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Thimerosal Truth
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Thursday, June 16, 2005 Why Won't the CDC Allow Access to the Vaccine Safety Datalink? Memo to CDC: We're not getting our money's worth David Kirby May 23, 2005 Can mercury in vaccines cause autism in children? This hotly disputed question will only burn brighter as more biological evidence surfaces to suggest a link. But a definitive answer might take years. Meanwhile, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is sitting on a multi-million-dollar database - paid for by you and me - that could probably resolve this contretemps within weeks. They have the data. We paid for the data. Yet we cannot see the data. The information is kept under lock and key within the massive health agency -- as jealously guarded as nuclear secrets. The CDC tells us that they have looked at the data exhaustively and found "no evidence of harm." They implied that their own scientists are perfectly capable of analyzing the data, thank you very much, and outside researchers cannot be trusted to independently verify their analyses, nor to protect the confidentiality of patients whose numbers they would be crunching. But, as any high school student can tell you, the replication of a study is the hallmark of all good science. Without access to the raw data originally used by the CDC researchers, it is impossible to verify their work. All we can do is trust that they got it right. The CDC, which has budgeted nearly $200 million to operate the Vaccine Safety Datalink, spent four years analyzing data from children who received varying amounts of thimerosal in their vaccines. The study went through five different permutations before being published in November, 2003. Early study "generations," which were never meant to see the light of day, showed highly elevated, statistically significant increased risks for autism and other disorders among the kids receiving the most mercury. But by the time the study was published, most of these associations had somehow disappeared entirely. Only two outside researchers, Mark and David Geier, have managed to gain access to the raw CDC data. They faced daunting hurdles to get into the CDC computer center, and nearly crippling software malfunctions once they were inside. But among the data they did manage to mine, they reportedly found highly elevated risks for autism among children in the highest mercury exposure group. So we now have two extremely different interpretations of the same data. It is way past time that the CDC allow a third team - outside researchers completely acceptable to all parties involved in this dispute - into the database to conduct any analyses they see fit. (Patients names are removed from the data, making it exceedingly hard for researchers to identify anyone, even if they desired, which is extremely unlikely in itself). It sounds reasonable, it sounds nice. But don't hold your breath. The CDC is hardly issuing engraved invitations to come trawl its mainframes, despite a harshly written report earlier this year from the Institute of Medicine. The IOM complained of CDC foot dragging, and even insolence, on this matter, and suggested that vaccine officials at the health agency seek "legal counsel." Why? Because the original datasets of children used by the government have, as they say, gone missing. (Actually, the official explanation was that they "were not archived in a standard fashion.") The intentional loss or destruction of taxpayer funded data or datasets is a violation of the Federal Data Quality Act. It is a felony, and someone could go to jail for it. Meanwhile, the data just sit there. Our data, not theirs. CDC officials insist they have an "open mind" on this issue, and that thimerosal has not been ruled out as a possible cause of autism and other disorders. But they also insist that the vaccine safety database yielded no evidence of harm. If that is true, then why are they so reluctant to let someone else in to verify this claim? I cannot answer that question, because the CDC is not talking to me. But I do know that people with nothing to hide are unencumbered by doubts of what others will find if they rifle through their closet. If the data can prove that injecting a known neurotoxin into infants at levels up to 125 times over federal safety limits was a safe and sane thing to do, then why isn't the CDC having an open house for all researchers worth their salt to come on down and have a look-see for themselves? Without access to the raw data, parents who support the thimerosal theory - and their allies in Congress, academia and law - are falling back on other recent studies that show a possible link between mercury and autism. They may not have the epidemiology on their side, yet, but the mounting evidence emerging from the fields of biology and toxicology is becoming too urgent to ignore. Recent published studies have shown: + Autistic children retain mercury at much higher rates than non-autistic kids. + Autistic children lack certain sulfur-based proteins that bind to heavy metals and remove them from the body. + Autistic children have a dysfunctional immune profile generally consistent with mercury toxicity. + The rate of increase in reported autism cases peaked between 1987 and 1992, the same years that new mercury-containing vaccines were added to the U.S. schedule. + Mice with autoimmune disorders react horrifically to mercury exposure from vaccines, whereas typical mice of the same species do not. + In primates, mercury from vaccines was more likely to become trapped in the brain than mercury from fish. + Children who live near mercury spewing power plants have an elevated risk of developing autism. These are all intriguing, to be sure. But what we really need is to get our hands on the raw CDC data - our data. David Kirby is author of "Evidence of Harm" (St. Martin's Press) www.evidenceofharm.com http://www.whale.to/v/elililly.html http://www.upi.com/ConsumerHealthDai...4-015555-8479r "The (National Institutes of Health)-funded study ... found that thimerosal, best known for its use as an ethylmercury-based preservative in infant vaccines and pregnancy shots, is actually more toxic to the brain than methylmercury." Thiomersal (INN), commonly known in the United States as thimerosal, (C9H9HgNaO2S) is a mercury-containing (approximately 49% mercury by weight) organic compound (organomercurial) used as an antiseptic and antifungal agent. It was developed and registered under the trade name Merthiolate in 1929 by the pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly and Company, and has been used as a preservative in vaccines, immune globulin preparations, skin test antigens, antivenoms, ophthalmic and nasal products, and tattoo inks. The compound is being phased out from most childhood vaccinations by packaging the vaccines in single-dose vials, which eliminates the need for bacteriostatics like thiomersal. Stability Stable. May degrade in sunlight. Incompatible with strong acids, strong bases, strong oxidizing agents, iodine, heavy metal salts. Toxicology Thiomersal is a very toxic compound which is harmful by inhalation and ingestion (hazard symbol T+). It is a neoplastigen and a teratogen. Thiomersal is also dangerous for the environment (hazard symbol N). For more safety information on how to handle thiomersal, consult an MSDS Thiomersal causes susceptible bacteria to autolyze (break down their own cells with self-produced enzymes) via an unknown mechanism.[citation needed] In the body, it is metabolized to ethylmercury (C2H5Hg+) and thiosalicylate.[1] http://www.ncirs.usyd.edu.au/facts/f-thiomersal.html == Medical News Today Thimerosal, found in childhood vaccines, can increase the risk of autism-like damage in mice 09 Jun 2004 A new study indicates that postnatal exposure to thimerosal, a mercury preservative commonly used in a number of childhood vaccines, can lead to the development of autism-like damage in autoimmune disease susceptible mice. This animal model, the first to show that the administration of low-dose ethylmercury can lead to behavioral and neurological changes in the developing brain, reinforces previous studies showing that a genetic predisposition affects risk in combination with certain environmental triggers. The study was conducted by researchers at the Jerome L. and Dawn Greene Infectious Disease Laboratory at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University. Over the past 20 years, there has been a striking increase--at least ten-fold since 1985--in the number of children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders. Genetic factors alone cannot account for this rise in prevalence. Researchers at the Mailman School, led by Dr. Mady Hornig, created an animal model to explore the relationship between thimerosal (ethylmercury) and autism, hypothesizing that the combination of genetic susceptibility and environmental exposure to mercury in childhood vaccines may cause neurotoxicity. Cumulative mercury burden through other sources, including in utero exposures to mercury in fish or vaccines, may also lead to damage in susceptible hosts. Timing and quantity of thimerosal dosing for the mouse model were developed using the U.S. immunization schedule for children, with doses calculated for mice based on 10th percentile weight of U.S. boys at age two, four, six, and twelve months. The researchers found the subset of autoimmune disease susceptible mice with thimerosal exposure to express many important aspects of the behavioral and neuropathologic features of autism spectrum disorders, including: Abnormal response to novel environments; Behavioral impoverishment (limited range of behaviors and decreased exploration of environment); Significant abnormalities in brain architecture, affecting areas subserving emotion and cognition; Increased brain size. These findings have relevance for identification of autism cases relating to environmental factors; design of treatment strategies; and development of rational immunization programs. The use of thimerosal in vaccines has been reduced over the past few years, although it is still present in some influenza vaccines. Identifying the connection between genetic susceptibility and an environmental trigger for autism--in this case thimerosal exposure--is important because it may promote discovery of effective interventions for and limit exposure in a specific population, stated the lead author Dr. Mady Hornig. Because the developing brain can be exposed to toxins that are long gone by the time symptoms appear, clues gathered in these animal models can then be evaluated through prospective human birth cohorts--providing a powerful to tool to dissect the interaction between genes and the environment over time. Citation source: Molecular Psychiatry 2004 Volume 9, advance on line publication doi:10.1038/sj.mp.4001529 For further information on this work, please contact Mady Hornig, MD, Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health, Greene Infectious Disease Laboratory, 722 W 168th St, New York, New York 10032, United States of America, phone: 212-342-9036; FAX: 949-824-1229; e-mail: http://www.generationrescue.org/images/060406.gif http://www.nationalautismassociation...Pediatrics.pdf http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2...2/213632.shtml A new study shows that autism may be linked after all to the use of mercury in childhood vaccines, despite government's previous claims to the contrary. An article in the March 10, 2006, issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons shows that since mercury was removed from childhood vaccines, the alarming increase in reported rates of autism and other neurological disorders (NDs) in children not only stopped, but actually dropped sharply - by as much as 35 percent. Using the government's own databases, independent researchers analyzed reports of childhood NDs, including autism, before and after removal of mercury-based preservatives. Authors David A. Geier, B.A. and Mark R. Geier, M.D., Ph.D. analyze data from the CDC's Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) and the California Department of Developmental Services (CDDS) in "Early Downward Trends in Neurodevelopmental Disorders Following Removal of Thimerosal-Containing Vaccines." The numbers from California show that reported autism rates hit a high of 800 in May 2003. If that trend had continued, the reports would have skyrocketed to more than 1000 by the beginning of 2006. But in fact, the Geiers report that the number actually went down to only 620, a real decrease of 22 percent, and a decrease from the projections of 35 percent. This analysis directly contradicts 2004 recommendations of the Institute of Medicine which examined vaccine safety data from the National Immunization Program (NIP) of the CDC. While not willing to either rule out or to corroborate a relationship between mercury and autism, the IOM soft-pedaled its findings, and decided no more studies were needed. The authors write: "The IOM stated that the evidence favored rejection of a causal relationship between thimerosal and autism, that such a relationship was not biologically plausible, and that no further studies should be conducted to evaluate it." As more and more vaccines were added to the mandatory schedule of vaccines for children, the dose of the mercury-based preservative thimerosal rose, so that the cumulative dose injected into babies exceeded the toxic threshold set by many government agencies. Mercury is known to damage nerve cells in very low concentrations. The concern about vaccines may actually be underrated, as it is generally acknowledged that the voluntary reporting of such disorders has resulted in vast underreporting of new cases. For example, the Iowa state legislature banned thimerosal from all vaccines administered there after it documented a 700-fold increase in that state alone. California followed suit, and 32 states are considering doing so. Up until about 1989 preschool children got only 3 vaccines (polio, DPT, MMR). By 1999 the CDC recommended a total of 22 vaccines to be given before children reach the 1st grade, including Hepatitis B, which is given to newborns within the first 24 hours of birth. Many of these vaccines contained mercury. In the 1990s approximately 40 million children were injected with mercury-containing vaccines. The cumulative amount of mercury being given to children in this number of vaccines would be an amount 187 times the EPA daily exposure limit. The Geiers conclude that mercury continues to be a concern, as it is still added to some of the most commonly-used vaccines, such as those for flu. Despite its removal from many childhood vaccines, thimerosal is still routinely added to some formulations of influenza vaccine administered to U.S. infants, as well as to several other vaccines (e.g. tetanus-diphtheria and monovalent tetanus) administered to older children and adults. In 2004, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS) retreated from the stated 1999 goal of the AAP and the PHS to remove thimerosal from U.S. vaccines as soon as possible.As a result, assessing the safety of TCVs [thimerosal-containing vaccines] is a matter of significant importance." Editor's Note: The new study confirms claims made by Dr. Russell Blaylock in the Blaylock Wellness Report that childhood vaccines that contain thimerosal, a mercury based preservative, could cause serious harm to children, including autism. Dr. Blaylock has also warned that vaccines for adults, such as the flu shot, pose dangers. p://www.pulsetc.com/article.php?sid=3072 Mercury-free vaccines debated in MN Legislatu sensible but not easy A bill introduced in the state Legislature would require that a mercury-free version of a vaccine be given whenever it is available to health care practitioners. If not available, then a vaccine containing mercury could be given. But if the vaccine contains more than a trace of mercury (more than one microgram), the practitioner must disclose that "this vaccine contains more than a trace amount of the mercury compound, thimerosal." Thimerosal is a highly toxic substance. At first glance, the proposal is disarmingly sensible and noncontroversial: It would simply establish a preference for mercury-free vaccines, when such an alternative is available. Mercury is found in "trace" amounts in most vaccines and currently about 90 percent of the flu shots given in Minnesota have a substantial amount of mercury-25 micrograms-in them; yet the Minnesota Department of Health promotes flu shots to pregnant women, the elderly, people with weakened immune systems and now even children, without a warning to anyone about the mercury lurking in the shots. Leading scientific researchers are appalled at the continued use of the thimerosal in vaccines and there is a consensus among leading independent mercury researchers that mercury in medicine (e.g. thimerosal) and in dentistry (e.g. the dental amalgam fillings) should be banned. Many of them have testified before Congress. But their statements have not been fully conveyed to the public by national or local media. Therefore the public and the Legislature remain ignorant of the menace posed by mercury in medicine and have been all too easily soothed by the reassurances of the Department of Health regarding the vaccine safety issues. Like the departments of health in every other state, the Minnesota Department of Health is tethered to its federal funding source, which is primarily the Center for Disease Control (CDC), based in Atlanta, Ga. As a result, state health department priorities (and thinking) closely follows that of the CDC. And that is a big problem because, as a number of exposés reveal, the CDC has been found to have an overly cozy relationship with the pharmaceutical industry. In particular, transcripts of secret meetings held between CDC officials, a vaccine safety researcher under contract with the CDC, and a drug company representative reveal that all of these players fully understood that it was the grand escalation of mandated childhood vaccinations that started in 1990 that gave rise to the explosive (ten-fold) increase of childhood autism during the 1990s. The entire public health establishment seems to be scripted to deny what the CDC clearly, but secretly, knew about the American autism scandal. The book "Evidence of Harm," by New York Times health writer David Kirby, documents the CDC/drug company collusion and cover-up in a nonfictional work that centers around the lives of parents of autistic children who formed a nonprofit group called SafeMinds . Spearheading the mercury-free vaccine bill in Minnesota are citizen lobbyists such as Tim Kasemodel, a father of an autistic boy, and Jerri Johnson, a homeopath. They are backed by the Minnesota Natural Health Legal Reform Project, (MNHLRP) a non-profit civic group that lobbies for health freedom and natural health issues. "The pharmaceutical companies now provide some mercury-free version for almost every type of vaccine," Jerri Johnson explains. "Now it is up to practitioners to stop using the mercury version. This legislation will insure that the practitioners will not give a mercury containing vaccine when a mercury free version is available." Since our state health department is incapable of driving the change, it remains for the Legislature-which can be more receptive to the voices of the vaccine-injured public-to drive the change. "I'm just a parent," Tim Kasemodel adds, "but some of the people lobbying against our bill haven't read as much as I have. There is no safe mercury in vaccines, even at what are called the "trace' amounts. But the Department of Health continues to stand behind their old science." The citizen reformers found a strong author in the House, Rep. Shelly Madore, a mother of an autistic son. She expected her bill, HF 1917, to be heard in the Public Health Committee, chaired by Rep. Karen Clark (DFL, South Minneapolis-Phillips, Whittier) who enthusiastically supports the bill. Support for the bill in her committee is very strong. But another Minneapolis DFLer, Rep. Paul Thissen (Hale-Page-Diamond Lake) pulled Madore's bill into his Health Policy Committee; Thissen has refused to give the bill a hearing and also refuses to let the bill out of his committee to be heard by Karen Clark in her committee. Thissen did not return phone calls from this reporter. The anti-mercury reformers faced a more promising situation in the Senate, where the Health Committee is chaired by Sen. John Marty, who himself is a mercury foe and who believes it's important to give the legislation a hearing. The reformers found their senate champion in Sen. Patricia Torres Ray, (DFL, South Minneapolis-Longfellow, Nokomis). But after Torres Ray introduced her copy of the bill, SF 1780, she was blitzed by state health department messages stating that her bill would harm the public by threatening public confidence in the entire vaccination program in Minnesota. She was also told that "several mercury containing vaccines are being moved out of the market in the next couple of years" so there is no need for a law, and was assured "there is no science" linking mercury in vaccines to health harm." Torres Ray, who is admittedly new to the vaccine controversy, has agreed to meet with the Department of Health to hear out their many "concerns" about the anti-mercury legislation; Torres Ray realizes that that tactic of delay may make it too late for her bill to be heard in the Senate by the deadline. The Goliath lurking behind this Minnesota struggle is the pharmaceutical drug industry. The drug industry pours substantial money into campaign committees, public relations, lobbyists, and helps orchestrate directly or indirectly the marketing boost that vaccination programs get from our state health department. The health department doesn't welcome scrutiny of this or of the peculiar and remarkable tendency of our health department to side with the industry even at the expense of public health. The desperate tactics of the state health department -designed to forestall legislative committee hearings on the bill at all costs-likely reflects its desire to avoid the embarrassment of a legislative rebuke on the mercury safety issue. The worst nightmare of Chris Ehresman, who heads the department's vaccination program, is surely that a more curious public will start to surf the internet and discover the fact that mercury in vaccines has severely impacted a shocking number of children (autism, seizures, ADHD, learning disabilities) and has also harmed many of our most vulnerable adults (worsening the problem of dementia and other neurological and auto immune disorders). || |
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Thimerosal Truth
Considering that thimerosal has never been proven to cause illness in
the quanities that used to be used, and that thimerosal has been removed from all childhood vaccines, why do you waste bandwidth? Jeff |
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Thimerosal Truth
In misc.health.alternative Jeff wrote:
: Considering that thimerosal has never been proven to cause illness in : the quanities that used to be used, and that thimerosal has been removed : from all childhood vaccines, why do you waste bandwidth? "Jan Drew" is a poorly designed 'bot -- presumably an undergraduate computer science project that got a "C+" or so. "She" doesn't have a choice in the matter any more than the old Eliza program did. ----- Richard Schultz Department of Chemistry, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel Opinions expressed are mine alone, and not those of Bar-Ilan University ----- "Logic is a wreath of pretty flowers which smell bad." |
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Thimerosal Truth
http://www.thecre.com/quality/2005/2...f_quality.html
Thursday, June 16, 2005 Why Won't the CDC Allow Access to the Vaccine Safety Datalink? Memo to CDC: We're not getting our money's worth David Kirby May 23, 2005 Can mercury in vaccines cause autism in children? This hotly disputed question will only burn brighter as more biological evidence surfaces to suggest a link. But a definitive answer might take years. Meanwhile, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is sitting on a multi-million-dollar database - paid for by you and me - that could probably resolve this contretemps within weeks. They have the data. We paid for the data. Yet we cannot see the data. The information is kept under lock and key within the massive health agency -- as jealously guarded as nuclear secrets. The CDC tells us that they have looked at the data exhaustively and found "no evidence of harm." They implied that their own scientists are perfectly capable of analyzing the data, thank you very much, and outside researchers cannot be trusted to independently verify their analyses, nor to protect the confidentiality of patients whose numbers they would be crunching. But, as any high school student can tell you, the replication of a study is the hallmark of all good science. Without access to the raw data originally used by the CDC researchers, it is impossible to verify their work. All we can do is trust that they got it right. The CDC, which has budgeted nearly $200 million to operate the Vaccine Safety Datalink, spent four years analyzing data from children who received varying amounts of thimerosal in their vaccines. The study went through five different permutations before being published in November, 2003. Early study "generations," which were never meant to see the light of day, showed highly elevated, statistically significant increased risks for autism and other disorders among the kids receiving the most mercury. But by the time the study was published, most of these associations had somehow disappeared entirely. Only two outside researchers, Mark and David Geier, have managed to gain access to the raw CDC data. They faced daunting hurdles to get into the CDC computer center, and nearly crippling software malfunctions once they were inside. But among the data they did manage to mine, they reportedly found highly elevated risks for autism among children in the highest mercury exposure group. So we now have two extremely different interpretations of the same data. It is way past time that the CDC allow a third team - outside researchers completely acceptable to all parties involved in this dispute - into the database to conduct any analyses they see fit. (Patients names are removed from the data, making it exceedingly hard for researchers to identify anyone, even if they desired, which is extremely unlikely in itself). It sounds reasonable, it sounds nice. But don't hold your breath. The CDC is hardly issuing engraved invitations to come trawl its mainframes, despite a harshly written report earlier this year from the Institute of Medicine. The IOM complained of CDC foot dragging, and even insolence, on this matter, and suggested that vaccine officials at the health agency seek "legal counsel." Why? Because the original datasets of children used by the government have, as they say, gone missing. (Actually, the official explanation was that they "were not archived in a standard fashion.") The intentional loss or destruction of taxpayer funded data or datasets is a violation of the Federal Data Quality Act. It is a felony, and someone could go to jail for it. Meanwhile, the data just sit there. Our data, not theirs. CDC officials insist they have an "open mind" on this issue, and that thimerosal has not been ruled out as a possible cause of autism and other disorders. But they also insist that the vaccine safety database yielded no evidence of harm. If that is true, then why are they so reluctant to let someone else in to verify this claim? I cannot answer that question, because the CDC is not talking to me. But I do know that people with nothing to hide are unencumbered by doubts of what others will find if they rifle through their closet. If the data can prove that injecting a known neurotoxin into infants at levels up to 125 times over federal safety limits was a safe and sane thing to do, then why isn't the CDC having an open house for all researchers worth their salt to come on down and have a look-see for themselves? Without access to the raw data, parents who support the thimerosal theory - and their allies in Congress, academia and law - are falling back on other recent studies that show a possible link between mercury and autism. They may not have the epidemiology on their side, yet, but the mounting evidence emerging from the fields of biology and toxicology is becoming too urgent to ignore. Recent published studies have shown: + Autistic children retain mercury at much higher rates than non-autistic kids. + Autistic children lack certain sulfur-based proteins that bind to heavy metals and remove them from the body. + Autistic children have a dysfunctional immune profile generally consistent with mercury toxicity. + The rate of increase in reported autism cases peaked between 1987 and 1992, the same years that new mercury-containing vaccines were added to the U.S. schedule. + Mice with autoimmune disorders react horrifically to mercury exposure from vaccines, whereas typical mice of the same species do not. + In primates, mercury from vaccines was more likely to become trapped in the brain than mercury from fish. + Children who live near mercury spewing power plants have an elevated risk of developing autism. These are all intriguing, to be sure. But what we really need is to get our hands on the raw CDC data - our data. David Kirby is author of "Evidence of Harm" (St. Martin's Press) www.evidenceofharm.com http://www.whale.to/v/elililly.html http://www.upi.com/ConsumerHealthDai...=20061024-0155... "The (National Institutes of Health)-funded study ... found that thimerosal, best known for its use as an ethylmercury-based preservative in infant vaccines and pregnancy shots, is actually more toxic to the brain than methylmercury." Thiomersal (INN), commonly known in the United States as thimerosal, (C9H9HgNaO2S) is a mercury-containing (approximately 49% mercury by weight) organic compound (organomercurial) used as an antiseptic and antifungal agent. It was developed and registered under the trade name Merthiolate in 1929 by the pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly and Company, and has been used as a preservative in vaccines, immune globulin preparations, skin test antigens, antivenoms, ophthalmic and nasal products, and tattoo inks. The compound is being phased out from most childhood vaccinations by packaging the vaccines in single-dose vials, which eliminates the need for bacteriostatics like thiomersal. Stability Stable. May degrade in sunlight. Incompatible with strong acids, strong bases, strong oxidizing agents, iodine, heavy metal salts. Toxicology Thiomersal is a very toxic compound which is harmful by inhalation and ingestion (hazard symbol T+). It is a neoplastigen and a teratogen. Thiomersal is also dangerous for the environment (hazard symbol N). For more safety information on how to handle thiomersal, consult an MSDS Thiomersal causes susceptible bacteria to autolyze (break down their own cells with self-produced enzymes) via an unknown mechanism.[citation needed] In the body, it is metabolized to ethylmercury (C2H5Hg+) and thiosalicylate.[1] http://www.ncirs.usyd.edu.au/facts/f-thiomersal.html == Medical News Today Thimerosal, found in childhood vaccines, can increase the risk of autism-like damage in mice 09 Jun 2004 A new study indicates that postnatal exposure to thimerosal, a mercury preservative commonly used in a number of childhood vaccines, can lead to the development of autism-like damage in autoimmune disease susceptible mice. This animal model, the first to show that the administration of low-dose ethylmercury can lead to behavioral and neurological changes in the developing brain, reinforces previous studies showing that a genetic predisposition affects risk in combination with certain environmental triggers. The study was conducted by researchers at the Jerome L. and Dawn Greene Infectious Disease Laboratory at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University. Over the past 20 years, there has been a striking increase--at least ten-fold since 1985--in the number of children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders. Genetic factors alone cannot account for this rise in prevalence. Researchers at the Mailman School, led by Dr. Mady Hornig, created an animal model to explore the relationship between thimerosal (ethylmercury) and autism, hypothesizing that the combination of genetic susceptibility and environmental exposure to mercury in childhood vaccines may cause neurotoxicity. Cumulative mercury burden through other sources, including in utero exposures to mercury in fish or vaccines, may also lead to damage in susceptible hosts. Timing and quantity of thimerosal dosing for the mouse model were developed using the U.S. immunization schedule for children, with doses calculated for mice based on 10th percentile weight of U.S. boys at age two, four, six, and twelve months. The researchers found the subset of autoimmune disease susceptible mice with thimerosal exposure to express many important aspects of the behavioral and neuropathologic features of autism spectrum disorders, including: Abnormal response to novel environments; Behavioral impoverishment (limited range of behaviors and decreased exploration of environment); Significant abnormalities in brain architecture, affecting areas subserving emotion and cognition; Increased brain size. These findings have relevance for identification of autism cases relating to environmental factors; design of treatment strategies; and development of rational immunization programs. The use of thimerosal in vaccines has been reduced over the past few years, although it is still present in some influenza vaccines. Identifying the connection between genetic susceptibility and an environmental trigger for autism--in this case thimerosal exposure--is important because it may promote discovery of effective interventions for and limit exposure in a specific population, stated the lead author Dr. Mady Hornig. Because the developing brain can be exposed to toxins that are long gone by the time symptoms appear, clues gathered in these animal models can then be evaluated through prospective human birth cohorts--providing a powerful to tool to dissect the interaction between genes and the environment over time. Citation source: Molecular Psychiatry 2004 Volume 9, advance on line publication doi:10.1038/sj.mp.4001529 For further information on this work, please contact Mady Hornig, MD, Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health, Greene Infectious Disease Laboratory, 722 W 168th St, New York, New York 10032, United States of America, phone: 212-342-9036; FAX: 949-824-1229; e-mail: http://www.generationrescue.org/images/060406.gif http://www.nationalautismassociation...%20Thimerosal-... http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2...2/213632.shtml A new study shows that autism may be linked after all to the use of mercury in childhood vaccines, despite government's previous claims to the contrary. An article in the March 10, 2006, issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons shows that since mercury was removed from childhood vaccines, the alarming increase in reported rates of autism and other neurological disorders (NDs) in children not only stopped, but actually dropped sharply - by as much as 35 percent. Using the government's own databases, independent researchers analyzed reports of childhood NDs, including autism, before and after removal of mercury-based preservatives. Authors David A. Geier, B.A. and Mark R. Geier, M.D., Ph.D. analyze data from the CDC's Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) and the California Department of Developmental Services (CDDS) in "Early Downward Trends in Neurodevelopmental Disorders Following Removal of Thimerosal-Containing Vaccines." The numbers from California show that reported autism rates hit a high of 800 in May 2003. If that trend had continued, the reports would have skyrocketed to more than 1000 by the beginning of 2006. But in fact, the Geiers report that the number actually went down to only 620, a real decrease of 22 percent, and a decrease from the projections of 35 percent. This analysis directly contradicts 2004 recommendations of the Institute of Medicine which examined vaccine safety data from the National Immunization Program (NIP) of the CDC. While not willing to either rule out or to corroborate a relationship between mercury and autism, the IOM soft-pedaled its findings, and decided no more studies were needed. The authors write: "The IOM stated that the evidence favored rejection of a causal relationship between thimerosal and autism, that such a relationship was not biologically plausible, and that no further studies should be conducted to evaluate it." As more and more vaccines were added to the mandatory schedule of vaccines for children, the dose of the mercury-based preservative thimerosal rose, so that the cumulative dose injected into babies exceeded the toxic threshold set by many government agencies. Mercury is known to damage nerve cells in very low concentrations. The concern about vaccines may actually be underrated, as it is generally acknowledged that the voluntary reporting of such disorders has resulted in vast underreporting of new cases. For example, the Iowa state legislature banned thimerosal from all vaccines administered there after it documented a 700-fold increase in that state alone. California followed suit, and 32 states are considering doing so. Up until about 1989 preschool children got only 3 vaccines (polio, DPT, MMR). By 1999 the CDC recommended a total of 22 vaccines to be given before children reach the 1st grade, including Hepatitis B, which is given to newborns within the first 24 hours of birth. Many of these vaccines contained mercury. In the 1990s approximately 40 million children were injected with mercury-containing vaccines. The cumulative amount of mercury being given to children in this number of vaccines would be an amount 187 times the EPA daily exposure limit. The Geiers conclude that mercury continues to be a concern, as it is still added to some of the most commonly-used vaccines, such as those for flu. Despite its removal from many childhood vaccines, thimerosal is still routinely added to some formulations of influenza vaccine administered to U.S. infants, as well as to several other vaccines (e.g. tetanus-diphtheria and monovalent tetanus) administered to older children and adults. In 2004, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS) retreated from the stated 1999 goal of the AAP and the PHS to remove thimerosal from U.S. vaccines as soon as possible.As a result, assessing the safety of TCVs [thimerosal-containing vaccines] is a matter of significant importance." Editor's Note: The new study confirms claims made by Dr. Russell Blaylock in the Blaylock Wellness Report that childhood vaccines that contain thimerosal, a mercury based preservative, could cause serious harm to children, including autism. Dr. Blaylock has also warned that vaccines for adults, such as the flu shot, pose dangers. p://www.pulsetc.com/article.php?sid=3072 Mercury-free vaccines debated in MN Legislatu sensible but not easy A bill introduced in the state Legislature would require that a mercury-free version of a vaccine be given whenever it is available to health care practitioners. If not available, then a vaccine containing mercury could be given. But if the vaccine contains more than a trace of mercury (more than one microgram), the practitioner must disclose that "this vaccine contains more than a trace amount of the mercury compound, thimerosal." Thimerosal is a highly toxic substance. At first glance, the proposal is disarmingly sensible and noncontroversial: It would simply establish a preference for mercury-free vaccines, when such an alternative is available. Mercury is found in "trace" amounts in most vaccines and currently about 90 percent of the flu shots given in Minnesota have a substantial amount of mercury-25 micrograms-in them; yet the Minnesota Department of Health promotes flu shots to pregnant women, the elderly, people with weakened immune systems and now even children, without a warning to anyone about the mercury lurking in the shots. Leading scientific researchers are appalled at the continued use of the thimerosal in vaccines and there is a consensus among leading independent mercury researchers that mercury in medicine (e.g. thimerosal) and in dentistry (e.g. the dental amalgam fillings) should be banned. Many of them have testified before Congress. But their statements have not been fully conveyed to the public by national or local media. Therefore the public and the Legislature remain ignorant of the menace posed by mercury in medicine and have been all too easily soothed by the reassurances of the Department of Health regarding the vaccine safety issues. Like the departments of health in every other state, the Minnesota Department of Health is tethered to its federal funding source, which is primarily the Center for Disease Control (CDC), based in Atlanta, Ga. As a result, state health department priorities (and thinking) closely follows that of the CDC. And that is a big problem because, as a number of exposés reveal, the CDC has been found to have an overly cozy relationship with the pharmaceutical industry. In particular, transcripts of secret meetings held between CDC officials, a vaccine safety researcher under contract with the CDC, and a drug company representative reveal that all of these players fully understood that it was the grand escalation of mandated childhood vaccinations that started in 1990 that gave rise to the explosive (ten-fold) increase of childhood autism during the 1990s. The entire public health establishment seems to be scripted to deny what the CDC clearly, but secretly, knew about the American autism scandal. The book "Evidence of Harm," by New York Times health writer David Kirby, documents the CDC/drug company collusion and cover-up in a nonfictional work that centers around the lives of parents of autistic children who formed a nonprofit group called SafeMinds . Spearheading the mercury-free vaccine bill in Minnesota are citizen lobbyists such as Tim Kasemodel, a father of an autistic boy, and Jerri Johnson, a homeopath. They are backed by the Minnesota Natural Health Legal Reform Project, (MNHLRP) a non-profit civic group that lobbies for health freedom and natural health issues. "The pharmaceutical companies now provide some mercury-free version for almost every type of vaccine," Jerri Johnson explains. "Now it is up to practitioners to stop using the mercury version. This legislation will insure that the practitioners will not give a mercury containing vaccine when a mercury free version is available." Since our state health department is incapable of driving the change, it remains for the Legislature-which can be more receptive to the voices of the vaccine-injured public-to drive the change. "I'm just a parent," Tim Kasemodel adds, "but some of the people lobbying against our bill haven't read as much as I have. There is no safe mercury in vaccines, even at what are called the "trace' amounts. But the Department of Health continues to stand behind their old science." The citizen reformers found a strong author in the House, Rep. Shelly Madore, a mother of an autistic son. She expected her bill, HF 1917, to be heard in the Public Health Committee, chaired by Rep. Karen Clark (DFL, South Minneapolis-Phillips, Whittier) who enthusiastically supports the bill. Support for the bill in her committee is very strong. But another Minneapolis DFLer, Rep. Paul Thissen (Hale-Page-Diamond Lake) pulled Madore's bill into his Health Policy Committee; Thissen has refused to give the bill a hearing and also refuses to let the bill out of his committee to be heard by Karen Clark in her committee. Thissen did not return phone calls from this reporter. The anti-mercury reformers faced a more promising situation in the Senate, where the Health Committee is chaired by Sen. John Marty, who himself is a mercury foe and who believes it's important to give the legislation a hearing. The reformers found their senate champion in Sen. Patricia Torres Ray, (DFL, South Minneapolis-Longfellow, Nokomis). But after Torres Ray introduced her copy of the bill, SF 1780, she was blitzed by state health department messages stating that her bill would harm the public by threatening public confidence in the entire vaccination program in Minnesota. She was also told that "several mercury containing vaccines are being moved out of the market in the next couple of years" so there is no need for a law, and was assured "there is no science" linking mercury in vaccines to health harm." Torres Ray, who is admittedly new to the vaccine controversy, has agreed to meet with the Department of Health to hear out their many "concerns" about the anti-mercury legislation; Torres Ray realizes that that tactic of delay may make it too late for her bill to be heard in the Senate by the deadline. The Goliath lurking behind this Minnesota struggle is the pharmaceutical drug industry. The drug industry pours substantial money into campaign committees, public relations, lobbyists, and helps orchestrate directly or indirectly the marketing boost that vaccination programs get from our state health department. The health department doesn't welcome scrutiny of this or of the peculiar and remarkable tendency of our health department to side with the industry even at the expense of public health. The desperate tactics of the state health department -designed to forestall legislative committee hearings on the bill at all costs-likely reflects its desire to avoid the embarrassment of a legislative rebuke on the mercury safety issue. The worst nightmare of Chris Ehresman, who heads the department's vaccination program, is surely that a more curious public will start to surf the internet and discover the fact that mercury in vaccines has severely impacted a shocking number of children (autism, seizures, ADHD, learning disabilities) and has also harmed many of our most vulnerable adults (worsening the problem of dementia and other neurological and auto immune disorders). |
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"Jeff" wrote in message ... Considering that thimerosal has never been proven to cause illness in the quanities that used to be used, and that thimerosal has been removed from all childhood vaccines, why do you waste bandwidth? Jeff ******** http://whale.to/vaccines/thimerosal.htm |
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Considering that thimerosal has never been proven to cause illness in the quanities that used to be used, and that thimerosal has been removed from all childhood vaccines, why do you waste bandwidth? "Why Jan wastes bandwidth" is not the topic. -- | The brighter the stupid burns, the more | | chance that someone will see the light. | +- D. C. Sessions -+ |
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"D. C. Sessions" wrote in message ... JOHN wrote: "JOHN" wrote in message ... "Jeff" wrote in message ... Considering that thimerosal has never been proven to cause illness in the quanities that used to be used, and that thimerosal has been removed from all childhood vaccines, why do you waste bandwidth? Jeff ******** http://whale.to/vaccines/thimerosal.htm |
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"Jan Drew" wrote in message ... http://www.thecre.com/quality/2005/2...f_quality.html Thursday, June 16, 2005 Why Won't the CDC Allow Access to the Vaccine Safety Datalink? Memo to CDC: We're not getting our money's worth David Kirby May 23, 2005 Can mercury in vaccines cause autism in children? This hotly disputed question will only burn brighter as more biological evidence surfaces to suggest a link. But a definitive answer might take years. Meanwhile, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is sitting on a multi-million-dollar database - paid for by you and me - that could probably resolve this contretemps within weeks. They have the data. We paid for the data. Yet we cannot see the data. The information is kept under lock and key within the massive health agency -- as jealously guarded as nuclear secrets. The CDC tells us that they have looked at the data exhaustively and found "no evidence of harm." They implied that their own scientists are perfectly capable of analyzing the data, thank you very much, and outside researchers cannot be trusted to independently verify their analyses, nor to protect the confidentiality of patients whose numbers they would be crunching. But, as any high school student can tell you, the replication of a study is the hallmark of all good science. Without access to the raw data originally used by the CDC researchers, it is impossible to verify their work. All we can do is trust that they got it right. The CDC, which has budgeted nearly $200 million to operate the Vaccine Safety Datalink, spent four years analyzing data from children who received varying amounts of thimerosal in their vaccines. The study went through five different permutations before being published in November, 2003. Early study "generations," which were never meant to see the light of day, showed highly elevated, statistically significant increased risks for autism and other disorders among the kids receiving the most mercury. But by the time the study was published, most of these associations had somehow disappeared entirely. Only two outside researchers, Mark and David Geier, have managed to gain access to the raw CDC data. They faced daunting hurdles to get into the CDC computer center, and nearly crippling software malfunctions once they were inside. But among the data they did manage to mine, they reportedly found highly elevated risks for autism among children in the highest mercury exposure group. So we now have two extremely different interpretations of the same data. It is way past time that the CDC allow a third team - outside researchers completely acceptable to all parties involved in this dispute - into the database to conduct any analyses they see fit. (Patients names are removed from the data, making it exceedingly hard for researchers to identify anyone, even if they desired, which is extremely unlikely in itself). It sounds reasonable, it sounds nice. But don't hold your breath. The CDC is hardly issuing engraved invitations to come trawl its mainframes, despite a harshly written report earlier this year from the Institute of Medicine. The IOM complained of CDC foot dragging, and even insolence, on this matter, and suggested that vaccine officials at the health agency seek "legal counsel." Why? Because the original datasets of children used by the government have, as they say, gone missing. (Actually, the official explanation was that they "were not archived in a standard fashion.") The intentional loss or destruction of taxpayer funded data or datasets is a violation of the Federal Data Quality Act. It is a felony, and someone could go to jail for it. Meanwhile, the data just sit there. Our data, not theirs. CDC officials insist they have an "open mind" on this issue, and that thimerosal has not been ruled out as a possible cause of autism and other disorders. But they also insist that the vaccine safety database yielded no evidence of harm. If that is true, then why are they so reluctant to let someone else in to verify this claim? I cannot answer that question, because the CDC is not talking to me. But I do know that people with nothing to hide are unencumbered by doubts of what others will find if they rifle through their closet. If the data can prove that injecting a known neurotoxin into infants at levels up to 125 times over federal safety limits was a safe and sane thing to do, then why isn't the CDC having an open house for all researchers worth their salt to come on down and have a look-see for themselves? Without access to the raw data, parents who support the thimerosal theory - and their allies in Congress, academia and law - are falling back on other recent studies that show a possible link between mercury and autism. They may not have the epidemiology on their side, yet, but the mounting evidence emerging from the fields of biology and toxicology is becoming too urgent to ignore. Recent published studies have shown: + Autistic children retain mercury at much higher rates than non-autistic kids. + Autistic children lack certain sulfur-based proteins that bind to heavy metals and remove them from the body. + Autistic children have a dysfunctional immune profile generally consistent with mercury toxicity. + The rate of increase in reported autism cases peaked between 1987 and 1992, the same years that new mercury-containing vaccines were added to the U.S. schedule. + Mice with autoimmune disorders react horrifically to mercury exposure from vaccines, whereas typical mice of the same species do not. + In primates, mercury from vaccines was more likely to become trapped in the brain than mercury from fish. + Children who live near mercury spewing power plants have an elevated risk of developing autism. These are all intriguing, to be sure. But what we really need is to get our hands on the raw CDC data - our data. David Kirby is author of "Evidence of Harm" (St. Martin's Press) www.evidenceofharm.com http://www.whale.to/v/elililly.html http://www.upi.com/ConsumerHealthDai...=20061024-0155... "The (National Institutes of Health)-funded study ... found that thimerosal, best known for its use as an ethylmercury-based preservative in infant vaccines and pregnancy shots, is actually more toxic to the brain than methylmercury." Thiomersal (INN), commonly known in the United States as thimerosal, (C9H9HgNaO2S) is a mercury-containing (approximately 49% mercury by weight) organic compound (organomercurial) used as an antiseptic and antifungal agent. It was developed and registered under the trade name Merthiolate in 1929 by the pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly and Company, and has been used as a preservative in vaccines, immune globulin preparations, skin test antigens, antivenoms, ophthalmic and nasal products, and tattoo inks. The compound is being phased out from most childhood vaccinations by packaging the vaccines in single-dose vials, which eliminates the need for bacteriostatics like thiomersal. Stability Stable. May degrade in sunlight. Incompatible with strong acids, strong bases, strong oxidizing agents, iodine, heavy metal salts. Toxicology Thiomersal is a very toxic compound which is harmful by inhalation and ingestion (hazard symbol T+). It is a neoplastigen and a teratogen. Thiomersal is also dangerous for the environment (hazard symbol N). For more safety information on how to handle thiomersal, consult an MSDS Thiomersal causes susceptible bacteria to autolyze (break down their own cells with self-produced enzymes) via an unknown mechanism.[citation needed] In the body, it is metabolized to ethylmercury (C2H5Hg+) and thiosalicylate.[1] http://www.ncirs.usyd.edu.au/facts/f-thiomersal.html == Medical News Today Thimerosal, found in childhood vaccines, can increase the risk of autism-like damage in mice 09 Jun 2004 A new study indicates that postnatal exposure to thimerosal, a mercury preservative commonly used in a number of childhood vaccines, can lead to the development of autism-like damage in autoimmune disease susceptible mice. This animal model, the first to show that the administration of low-dose ethylmercury can lead to behavioral and neurological changes in the developing brain, reinforces previous studies showing that a genetic predisposition affects risk in combination with certain environmental triggers. The study was conducted by researchers at the Jerome L. and Dawn Greene Infectious Disease Laboratory at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University. Over the past 20 years, there has been a striking increase--at least ten-fold since 1985--in the number of children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders. Genetic factors alone cannot account for this rise in prevalence. Researchers at the Mailman School, led by Dr. Mady Hornig, created an animal model to explore the relationship between thimerosal (ethylmercury) and autism, hypothesizing that the combination of genetic susceptibility and environmental exposure to mercury in childhood vaccines may cause neurotoxicity. Cumulative mercury burden through other sources, including in utero exposures to mercury in fish or vaccines, may also lead to damage in susceptible hosts. Timing and quantity of thimerosal dosing for the mouse model were developed using the U.S. immunization schedule for children, with doses calculated for mice based on 10th percentile weight of U.S. boys at age two, four, six, and twelve months. The researchers found the subset of autoimmune disease susceptible mice with thimerosal exposure to express many important aspects of the behavioral and neuropathologic features of autism spectrum disorders, including: Abnormal response to novel environments; Behavioral impoverishment (limited range of behaviors and decreased exploration of environment); Significant abnormalities in brain architecture, affecting areas subserving emotion and cognition; Increased brain size. These findings have relevance for identification of autism cases relating to environmental factors; design of treatment strategies; and development of rational immunization programs. The use of thimerosal in vaccines has been reduced over the past few years, although it is still present in some influenza vaccines. Identifying the connection between genetic susceptibility and an environmental trigger for autism--in this case thimerosal exposure--is important because it may promote discovery of effective interventions for and limit exposure in a specific population, stated the lead author Dr. Mady Hornig. Because the developing brain can be exposed to toxins that are long gone by the time symptoms appear, clues gathered in these animal models can then be evaluated through prospective human birth cohorts--providing a powerful to tool to dissect the interaction between genes and the environment over time. Citation source: Molecular Psychiatry 2004 Volume 9, advance on line publication doi:10.1038/sj.mp.4001529 For further information on this work, please contact Mady Hornig, MD, Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health, Greene Infectious Disease Laboratory, 722 W 168th St, New York, New York 10032, United States of America, phone: 212-342-9036; FAX: 949-824-1229; e-mail: http://www.generationrescue.org/images/060406.gif http://www.nationalautismassociation...%20Thimerosal-... http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2...2/213632.shtml A new study shows that autism may be linked after all to the use of mercury in childhood vaccines, despite government's previous claims to the contrary. An article in the March 10, 2006, issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons shows that since mercury was removed from childhood vaccines, the alarming increase in reported rates of autism and other neurological disorders (NDs) in children not only stopped, but actually dropped sharply - by as much as 35 percent. Using the government's own databases, independent researchers analyzed reports of childhood NDs, including autism, before and after removal of mercury-based preservatives. Authors David A. Geier, B.A. and Mark R. Geier, M.D., Ph.D. analyze data from the CDC's Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) and the California Department of Developmental Services (CDDS) in "Early Downward Trends in Neurodevelopmental Disorders Following Removal of Thimerosal-Containing Vaccines." The numbers from California show that reported autism rates hit a high of 800 in May 2003. If that trend had continued, the reports would have skyrocketed to more than 1000 by the beginning of 2006. But in fact, the Geiers report that the number actually went down to only 620, a real decrease of 22 percent, and a decrease from the projections of 35 percent. This analysis directly contradicts 2004 recommendations of the Institute of Medicine which examined vaccine safety data from the National Immunization Program (NIP) of the CDC. While not willing to either rule out or to corroborate a relationship between mercury and autism, the IOM soft-pedaled its findings, and decided no more studies were needed. The authors write: "The IOM stated that the evidence favored rejection of a causal relationship between thimerosal and autism, that such a relationship was not biologically plausible, and that no further studies should be conducted to evaluate it." As more and more vaccines were added to the mandatory schedule of vaccines for children, the dose of the mercury-based preservative thimerosal rose, so that the cumulative dose injected into babies exceeded the toxic threshold set by many government agencies. Mercury is known to damage nerve cells in very low concentrations. The concern about vaccines may actually be underrated, as it is generally acknowledged that the voluntary reporting of such disorders has resulted in vast underreporting of new cases. For example, the Iowa state legislature banned thimerosal from all vaccines administered there after it documented a 700-fold increase in that state alone. California followed suit, and 32 states are considering doing so. Up until about 1989 preschool children got only 3 vaccines (polio, DPT, MMR). By 1999 the CDC recommended a total of 22 vaccines to be given before children reach the 1st grade, including Hepatitis B, which is given to newborns within the first 24 hours of birth. Many of these vaccines contained mercury. In the 1990s approximately 40 million children were injected with mercury-containing vaccines. The cumulative amount of mercury being given to children in this number of vaccines would be an amount 187 times the EPA daily exposure limit. The Geiers conclude that mercury continues to be a concern, as it is still added to some of the most commonly-used vaccines, such as those for flu. Despite its removal from many childhood vaccines, thimerosal is still routinely added to some formulations of influenza vaccine administered to U.S. infants, as well as to several other vaccines (e.g. tetanus-diphtheria and monovalent tetanus) administered to older children and adults. In 2004, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS) retreated from the stated 1999 goal of the AAP and the PHS to remove thimerosal from U.S. vaccines as soon as possible.As a result, assessing the safety of TCVs [thimerosal-containing vaccines] is a matter of significant importance." Editor's Note: The new study confirms claims made by Dr. Russell Blaylock in the Blaylock Wellness Report that childhood vaccines that contain thimerosal, a mercury based preservative, could cause serious harm to children, including autism. Dr. Blaylock has also warned that vaccines for adults, such as the flu shot, pose dangers. p://www.pulsetc.com/article.php?sid=3072 Mercury-free vaccines debated in MN Legislatu sensible but not easy A bill introduced in the state Legislature would require that a mercury-free version of a vaccine be given whenever it is available to health care practitioners. If not available, then a vaccine containing mercury could be given. But if the vaccine contains more than a trace of mercury (more than one microgram), the practitioner must disclose that "this vaccine contains more than a trace amount of the mercury compound, thimerosal." Thimerosal is a highly toxic substance. At first glance, the proposal is disarmingly sensible and noncontroversial: It would simply establish a preference for mercury-free vaccines, when such an alternative is available. Mercury is found in "trace" amounts in most vaccines and currently about 90 percent of the flu shots given in Minnesota have a substantial amount of mercury-25 micrograms-in them; yet the Minnesota Department of Health promotes flu shots to pregnant women, the elderly, people with weakened immune systems and now even children, without a warning to anyone about the mercury lurking in the shots. Leading scientific researchers are appalled at the continued use of the thimerosal in vaccines and there is a consensus among leading independent mercury researchers that mercury in medicine (e.g. thimerosal) and in dentistry (e.g. the dental amalgam fillings) should be banned. Many of them have testified before Congress. But their statements have not been fully conveyed to the public by national or local media. Therefore the public and the Legislature remain ignorant of the menace posed by mercury in medicine and have been all too easily soothed by the reassurances of the Department of Health regarding the vaccine safety issues. Like the departments of health in every other state, the Minnesota Department of Health is tethered to its federal funding source, which is primarily the Center for Disease Control (CDC), based in Atlanta, Ga. As a result, state health department priorities (and thinking) closely follows that of the CDC. And that is a big problem because, as a number of exposés reveal, the CDC has been found to have an overly cozy relationship with the pharmaceutical industry. In particular, transcripts of secret meetings held between CDC officials, a vaccine safety researcher under contract with the CDC, and a drug company representative reveal that all of these players fully understood that it was the grand escalation of mandated childhood vaccinations that started in 1990 that gave rise to the explosive (ten-fold) increase of childhood autism during the 1990s. The entire public health establishment seems to be scripted to deny what the CDC clearly, but secretly, knew about the American autism scandal. The book "Evidence of Harm," by New York Times health writer David Kirby, documents the CDC/drug company collusion and cover-up in a nonfictional work that centers around the lives of parents of autistic children who formed a nonprofit group called SafeMinds . Spearheading the mercury-free vaccine bill in Minnesota are citizen lobbyists such as Tim Kasemodel, a father of an autistic boy, and Jerri Johnson, a homeopath. They are backed by the Minnesota Natural Health Legal Reform Project, (MNHLRP) a non-profit civic group that lobbies for health freedom and natural health issues. "The pharmaceutical companies now provide some mercury-free version for almost every type of vaccine," Jerri Johnson explains. "Now it is up to practitioners to stop using the mercury version. This legislation will insure that the practitioners will not give a mercury containing vaccine when a mercury free version is available." Since our state health department is incapable of driving the change, it remains for the Legislature-which can be more receptive to the voices of the vaccine-injured public-to drive the change. "I'm just a parent," Tim Kasemodel adds, "but some of the people lobbying against our bill haven't read as much as I have. There is no safe mercury in vaccines, even at what are called the "trace' amounts. But the Department of Health continues to stand behind their old science." The citizen reformers found a strong author in the House, Rep. Shelly Madore, a mother of an autistic son. She expected her bill, HF 1917, to be heard in the Public Health Committee, chaired by Rep. Karen Clark (DFL, South Minneapolis-Phillips, Whittier) who enthusiastically supports the bill. Support for the bill in her committee is very strong. But another Minneapolis DFLer, Rep. Paul Thissen (Hale-Page-Diamond Lake) pulled Madore's bill into his Health Policy Committee; Thissen has refused to give the bill a hearing and also refuses to let the bill out of his committee to be heard by Karen Clark in her committee. Thissen did not return phone calls from this reporter. The anti-mercury reformers faced a more promising situation in the Senate, where the Health Committee is chaired by Sen. John Marty, who himself is a mercury foe and who believes it's important to give the legislation a hearing. The reformers found their senate champion in Sen. Patricia Torres Ray, (DFL, South Minneapolis-Longfellow, Nokomis). But after Torres Ray introduced her copy of the bill, SF 1780, she was blitzed by state health department messages stating that her bill would harm the public by threatening public confidence in the entire vaccination program in Minnesota. She was also told that "several mercury containing vaccines are being moved out of the market in the next couple of years" so there is no need for a law, and was assured "there is no science" linking mercury in vaccines to health harm." Torres Ray, who is admittedly new to the vaccine controversy, has agreed to meet with the Department of Health to hear out their many "concerns" about the anti-mercury legislation; Torres Ray realizes that that tactic of delay may make it too late for her bill to be heard in the Senate by the deadline. The Goliath lurking behind this Minnesota struggle is the pharmaceutical drug industry. The drug industry pours substantial money into campaign committees, public relations, lobbyists, and helps orchestrate directly or indirectly the marketing boost that vaccination programs get from our state health department. The health department doesn't welcome scrutiny of this or of the peculiar and remarkable tendency of our health department to side with the industry even at the expense of public health. The desperate tactics of the state health department -designed to forestall legislative committee hearings on the bill at all costs-likely reflects its desire to avoid the embarrassment of a legislative rebuke on the mercury safety issue. The worst nightmare of Chris Ehresman, who heads the department's vaccination program, is surely that a more curious public will start to surf the internet and discover the fact that mercury in vaccines has severely impacted a shocking number of children (autism, seizures, ADHD, learning disabilities) and has also harmed many of our most vulnerable adults (worsening the problem of dementia and other neurological and auto immune disorders). |
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"Jan Drew" wrote in message ... http://www.thecre.com/quality/2005/2...f_quality.html Thursday, June 16, 2005 Why Won't the CDC Allow Access to the Vaccine Safety Datalink? Memo to CDC: We're not getting our money's worth David Kirby May 23, 2005 Can mercury in vaccines cause autism in children? This hotly disputed question will only burn brighter as more biological evidence surfaces to suggest a link. But a definitive answer might take years. Meanwhile, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is sitting on a multi-million-dollar database - paid for by you and me - that could probably resolve this contretemps within weeks. They have the data. We paid for the data. Yet we cannot see the data. The information is kept under lock and key within the massive health agency -- as jealously guarded as nuclear secrets. The CDC tells us that they have looked at the data exhaustively and found "no evidence of harm." They implied that their own scientists are perfectly capable of analyzing the data, thank you very much, and outside researchers cannot be trusted to independently verify their analyses, nor to protect the confidentiality of patients whose numbers they would be crunching. But, as any high school student can tell you, the replication of a study is the hallmark of all good science. Without access to the raw data originally used by the CDC researchers, it is impossible to verify their work. All we can do is trust that they got it right. The CDC, which has budgeted nearly $200 million to operate the Vaccine Safety Datalink, spent four years analyzing data from children who received varying amounts of thimerosal in their vaccines. The study went through five different permutations before being published in November, 2003. Early study "generations," which were never meant to see the light of day, showed highly elevated, statistically significant increased risks for autism and other disorders among the kids receiving the most mercury. But by the time the study was published, most of these associations had somehow disappeared entirely. Only two outside researchers, Mark and David Geier, have managed to gain access to the raw CDC data. They faced daunting hurdles to get into the CDC computer center, and nearly crippling software malfunctions once they were inside. But among the data they did manage to mine, they reportedly found highly elevated risks for autism among children in the highest mercury exposure group. So we now have two extremely different interpretations of the same data. It is way past time that the CDC allow a third team - outside researchers completely acceptable to all parties involved in this dispute - into the database to conduct any analyses they see fit. (Patients names are removed from the data, making it exceedingly hard for researchers to identify anyone, even if they desired, which is extremely unlikely in itself). It sounds reasonable, it sounds nice. But don't hold your breath. The CDC is hardly issuing engraved invitations to come trawl its mainframes, despite a harshly written report earlier this year from the Institute of Medicine. The IOM complained of CDC foot dragging, and even insolence, on this matter, and suggested that vaccine officials at the health agency seek "legal counsel." Why? Because the original datasets of children used by the government have, as they say, gone missing. (Actually, the official explanation was that they "were not archived in a standard fashion.") The intentional loss or destruction of taxpayer funded data or datasets is a violation of the Federal Data Quality Act. It is a felony, and someone could go to jail for it. Meanwhile, the data just sit there. Our data, not theirs. CDC officials insist they have an "open mind" on this issue, and that thimerosal has not been ruled out as a possible cause of autism and other disorders. But they also insist that the vaccine safety database yielded no evidence of harm. If that is true, then why are they so reluctant to let someone else in to verify this claim? I cannot answer that question, because the CDC is not talking to me. But I do know that people with nothing to hide are unencumbered by doubts of what others will find if they rifle through their closet. If the data can prove that injecting a known neurotoxin into infants at levels up to 125 times over federal safety limits was a safe and sane thing to do, then why isn't the CDC having an open house for all researchers worth their salt to come on down and have a look-see for themselves? Without access to the raw data, parents who support the thimerosal theory - and their allies in Congress, academia and law - are falling back on other recent studies that show a possible link between mercury and autism. They may not have the epidemiology on their side, yet, but the mounting evidence emerging from the fields of biology and toxicology is becoming too urgent to ignore. Recent published studies have shown: + Autistic children retain mercury at much higher rates than non-autistic kids. + Autistic children lack certain sulfur-based proteins that bind to heavy metals and remove them from the body. + Autistic children have a dysfunctional immune profile generally consistent with mercury toxicity. + The rate of increase in reported autism cases peaked between 1987 and 1992, the same years that new mercury-containing vaccines were added to the U.S. schedule. + Mice with autoimmune disorders react horrifically to mercury exposure from vaccines, whereas typical mice of the same species do not. + In primates, mercury from vaccines was more likely to become trapped in the brain than mercury from fish. + Children who live near mercury spewing power plants have an elevated risk of developing autism. These are all intriguing, to be sure. But what we really need is to get our hands on the raw CDC data - our data. David Kirby is author of "Evidence of Harm" (St. Martin's Press) www.evidenceofharm.com http://www.whale.to/v/elililly.html http://www.upi.com/ConsumerHealthDai...=20061024-0155... "The (National Institutes of Health)-funded study ... found that thimerosal, best known for its use as an ethylmercury-based preservative in infant vaccines and pregnancy shots, is actually more toxic to the brain than methylmercury." Thiomersal (INN), commonly known in the United States as thimerosal, (C9H9HgNaO2S) is a mercury-containing (approximately 49% mercury by weight) organic compound (organomercurial) used as an antiseptic and antifungal agent. It was developed and registered under the trade name Merthiolate in 1929 by the pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly and Company, and has been used as a preservative in vaccines, immune globulin preparations, skin test antigens, antivenoms, ophthalmic and nasal products, and tattoo inks. The compound is being phased out from most childhood vaccinations by packaging the vaccines in single-dose vials, which eliminates the need for bacteriostatics like thiomersal. Stability Stable. May degrade in sunlight. Incompatible with strong acids, strong bases, strong oxidizing agents, iodine, heavy metal salts. Toxicology Thiomersal is a very toxic compound which is harmful by inhalation and ingestion (hazard symbol T+). It is a neoplastigen and a teratogen. Thiomersal is also dangerous for the environment (hazard symbol N). For more safety information on how to handle thiomersal, consult an MSDS Thiomersal causes susceptible bacteria to autolyze (break down their own cells with self-produced enzymes) via an unknown mechanism.[citation needed] In the body, it is metabolized to ethylmercury (C2H5Hg+) and thiosalicylate.[1] http://www.ncirs.usyd.edu.au/facts/f-thiomersal.html == Medical News Today Thimerosal, found in childhood vaccines, can increase the risk of autism-like damage in mice 09 Jun 2004 A new study indicates that postnatal exposure to thimerosal, a mercury preservative commonly used in a number of childhood vaccines, can lead to the development of autism-like damage in autoimmune disease susceptible mice. This animal model, the first to show that the administration of low-dose ethylmercury can lead to behavioral and neurological changes in the developing brain, reinforces previous studies showing that a genetic predisposition affects risk in combination with certain environmental triggers. The study was conducted by researchers at the Jerome L. and Dawn Greene Infectious Disease Laboratory at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University. Over the past 20 years, there has been a striking increase--at least ten-fold since 1985--in the number of children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders. Genetic factors alone cannot account for this rise in prevalence. Researchers at the Mailman School, led by Dr. Mady Hornig, created an animal model to explore the relationship between thimerosal (ethylmercury) and autism, hypothesizing that the combination of genetic susceptibility and environmental exposure to mercury in childhood vaccines may cause neurotoxicity. Cumulative mercury burden through other sources, including in utero exposures to mercury in fish or vaccines, may also lead to damage in susceptible hosts. Timing and quantity of thimerosal dosing for the mouse model were developed using the U.S. immunization schedule for children, with doses calculated for mice based on 10th percentile weight of U.S. boys at age two, four, six, and twelve months. The researchers found the subset of autoimmune disease susceptible mice with thimerosal exposure to express many important aspects of the behavioral and neuropathologic features of autism spectrum disorders, including: Abnormal response to novel environments; Behavioral impoverishment (limited range of behaviors and decreased exploration of environment); Significant abnormalities in brain architecture, affecting areas subserving emotion and cognition; Increased brain size. These findings have relevance for identification of autism cases relating to environmental factors; design of treatment strategies; and development of rational immunization programs. The use of thimerosal in vaccines has been reduced over the past few years, although it is still present in some influenza vaccines. Identifying the connection between genetic susceptibility and an environmental trigger for autism--in this case thimerosal exposure--is important because it may promote discovery of effective interventions for and limit exposure in a specific population, stated the lead author Dr. Mady Hornig. Because the developing brain can be exposed to toxins that are long gone by the time symptoms appear, clues gathered in these animal models can then be evaluated through prospective human birth cohorts--providing a powerful to tool to dissect the interaction between genes and the environment over time. Citation source: Molecular Psychiatry 2004 Volume 9, advance on line publication doi:10.1038/sj.mp.4001529 For further information on this work, please contact Mady Hornig, MD, Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health, Greene Infectious Disease Laboratory, 722 W 168th St, New York, New York 10032, United States of America, phone: 212-342-9036; FAX: 949-824-1229; e-mail: http://www.generationrescue.org/images/060406.gif http://www.nationalautismassociation...%20Thimerosal-... http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2...2/213632.shtml A new study shows that autism may be linked after all to the use of mercury in childhood vaccines, despite government's previous claims to the contrary. An article in the March 10, 2006, issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons shows that since mercury was removed from childhood vaccines, the alarming increase in reported rates of autism and other neurological disorders (NDs) in children not only stopped, but actually dropped sharply - by as much as 35 percent. Using the government's own databases, independent researchers analyzed reports of childhood NDs, including autism, before and after removal of mercury-based preservatives. Authors David A. Geier, B.A. and Mark R. Geier, M.D., Ph.D. analyze data from the CDC's Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) and the California Department of Developmental Services (CDDS) in "Early Downward Trends in Neurodevelopmental Disorders Following Removal of Thimerosal-Containing Vaccines." The numbers from California show that reported autism rates hit a high of 800 in May 2003. If that trend had continued, the reports would have skyrocketed to more than 1000 by the beginning of 2006. But in fact, the Geiers report that the number actually went down to only 620, a real decrease of 22 percent, and a decrease from the projections of 35 percent. This analysis directly contradicts 2004 recommendations of the Institute of Medicine which examined vaccine safety data from the National Immunization Program (NIP) of the CDC. While not willing to either rule out or to corroborate a relationship between mercury and autism, the IOM soft-pedaled its findings, and decided no more studies were needed. The authors write: "The IOM stated that the evidence favored rejection of a causal relationship between thimerosal and autism, that such a relationship was not biologically plausible, and that no further studies should be conducted to evaluate it." As more and more vaccines were added to the mandatory schedule of vaccines for children, the dose of the mercury-based preservative thimerosal rose, so that the cumulative dose injected into babies exceeded the toxic threshold set by many government agencies. Mercury is known to damage nerve cells in very low concentrations. The concern about vaccines may actually be underrated, as it is generally acknowledged that the voluntary reporting of such disorders has resulted in vast underreporting of new cases. For example, the Iowa state legislature banned thimerosal from all vaccines administered there after it documented a 700-fold increase in that state alone. California followed suit, and 32 states are considering doing so. Up until about 1989 preschool children got only 3 vaccines (polio, DPT, MMR). By 1999 the CDC recommended a total of 22 vaccines to be given before children reach the 1st grade, including Hepatitis B, which is given to newborns within the first 24 hours of birth. Many of these vaccines contained mercury. In the 1990s approximately 40 million children were injected with mercury-containing vaccines. The cumulative amount of mercury being given to children in this number of vaccines would be an amount 187 times the EPA daily exposure limit. The Geiers conclude that mercury continues to be a concern, as it is still added to some of the most commonly-used vaccines, such as those for flu. Despite its removal from many childhood vaccines, thimerosal is still routinely added to some formulations of influenza vaccine administered to U.S. infants, as well as to several other vaccines (e.g. tetanus-diphtheria and monovalent tetanus) administered to older children and adults. In 2004, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS) retreated from the stated 1999 goal of the AAP and the PHS to remove thimerosal from U.S. vaccines as soon as possible.As a result, assessing the safety of TCVs [thimerosal-containing vaccines] is a matter of significant importance." Editor's Note: The new study confirms claims made by Dr. Russell Blaylock in the Blaylock Wellness Report that childhood vaccines that contain thimerosal, a mercury based preservative, could cause serious harm to children, including autism. Dr. Blaylock has also warned that vaccines for adults, such as the flu shot, pose dangers. p://www.pulsetc.com/article.php?sid=3072 Mercury-free vaccines debated in MN Legislatu sensible but not easy A bill introduced in the state Legislature would require that a mercury-free version of a vaccine be given whenever it is available to health care practitioners. If not available, then a vaccine containing mercury could be given. But if the vaccine contains more than a trace of mercury (more than one microgram), the practitioner must disclose that "this vaccine contains more than a trace amount of the mercury compound, thimerosal." Thimerosal is a highly toxic substance. At first glance, the proposal is disarmingly sensible and noncontroversial: It would simply establish a preference for mercury-free vaccines, when such an alternative is available. Mercury is found in "trace" amounts in most vaccines and currently about 90 percent of the flu shots given in Minnesota have a substantial amount of mercury-25 micrograms-in them; yet the Minnesota Department of Health promotes flu shots to pregnant women, the elderly, people with weakened immune systems and now even children, without a warning to anyone about the mercury lurking in the shots. Leading scientific researchers are appalled at the continued use of the thimerosal in vaccines and there is a consensus among leading independent mercury researchers that mercury in medicine (e.g. thimerosal) and in dentistry (e.g. the dental amalgam fillings) should be banned. Many of them have testified before Congress. But their statements have not been fully conveyed to the public by national or local media. Therefore the public and the Legislature remain ignorant of the menace posed by mercury in medicine and have been all too easily soothed by the reassurances of the Department of Health regarding the vaccine safety issues. Like the departments of health in every other state, the Minnesota Department of Health is tethered to its federal funding source, which is primarily the Center for Disease Control (CDC), based in Atlanta, Ga. As a result, state health department priorities (and thinking) closely follows that of the CDC. And that is a big problem because, as a number of exposés reveal, the CDC has been found to have an overly cozy relationship with the pharmaceutical industry. In particular, transcripts of secret meetings held between CDC officials, a vaccine safety researcher under contract with the CDC, and a drug company representative reveal that all of these players fully understood that it was the grand escalation of mandated childhood vaccinations that started in 1990 that gave rise to the explosive (ten-fold) increase of childhood autism during the 1990s. The entire public health establishment seems to be scripted to deny what the CDC clearly, but secretly, knew about the American autism scandal. The book "Evidence of Harm," by New York Times health writer David Kirby, documents the CDC/drug company collusion and cover-up in a nonfictional work that centers around the lives of parents of autistic children who formed a nonprofit group called SafeMinds . Spearheading the mercury-free vaccine bill in Minnesota are citizen lobbyists such as Tim Kasemodel, a father of an autistic boy, and Jerri Johnson, a homeopath. They are backed by the Minnesota Natural Health Legal Reform Project, (MNHLRP) a non-profit civic group that lobbies for health freedom and natural health issues. "The pharmaceutical companies now provide some mercury-free version for almost every type of vaccine," Jerri Johnson explains. "Now it is up to practitioners to stop using the mercury version. This legislation will insure that the practitioners will not give a mercury containing vaccine when a mercury free version is available." Since our state health department is incapable of driving the change, it remains for the Legislature-which can be more receptive to the voices of the vaccine-injured public-to drive the change. "I'm just a parent," Tim Kasemodel adds, "but some of the people lobbying against our bill haven't read as much as I have. There is no safe mercury in vaccines, even at what are called the "trace' amounts. But the Department of Health continues to stand behind their old science." The citizen reformers found a strong author in the House, Rep. Shelly Madore, a mother of an autistic son. She expected her bill, HF 1917, to be heard in the Public Health Committee, chaired by Rep. Karen Clark (DFL, South Minneapolis-Phillips, Whittier) who enthusiastically supports the bill. Support for the bill in her committee is very strong. But another Minneapolis DFLer, Rep. Paul Thissen (Hale-Page-Diamond Lake) pulled Madore's bill into his Health Policy Committee; Thissen has refused to give the bill a hearing and also refuses to let the bill out of his committee to be heard by Karen Clark in her committee. Thissen did not return phone calls from this reporter. The anti-mercury reformers faced a more promising situation in the Senate, where the Health Committee is chaired by Sen. John Marty, who himself is a mercury foe and who believes it's important to give the legislation a hearing. The reformers found their senate champion in Sen. Patricia Torres Ray, (DFL, South Minneapolis-Longfellow, Nokomis). But after Torres Ray introduced her copy of the bill, SF 1780, she was blitzed by state health department messages stating that her bill would harm the public by threatening public confidence in the entire vaccination program in Minnesota. She was also told that "several mercury containing vaccines are being moved out of the market in the next couple of years" so there is no need for a law, and was assured "there is no science" linking mercury in vaccines to health harm." Torres Ray, who is admittedly new to the vaccine controversy, has agreed to meet with the Department of Health to hear out their many "concerns" about the anti-mercury legislation; Torres Ray realizes that that tactic of delay may make it too late for her bill to be heard in the Senate by the deadline. The Goliath lurking behind this Minnesota struggle is the pharmaceutical drug industry. The drug industry pours substantial money into campaign committees, public relations, lobbyists, and helps orchestrate directly or indirectly the marketing boost that vaccination programs get from our state health department. The health department doesn't welcome scrutiny of this or of the peculiar and remarkable tendency of our health department to side with the industry even at the expense of public health. The desperate tactics of the state health department -designed to forestall legislative committee hearings on the bill at all costs-likely reflects its desire to avoid the embarrassment of a legislative rebuke on the mercury safety issue. The worst nightmare of Chris Ehresman, who heads the department's vaccination program, is surely that a more curious public will start to surf the internet and discover the fact that mercury in vaccines has severely impacted a shocking number of children (autism, seizures, ADHD, learning disabilities) and has also harmed many of our most vulnerable adults (worsening the problem of dementia and other neurological and auto immune disorders). |
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