[CoMeD] [PR] – Global Call for Mercury-free Vaccines

[Guest guest]

On

7 March 2012, CoMeD and the United Methodist

women

penned a historic open letter to WHO and

other

public health agencies calling for them to

stop

the use of mercury in human drugs, especially

vaccines

(see:

http://mercury-freedrugs.org/docs/120307_CoMeD_Open_Letter_with_UMW_final_b.pdf).

 

 

On

15 March 2012, a press release announcing this

letter

was distributed by PRNEWSWIRE.

 

 

This

16 March 2012 follow-up e-mail is intended to

announce

the availability of the CoMeD press

release

posted in the “Press Release …” web page

of

the CoMeD web site:

 (http://www.Mercury-freeDrugs.org)

to

those on the CoMeD mailing list and other

interested

parties.

 

 

The

direct link to this press release is:

http://mercury-freedrugs.org/docs/120315_CoMeD_Open_letter_press_release_hl_finalfinal_b.pdf.

 

 

For

those who do not have the ability to download

files

from the Internet, the unformatted text of

this

press release reads as follows:

 

Global

Call for Mercury-free Vaccines Issued

 

SILVER SPRING, MD, March 16, 2012 — In

a

historic

open

letter to the World Health

Organization

and other public health agencies,

the Coalition for

Mercury-Free Drugs (CoMeD),

and

the United Methodist Women are seeking to

stop the use of mercury in human

drugs,

especially

vaccines.  Currently, the

mercury-

based

preservative Thimerosal, which is 49%

mercury

by weight, remains in vaccines for the

United

States and much of the world, despite

the

fact that it is a known neurotoxin.  While

other

safer

and

less toxic alternatives are being

utilized,

industry has been slow to eliminate

Thimerosal

from many vaccines, including

the

flu

shot

given to those most vulnerable to

this toxin, children

and pregnant women.

 

The

goal of the United Methodist Women and CoMeD

is

to protect the global immunization program

and

to safeguard public confidence in vaccines

by

seeing that the addition of mercury

to human

pharmaceutical ceases.  Through the ongoing

diplomatic

work of the

Intergovernmental

Negotiation

Committee of the United Nations Environment Programme,

these

organizations hope to impact the formulation

of

a global, legally binding treaty on mercury

scheduled

to be completed in 2013.

 

In

these negotiations, the World Health

Organization

and other global distributors of

vaccine

have defended the continuing use of

mercury,

especially in vaccines.  They

maintain

that

there is no evidence of harm from Thimerosal. 

Dr.

Mark R. Geier, a CoMeD director,

cautions,

“Recent

statements by those holding national and

 global responsibility for

vaccine safety are

 difficult to reconcile with

the known and published

 toxicity of Thimerosal.” 

Eight

decades

of scientific literature

have shown

that

Thimerosal poses a significant health risk & its

manufacturers

acknowledge

it can cause mild to severe mental retardation in children.

 

The

United Methodist Church passed the first global

resolution

  “Protecting

Children

from Mercury-containing Drugs,”

and

the United Methodist Women have actively advocated

for

a ban of mercury in medicine on moral and ethical

grounds.  As

the Rev. K. Sykes, the

author of

the original draft of the United

Methodist global

resolution, asserts,

“The

United Methodist Women

have historically advocated

 in the areas of education and

health, both in this

 country and around the world.

Undertaking

the

issue of mercury in vaccines and other drugs

 is just one expression of

that commitment.” 

 

The United Methodist Women

and CoMeD support

every

effort

to make safer vaccines, those

without added

mercury,

equally available to all persons around

the

globe.

 

 

Hopefully,

after reading this press release, you will

share

it with all of your friends and acquaintances

so

that all may join with CoMeD is advocating for the

removal

of Thimerosal (mercury) from all vaccines.

 

Respectfully,

 

G. King, PhD

http://www.dr-king.com

 

CoMeD

Secretary & Science Advisor

 

 

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