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This is a story written in the Albequerque Tribune about the mercury in vaccines.

Barbara McKee: Government should reveal secrets about mercury in vaccines

By Barbara McKee (Contact)
Tuesday, November 21, 2006

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For the last twenty years, the incidents of autism have been rising to astronomical heights. The reasons for this have been debated, argued, protested and denied. Parents of autistic children are confused, left with feelings of guilt, anger and frustration.

The Centers for Disease Control and the FDA say better diagnostics have been the cause for the rise in autism. Parents and other health officials ask, if better diagnostics are the reason, where are all the autistic adults?

Childhood vaccines have been at the heart of this issue since the late 1980s. When pharmaceutical companies began using the mercury-based vaccine preservative, thimerosal, autism suddenly began to shoot up the charts of childhood illnesses. Mercury is one of the deadliest toxins on the planet.

A child from 6 months to age 3 receiving a flu vaccine with thimerosal gets 12.5 micrograms (mcg) of mercury. Yet, according to the Environmental Protection Agency, only someone weighing 275 pounds can process this amount of mercury. Older children receive the adult vaccine with 25 mcg of mercury, an amount that someone weighing 550 pounds can process through the liver. The 25 mcg-flu vaccine is also recommended for pregnant women at all stages of pregnancy.

Mercury easily passes the placental barrier and enters the developing fetus whose tiny brain is just forming.

The CDC has been under fire for refusing to give out testing results on the effects of thimerosal in vaccines. Why? Because there has never been a toxicity test done by the CDC or the FDA.

How do parents of autistic kids fight back?

There is an official federal "vaccine court," where some 4,750 autism-related cases have been pending for years. Claimants say thimerosal contributed to their children's autism. They are seeking compensation from a special vaccine injury fund administered by the federal government.

The long-awaited autism vaccine trial will commence in June in the courtroom of Special Master George Hastings. The plaintiffs and their attorneys have asked for complete transparency in every aspect of the tribunal, including public disclosure of all evidence and unhindered media access to the hearings.

The Bush administration wants to hold the hearings in a sealed courtroom, off limits to the press and public, with stiff sanctions for any outsider who attempts to gain unauthorized access to the secretive proceedings within.

On Nov. 3, the Department of Justice wrote to Hastings saying it "would oppose public access to the courtroom and public broadcast of the trial," because such an arrangement "would pose security and privacy concerns" for those in attendance.

If vaccines are safe, then why all the controversy and secrecy? What if one of every 166 births resulted in blindness or deafness? Is autism any less important because it happens after birth?

Autism is not a result of better diagnostics. It is a medical disaster that needs to be acknowledged and corrected.
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Posted by kstoller on November 21, 2006 at 5:39 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Ms McKee asks where all these adults with autism are today. Autism affects 1 in 160 (depending on the sources…it is really about 1 in 80 boys [in some states in 1 in 50 boys – Minnesota]). Many more suffer from ADD, ADHD and dyslexia (again, mostly boys). The CDC now says that 1 in 6 children have some from of neurobehavioral disorder. This isn’t due to better diagnosis (what an insult to teachers and pediatricians) – after all, can you point out the 1 in 160 adults walking around with autism? They are not there, but there are people with Alzheimer’s disease! This is the same subset of the population that now has autism but at the other end of the age spectrum. Had they been born in the 1990’s and jabbed full of the vaccines that contained the mercury preservative Thimerosal they would, in all likelihood, have autism. That is why the government is not trying to find the cause of the epidemic; they know what the cause is…they just don’t want us to know!

There have been many articles written about how the current generation of children in High School cannot do math and science. Girls are now outperforming boys in math and science, and we have to import engineers and scientists in large numbers from other countries to meet the demands of US industry. The girls aren’t performing any better than they used to, but the boys are more sensitive to heavy metal poisoning than girls are (Testosterone increase mercury toxicity) and their brains have been damaged.

Now, to put this in context, Polio only affected 1 in 2700 Americans. Some of us are old enough to remember the outcry about that disease and the mobilization to prevent it. No such mobilization is taking place on behalf of the children with Autism or the adults with Alzheimer’s disease because these diseases are caused by environmental exposure to government sanctioned pollutants. Some heavy metals have a protected status -a mixed agenda of greed, control and the fear of a lot of people who will lose their jobs or worse, but be that as it may, the agenda is not in the public’s interest.

The fossil fuel industry that wants to continue to spew mercury from cola-fire power plants have theri hands in this mess big time.

Treatment for the brain injury caused by heavy metal pollution, what will go down as the scourge of the late 20th and early 21st century, is currently available. This pollution is responsible for the increase rates of asthma, diabetes and a whole host of what are considered unexplainable autoimmune diseases and cancers – so this just isn’t about children with autism – they are the canaries in the coal mine, and we have done nothing as they fall over one after the other. But think on this….. Who is going to foot the bill when one 1 in every 80 boys goes on disability just for autism alone. Where is that money going to come from just as the first waves are now becoming adults?

K Paul Stoller, MD, FAAP
Santa Fe

Posted by dayoub on November 21, 2006 at 7:23 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Barbara McKee correctly points out the tragedy of autism and the suspicious government reactions. A US Congressional committee concluded in 2003 that mercury in vaccines was the likely cause of the autism epidemic. This did not get the press coverage like the Institute of Medicine's report in 2004 when, at the request of the CDC, issued a statement exonerating vaccines from a causal link to autism. Few knew that several of the IOM's elite executive council had ties to the vaccine industry, none closer than Gail Cassel, the VP of Eli Lilly, the drug company liable for $ billions in damage to Americans.

Finally, an added point of hypocrisy. Many are concerned about mercury in the air largely from coal-fired power plants. Let me put this in proper perspective. The air in Illinois amounts to an exposure rate of 0.0035 micrograms of mercury per day and mostly a milder form - elemental mercury. Flu shots today have over 700 times that. Where is the legislation to stop this kind of pollution?

David Ayoub, MD
Springfield, Illinois

Posted by Shadowee on November 21, 2006 at 9:01 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Here's a good article on how the "predator class" uses it's power to abuse the "prey class". Until we can remove the protection racket of the predator class, we will see more examples of this type of behavior. Case in point: a cow recently tested positive for mad cow disease in Alabama. The government's response was to reduce testing of mad cow disease by 90%. This is just one example of how corporations use the government to protect their industry's interests. The pharmaceutical industry is being protected in this manner as well.

Flu Vaccine Facts

• In drinking water, mercury cannot exceed 2 parts per billion. With more than 200 parts per billion of mercury, liquid is considered hazardous waste. A mercury-containing flu shot vial has 50,000 parts per billion of mercury. How can something with 250x the mercury level of hazardous waste be deemed safe?

http://putchildrenfirst.org/flu.html

Posted by Owinurame on November 21, 2006 at 9:04 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Autism is not related to mercury in vaccines. Read the science - it is readily available to those who wish to learn.

Posted by Owinurame on November 22, 2006 at 7:43 a.m. (Suggest removal)

The answer to Shadowee's question (and Dr Ayoub's 'perspective') is dosage and exposure. You will consume thousands of gallons of water and millions of liters of air in a lifetime, but only a few milliliters of vaccine.
Each year, 36,000 people in the USA die from flu and more than 20,000 children under 5 end up in the hospital.
There is a thimerisol-free flu vaccine for children.

Posted by TimKasemodel on November 22, 2006 at 8:02 a.m. (Suggest removal)

To Owinurname and any others who claim science shows no link between thimerosal and autism, I say SHOW ME and be willing to sign your own name. Show me the rigorous testing done on thimerosal by any government agency to prove it is safe for humans. This cannot be done because the independant clinical testing was never conducted.

If you actually do read ALL the science available you will be hard pressed to make any claim of safety of any amount of mercury in vaccines. So go ahead - bring it on - show me the hard science you have that proves this poison is safe.

Tim Kasemodel
Wayzata MN
Father of mercury damaged child

Posted by Stephanie on November 22, 2006 at 8:25 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Owinurname - I think that we can agree that we need good hard science to prove or disprove vaccine's role in the autism epidemic. If its so clear that vaccines are NOT a factor - why is the Big Pharma funded Bush administration so hell bent on keeping these proceeding sealed? Please, prove to me its not the vaccines so we can get busy looking for the cause. This is not going to happen until there is transparency in this crisis.

Posted by Owinurame on November 22, 2006 at 10:33 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Mercury is a poison. The effect of all poisons depends on dose.
Thimerosal contains mercury, but in such tiny amounts as to not achieve effective dose.
Thimerosal has been removed from infant vaccines in the USA.
There are no easy choices when protecting the health of entire populations.

If you post an e-mail address, I will send you a list of 109 studies drawn from PubMed (below is the abstract from one of the most recent and rigorous - a study of almost half a million children - and a URL for another).

Journal of the American Medical Association. 2003 Oct 1;290(13):1763-6. Association between thimerosal-containing vaccine and autism. Hviid et al.,

CONTEXT: Mercuric compounds are nephrotoxic and neurotoxic at high doses. Thimerosal, a preservative used widely in vaccine formulations, contains ethylmercury. Thus it has been suggested that childhood vaccination with thimerosal-containing vaccine could be causally related to neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism. OBJECTIVE: To determine whether vaccination with a thimerosal-containing vaccine is associated with development of autism. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: Population-based cohort study of all children born in Denmark from January 1, 1990, until December 31, 1996 (N = 467 450) comparing children vaccinated with a thimerosal-containing vaccine with children vaccinated with a thimerosal-free formulation of the same vaccine. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Rate ratio (RR) for autism and other autistic-spectrum disorders, including trend with dose of ethylmercury. RESULTS: During 2 986 654 person-years, we identified 440 autism cases and 787 cases of other autistic-spectrum disorders. The risk of autism and other autistic-spectrum disorders did not differ significantly between children vaccinated with thimerosal-containing vaccine and children vaccinated with thimerosal-free vaccine (RR, 0.85 [95% confidence interval [CI], 0.60-1.20] for autism; RR, 1.12 [95% CI, 0.88-1.43] for other autistic-spectrum disorders). Furthermore, we found no evidence of a dose-response association (increase in RR per 25 microg of ethylmercury, 0.98 [95% CI, 0.90-1.06] for autism and 1.03 [95% CI, 0.98-1.09] for other autistic-spectrum disorders). CONCLUSION: The results do not support a causal relationship between childhood vaccination with thimerosal-containing vaccines and development of autistic-spectrum disorders.

PMID: 14519711 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

another:

http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cg...

Posted by apzelic on November 22, 2006 at 3:22 p.m. (Suggest removal)

While I am sure that the study below is not the last word on the controversy involving thimerosol and neuro-developmental disorders, it does represent an advance over the study quoted above: not only it is more recent, the study methodology is essential prospective (as opposed to retrospective) and while biases can be introduced into either method, it is far less likely to occur with prospective studies.

I have included a link to the full text (which free download from the National Library of Medicine's PubMed data base) for those who which to do an indepth review based on something more than the abstract.

Respectfully submitted.

http://www.medscimonit.com/pub/vol_12/no...

Med Sci Monit. 2006 Jun;12(6):CR231-9. Epub 2006 May 29.

An assessment of downward trends in neurodevelopmental disorders in the United States following removal of Thimerosal from childhood vaccines.

Geier DA, Geier MR. Department of Biochemistry, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA.

BACKGROUND: The US is in the midst of an epidemic of neurodevelopmental disorders (NDs). Thimerosal is an ethylmercury-containing compound added to some childhood vaccines. Several previous epidemiological studies conducted in the US have associated Thimerosal-containing vaccine (TCV) administration with NDs. MATERIAL/METHODS: An ecological study was undertaken to evaluate NDs reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) from 1991 through 2004 by date of receipt and by date of vaccine administration. The NDs examined included autism, mental retardation, and speech disorders. Statistical trend analysis was employed to evaluate the effects of removal of Thimerosal on the proportion of NDs reported to VAERS. RESULTS: There was a peak in the proportion of ND reports received by VAERS in 2001-2002 and in the proportion of ND reports by date of vaccine administration in 1998. There were significant reductions in the proportion of NDs reported to VAERS as Thimerosal was begun to be removed from childhood vaccines in the US from mid-1999 onwards. CONCLUSIONS: The present study provides the first epidemiological evidence showing that as Thimerosal was removed from childhood vaccines, the number of NDs has decreased in the US. The analysis techniques utilized attempted to minimize chance or bias/confounding. Additional research should be conducted to further evaluate the relationship between TCVs and NDs. This is especially true because the handling of vaccine safety data from the National Immunization Program of the CDC has been called into question by the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences in 2005.

Posted by turbo_dude55 on November 22, 2006 at 5:56 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Here's a statement from Alex Jones (infowars.com) on the vaccines. Exposing the NWO, (New World Order) who run the governments. It was they who decided to have mercury in vaccines, they wanted this for their own nefarious reasons:

"We are here simply trying to defend liberty. You have threatened us. You have threatened our countries, you have threatened our sovereignty. You have threatened our lively hoods. Your world government in your own statements, in your own policy reports are detrimental to the average man woman and child. You have more power and more money than you could ever spend. You own the central banks that print the money. Why, then, do you continue to dehumanize us? Why do you put mercury in the vaccines? Stani(?)sodium chloride in the water? Why? Why do you put cancer viruses in the vaccines? Why have you used depleted uranium now in four seperate nations, the equivalent of 44,000 a-bombs of uranium now in the atmosphere.
Why are you doing this? Why are you so dark? Why are you so destructive? Why are you destroying your own future?"

This was an angery demonstration to those secretly controling our lives and gradually taking away our rights and freedoms. WAKE UP WORLD! THIS IS NOT CONSPIRACY WHEN ITS TRUTH!!! I urge those uneducated in this truth to search it out. Infowars.com is the perfect place to start learning, just have an open mind!

Posted by TimKasemodel on November 30, 2006 at 2:47 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Owinurame, you must have misunderstood me. I was not asking for a CDC funded epidemiological study on vaccinated children, I was asking for actual clinical studies done on a test subject (animal, tissue sample, or infant child for instance) exposed to the amount of mercury in one vaccine, (much less the rigorous schedule our kids had in the nineties) and can definitively show that there were NO harmful effects. Heck, I would even like to see a test on the "trace" amounts of mercury STILL in some infant vaccines (just to debunk another one of your lies) that show 1 microgram is safe if there was one - there is not.

If you are not able to come up with any, I suggest you stop lying to people that it is safe. I also suggest you give your real name, or someone might think you are part of one of the groups being funded by the CDC and the Immunization Action Coalition (and by extension, the drug companies) to go after any writer who dares to tell the truth about thimerosal. I would love to see what other studies you are counting on for proof, but why would I post my e-mail address for you when you are afraid to even give your own name?

Tim Kasemodel
Wayzata MN
Father of mercury damaged child

Posted by Owinurame on December 1, 2006 at 6:28 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Tim
I can understand your anger but not your obtuseness.

Re: the abstract of the study I posted - So the CDC has been conspiring in Denmark for the last 30+ years? Don't you think that is a bit of a stretch?

Which infant vaccine currently has thimerosal?

Why in God's name would the American Academy of Pediatrics want to harm children?

Are you interested in science finding other possible causes of autism and developing true preventive interventions or do you just want to stay mad and toss blame about irresponsibly?

Posted by Cusanus on January 18, 2007 at 2:21 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Truly, that mercury in vaccines causes autism there is NO doubt, and that plus other sources of mercury, esp dental fillings, causes MS and a multitude of other disorders, including almost all "mental" disorders - the gov and med industry know these things. For my personal info and family history of merc poisoning symptoms, visit my site, http://www.mercuryxxpoisoned.com
thanks.

Posted by chairgrrl on April 27, 2007 at 2:50 p.m. (Suggest removal)

well, if the study between children who did get vaccines and those that did not were to be bonafide, the mother must be added to the equation. If those children who did or did not get mercury vaccines had mother's who DID get a flu shot containing mercury, then the study is flawed and therefore discounted. Also, the testing of the mother's mercury levels whether or not she received any kind of shot containing mercury(because of mercury contamined food or living in a highly polluted area) must be mandatory criteria for the study of the children to be a true control group.

chew on that for awhile....

Posted by Boxer_Dog on May 4, 2007 at 5:28 p.m. (Suggest removal)

After much public controversy surrounding
the mercury content of childhood vaccinations,
Health Advocacy in the Public Interest (HAPI)
raised $500 to have four vaccines tested for
heavy metal content. The vials were sent to
Doctor’s Data, an independent lab which
specializes in heavy metal testing in the USA.

Many manufacturers voluntarily began
producing supposed ‘mercury-free’ vaccines
in 1999. Some product inserts currently claim
that a ‘trace’ amount of mercury still exists in
the final product but that the amount has been
greatly reduced. Others claim to be producing
completely mercury-free products.

During an investigation into the mercury
issue, HAPI learned that Thimerosal, a 50%
mercury compound, is still being used to
produce most vaccines and that the
manufacturers are simply ‘filtering it out’ of
the final product. However, according to Boyd
Haley, PhD, Chemistry Department Chair,
University of Kentucky, mercury binds to the
antigenic protein in the vaccine and cannot be
completely filtered out.

All four vaccine vials tested contained
mercury despite manufacturer claims that two
of the vials were completely mercury-free.
All four vials also contained aluminum, one
nine times more than the other three, which
tremendously enhances the toxicity of mercury,
causing neuronal death in the brain.

The mercury content of routine childhood
vaccinations has been linked to the current
autism epidemic as well as numerous other
neurological disorders affecting children
today. Currently, one in six children are
affected in some way and one in 250 children
are diagnosed as autistic compared to one in
10,000 prior to mercury-containing vaccines.

It is the position of Dr. Haley as well as
HAPI that if mercury can be detected in any
vaccine using standard instrumentation, the
content should be disclosed in the product
insert and manufacturers should not be allowed
to call the product “mercury-free”.
Executive Director of HAPI, Dawn Winkler,
met with FDA officials in Silver Spring,
Maryland on July 27, 2004 to discuss blatant
mislabelling and misrepresentation of
ingredients in vaccinations which are licensed
by the FDA. Clearly, more testing is needed.

The FDA has the ability and authority to take
Press Release, August 12, 2004, from Health Advocacy in the Public Interest (HAPI)
Vaccines are not Mercury-Free
on the necessary testing; however, at present,
this task sadly appears to be up to the public.
HAPI will be attempting to raise more funds
to test more vaccines in an effort to pressure
the FDA to crack down on manufacturers to
label their products correctly.