, 2006 I wish the world could see you as I see you Wish they knew the joys you've brought to me So many people quick to judge us and see you as someone who shouldnt be They tell me that your life is not worth living if they were I, they would have never let you live They cannot know the thing it is that we know They will never know how much you have to give They talk a lot of sacrifice and burden They imagine that your being is our loss How can they know you saved me when you found me when I never even knew that I was lost. True enough, my world has changed forever nothing in it is as it was so long ago Your entry in our world has changed so many things but none so much as they have changed my soul. Why do we live our lives at all then if there is some race that we must finish first Why do we deny ourselves it all then we drown so that we may quench our thirst You taught me to stop and smell the tulips they are different than the roses, this is true their scent is in my every pore now I never would have known them without you To all the many people who would not choose you who think your life is somehow tragedy I say you have outlived them and outloved them I am grateful God chose you just for me You love your life and everyone thats in it you shine your light without knowing that you do Illuminate the darkness with your sparkle my child, my love, my life, thank God for you. Info on Flu Shots(long) I got this info from the Down syndrome Exchange egroup. (very informative egroup. If you are not a member, you should join!) This is 3 messages in a thread concerning Flu Shots. Since this has been a recent discussion, I thought you may want to read more on it. Kristy Most Americans Surprised, Concerned that 90 Percent of Flu Shots Contain the Toxin Mercury Health Officials' Aggressive Flu Shot Campaign May Disregard Safety, According to Survey of 9,000 Americans 74 Percent of Respondents Unaware Flu Shots Contain Mercury, 78 Percent Disagree with CDC About Vaccinating Pregnant Women and Children PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- As health officials step up their effort to vaccinate Americans against the flu, a new survey suggests serious concerns over the toxin mercury, an ingredient in over 90 percent of this season's flu shot supply. PutChildrenFirst. org, a parent-led organization advocating vaccine safety, commissioned a survey of over 9,000 Americans to learn their plans for getting flu shots, their knowledge of its ingredients, and who they hold responsible for making sure vaccines are safe. The survey revealed that the overwhelming majority of Americans were unaware that most flu shots contain mercury and that they would refuse a shot with mercury. (See page two for the key findings.) " More than 75 percent of Americans feel a mercury-containing flu shot should not be given to a pregnant woman or a child, despite recommendations from medical authorities to do just that, " said Handley, a founding parent of PutChildrenFirst. org. Her own son, Jamison, had an adverse reaction to a flu shot containing mercury in 2003. " I know firsthand how life-changing a flu shot with mercury can be, since our son began his regression into autism after his flu shot. " In 1999, government agencies called for the removal of Thimerosal, the mercury-based preservative in most vaccines. Then, in 2001, the American Academy of Pediatrics stated that, " mercury in all of its forms is toxic to the fetus and children, and efforts should be made to reduce exposure to the extent possible to pregnant women and children as well as the general population. " Despite these actions, 90 percent of this season's flu vaccines still contain Thimerosal, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are recommending the vaccine for pregnant women and children six months and older. These recommendations come on the heels of recent studies that reveal new findings about the neurological effects of mercury and question the effectiveness of flu shots. Mercury, the second most toxic element after plutonium, is estimated to be 500 to 1,000 times more toxic than lead. " A common myth is that Thimerosal is added to vaccines in 'trace' amounts, " said Mike Wagnitz, who has over 20 years experience evaluating materials for mercury and is employed as a senior chemist with the University of Wisconsin. " The concentration of mercury in a multi-dose flu vaccine vial is 50,000 parts per billion. To put this in perspective, drinking water cannot exceed 2 parts per billion of mercury, and waste is considered hazardous if it has only 200 parts per billion. Is it really safe then to inject pregnant women, newborns, and infants with levels of mercury 250 times higher than what is legally classified as hazardous waste? " Agreeing that mercury has no place in vaccines, seven states have passed Thimerosal bans in recent years: California, Delaware, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, New York, and Washington. California is the first to have implemented the ban for the current flu season, but Governor Schwarzenegger temporarily overturned the ban on November 2 after a shortage of mercury-free flu shots led to pressure from state medical groups. " Parents need to be informed about all aspects of their children's healthcare, including vaccines, " said Deirdre Imus, President and founder of The Deirdre Imus Environmental Center for Pediatric Oncology at Hackensack University Medical Center and co-founder and co-director, with husband Don Imus, of The Imus Cattle Ranch for Kids with Cancer. " It doesn't make common sense to inject Thimerosal, a known neurotoxin, into the bloodstream of our babies. " This fall, two studies were published in leading medical journals admitting that limited data exists to support the effectiveness of flu shots. One study, in the Journal of the American Medical Association, noted that, " there is scant data on the efficacy and effectiveness of influenza vaccine in young children. " " So, not only is the flu shot's effectiveness in doubt, there is plenty of evidence revealing the devastating effects of mercury, " said J.B. Handley, 's husband and a founder of PutChildrenFirst. org. " Our health authorities are not being forthcoming about mercury's presence in shots and its toxicity to the nervous system. Our children deserve better. " " With everything we know about the dangers of mercury and the havoc it can wreak on young, developing brains, there is no excuse for any vaccine to contain mercury, " said Lyn Redwood, RN, MSN, President of SafeMinds, a nonprofit committed to ending mercury-induced neurological disorders. " The survey reveals that Americans are overwhelmingly in the dark about what is in most flu shots. They do not want a known neurotoxin injected into their children, and they believe Congress and medical professionals must be more vigilant about keeping vaccines safe and mercury-free. " Key findings from the poll, conducted October 27-30 by Zogby International, include: * 74 percent of respondents are unaware that most flu shots contain mercury. * After learning that mercury is an ingredient, 74 percent are less likely to get a flu shot and 86 percent of parents say they are less likely to get their child a flu shot. * 78 percent of respondents believe mercury should not be an ingredient in flu shots given to pregnant women and children. * 73 percent believe the government should warn pregnant women not to get a flu shot if it contains mercury. * More than 70 percent agree that Congress, doctors and medical groups (e.g., the American Academy of Pediatrics) should take responsibility for ensuring that vaccines do not contain mercury. * 80 percent of respondents and 82 percent of parents are willing to pay the $2.50 additional cost for a mercury-free flu shot. PutChildrenFirst. org is a parent-led initiative advocating vaccine safety and a division of Generation Rescue, a nonprofit organization providing parents with information on the relationship between mercury and its relationship to Autism Spectrum Disorders. Generation Rescue gives parents information to make informed decisions about treatment options and physicians. Generation Rescue is a 501© (3) nonprofit founded in 2005. end of message ---------------------------------------------------------- If you would like to cross reference some of the information from Put Children First, check out these two web sites. Thimerosal is ethylmercury , mercury, but a DIFFERENT form of mercury then the kind typically found in fish or your rectal themomater which is methylmercury. http://www.fda. gov/cber/ vaccine/thimfaq. htm#q3 http://www.epa. gov/mercury/ consumerinfo. htm#vaccines Be sure to check out sources in your daily life that DO contain methylmercury. http://www.aap. org/profed/ thimaut-may03. htm http://www.aap. org/advocacy/ releases/ vaccinesafety. htm Also here is the statement from the American Academy of Peds... I am guessing anyway cause I don't see the exact source referenced - http://aappolicy. aappublications. org/cgi/reprint/ pediatrics;108/1/197. pdf CONCLUSIONS 1. Mercury in all of its forms is toxic to the fetus and children, and efforts should be made to reduce exposure to the extent possible to pregnant women and children as well as the general population. Pediatricians can contribute to the effort of decreasing the amount of mercury in the waste stream by phasing out mercury-containing devices, such as thermometers and sphygmomanometers, from their offices and other medical facilities and encouraging parents to remove mercury thermometers from their homes. 2. Inorganic and elemental mercury should not be present in the home or other environments of children. Pediatricians need to be aware of traditional folk uses of mercury like in Santeria or in ethnic remedies and work sensitively with such families, who may initially be unwilling to discuss such factors with physicians and with people outside of their cultural group. Public health agencies, community organizations, pediatricians, and other child health providers should work together to identify the diverse cultural practices that may lead to mercury exposure. 3. The most important source of methylmercury exposure is fish consumption by the mother before or during gestation and by young children. Parents can reduce methylmercury exposure to their children by limiting the amount of fish with high mercury content consumed during pregnancy and lactation and amounts eaten by children. Recreational and subsistence fishers need to heed warnings and advisories from state health departments not only about mercury but also about other contaminants, such as PCBs, in fish. 4. As part of an ongoing review of biological products in response to the Food and Drug Administration Modernization Act of 1997, the FDA is reviewing the use of mercury in biological products and pharmaceutical preparations. It would seem prudent for the FDA to carefully examine all uses of mercury in pharmaceuticals, particularly pharmaceuticals that are used by infants and pregnant women. The FDA is working with the AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS 203 pharmaceutical industry and the medical community to decrease or eliminate exposures to mercury in vaccines and other products. end of message ---------------------------------------------------------- " In June 2000, a group of top government scientists and health officials gathered for a meeting at the isolated Simpsonwood conference center in Norcross, Ga. Convened by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the meeting was held at this Methodist retreat center, nestled in wooded farmland next to the Chattahoochee River, to ensure complete secrecy. The agency had issued no public announcement of the session - only private invitations to 52 attendees. There were high-level officials from the CDC and the Food and Drug Administration, the top vaccine specialist from the World Health Organization in Geneva, and representatives of every major vaccine manufacturer, including GlaxoKline, Merck, Wyeth and Aventis Pasteur. All of the scientific data under discussion, CDC officials repeatedly reminded the participants, was strictly " embargoed. " There would be no making photocopies of documents, no taking papers with them when they left. The federal officials and industry representatives had assembled to discuss a disturbing new study that raised alarming questions about the safety of a host of common childhood vaccines administered to infants and young children. According to a CDC epidemiologist named Tom Verstraeten, who had analyzed the agency's massive database containing the medical records of 100,000 children, a mercury-based preservative in the vaccines - thimerosal - appeared to be responsible for a dramatic increase in autism and a host of other neurological disorders among children. " I was actually stunned by what I saw, " Verstraeten told those assembled at Simpsonwood, citing the staggering number of earlier studies that indicate a link between thimerosal and speech delays, attention-deficit disorder, hyperactivity and autism. Since 1991, when the CDC and the FDA had recommended that three additional vaccines laced with the preservative be given to extremely young infants - in one case, within hours of birth - the estimated number of cases of autism had increased fifteenfold, from one in every 2,500 children to one in 166 children. Even for scientists and doctors accustomed to confronting issues of life and death, the findings were frightening. " You can play with this all you want, " Dr. Bill Weil, a consultant for the American Academy of Pediatrics, told the group. The results " are statistically significant. " Dr. ston, an immunologist and pediatrician from the University of Colorado whose grandson had been born early on the morning of the meeting's first day, was even more alarmed. " My gut feeling? " he said. " Forgive this personal comment - I do not want my grandson to get a thimerosal-containi ng vaccine until we know better what is going on. " " Rest of article: http://www.tuberose .com/Deadly% 20Immunity. html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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