Mercury in Childhood Vaccines

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Someone asked about this just the other day....

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I'm quoting from the above URL:

SEPTEMBER 8, 2004. Mercury in vaccines is only one of the toxic elements in these universally delivered shots. It has been receiving the most attention in the last few years. The FDA has urged (but not demanded) that manufacturers take out the mercury (from childhood not adult) vaccines. Nowhere can I find an order from any governmental body that manufacturers dump their existing stocks of vaccines which contain mercury. This would mean that millions more shots of mercury can be delivered. I know of one activist group that has tested several childhood vaccines and states that the vials still contain mercury. For an excellent and explosive overview of the mercury-vaccine situation, I suggest you read a new article by Blaylock, MD. www.wnho.net/vaccines_coverup.htm Blaylock details secret US government meetings in which this issue was discussed. Here is another article that mentions a piece of California legislation which awaits the signature of Governor Arnold: San Francisco Chronicle, CA Tuesday, September 7, 2004 Protecting Against the Protectors Mercury-laced vaccines are a danger to our children's health Dan Hamburg A commonsense bill to rid childhood vaccines of the mercury-laced preservative thimerosal now sits on the governor's desk awaiting his signature. While the bill appears to be a no-brainer, the pharmaceutical industry and the state Department of Health Services are urging a veto. Thimerosal, a preservative that is 49 percent ethyl mercury by weight, is present in many vaccines today, and will be in most of the flu vaccines given to babies, toddlers and pregnant women in 2005. Ethyl mercury, a mercury compound, and thimerosal are known neurotoxins, considered by the state of California as chemicals known to cause reproductive and developmental harm. Because of thimerosal's toxicity, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the U.S. Public Health Service urged vaccine manufacturers in 1999 to remove it from all regular childhood vaccines, and the vaccine manufacturers appear to have done so. However, thimerosal is still added to pediatric doses of flu vaccine. Next year, as many as 800,000 California infants and toddlers could receive a mercury-containing flu shot because the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is now recommending that all children between the ages of 6 and 24 months receive flu vaccines. It is common knowledge that mercury and ethyl mercury can damage developing nervous systems in fetuses, infants and toddlers. The California Environmental Protection Agency recently reported that the scientific evidence that thimerosal causes reproductive and developmental toxicity is "clear and voluminous." The U.S. House of Representatives' Government Reform Committee found that "thimerosal used as a preservative in vaccines is likely related to the autism epidemic" and charged that the federal Food and Drug Administration has been "asleep at the switch" with respect to thimerosal. A 2003 study published in the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons found "strong epidemiological evidence for a link between mercury exposure from thimerosal- containing childhood vaccines and neurodevelopment disorders." So why does the governor appear hesitant to sign AB2943, the Mercury-Free Vaccine Act of 2004? Drug companies, led by the Bayer Corporation and Aventis Pasteur, claim that the bill is unnecessary, that it may cause thousands of children to contract influenza, that it will undermine public confidence about vaccine safety and that it is too costly. Let's briefly dispense with these specious arguments. Despite the FDA's and the vaccine manufacturer's assurances, California children are still receiving vaccines that contain mercury. As the U.S. House committee pointed out, the FDA has never required industry to conduct extensive safety studies on thimerosal. Vaccine manufacturers have the capacity to produce sufficient doses of mercury-free flu vaccines by the date the bill takes effect (July 2006). AB2943 will actually increase public confidence in vaccine safety by giving parents certainty that their infants and toddlers will not be injected with mercury. According to the state Department of Finance, the bill would cost the state of California $40,000 and save untold dollars by decreasing the possibility that California's children develop autism and related disorders. Between late 1999 and late 2002, thimerosal was removed from most childhood vaccines. Because of this, California now has a population of children nearing age 3 and 4 who received a significantly lower dose of mercury than children born before 2000. Preliminary studies show that the rate of increase in the number of children over age 3 with autism has been in decline for nine months now. This is the first time autism rates have fallen in the entire 35 years California has been collecting this data in the Department of Developmental Services. Perhaps the reason that the drug companies want thimerosal-containing vaccines to be used up rather than destroyed has more to do with potential legal liability than it does with safety. More than 5,000 American families are seeking compensation in the U.S. Court of Claims for damage to their children allegedly caused by mercury-containing vaccines. If drug companies are found to have knowingly participated in risking the health of our children, these parents could become just the head of the line and damage awards could reach into the billions. The question is: Will Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger listen to the well- founded concerns of thousands of parents with developmentally disabled children? Or will he bend to the powerful pharmaceutical lobby? This is an opportunity for the governor to prove that he's a real hero, not just acting. Parents for generations to come will thank him for his leadership. Dan Hamburg, a former U.S. representative from Northern California, is executive director of Voice of the Environment (www.voiceoftheenvironment.org), a nonprofit based in Marin. End of Hamburg article I want to make it clear that the mercury problem would never have surfaced unless activist groups had brought it up. Government agencies did not lead the way, until late in the game---and their leadership role is still suspect and/or ineffective. Over the last 20 years, I have focused on several toxicity horrors concerning pharmaceuticals: psychiatric drugs, chemo drugs, AIDS drugs, vaccines, NSAIDs, etc. In each situation, I have found brave medical doctors who have stepped out of their shells to expose the dangers and the damage. I’m talking about mainstream doctors. Yet overwhelmingly, these doctors have refused to consider data from the classes of drugs they have not examined as closely. They have become “specialists” in exposing certain drugs. When you put these “specialties” together and add up the damage and the death, the facts are very stark indeed. Lately, Bush has been jabbering about limiting or eliminating frivolous lawsuits against doctors---he claims that many doctors are being driven out of business because their protection against these suits---their malpractice insurance---is costing more than they can afford. Therefore, many people will find themselves without a doctor to go to. His statements dovetail nicely with the rise of a number of private groups that claim to be working on behalf of patients in this regard. You should be aware that at least several of these groups were really set up by medically-connected organizations and hired PR firms. They’re phony fronts. And, as far as I can tell, the majority of suits against doctors do not entail challenging the efficacy or safety of the drugs. They involve other medical errors or refusals to use conventional remedies (because of cost). In words, the real shit storm has not yet been released. But as more people become aware of the widespread toxicity of drugs, this will change. It is already changing. There is a well-funded attempt to head this off at the pass. One other strategy: a drug company admits that perhaps a few patients died from a drug, but overall the results are wonderful. The limited hangout. Often, the few deaths being referred to occurred during drug studies. However, these studies typically cover much shorter periods than the real patient will be subjected to by his doctor, who writes the scripts and makes the recommendations. The walls are crumbling. If you are a voter, and you support candidates for Congress, you might tell your representative that if he even breathes in the direction of backing limits on lawsuits against doctors, you’ll organize against him. Finally, check out Red Flags Weekly. Hunt around on the home page and you’ll find a long piece written by a person who got a tetanus shot and, after suffering some vicious long-term effects, tried to use the government-established channel to obtain $$ compensation. The overall nightmare has been a modern version of Kafka’s The Trial. JON RAPPOPORT www.nomorefakenews.com

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