'Thimerosal in Vaccines: Inconvenient Reality'

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" Thimerosal In Vaccines: Inconvenient Reality "

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>THIMEROSAL IN VACCINES: INCONVENIENT REALITY

>

>INTRODUCTION

>

>Thimerosal has not been removed from all

>vaccines licensed by the US Food and Drug

>Administration (FDA).

>

>Further, Thimerosal remains in some FDA-

>licensed vaccines approved for administration

>to children and to pregnant women.

>

>Moreover, to replace the mercury doses

>lost from the reduction in/removal of

>Thimerosal from some formerly Thimerosal-

>preserved childhood vaccines, in 2002 the

>US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

>(CDC) cravenly added Thimerosal-preserved

>influenza vaccines to the vaccination

>recommendations for pregnant women and

>children from 6 months to 23 months of age.

>

>Also, the CDC has increased its recommended

>age range until it is now: " 6 months to 18

>years of age " .

>

>Finally, the CDC currently recommends two

>closely spaced doses the first time the

>child is vaccinated.

>

>Yet, most mainstream publications ignore

>these inconvenient realities.

>

>In article after article, the writers,

>usually vaccine apologists, misrepresent

>the removal of Thimerosal from vaccines

>as occurring in 2001 or 2002 - or, in

>some cases, as late as or 2004.

>

>They do this even though Thimerosal is

>still in FDA-approved vaccines including

>some of those vaccines approved for

>children as well as flu shots recommended

>for pregnant women.

>

>Given the preceding, why do 'they' lie

>about the on-going presence of Thimerosal

>in vaccines?

>

>Perhaps 'they' lie because:

>

>· The American public was promised in 1999

> that Thimerosal would be removed from

> vaccines as soon as possible.

>

>· These writers do not want to admit that

> 'they' know that those who made the

> promise had no intention of keeping it.

>

>· The writers are too lazy to do their own

> research to find the vaccines that still

> contain Thimerosal, including those that

> are Thimerosal preserved.

>

>Whatever the reason, vaccine apologists

>continue to misrepresent: a) the presence

>of Thimerosal in FDA-approved vaccines,

>the magnitude of mercury bolus doses that

>may be given to pregnant women, developing

>children, adults and the elderly, and c)

>the cumulative harm that these Thimerosal-

>containing vaccines inflict on many in each

>group.

>

>REALITIES ABOUT FDA-APPROVED THIMEROSAL-

>CONTAINING VACCINES [AS OF AUGUST 2008]

>

>The Current FDA-licensed Thimerosal-containing

>Vaccines

>

>As of Sunday, 3 August 2008, when visiting:

>http://www.fda.gov/cber/vaccine/thimerosal.htm#t3,

> " Table 3: Thimerosal and Expanded List of Vaccines

> - (updated 3/14/2008) Thimerosal Content in

>Currently Manufactured U.S. Licensed Vaccines "

>located on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

>webpage:

> http://www.fda.gov/cber/vaccine/thimerosal.htm,

>last updated June 3, 2008, and searching the

>Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research

>(CBER) web site (http://www.fda.gov/cber/), one

>finds that, including the " avian flu " vaccine,

>there are still at least seventeen (17) FDA-

>approved vaccines that contain some level of

>Thimerosal (as shown in Table 1).

>

>

>Table 1. March 2008 FDA-licensed Thimerosal-

> containing Vaccines

>[Taken From: FDA's " Table 3: Thimerosal and

>Expanded List of Vaccines - (updated 3/14/2008)

>Thimerosal Content in Currently Manufactured

>U.S. Licensed Vaccines " & Recent approvals]

>

>No. Vaccine Trade Name Manufac- Thimerosal Mercury

> [8] turer Concentrat'n per dose

> [1]

>1 DTaP Tripedia[2] Sanofi <= 0.00012% <= 0.3 µg/

> Pasteur, 0.5 mL

> Inc {SPI} (young child)

>2 DTaPH TriHIBit SPI/Sanofi <= 0.00012% <= 0.3 µg/

> (Tripedia + Pasteur,SA 0.5 mL

> ActHIB[2]) (young child)

>3 DT NONE SPI < 0.00012% < 0.3 µg/

> (single 0.5 mL

> dose) (older child

> & adults)

>4/1 DT NONE Sanofi 0.01% 25 µg/

> Pasteur, 0.5 mL

> Ltd [3] (older child

> (available but not marketed [3]) & adults)

>5/2 Td NONE Mass 0.0033% 8.3 µg/

> Public 0.5 mL

> Health (older child

> & adults)

>6 Td Decavac SPI <= 0.00012% <= 0.3 µg/

> 0.5 mL

> (older child

> & adults)

>7/3 TT NONE SPI 0.01% 25 µg/

> 0.5 mL

> (older child

> & adults)

>8 HepA/ Twinrix Glaxo- < 0.0002% < 1.0 µg/

> HepB Kline 1.0 mL

> Biologicals

> {GSKB}

>9/4 'Flu' Afluria CSL Limited 0.01% 24.5 µg/

> (multidose) 0.5 mL

> (adults incl.

> pregnant women)

>10/5 'Flu' Fluzone[6] SPI 0.01% 25 µg/

> 0.5 mL

> (3 yrs & up,

> incl. pregnant.

> women)

> 12.5 µg/

> 0.25 mL

> (6- to 35-month

> olds)

>11/6 'Flu' Fluvirin Novartis 0.01% 25 µg/

> Vaccines & 0.5 mL

> Diagnostics (4 yrs & up, incl.

> Ltd {NVDL} pregnant women)

>12 'Flu' Fluvirin NVDL < 0.0004% < 1 µg/uding

> (Preserva- 0.5 mL

> tive Free) (4 yrs & up, incl.

> pregnant women)

>13 'Flu' Fluarix GSKB < 0.0004% < 1 µg/

> 0.5 mL

> (adults incl.

> pregnant women)

>14/7 'Flu' FluLaval ID Biomedi- 0.01% 25 µg/

> cal Corpora- 0.5 mL

> tion of (adults incl.

> Quebec pregnant women)

>15/8 Japanese JE-VAX Research 0.007% 35 µg/

> Encepha- Foundation for 1.0mL

> litis[7] Microbial Di- (>3 years old)

> seases of Osaka 17.5 µg/

> U.(distributed 0.5 mL

> by SPI in USA) (1-3 yrs old)

>16/9 Meningo- Menomune SPI 0.01% 25 µg/

> coccal A,C,AC & (multidose) 0.5 mL

> A/C/Y/W-135 ( " 2 " yrs & up)

>17/10 Avian Influenza SPI 0.0098% 49 µg/

> Influenza Virus (multi-dose 1.0 mL

> [9] Vaccine, with doses (98 µg in 2-

> H5N1 at 0 & 2 dose regimen;

> months) 18-64 yrs old)

>

>TABLE FOOTNOTES

>1. Thimerosal is approximately 50%

> mercury (Hg) by weight. A 0.01%

> solution (1 part per 10,000) of

> Thimerosal contains 50 µg of Hg

> per 1 ml dose or 25 µg of Hg per

> 0.5 ml dose.

>2. Sanofi Pasteur's Tripedia may be

> used to reconstitute ActHib to

> form TriHIBit. TriHIBit is indi-

> cated for use in children 15 to 18

> months of age.

>3. This vaccine is not marketed in the

> US but it is available.

>4. ...

>5. ...

>6. Children under 3 years of age

> receive a half-dose of vaccine,

> i.e., 0.25 mL (12.5 µg mercury/

> dose.)

>7. Aventis Pasteur distributes JE-VAX.

> Children 1 to 3 years of age receive

> a half-dose of vaccine, i.e., 0.5 mL

> (17.5 µg mercury/dose).

>8. The second numbers are the count for

> the current Thimerosal-preserved

> vaccine formulations that have FDA

> approval.

>9. Approved April, 17 2008 but not in

> " Table 3 " as it is currently only

> licensed for use in a pandemic outbreak;

> approvals for children are pending or

> deferred.

>

>

>Key Realities About FDA-licensed Thimerosal-

> containing Vaccines

>

>1. Ten (10) of these seventeen (17) vaccines

> are Thimerosal-preserved vaccines.

>

>2. There is no federal prohibition against

> giving pregnant women and developing

> children a Thimerosal-preserved flu shot.

>

>3. Though several states (California, Delaware,

> Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, New York, and

> Washington) have enacted restrictions

> prohibiting giving Thimerosal-preserved flu

> shots to young children and pregnant women,

> their laws do not provide any civil penalties

> for any violation of the law and, in some

> cases (e.g., New York), are not effective

> until 2009.

>

>4. The state's health departments in those

> states with restrictions on giving

> Thimerosal-containing vaccines to pregnant

> women and young children are not required

> to purchase and dispense Sanofi Pasteur's

> " no Thimerosal " Fluzone for pregnant women

> and young children, or, for older children,

> Sanofi Pasteur's " no Thimerosal " Fluzone

> and/or Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics'

> " Preservative free " Fluviron.

>

>5. Illinois state health department officials

> have acted to thwart the law by, among other

> things, not informing the doctors when the

> Illinois statute became effective and by

> claiming an influenza vaccines' shortage

> when there was none.

>

>6. In spite of joining in the 1999 resolution

> calling for the removal of Thimerosal from

> vaccines as soon as possible, the FDA has

> continued to license new Thimerosal-preserved

> influenza vaccine formulations (human and avian).

>

>KEY REALITIES ABOUT THE CHRONIC-DISEASE HARM THIMEROSAL

> MAY CAUSE

>

>Though the Establishment continually:

>

>· Directs the discussion to " anything but Thimerosal/

> mercury " ,

>

>· Frames the harm caused as if it were limited to

> neurodevelopmental disorders, and

>

>· Limits the discussion to the role of Thimerosal

> in " autism " ,

>

>the reality is that Thimerosal has been found to be:

>

>· A systemic " all systems " poison in humans at levels

> below 0.1 ppm (< 0.00001 %)

>

>· A human teratogen, mutagen and carcinogen at levels

> below 1 ppm (< 0.0001%),

>

>· A strong immune-system poison at levels below 0.01

> ppm (0.000001%), and

>

>· Implicated in diseases of the central nervous system,

> cardiac (e.g., IDCM) and vascular (e.g., arterial

> plaque, and inflammation, hardening and blockage of

> the arteries) systems, kidney, liver, pancreas,

> pituitary, and pineal gland.

>

>In addition, Thimerosal:

>

>· Appears to be a causal factor in the epidemic

> increases in many chronic childhood diseases/

> disorders, which were either rare or unknown,

> before the 1970s, in children, and

>

>· Is obviously contributing, as these children

> age, to the epidemic increases in chronic

> diseases, including " dementias " in adults and

> the elderly.

>

>In children, these severe chronic conditions

>include, but are not limited to, asthma, COPD,

>type 2 diabetes, inflammatory bowel disease,

>celiac disease, certain types of leukemia,

>severe refractory obesity, neurodevelopmental

>and behavioral disorders, and severe allergies

>to common food ingredients (e.g., peanuts,

>gluten, casein, gelatin).

>

>In spite of all these findings, the government

>has continued to permit Thimerosal and other

>mercury-containing compounds to be used as

>process sterilants and preservatives in

>vaccines and other drugs.

>

>Moreover, rather than keeping the 1999 promise

>to remove Thimerosal from vaccines as soon as

>possible, the government (Department of Health

>and Human Services [DHHS], CDC, FDA and National

>Institutes of Health [NIH]), the American Academy

>of Pediatrics (AAP), the American Medical

>Association (AMA), healthcare providers, and the

>vaccine manufacturers have acted together to

>continue the use of Thimerosal while continually

>telling the public that it was removed.

>

>For vaccines, they colluded to do this by:

>

>· Continuing to seek the licensing of existing

> and new Thimerosal-preserved vaccines in the

> US after 2000 (the vaccine makers),

>· Continuing to license new Thimerosal-preserved

> vaccines (FDA), failing to revoke the licenses

> of Thimerosal-preserved vaccines after " reduced

> Thimerosal " vaccines were licensed (Secretary of

> DHHS), and failing to revoke the licenses of

> " reduced Thimerosal " vaccines after " no Thimerosal "

> formulations were licensed (Secretary of DHHS),

>

>· Failing to recommend the restriction of the

> Thimerosal-containing vaccines and drugs to non-

> pregnant adults (CDC and FDA),

>· Adding, in 2002, ineffective vaccines (e.g., the

> human influenza vaccines), which were Thimerosal-

> preserved and still, in terms of doses, are

> Thimerosal-preserved, to the recommended vacci-

> nation schedules for pregnant women and children

> from 6 months to now 18 years of age (CDC),

>

>· Failing to establish that the level of Thimerosal

> in a Thimerosal-preserved vaccine was sufficiently

> nontoxic as required by 21 C.F.R. Sec. 610.15(a)

> (vaccine makers, FDA and NIH), and

>

>· Continuing to recommend (AAP, AMA) and to give

> Thimerosal-preserved vaccines when " reduced

> Thimerosal " or " no Thimerosal " alternatives were

> available (all pediatricians and healthcare pro-

> viders who did this failed to: a) observe the

> precautionary principle and refuse to give a

> less safe vaccine after a safer vaccine was

> licensed and available).

>

>HANNAH POLING V. SEC. HHS - A CHANCE TO DIVERT

> ATTENTION FROM THIMEROSAL

>

>Seizing on the opportunity provided by the Poling

>case, where mitochondrial disorder/dysfunction was

>implicated as a factor in Hannah Poling's autism,

>the Establishment took action to change the focus

>from:

>

>· The vaccines, several of which were Thimerosal

> preserved, and

>

>· The fact that the Poling case was a " Thimerosal

> causes autism " case

>

>to:

>

>· " Mitochondrial disease/dysfunction " - portrayed

> as " an unpredicted rare vaccine reaction " .

>

>Moreover, to make this diversion easier, the

>government has refused to release the medical

>records and filed expert reports that probably

>contain the evidence that Hannah Poling was

>mercury poisoned by the Thimerosal in the

>vaccines she received at 19 months as well as

>the evidence that Hannah's case was properly a

> " Thimerosal causes autism " test case in the

>Omnibus Autism Proceeding before the medical

>professionals of the DHHS stepped in and

>conceded the case.

>

>Moreover, like lemmings, many on the " Environ-

>ment of Harm " side of reality have apparently

>followed the government's lead and veered from

>the pursuit of the environmental casual factors

>toward the newest " genetic " diversion,

>mitochondrial mutation, fueled by the newly

>reported {1} finding that 1 in 200 have a

>mitochondrial mutation.

>

>{1} Elliott HR, s DC, Eden JA, Relton CL,

> Chinnery PF. Pathogenic mitochondrial DNA

> mutations are common in the general population.

> Am J Hum Genet. 2008 Aug;83(2):254-260.

>

>In contrast, since the evidence is that Hannah

>Poling does not have any known " mitochondrial

>disease " and, based on the available evidence,

>her " mitochondrial dysfunction " developed after

>she received multiple vaccinations at about

>19-months of age and not before, we should be

>focusing on answering the following:

>

>· Was the primary cause of her mitochondrial

> dysfunction/autism simply the number of

> vaccines?

>

>· Was the primary cause the Thimerosal boluses

> in some of the vaccines?

>

>· Was/is Hannah Poling mercury poisoned (as

> indicated by a valid urine porphyrin profile

> analysis (UPPA) test or other means) after

> her 19-month vaccinations?

>

>· Was the primary cause the live viruses that

> she received at that time?

>· Does Hannah's records have evidence of viral

> infection of the brain (in spinal fluid) and/or

> the gut?

>· Was the primary cause the combination of Thimerosal

> and the live viruses Hannah received?

>

>Why is it that the government continues to pursue

>their apparent " anything but mercury " agenda while

>refusing to require or produce proof that Thimerosal

>cannot cause the harm observed?

>

>Based on the results seen for the vaccinated hamsters

>in the recent Peruvian study {2}, the answer is:

>

> Thimerosal (49.55-wt% mercury) in preserved vaccines

> is not, and has never been, safe to inject into

> developing or, for that matter, adult humans.

>

>{2} Author-supplied, 23-page English translation of:

> te J, Remuzgo F, Ávalos B, Chiquinta J,

> Ponce B, Avendaño R, Maya L. Neurotoxic effects

> of thimerosal at vaccines doses on the encephalon

> and development in 7 days-old hamsters. An Fac

> Med Lima 2007; 68(3): 222 - 237.

>

>Why is it that, despite scheduling the appropriate

>toxicity studies of Thimerosal in vaccines in 1999,

>the NIH has never conducted the requisite studies?

>

>Again, one need only look at the outcomes observed

>in the vaccinated hamsters {2} to understand the

>causal role of mercury in developmental disorders.

>

>CONCLUDING REMARKS ON THIMEROSAL IN VACCINES AND

> OTHER DRUGS

>

>In spite of the 1999 promise to remove Thimerosal

>from vaccines and the continual disinformation

>that Thimerosal has been removed/reduced, the

>following realities remain:

>

>· The Thimerosal removal promise has not only not

> been kept but it has also been knowingly

> ignored by the vaccine makers and the FDA,

>

>· Given the current vaccines and vaccination

> recommendations, the maximum dose of Thimerosal

> (49.55-wt% mercury) a child may be exposed to

> from before birth to 18 years of age can now

> exceed 1000 micrograms (> 496 micrograms of

> mercury) - an upper limit (maximum dose) that

> exceeds the upper limit under the 1999 vaccine

> schedule by almost a factor of two.

>

>· Since: a) impurities that are less than 0.1 %

> (10 times higher than the maximum allowable

> level of Thimerosal in drug formulations [0.01%])

> are not generally required to be disclosed to

> the FDA and there is no requirement to

> disclose the level of mercury and its source in

> all drugs, who knows what other drugs produced

> by biotechnology-based processes (e.g., monoclonal

> antibody drugs) contain significant levels

> (> 0.000001 %; > 0.01 ppm) of Thimerosal.

>

>· Although the general permitted level of known

> toxins (e.g., cyanide) in drugs is usually set

> below 1 % of the " minimum level where general

> toxicity is observed " , it is clear that the

> permitted maximum preservative level of Thimerosal

> (0.01% [100 ppm]), the only highly toxic bioac-

> cumulative mercury compound in Thimerosal-preserved

> vaccines, exceeds Thimerosal's " minimum level where

> general toxicity is observed " by at least a factor

> of 10,000.

>

>Though there may be other ingredients that, in the

>absence of any harm caused by Thimerosal, may be

>toxic to the extent that they need to be banned

>from any use in medicine, until the use of Thimerosal

>in the manufacture of any medicine is banned and all

>vaccines and other drugs that contain any level of

>added Thimerosal or other mercury-containing compound

>are recalled and destroyed, Thimerosal remains the

>one highly toxic bioaccumulative drug ingredient

>whose presence the Establishment continues hide from, or

>misrepresent to the public, and whose human and animal

>toxicity continues not to be rigorously determined.

>

>Moreover, though the verses are continually changing,

>the Establishment's refrain remains:

> " Anything but Mercury! "

>

>Until all use of Thimerosal and any other mercury

>compound is banned from medicine and all doses

>containing any amount of added Thimerosal or other

>added mercury compound are recalled and destroyed,

>this researcher will continue to demand " no Thimerosal "

>and " safer " vaccines until:

>

>· All US-licensed vaccine formulations are

> " no Thimerosal " formulations,

>

>· The US licenses for all vaccine formulations that

> contain any level of Thimerosal are revoked by the

> US Secretary of HHS (under the statutory authority

> granted in 42 U.S.C. Sec. 300aa-27),

>

>· All US-licensed formulations are preservative-free

> single-dose preparations, and

>

>· In countries that are unable to provide single-dose

> vaccines to their public, when a preservative must

> be used in some vaccine formulation, some non-

> bioaccumulative poison (e.g., 2-phenoxyethanol) is

> used in place of Thimerosal.

>

>In conclusion, this reviewer's simple answer to the

>question:

>

> Why do 'they' lie about the on-going presence of

> Thimerosal in some FDA-licensed vaccines?

>

>is:

>

> " Because 'they' have something 'they' desperately

> want to hide - 'their' on-going participation in

> the KNOWING mercury-poisoning of our children! "

>

>

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