[CoMeD] [PR] Chile Stops Use of Mercury in Vaccines

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Chile Stops

Use of Mercury in Vaccines

Decision

Comes as WHO Meets to Discuss Global Treaty on Mercury Use

WASHINGTON, April

3, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Chile has

become the first developing country to stop the use of mercury

in vaccines.

In meetings with

the Coalition for Mercury-Free Drugs (CoMeD) held last week in

Santiago, Chile, the current Vice President of the Chilean

Senate, Navarro Brain, committed to adopting

legislation in the Senate that would prohibit the

mercury-based preservative Thimerosal from vaccines.

Thimerosal, which

is 49% mercury by weight, continues to be used as a

preservative in vaccines and other drugs worldwide, despite

the fact that it is a human neurotoxin and that safer, less

toxic alternatives are readily available.

Chile's decision

comes as the World Health Organization (WHO) meets today in

Geneva, Switzerland, to discuss a global, legally binding

treaty on mercury use. That meeting will examine alternative

vaccine preservatives, as well as the economic, programmatic,

and manufacturing implications of moving to single-dose,

preservative-free vaccines.

While applauding

the WHO for giving the issue of mercury use in vaccines the

urgent attention it merits, CoMeD expressed serious

reservations about WHO's decision to meet in closed-door

session.

Noting that past

closed-door sessions have led to "repeated and, we believe,

untrue declarations that there is no evidence of harm from the

use of Thimerosal in vaccines," the Reverend K. Sykes,

President of CoMeD, states, "Such unfounded assertions have

led to the establishment of two standards of vaccine safety,

one which is predominately mercury-free for developed, western

countries and one that is mercury-preserved for developing

countries."

As a result, Rev.

Sykes continues, "The most vulnerable among us continue to be

intentionally exposed to mercury from Thimerosal in childhood

vaccines. This exposure is entirely avoidable, and must be

stopped."

Dr. Mark R.

Geier, a CoMeD Director, agrees, adding, "Recent statements by

those holding national and global responsibility for vaccine

safety are difficult to reconcile with the known and published

toxicity of Thimerosal."

According to

CoMeD, numerous scientific studies and extensive peer-reviewed

scientific and medical papers have all concluded that

Thimerosal poses a significant health risk. Thimerosal

manufacturers also acknowledge that the preservative can cause

mild to severe mental retardation in children.

For additional

information about CoMeD and its work to ban mercury from

drugs, including vaccines, worldwide, visit www.mercury-freedrugs.org. 

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Please share this document with all of your friends to let

everyone know that, as proverbially, "a little child

shall lead them", Chile is leading the developing nations in

stopping the addition of mercury-containing

compounds (Thimerosal) to vaccines -- something that: a) the

former USSR did before 1985; many of

the "developed" Western European Nations did in the period from

1985 - 2004; and c) the USA's health

officials and vaccine makers committed to in 1999 but, to date, have,

as yet, failed to accomplish in

the United States.

Hopefully, this information will help in stopping most all uses of

Thimerosal and other mercury-based

compounds in vaccines and any other medicines in every nation in

the world.

Respectfully,

G. King, PhD

http://www.dr-king.com

CoMeD Science Advisor and Secretary

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