FYI for parents with young children

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FYI for parents with young children

Received this today from Dr. Garry Gordon MD, by e-mail...

Thiomersal again is being injected into children under 3 years of age in
California for largely worthless flu shots so we will have more autism just
when it looked as though we had turned a corner. And by now you understand
that many children have gene defects that do not permit them to handle any
extra mercury particularly when it is injected and there is always a big
risk of some thiomersal in the flu vaccines. When will they ever learn??
Read this and don't let them give flu vaccinations to the children of your
patients; even the CDC admits the benefits for the children are not there!!
Garry F. Gordon MD,DO,MD(H) President, Gordon Research Institute
www.gordonresearch.com

#1: California officials announce plan to inject infants with mercury-laced
vaccinesFriday, November 03, 2006 by: Jessica Fraser (NewsTarget) California
health officials announced today that children younger than 3 will be
temporarily allowed to receive flu shots containing a mercury-laced
preservative called thimerosal, after physicians statewide said mercury-free
vaccines were running short. Earlier this year, California passed a state
law banning vaccines containing thimerosal from being injected in pregnant
women and children under 3 years old, but reports of flu shot shortages have
temporarily overruled the law. The exemption applies only to children under
3, and will last six weeks to give the pediatric vaccine maker --
Pennsylvania-based Sanofi Pasteur -- enough time to ship an additional half
million doses. "We feel it is important to offer this short-term alternative
to parents and health care providers in order to ensure young children are
protected from the potentially severe effects of the flu," said Kim Belshe,
secretary of the California Health and Human Services Agency, in a
statement.
Dr. Randy Bergen, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at Kaiser
Permanente, said young children and the elderly are most vulnerable to
seriously complications from influenza, and children under 3 who are getting
their first flu shots will actually need two doses to receive full benefits.
The mercury preservative thimerosal -- which is roughly 50 percent mercury
by weight -- has been used in U.S. vaccines since the 1930s to help prevent
fungal and bacterial contamination. However, in the 1990s parents and
physicians brought awareness to thimerosal's possible link to rising child
autism rates. Last year, anti-thimerosal lobbying groups successfully banned
vaccines containing the preservative from being given to young children and
pregnant women. However, the law can be waived if mercury-free vaccines are
in short supply. Four California medical groups -- the California branch of
the American Academy of Pediatrics, the California Medical Association, the
California Academy of Family Physicians and Kaiser Permanente -- recently
asked the state to temporarily waive the law after some clinics reported
running short of the mercury-free kids' vaccine.

#2 National Autism AssociationA Poisonous Move for Kids by CDC, by Robert F.
Kennedy Jr

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert...s_b_16899.html

On February 22, CDC announced that it is dramatically expanding America's
flu vaccination program to include all children between six months and 5
years and their siblings and caretakers. But, guess what CDC forgot to
mention? There is not nearly enough thimerosal-free flu vaccine to go
around. Vaccine makers produced fewer than 8 million thimerosal-free flu
doses this season, which doesn't bode well for the more than 17 million
children designated to receive flu shots under CDC's new protocol.
Thimerosal is the mercury-based preservative that has been linked to the
epidemic of neurological disorders including speech delays, language delays,
hyperactivity, attention-deficit disorder, and autism in American children
born after 1989. CDC recommended the removal of thimerosal from children's
vaccines by 2001, but most flu vaccinations still contain 25 micrograms of
thimerosal in every 0.5ml dose. Under CDC's new recommendations, every
American child under five will be injected once each year, with a double
dose for first-timers. By his fifth birthday, a child whose parents cannot
obtain the child-safe vaccine will have received up to 100 micrograms of
thimerosal, which is half ethyl mercury. A recent scientific study indicates
that many children will retain the tissue-destroying toxin in their brain
and organs for years. CDC has moved aggressively to cut funding and derail
follow-up studies that examine the impacts of retained mercury in children's
brains.In its announcement, CDC admitted that the health risks from flu to
children do not justify the dramatic expansion of the vaccination program.
For the first time in history, CDC rationalized the new protocols by arguing
that the inoculations will spare parents and the health care industry
significant lost work time now spent taking care of sick children. Although
framed as a recommendation, CDC's new protocols function as mandates, since
they establish the standards of care for the medical profession. Doctors who
fall short of that standard are liable if a patient were to die from
flu.Since CDC is not requiring production of thimerosal-free children's flu
vaccines, its expanded recommendations are bound to provoke a scramble among
parents, pediatricians and HMOs to get their hands on the limited stashes of
thimerosal-free flu vaccines.CDC's new protocols contemplate inoculating 185
million Americans with influenza vaccines. The industry shipped only 81
million doses this year, so even before CDC announced its new requirements,
the battle to secure flu vaccines was ferocious. When vaccine manufacturer
Sanofi Pasteur opened its phone lines to accept pre-orders on January 31, it
was flooded with calls from physicians, hospitals and HMOs desperate to
reserve vaccines. During the first 30 minutes Sanofi got 40,000 phone calls
and over 200,000 calls within eight hours, collapsing its communications
system. By week's end it had received 400,000 calls -- more than the company
customarily receives in a year.Mercury-free flu shots are in particularly
short supply. Sanofi, the only commercial supplier of thimerosal-free
pediatric influenza vaccines, produced only eight million children's doses
this year. CDC's announcement increases the pool of targeted children by
over 11 million kids, ages 2 to 5 years old. Only about one-third of
America's children under age five will be lucky enough to get the child-safe
vaccines. While CDC's Director of Immunizations Dr. Lance Rodewald assured
me he expects no shortage of thimerosal-free vaccine, doctors and medical
groups are telling a different story. Those who customarily give their
patients only thimerosal-free flu shots are already finding that the
industry cannot fill their orders for the 2006-2007 season. Pediatrician
Lawrence Rosen, Director of Pediatrics at Pascack Valley Hospital in
Westwood, New Jersey, told us that his eight-doctor family medical practice
had been informed by Sanofi that the company was unable to fill his order
for next season. "It was like trying to get tickets to a Rolling Stones
concert," he said. Sanofi will give him only 300 of the 900 thimerosal-free
doses he needs. "The only other shots I can get contain thimerosal, and I'm
not going to do that." According to Rosen, the problem is widespread across
the country, with very few practices able to fill their orders for flu
shots. "The gist is there's not enough safe vaccine. The government wants us
to give more shots, but there's no supply. They are leaving millions of kids
between the ages of 3 and 5 with no option -- millions of kids. "Sanofi has
said that the company was prepared to double production of thimerosal-free
children's flu vaccine, but that there were no requests from CDC or the
State Health Departments that it do so. Indeed CDC has ordered 3.5 million
doses from Sanofi for its Vaccines for Children Program, which provides
vaccines to economically disadvantaged children mainly in minority
communities. Only a fraction of these will be thimerosal-free, according to
Rodewald. He refused to disclose the precise number.Why will CDC inject
millions of minority kids in America's poorest neighborhoods with poison
proven to kill brain tissue and cause learning disorders when child-safe
vaccines are available? CDC's spokesperson Glen Nowak explained to me the
agency "doesn't have a preference for thimerosal-free vaccines" despite its
repeated statements to the contrary since 1999. CDC also admitted it has no
efforts underway to further educate the public about thimerosal, or to
encourage manufacturers to move more quickly toward 100 percent mercury-free
vaccines. CDC's recommendation to vaccinate millions of additional children
without assuring any additional capacity of thimerosal-free vaccines is a
bad one. It will almost certainly encounter stiff resistance as skeptical
parents and pediatricians balk at injecting young children with a known
brain poison by order of bureaucrats that they increasingly don't trust.


Christopher Wiechert, C.N.C.


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