Thimerosal and Vaccines Truth

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/ar...part-five.aspx


Are health agencies such as the CDC and the FDA covering up evidence that a
mercury preservative in children's vaccines resulted in an epidemic of
autism?

Rita Shreffler of Nixa, Missouri sent her son's baby tooth to a lab back in
August 2001. A nine-year-old boy, Andy had been diagnosed with Asperger's
syndrome, a type of autism, just one year earlier.

Shreffler had just read a report in the journal of Medical Hypotheses
implying that mercury poisoning linked to an additive in children's vaccines
could be the cause of such neurological disorders.

A test showed that Andy's tooth contained a mercury level of 3,040 parts per
billion compared to the limit for mercury in drinking water of 2 ppb and the
limit for mercury amounts of waste going into a landfill is 200 ppb
according to the Environmental Testing Laboratory.

When Shreffler was asked how Andy was exposed to so much mercury, she
explained that babies had been exposed to excess levels of mercury from a
vaccine preservative called thimerosal.

Some scientists claimed that the vaccine had been discontinued for cattle
back in the early 1990s and couldn't understand how it was still being used.

Scientists continued to claim that they were sure this wasn't being allowed
in the use of children's vaccines, but they were wrong.

The questions that resulted from these studies:

Was the use of a mercury preservative in vaccines directly responsible for
the outbreak of autism that is now plaguing our country?

Were the health of millions of infants compromised because federal health
officials feared liability issues regarding their agencies, vaccine
manufacturers and loss of compliance with the federal vaccine program?

Are studies showing a link between thimerosal-containing vaccines and autism
being discounted as a result of conflicts of interest and data manipulation?

Are parents, researchers and members of Congress seeking conspiracies when
none exist making such claims?

An estimated one in 250 American children was diagnosed with autism in 2002.
This was a significant increase from the one in 500 in 2000 and one in 5,000
in the 1980s. Currently, approximately 3,500 families of autistic children
are required by Congress to go through an extra step of going to a special
federal vaccine court, before they engage in any civil litigation.

Mother Jones News March/April 2004




Get ALL the Health-Promoting Benefits of Omega-3s without Eating Fish*
Recent studies show that eating fish can potentially expose you to a high
degree of contamination. This includes industrial pollutants and toxins like
mercury, PCBs, heavy metals and radioactive poisons. Here's your chance to
get ALL your essential omega-3 oils without the fishy aftertaste.*




Dr. Mercola's Comments:

I have found that the root cause of the hundreds and hundreds of autistic
children I have seen over the years can be traced back to the hepatitis B
vaccine, which is packed with a mercury preservative called thimerosol, they
were given on their first day of breathing air.

The hepatitis B vaccine is such a problem because the central nervous system
of a newborn infant is very susceptible to toxic influences. This wouldn't
be such a problem if this vaccine were given later in life, as it is in many
other countries.

You would think this is a wake-up call to companies to pull thimerosol from
vaccines, however it is still being used as a preservative in vaccines. If
you still aren't convinced of the value and safety in avoiding vaccines, you
should NOT let your child receive vaccines from the multi-dose vials because
they still contain thimerosol.

Be sure to inform the physician or nurse that you want the single dose
vaccination container and request that you would like to actually witness
the removal from the vial and you would like to take the empty vial home
with you as proof that they didn't receive the mercury-contaminated vaccine.

By doing this, you will at least avoid one of the problems with the
vaccines.

Before you decide to vaccinate your children, do them a favor and look into
the many risks and side effects associated with common childhood vaccines.
Doing so could mean the difference between life and death.

Related Articles:

Mercury in Vaccines

Vaccine Preservative's Effects May Have Been Known

Update on Mercury Poisoning from Vaccine

Safe Minds' Assessment of the Thimerosal-Containing Vaccine Study

Many Vaccines Are Still Made With Mercury

Childhood Vaccines Exceed Federal Guidelines for Mercury




http://theresma.spaces.live.com/blog...5A13!361.entry

June 20
CDC Admits Thimerosal Safety Study Flawed
.... so basically, you can't trust anything they've said about how safe
thimerosal is, or vaccines are. They've been doing the bidding of Big Pharma
all along, in addition to their own pathological quest to vaccinate everyone
against everything as soon after birth as possible (as if there is no other
way to prevent diseases, and as if vaccines are harmless).

Click through the link to read David Kirby's piece on the Huffington Post.

Quote

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-..._b_108398.html

CDC Director Dr. Julie Gerberding has delivered a potentially explosive
report to the powerful House Appropriations Committee, in which she admits
to a startling string of errors in the design and methods used in the CDC's
landmark 2003 study that found no link between mercury in vaccines and
autism, ADHD, speech delay or tics.

Gerberding was responding to a 2006 report from the National Institute of
Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), which concluded that the CDC's
flagship thimerosal safety study was riddled with "several areas of
weaknesses" that combined to "reduce the usefulness" of the study.

"CDC concurs," Dr. Gerberding wrote in an undated mea culpa to Congress,
(provided to me through a Capitol Hill staffer) adding that her agency "does
not plan to use" the database in question, the Vaccine Safety Datalink,
(VSD) for any future "ecological studies" of autism.

In fact, Gerberding's report said, any continued use of the VSD for similar
ecological studies of vaccines and autism "would be uninformative and
potentially misleading."

Ecological vaccine studies are large, epidemiological analyses of risks and
trends using computerized data from large populations -- in this case
children enrolled at several big HMOs -- without ever examining a single
patient in person.

CDC officials conducted at least five separate analyses of the data over a
four-year period from 1999-2003. The first analysis showed that children
exposed to the most thimerosal by one month of age had extremely high
relative risks for a number of outcomes, compared with children who got
little or no mercury: The relative risk for ADHD was 8.29 times higher, for
autism, it was 7.62 times higher, ADD, 6.38 times higher, tics, 5.65 times,
and speech and language delays were 2.09 more likely among kids who got the
most mercury.

Over time, however, all of these risks declined into statistical
insignificance, statistical inconsistency or else outright oblivion: The
relative risk for autism plummeted from 7.62 in the first analysis, to 2.48
in the second version, to 1.69 in the third round, to 1.52 in the fourth,
and down to nothing at all in the fifth, final, and published analysis
printed in the Journal Pediatrics in November of 2003.

Vaccine officials attributed the steady drop to the elimination of
"statistical noise" from the data through due diligence and the endeavor for
excellence in governmental statistical analysis.

Indeed, the VSD study was the main pillar of a hugely influential 2004
report by the Institute of Medicine, which also concluded that there was no
evidence of link between mercury, vaccines and autism.

To this day, public health officials routinely point to five "large
epidemiological studies" representing the "highest quality science," none of
which found any link to thimerosal.

In fact, the American VSD study has long been held up as the best and
brightest of them all (the others were in Sweden, the UK, and two in
Denmark). And this reputation has stuck in the minds of medicine and the
media.

Curiously though, even the study's lead author -- Dr. Thomas Verstraeten, an
employee of vaccine maker GlaxoSmithKline -- protested that the VSD study
"found no evidence against an association, as a negative study would. In
fact, he said that additional study was needed, which "is the conclusion to
which a neutral study must come."

That's when Congress stepped in.

In 2005, a group of Senators and Representatives headed by Sen. Joe
Lieberman wrote to the NIEHS (an agency of the National Institutes of
Health) saying that many parents no longer trusted the CDC to conduct
independent minded studies of its own vaccine program. Lieberman et al asked
NIEHS to review the CDC's work on the vaccine database and report back with
critiques and suggestions.

The final NIEHS report was a serious and thoughtful critique of where the
CDC went wrong in its design, conduct and analysis of the study. The NIEHS
panel "identified several serious problems," with the CDC's effort,
criticism to which the agency had not responded -- until now.

In her letter to the House Appropriations Committee, the CDC Director
responded directly to many -- though not all -- of the most important
criticisms and recommendations contained in the NIEHS panel report.

For example, the NIEHS had criticized CDC for failing to account for other
mercury exposures, including maternal sources from flu shots and immune
globulin, as well as mercury in food and the environment.

"CDC acknowledges this concern and recognizes this limitation," the
Gerberding reply says.

The NIEHS also took CDC to task for eliminating 25% of the study population
for a variety of reasons, even though this represented, "a susceptible
population whose removal from the analysis might unintentionally reduce the
ability to detect an effect of thimerosal." This strict entry criteria
likely led to an "under-ascertainment" of autism cases, the NIEHS reported.

"CDC concurs," Gerberding wrote, again noting that its study design was "not
appropriate for studying this vaccine safety topic. The data are intended
for administrative purposes and may not be predictive of the outcomes
studied."

Another serious problem was that the HMOs changed the way they tracked and
recorded autism diagnoses over time, including during the period when
vaccine mercury levels were in decline. Such changes could "affect the
observed rate of autism and could confound or distort trends in autism
rates," the NIEHS warned.

"CDC concurs," Dr. Gerberding wrote again, "that conducting an ecologic
analysis using VSD administrative data to address potential associations
between thimerosal exposure and risk of ASD is not useful."

Read that sentence one more time. The head of the CDC is saying that its
most powerful and convincing piece of exonerating evidence for thimerosal
is, in effect, "useless."

I hope everyone will read it, including the recommendations to make the VSD
better, and the CDC's agreement with all of the suggestions.

As questionable at the US thimerosal study was, "it was an improvement on
other studies, including the two in Denmark, both of which had serious
weaknesses in their designs," Dr. Irva Hertz-Picciotto, Professor of Public
Health at UC Davis Medical School and Chair of the NIEHS panel, told
reporter Dan Olmsted at UPI.

That leaves very little for the CDC to go on in terms of proving that
thimerosal and autism are not associated in any way.

Yes, there is always the study of disability services data from
California -- which seem to be rising among the youngest cohorts of kids,
who presumably received little or no mercury because thimerosal was largely
removed from childhood shots.

But California is an "ecological study" with problems of its own.

"Although (this) information is often used by media and research entities to
develop statistics and draw conclusions, some of these findings may
misrepresent the quarterly figures," cautions the website of the California
Department of Developmental Services (DDS). "Increases in the number of
persons reported from one quarter to the next do not necessarily represent
persons who are new to the DDS system."

Even the CDC admits that "there are several limitations" with linking a VSD
study design with the California data, Gerberding wrote to Congress,
because, among other things, California only counts "persons who were
referred to and/or voluntarily entered" the disability system."

It will be interesting to see how the House Committee -- and the mainstream
media -- react to this rather breathtaking confession by the CDC, which does
seem to want to conduct the best vaccine-autism science possible (see
Gerberding's replies to NIEHS recommendations for improving the VSD: CDC
officials are currently conducting in- depth follow up studies with VSD
patients).

As the waning months of the Bush administration get underway, I can't help
but wonder if a little housecleaning might be going on at some of our top
health agencies.


http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp...ces_autism.htm


February 17, 2004

CDC Knew: Mercury in Vaccines Induces Autism
Categories
Pharma

It is quite clear that mercury is a potent neurotoxin and actually kills
developing nerve cells. The serious thing is that mercury has been injected
into children with numerous vaccines and it still is - with the majority of
flu vaccines. Visual evidence in a film linked here, it takes eons to
download so you need a fast connection or a lot of patience.

This danger was apparently clear to the CDC since some time in the '90s. The
problem was discussed by the CDC, the FDA and representatives of the vaccine
industry four years ago - in February 2000, only to be ... hushed up.

Firstcoastnews reports the story.

Here is an archived copy of the article.

CDC Knew of Potential Link between Vaccines, Autism

By Melissa Ross
First Coast News

Five-year-old Ryan Anderson of Jacksonville Beach is an animated, happy
child.

But that wasn't always the case.

"His course of deterioration from a happy, developmentally appropriate child
to the problems he began to develop, started right after he received the
measles, mumps and rubella vaccine," says Ryan's father, Bruce Anderson.

Now, several therapies are underway to restore Ryan's cognitive and
behavioral development, which began to show significant impairment at age 18
months. Ryan also presents evidence of a persistent, active measles virus.

Ryan's doctor, Jeff Bradstreet of Melbourne, is a specialist in
autism-related disorders. Using clinical diagnostic testing, he has
documented a genetic defect in children that Ryan carries. That defect, says
Bradstreet, made him vulnerable to a preservative in his vaccinations.

The preservative is called thimerosal, and it contains mercury, a known
neuro-toxin. Until just a few years ago, children who received a full
schedule of vaccinations were injected with mercury in amounts far exceeding
EPA guidelines. Bradstreet says some children's bodies just can't handle the
onslaught of the toxin.

"There are children who don't detox heavy metals well.. the more mercury we
expose them to the more problems they're going to have," Bradstreet says.

The growing controversy over thimerosal has contributed to its removal from
many childhood vaccines, beginning in the late 1990's. But it is still
present in some vaccinations, including virtually all flu shots.

The Centers for Disease Control published a study last fall repudiating any
possible link between thimerosal and developmental problems like autism in
children. However, First Coast News has obtained non-published documents
that show the CDC DID have data supporting such a link-- but kept it from
the public.

Documents released through the Freedom of Information Act, detail the
transcript of a meeting held in June of 2000 between members of the CDC, the
FDA, and representatives from the vaccine industry.

The group discusses the results of a February 2000 study that finds a
significant association between exposure to thimerosal-containing vaccines,
and developmental issues like autism in children.

Some of the comments--

"There are just a host of neurodevelopmental data that would suggest we've
got a serious problem."

"My gut feeling? It worries me. I don't want my grandson to get a
thimerosal-containing vaccine until we know better what's going on."

"We are in a bad position from the standpoint of defending any lawsuits."

Finally--

"We have asked you to keep this information confidential."

And that's what happened. Three years later, the CDC published a study in
the November 2003 issue of "Pediatrics" contradicting the earlier results,
and clearing thimerosal of any link to neurological problems in children.

"I just feel pretty strongly they haven't been honest in analyzing the
problem."

So says Florida Congressman David Weldon, a physician. Weldon sent a letter
to the head of the CDC in October of 2003, charging that data was
selectively used in the "Pediatrics" study to make the earlier evidence of a
mercury-autism connection disappear. He also asked for another review of the
data. The CDC has not yet officially responded to Weldon's request.

"Where there's smoke there's fire.. and when you see people reluctant to
investigate things properly, it makes you think they really don't want to
investigate things properly," he says.

Meantime, parents like Bruce Anderson say, while they are not anti-vaccine,
they do want doctors to screen children more carefully before administering
shots, taking into account the specialized health concerns of each
individual child. Anderson also says it's imperative the government recall
any vaccines still containing thimerosal.

"I have to live with the memory of my child's cries as I held him down while
he was being vaccinated, never knowing that I was injuring him."

Bradstreet adds, "This is a very potent neurotoxin. Let's do everything we
can to reduce exposure, not justify why it's OK to give just a little."

Bradstreet, along with Congressman Weldon and other experts on the issue,
reiterated their statements on thimerosal in Washington on February 9th. The
occasion was an Institute of Medicine panel hearing information both
supporting and rejecting the theory that thimerosal is linked to rising
autism rates in children.

A spokesman for the CDC tells First Coast News that the agency plans to
undertake an objective review of the data presented at the IOM panel.

Weldon has already expressed strong skepticism with the CDC's position
however, telling First Coast News, "I don't believe the CDC can really take
an objective position on the issue. They are concerned the fears about
thimerosal might lead to parents being afraid to vaccinate their children.
But the problem isn't vaccines, it's the thimerosal in vaccines. So parents
who are concerned about this need to talk with their pediatrician, and
carefully check the product insert in each vaccination to make sure the shot
is thimerosal-free."


See also:


A two-part article by Dan Olmsted on autism in the Amish community in the
U.S. is highly interesting. It was published in The Washington Times on
April 18 and April 19, 2005.
The Age of Autism: The Amish anomaly

Red Flags Weekly: The Autism Pandemic and Relative Risk
By Daniel Hollenbeck (subscription needed)

February 2005: U.S. Representatives Dave Weldon, M.D. from Florida and
Carolyn Maloney from New York have reintroduced H.R. 881, a measure that
would eliminate mercury from vaccines.


LA Times: '91 Memo Warned of Mercury in Shots

Motherjones.com: Toxic Tipping Point
Are the CDC, the FDA, and other health agencies covering up evidence that a
mercury preservative in children's vaccines caused a rise in autism?

Mercury on the Mind - By Donald W. Miller, Jr., MD
Although they afflict widely different age groups, autism and Alzheimer's
disease share a common cause: mercury. Dr. Boyd Haley, professor and chair
of the chemistry department at the University of Kentucky, and Dr. Bernard
Rimland, founder of the Autism Research Institute, presented evidence at
this year's Doctors for Disaster Preparedness meeting that connects mercury
with these diseases.

THE TRUTH BEHIND THE VACCINE COVER-UP
By Russell Blaylock, M.D

Mercury and human health - Idaho Observer

Vaccine Data Leads to a Shocking Discovery

New Study from Northeastern University Suggests Link Between Vaccine
Ingredients And Autism, ADHD

CDC Vaccine Data Leads Scientists to Shocking Discovery

The MMR scandal shows a business riddled with conflicts of interest

Precipitous Increase in Autism Cases May Be Tied To Childhood Vaccines

Toxic Tipping Point - Mother Jones - Are the CDC, the FDA, and other health
agencies covering up evidence that a mercury preservative in children's
vaccines caused an epidemic of autism?

Is Mercury Toxicity an Autoimmune Disorder?

CDC, FDA Become Targets for Investigation, Says National Autism Association

Unbelieveable!! -- CDC Still Allows Mercury in Infant Flu Shots

Mercury : The Winged Messenger - Book on mercury and autism

National Autism Association Questions IOM and CDC Cover-Up -- How Far Will
They go to Protect Toxic Vaccines?

Vaccination, autism and thimerosal: Vaccine critics blast mercury report

Row over autism link to vaccines

New Columbia University Study Confirms IOM Vaccine-Autism Report is Wrong

International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology An excellent on-line
presentation of the dangers of mercury fillings in teeth

Crematoria warned over mercury

Discover Magazine - March 2005: Our Preferred Poison
A little mercury is all that humans need to do away with themselves quietly,
slowly, and surely

Red Flags Weekly: Vaccines and Immune Suppression (subscription needed)

Found on the Alternative Medicine Forum, posted there by Donna:

Bayer made Rhogam that contained 35 mcg of mercury, Bayer in 2003 Petitioned
OEHHA to take thimerosal/mercury off the list of reproductive toxins, After
parents with disabled children filed lawsuits. [The EPA limit for INGESTING
mercury is 6 mcg! Pregnant women continue to be INJECTED with 25 mcg of
mercury via the flu vaccine!] What happens to these disabled children, Some
require many different medications just to survive.

Here is OEHHA reply to Bayer.

OEHHA (Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assesment) reports;

"The scientific evidence that PMA and Thimerosal cause reproductive
toxcitity is CLEAR and VOLUMINOUS.

The evidence for its reproductive toxcitity includes severe mental
retardation or malformations in human offspring who were poisoned when their
mothers were exposed to ethylmercury or thimerosal while pregnant."

http://www.oehha.ca.gov/prop65/CRNR_...p/hgbayer1.pdf

From The CancerCoverUp.com Monthly Newsletter | MAY 2005 | Volume 4, Issue 5
The Autism Epidemic: Is Organized Medicine Hiding The Truth?

Taking a shot
Rich Tucker - April 30, 2005
Where some see a crisis, others see an opportunity.

Bush Administration Knew Childhood Vaccines Cause Autism
by Evelyn J. Pringle - www.dissidentvoice.org
February 7, 2005

FDA Knew Dangers Of Thimerosal-Vaccines For 60 Years
September 02, 2005 By: Evelyn Pringle - Independent Media TV ?
Since the 1930s, mercury-based Thimerosal has been added to vaccines as a
preservative to boost drug company profits by allowing vaccine makers to
package in bulk instead of individual doses. According to newly discovered
research, which was supported by a grant from the American Medical
Association, government agencies have known for 60 years that Thimerosal was
neither safe or effective, and that it should have been removed as a
preservative in pharmaceutical products.

"For a long period mercurial compounds, such as bichloride of mercury,
headed the list of chemical which were thought to be effective in the
killing of microorganisms," it said. However, the authors basically state
that Thimerosal as a preservative is useless, "It is not highly germicidal
and especially does not possess high germicidal value in the presence of
serum and other protein mediums. The loss of antibacterial activity of
mercurials in the presence of serum proves their incompatibility with
serum."

"Jan Drew" wrote in message
...

Are health agencies such as the CDC and the FDA covering up evidence that
a mercury preservative in children's vaccines resulted in an epidemic of
autism?

No. Health agencies around the world have researched vaccines thoroughly.
There is no
evidence at all to support any theory linking vaccines to autism. However
there's plenty of evidence linking illness and death to children whose
parents refused to let them be vaccinated.

If you're really worried about mercury - there's plenty in fish thanks to
polluted seas. Why don't you concentrate your efforts there?

"Jan Drew" wrote in message
...

Are health agencies such as the CDC and the FDA covering up evidence that
a mercury preservative in children's vaccines resulted in an epidemic of
autism?

No. Health agencies have researched vaccines thoroughly. There is no
evidence at all to support any theory linking vaccines to autism. However
there's plenty of evidence linking illness and death to children whose
parents refused to let them be vaccinated.

If you're really worried about mercury - there's plenty in fish thanks to
polluted seas. Why don't you concentrate your efforts there?

"Jan Drew" wrote in message
...
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/ar...part-five.aspx


Are health agencies such as the CDC and the FDA covering up evidence that
a mercury preservative in children's vaccines resulted in an epidemic of
autism?


Why do we immunise?
Immunisation saves lives.

The World Health Organisation estimates that 3 million lives are saved every
year worldwide through immunisation.

It is important that all children and babies are immunised. Once common
illnesses such as diphtheria and tetanus are now rare because of
immunisation. But while polio has been eliminated in Europe through
immunisation, the threat of other diseases such as measles and meningitis
have not gone away.
The risks of vaccination are very small compared to the risks of getting the
diseases themselves. Some parents are put off vaccination by claims about
risks which appear from time to time in the press.

In the 1970s a vaccine scare in the UK resulted in a fall in whooping cough
immunisation which led to over 100 deaths and 100,000 cases of whooping
cough in the years which followed, with large numbers permanently brain
damaged by the disease. It was later shown that the original suggestion that
the Pertussis vaccine itself caused brain damage was wrong.

Today, we have an unprecedented volume of research evidence which shows MMR
is not a risk factor for autism, and although most parents have always
accepted the vaccine and believe it is safe for their child, this message
has not yet got through to a minority of parents.

Some years ago, there were many stories in the media linking MMR with
autism. These caused some parents to delay their child's MMR immunisation or
not to have it at all resulting in outbreaks of measles. However,
independent experts from around the world have found no credible scientific
evidence for such a link and there is now a large amount of evidence showing
that there is no link.

The MMR programme started in Britain in 1988. By this time, children in the
United States had been having the MMR vaccine for over 15 years with no
safety problems.

Worldwide, more than 500 million doses of the MMR vaccine have been given in
over 100 countries.

The World Health Organization says about the MMR vaccine, 'its safety record
is exemplary'.

In the year before the vaccine was introduced in the UK, 86,000 children
caught measles and 16 died. Because of the MMR vaccine, no child has died
from acute measles in the UK since 1992.

Before the vaccine was introduced, mumps was the commonest cause of viral
meningitis in children. Because of the MMR vaccine, we are now close to
wiping out mumps in children.

Before the MMR vaccine was introduced, rubella continued to cause terrible
damage to some unborn babies. Because of the MMR vaccine, we are now close
to wiping out rubella.

Thimerosal is a mercury-containing preservative used in some vaccines and
other products since the 1930s. There is no convincing scientific evidence
of harm caused by the low doses of thimerosal in vaccines, except for minor
reactions like redness and swelling at the injection site. However, in July
1999, the Public Health Service agencies, the American Academy of
Pediatrics, and vaccine manufacturers agreed that thimerosal should be
reduced or eliminated in vaccines as a precautionary measure.

Since 2001, with the exception of some influenza (flu) vaccines, thimerosal
is not used as a preservative in routinely recommended childhood vaccines.

As the country's leading public health agency, the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC) is committed to protecting the health of all
Americans - including infants, children, and adolescents. CDC shares with
parents and many others great concern about the number of children with
autism spectrum disorders (ASD).

Recent estimates from CDC's Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring
network found that about 1 in 150 children have an ASD. This estimate is
higher than estimates from the early 1990s. Some people believe increased
exposure to thimerosal (from the addition of important new vaccines
recommended for children) explains the higher prevalence in recent years.
However, evidence from several studies examining trends in vaccine use and
changes in autism frequency does not support such an association.
Furthermore, a scientific review by the Institute of Medicine (IOM)
concluded that "the evidence favors rejection of a causal relationship
between thimerosal-containing vaccines and autism."

Did the incidence of autism in Denmark decrease after thimerosal-containing
vaccines were discontinued in 1992? Thimerosal-containing vaccines were used
in Denmark from the early 1950s until 1992. If thimerosal-containing
vaccines were causing autism in Danish children, the removal of thimerosal
from vaccines should have impacted on the incidence of autism.

From 1971 to 2000, 956 children were diagnosed with autism, with a rise in
the number of cases in the 1990s. No correlation was found between
thimerosal-containing vaccines and autism. The incidences of autism remained
fairly stable until 1990 and thereafter increased throughout the study
period, including the period when thimerosal was no longer in vaccines. The
data does not suggest a cause-and-effect relation between
thimerosal-containing vaccines and autism.

"Stephen Wilson" wrote:

"Jan Drew" wrote in message
.. .

Are health agencies such as the CDC and the FDA covering up evidence that
a mercury preservative in children's vaccines resulted in an epidemic of
autism?

No. Health agencies around the world have researched vaccines thoroughly.
There is no
evidence at all to support any theory linking vaccines to autism. However
there's plenty of evidence linking illness and death to children whose
parents refused to let them be vaccinated.

If you're really worried about mercury - there's plenty in fish thanks to
polluted seas. Why don't you concentrate your efforts there?

Jan can't do that because her entire universe would collapse if
vaccines were safe and doctors told the truth.

--
Peter Bowditch aa #2243
The Millenium Project http://www.ratbags.com/rsoles
Australian Council Against Health Fraud http://www.acahf.org.au
Australian Skeptics http://www.skeptics.com.au
To email me use my first name only at ratbags.com

"Jan Drew" wrote in message
...
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/ar...part-five.aspx


Are health agencies such as the CDC and the FDA covering up evidence that
a mercury preservative in children's vaccines resulted in an epidemic of
autism?

Let's get a little more perspective here, shall we?

Three times more mercury is falling from the sky than before the Industrial
Revolution 200 years ago.

Fish absorb the toxic chemical, which pollutes the seas, posing a risk
especially to children and women of childbearing age. The role of low-level
pollutants such as lead and mercury on the growing brain has been known for
decades and measures have been taken to reduce exposure to a minimum.

British researchers reckon that while mercury is known to harm brain
development, fish also contain omega-3 fatty acids and other nutrients which
are essential to brain development. They studied 9,000 families taking part
in the Children of the 90s project at the University of Bristol and
concluded, in The Lancet, that the risks of eating fish were outweighed by
the benefits.

US scientists focused on the risks of mercury which they say now constitute
a "public health problem in most regions of the world". In addition to its
toxic effects on the human foetus, new evidence indicates it may increase
the risk of heart disease, particularly in adult men.

While developed countries have reduced mercury emissions over the past 30
years, these have been offset by increased emissions from developing
nations.

The uncontrolled use of the metal in small-scale gold mining is
contaminating thousands of sites around the world, putting 50 million
inhabitants of mining regions at risk and contributing 10 per cent of the
global burden of the pollutant attributable to human activities in the
atmosphere.

The global spread of the threat is revealed in increased mercury
concentrations now being detected in fish-eating species in remote areas of
the planet. The impact on marine eco-systems may lead to population declines
in these species and in fish stocks.

Professor James Wiener, of the University of Wisconsin, said: "The policy
implications of these findings are clear. Effective national and
international policies are needed to combat this global problem."

In the US, official government advice is for pregnant women to limit their
consumption of all seafood, including white fish, oily fish and shellfish,
to no more than 12oz (340g) a week in order to limit their exposure to
mercury.

In the UK, the Food Standards Agency advises expectant mothers to avoid
shark, swordfish and marlin and to limit their consumption of tuna, because
these are the fish with the highest levels of mercury.

The key findings

* Three times more mercury is falling from the sky today than before the
Industrial Revolution

* Eating fish is the primary way most people are exposed to the toxic metal

* There is solid scientific evidence of the toxic effects of mercury on the
developing foetus

* Mercury exposure now constitutes a public health problem in most regions
of the world

* New evidence suggests exposure to mercury may increase the risk of heart
disease and stroke in men

* Increased mercury emissions from developing countries over the past 30
years have outstripped declines in the developed world

* Increasing mercury concentrations are now being detected in fish-eating
wildlife in remote areas of the planet

Stephen Wilson wrote:

"Jan Drew" wrote in message
...

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/ar...part-five.aspx

Are health agencies such as the CDC and the FDA covering up evidence that
a mercury preservative in children's vaccines resulted in an epidemic of
autism?

Let's get a little more perspective here, shall we?

Three times more mercury is falling from the sky than before the Industrial
Revolution 200 years ago.

Fish absorb the toxic chemical, which pollutes the seas, posing a risk
especially to children and women of childbearing age.

Even with the mercury in fish, recent evidence suggests pregnant women
and children are better off eating fish than avoiding fish. The children
of women who eat fish during pregnancy have higher measured IQ and the
omega-3 fatty acids in fish body oils are likely necessary for optimal
brain development.


British researchers reckon that while mercury is known to harm brain
development, fish also contain omega-3 fatty acids and other nutrients which
are essential to brain development. They studied 9,000 families taking part
in the Children of the 90s project at the University of Bristol and
concluded, in The Lancet, that the risks of eating fish were outweighed by
the benefits.

Yep. Choose fish rich in omega-3's and low in mercury: wild salmon and
north atlantic mackerel are excellent choices. I have a cupboard full of
mackerel I caught and canned myself.


US scientists focused on the risks of mercury which they say now constitute
a "public health problem in most regions of the world". In addition to its
toxic effects on the human foetus, new evidence indicates it may increase
the risk of heart disease, particularly in adult men.

While developed countries have reduced mercury emissions over the past 30
years, these have been offset by increased emissions from developing
nations.

China's ever increasing use of coal for electricity (as well as the
return to coal by the US and other nations) puts tonnes of mercury into
the air we breathe.


In the US, official government advice is for pregnant women to limit their
consumption of all seafood, including white fish, oily fish and shellfish,
to no more than 12oz (340g) a week in order to limit their exposure to
mercury.

That works out to three 110g servings per week, which is probably more
fish than women who decide to avoid fish would have eaten in any case.


In the UK, the Food Standards Agency advises expectant mothers to avoid
shark, swordfish and marlin and to limit their consumption of tuna, because
these are the fish with the highest levels of mercury.

The key findings

* Three times more mercury is falling from the sky today than before the
Industrial Revolution

* Eating fish is the primary way most people are exposed to the toxic metal

* There is solid scientific evidence of the toxic effects of mercury on the
developing foetus

* Mercury exposure now constitutes a public health problem in most regions
of the world

* New evidence suggests exposure to mercury may increase the risk of heart
disease and stroke in men

* Increased mercury emissions from developing countries over the past 30
years have outstripped declines in the developed world

* Increasing mercury concentrations are now being detected in fish-eating
wildlife in remote areas of the planet

And the best evidence available shows no correlation between thimerosal
and autism. If anything, it shows a negative correlation.

Stephen Wilson wrote:

"Jan Drew" wrote in message
...

Are health agencies such as the CDC and the FDA covering up evidence that
a mercury preservative in children's vaccines resulted in an epidemic of
autism?

No. Health agencies around the world have researched vaccines thoroughly.
There is no
evidence at all to support any theory linking vaccines to autism. However
there's plenty of evidence linking illness and death to children whose
parents refused to let them be vaccinated.

If you're really worried about mercury - there's plenty in fish thanks to
polluted seas. Why don't you concentrate your efforts there?

Stephen, how dare you respond to a loaded rhetorical question with a
reasonable and logical question? If we are on loaded rhetorical
questions, better choices would be:

Is Jan Drew a deluded lunatic impervious to all sense, reason and valid
evidence?

Except it's possible that's too sensible. One could argue that Jan is
really on ridiculous, over-the-top loaded rhetorical questions in which
case we might have to go with something like:

Does Jan Drew have necrophilic sex with bloated donkey carcasses?

Stephen Wilson wrote:
"Jan Drew" wrote in message

Trying to argue with the vaccination nutjobs is a bit pointless. My life has
been a lot less aggravating since I put them all on ignore.

Gareeth

"Stephen Wilson" wrote in message
...
"Jan Drew" wrote in message
...

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/ar.../03/31/mercury...

Are health agencies such as the CDC and the FDA covering up evidence that a
mercury preservative in children's vaccines resulted in an epidemic of
autism?


Rita Shreffler of Nixa, Missouri sent her son's baby tooth to a lab back in
August 2001. A nine-year-old boy, Andy had been diagnosed with Asperger's
syndrome, a type of autism, just one year earlier.


Shreffler had just read a report in the journal of Medical Hypotheses
implying that mercury poisoning linked to an additive in children's vaccines
could be the cause of such neurological disorders.


A test showed that Andy's tooth contained a mercury level of 3,040 parts per
billion compared to the limit for mercury in drinking water of 2 ppb and the
limit for mercury amounts of waste going into a landfill is 200 ppb
according to the Environmental Testing Laboratory.


When Shreffler was asked how Andy was exposed to so much mercury, she
explained that babies had been exposed to excess levels of mercury from a
vaccine preservative called thimerosal.


Some scientists claimed that the vaccine had been discontinued for cattle
back in the early 1990s and couldn't understand how it was still being used.


Scientists continued to claim that they were sure this wasn't being allowed
in the use of children's vaccines, but they were wrong.


The questions that resulted from these studies:


Was the use of a mercury preservative in vaccines directly responsible for
the outbreak of autism that is now plaguing our country?


Were the health of millions of infants compromised because federal health
officials feared liability issues regarding their agencies, vaccine
manufacturers and loss of compliance with the federal vaccine program?


Are studies showing a link between thimerosal-containing vaccines and autism
being discounted as a result of conflicts of interest and data manipulation?


Are parents, researchers and members of Congress seeking conspiracies when
none exist making such claims?


An estimated one in 250 American children was diagnosed with autism in 2002.
This was a significant increase from the one in 500 in 2000 and one in 5,000
in the 1980s. Currently, approximately 3,500 families of autistic children
are required by Congress to go through an extra step of going to a special
federal vaccine court, before they engage in any civil litigation.


Mother Jones News March/April 2004


Get ALL the Health-Promoting Benefits of Omega-3s without Eating Fish*
Recent studies show that eating fish can potentially expose you to a high
degree of contamination. This includes industrial pollutants and toxins like
mercury, PCBs, heavy metals and radioactive poisons. Here's your chance to
get ALL your essential omega-3 oils without the fishy aftertaste.*


Dr. Mercola's Comments:


I have found that the root cause of the hundreds and hundreds of autistic
children I have seen over the years can be traced back to the hepatitis B
vaccine, which is packed with a mercury preservative called thimerosol, they
were given on their first day of breathing air.


The hepatitis B vaccine is such a problem because the central nervous system
of a newborn infant is very susceptible to toxic influences. This wouldn't
be such a problem if this vaccine were given later in life, as it is in many
other countries.


You would think this is a wake-up call to companies to pull thimerosol from
vaccines, however it is still being used as a preservative in vaccines. If
you still aren't convinced of the value and safety in avoiding vaccines, you
should NOT let your child receive vaccines from the multi-dose vials because
they still contain thimerosol.


Be sure to inform the physician or nurse that you want the single dose
vaccination container and request that you would like to actually witness
the removal from the vial and you would like to take the empty vial home
with you as proof that they didn't receive the mercury-contaminated vaccine.


By doing this, you will at least avoid one of the problems with the
vaccines.


Before you decide to vaccinate your children, do them a favor and look into
the many risks and side effects associated with common childhood vaccines.
Doing so could mean the difference between life and death.


Related Articles:


Mercury in Vaccines


Vaccine Preservative's Effects May Have Been Known


Update on Mercury Poisoning from Vaccine


Safe Minds' Assessment of the Thimerosal-Containing Vaccine Study


Many Vaccines Are Still Made With Mercury


Childhood Vaccines Exceed Federal Guidelines for Mercury


http://theresma.spaces.live.com/blog...5A13!361.entry


June 20
CDC Admits Thimerosal Safety Study Flawed
.... so basically, you can't trust anything they've said about how safe
thimerosal is, or vaccines are. They've been doing the bidding of Big Pharma
all along, in addition to their own pathological quest to vaccinate everyone
against everything as soon after birth as possible (as if there is no other
way to prevent diseases, and as if vaccines are harmless).


Click through the link to read David Kirby's piece on the Huffington Post.


Quote


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-...tudy-design_b_...


CDC Director Dr. Julie Gerberding has delivered a potentially explosive
report to the powerful House Appropriations Committee, in which she admits
to a startling string of errors in the design and methods used in the CDC's
landmark 2003 study that found no link between mercury in vaccines and
autism, ADHD, speech delay or tics.


Gerberding was responding to a 2006 report from the National Institute of
Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), which concluded that the CDC's
flagship thimerosal safety study was riddled with "several areas of
weaknesses" that combined to "reduce the usefulness" of the study.


"CDC concurs," Dr. Gerberding wrote in an undated mea culpa to Congress,
(provided to me through a Capitol Hill staffer) adding that her agency "does
not plan to use" the database in question, the Vaccine Safety Datalink,
(VSD) for any future "ecological studies" of autism.


In fact, Gerberding's report said, any continued use of the VSD for similar
ecological studies of vaccines and autism "would be uninformative and
potentially misleading."


Ecological vaccine studies are large, epidemiological analyses of risks and
trends using computerized data from large populations -- in this case
children enrolled at several big HMOs -- without ever examining a single
patient in person.


CDC officials conducted at least five separate analyses of the data over a
four-year period from 1999-2003. The first analysis showed that children
exposed to the most thimerosal by one month of age had extremely high
relative risks for a number of outcomes, compared with children who got
little or no mercury: The relative risk for ADHD was 8.29 times higher, for
autism, it was 7.62 times higher, ADD, 6.38 times higher, tics, 5.65 times,
and speech and language delays were 2.09 more likely among kids who got the
most mercury.


Over time, however, all of these risks declined into statistical
insignificance, statistical inconsistency or else outright oblivion: The
relative risk for autism plummeted from 7.62 in the first analysis, to 2.48
in the second version, to 1.69 in the third round, to 1.52 in the fourth,
and down to nothing at all in the fifth, final, and published analysis
printed in the Journal Pediatrics in November of 2003.


Vaccine officials attributed the steady drop to the elimination of
"statistical noise" from the data through due diligence and the endeavor for
excellence in governmental statistical analysis.


Indeed, the VSD study was the main pillar of a hugely influential 2004
report by the Institute of Medicine, which also concluded that there was no
evidence of link between mercury, vaccines and autism.


To this day, public health officials routinely point to five "large
epidemiological studies" representing the "highest quality science," none of
which found any link to thimerosal.


In fact, the American VSD study has long been held up as the best and
brightest of them all (the others were in Sweden, the UK, and two in
Denmark). And this reputation has stuck in the minds of medicine and the
media.


Curiously though, even the study's lead author -- Dr. Thomas Verstraeten, an
employee of vaccine maker GlaxoSmithKline -- protested that the VSD study
"found no evidence against an association, as a negative study would. In
fact, he said that additional study was needed, which "is the conclusion to
which a neutral study must come."


That's when Congress stepped in.


In 2005, a group of Senators and Representatives headed by Sen. Joe
Lieberman wrote to the NIEHS (an agency of the National Institutes of
Health) saying that many parents no longer trusted the CDC to conduct
independent minded studies of its own vaccine program. Lieberman et al asked
NIEHS to review the CDC's work on the vaccine database and report back with
critiques and suggestions.


The final NIEHS report was a serious and thoughtful critique of where the
CDC went wrong in its design, conduct and analysis of the study. The NIEHS
panel "identified several serious problems," with the CDC's effort,
criticism to which the agency had not responded -- until now.


In her letter to the House Appropriations Committee, the CDC Director
responded directly to many -- though not all -- of the most important
criticisms and recommendations contained in the NIEHS panel report.


For example, the NIEHS had criticized CDC for failing to account for other
mercury exposures, including maternal sources from flu shots and immune
globulin, as well as mercury in food and the environment.


"CDC acknowledges this concern and recognizes this limitation," the
Gerberding reply says.


The NIEHS also took CDC to task for eliminating 25% of the study population
for a variety of reasons, even though this represented, "a susceptible
population whose removal from the analysis might unintentionally reduce the
ability to detect an effect of thimerosal." This strict entry criteria
likely led to an "under-ascertainment" of autism cases, the NIEHS reported.


"CDC concurs," Gerberding wrote, again noting that its study design was "not
appropriate for studying this vaccine safety topic. The data are intended
for administrative purposes and may not be predictive of the outcomes
studied."


Another serious problem was that the HMOs changed the way they tracked and
recorded autism diagnoses over time, including during the period when
vaccine mercury levels were in decline. Such changes could "affect the
observed rate of autism and could confound or distort trends in autism
rates," the NIEHS warned.


"CDC concurs," Dr. Gerberding wrote again, "that conducting an ecologic
analysis using VSD administrative data to address potential associations
between thimerosal exposure and risk of ASD is not useful."


Read that sentence one more time. The head of the CDC is saying that its
most powerful and convincing piece of exonerating evidence for thimerosal
is, in effect, "useless."


I hope everyone will read it, including the recommendations to make the VSD
better, and the CDC's agreement with all of the suggestions.


As questionable at the US thimerosal study was, "it was an improvement on
other studies, including the two in Denmark, both of which had serious
weaknesses in their designs," Dr. Irva Hertz-Picciotto, Professor of Public
Health at UC Davis Medical School and Chair of the NIEHS panel, told
reporter Dan Olmsted at UPI.


That leaves very little for the CDC to go on in terms of proving that
thimerosal and autism are not associated in any way.


Yes, there is always the study of disability services data from
California -- which seem to be rising among the youngest cohorts of kids,
who presumably received little or no mercury because thimerosal was largely
removed from childhood shots.


But California is an "ecological study" with problems of its own.


"Although (this) information is often used by media and research entities to
develop statistics and draw conclusions, some of these findings may
misrepresent the quarterly figures," cautions the website of the California
Department of Developmental Services (DDS). "Increases in the number of
persons reported from one quarter to the next do not necessarily represent
persons who are new to the DDS system."


Even the CDC admits that "there are several limitations" with linking a VSD
study design with the California data, Gerberding wrote to Congress,
because, among other things, California only counts "persons who were
referred to and/or voluntarily entered" the disability system."


It will be interesting to see how the House Committee -- and the mainstream
media -- react to this rather breathtaking confession by the CDC, which does
seem to want to conduct the best vaccine-autism science possible (see
Gerberding's replies to NIEHS recommendations for improving the VSD: CDC
officials are currently conducting in- depth follow up studies with VSD
patients).


As the waning months of the Bush administration get underway, I can't help
but wonder if a little housecleaning might be going on at some of our top
health agencies.


http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp...w_mercury_in_v...


February 17, 2004


CDC Knew: Mercury in Vaccines Induces Autism
Categories
Pharma


It is quite clear that mercury is a potent neurotoxin and actually kills
developing nerve cells. The serious thing is that mercury has been injected
into children with numerous vaccines and it still is - with the majority of
flu vaccines. Visual evidence in a film linked here, it takes eons to
download so you need a fast connection or a lot of patience.


This danger was apparently clear to the CDC since some time in the '90s. The
problem was discussed by the CDC, the FDA and representatives of the vaccine
industry four years ago - in February 2000, only to be ... hushed up.


Firstcoastnews reports the story.


Here is an archived copy of the article.


CDC Knew of Potential Link between Vaccines, Autism


By Melissa Ross
First Coast News


Five-year-old Ryan Anderson of Jacksonville Beach is an animated, happy
child.


But that wasn't always the case.


"His course of deterioration from a happy, developmentally appropriate child
to the problems he began to develop, started right after he received the
measles, mumps and rubella vaccine," says Ryan's father, Bruce Anderson.


Now, several therapies are underway to restore Ryan's cognitive and
behavioral development, which began to show significant impairment at age 18
months. Ryan also presents evidence of a persistent, active measles virus.


Ryan's doctor, Jeff Bradstreet of Melbourne, is a specialist in
autism-related disorders. Using clinical diagnostic testing, he has
documented a genetic defect in children that Ryan carries. That defect, says
Bradstreet, made him vulnerable to a preservative in his vaccinations.


The preservative is called thimerosal, and it contains mercury, a known
neuro-toxin. Until just a few years ago, children who received a full
schedule of vaccinations were injected with mercury in amounts far exceeding
EPA guidelines. Bradstreet says some children's bodies just can't handle the
onslaught of the toxin.


"There are children who don't detox heavy metals well.. the more mercury we
expose them to the more problems they're going to have," Bradstreet says.


The growing controversy over thimerosal has contributed to its removal from
many childhood vaccines, beginning in the late 1990's. But it is still
present in some vaccinations, including virtually all flu shots.


The Centers for Disease Control published a study last fall repudiating any
possible link between thimerosal and developmental problems like autism in
children. However, First Coast News has obtained non-published documents
that show the CDC DID have data supporting such a link-- but kept it from
the public.


Documents released through the Freedom of Information Act, detail the
transcript of a meeting held in June of 2000 between members of the CDC, the
FDA, and representatives from the vaccine industry.


The group discusses the results of a February 2000 study that finds a
significant association between exposure to thimerosal-containing vaccines,
and developmental issues like autism in children.


Some of the comments--


"There are just a host of neurodevelopmental data that would suggest we've
got a serious problem."


"My gut feeling? It worries me. I don't want my grandson to get a
thimerosal-containing vaccine until we know better what's going on."


"We are in a bad position from the standpoint of defending any lawsuits."


Finally--


"We have asked you to keep this information confidential."


And that's what happened. Three years later, the CDC published a study in
the November 2003 issue of "Pediatrics" contradicting the earlier results,
and clearing thimerosal of any link to neurological problems in children.


"I just feel pretty strongly they haven't been honest in analyzing the
problem."


So says Florida Congressman David Weldon, a physician. Weldon sent a letter
to the head of the CDC in October of 2003, charging that data was
selectively used in the "Pediatrics" study to make the earlier evidence of a
mercury-autism connection disappear. He also asked for another review of the
data. The CDC has not yet officially responded to Weldon's request.


"Where there's smoke there's fire.. and when you see people reluctant to
investigate things properly, it makes you think they really don't want to
investigate things properly," he says.


Meantime, parents like Bruce Anderson say, while they are not anti-vaccine,
they do want doctors to screen children more carefully before administering
shots, taking into account the specialized health concerns of each
individual child. Anderson also says it's imperative the government recall
any vaccines still containing thimerosal.


"I have to live with the memory of my child's cries as I held him down while
he was being vaccinated, never knowing that I was injuring him."


Bradstreet adds, "This is a very potent neurotoxin. Let's do everything we
can to reduce exposure, not justify why it's OK to give just a little."


Bradstreet, along with Congressman Weldon and other experts on the issue,
reiterated their statements on thimerosal in Washington on February 9th. The
occasion was an Institute of Medicine panel hearing information both
supporting and rejecting the theory that thimerosal is linked to rising
autism rates in children.


A spokesman for the CDC tells First Coast News that the agency plans to
undertake an objective review of the data presented at the IOM panel.


Weldon has already expressed strong skepticism with the CDC's position
however, telling First Coast News, "I don't believe the CDC can really take
an objective position on the issue. They are concerned the fears about
thimerosal might lead to parents being afraid to vaccinate their children.
But the problem isn't vaccines, it's the thimerosal in vaccines. So parents
who are concerned about this need to talk with their pediatrician, and
carefully check the product insert in each vaccination to make sure the shot
is thimerosal-free."


See also:


A two-part article by Dan Olmsted on autism in the Amish community in the
U.S. is highly interesting. It was published in The Washington Times on
April 18 and April 19, 2005.
The Age of Autism: The Amish anomaly


Red Flags Weekly: The Autism Pandemic and Relative Risk
By Daniel Hollenbeck (subscription needed)


February 2005: U.S. Representatives Dave Weldon, M.D. from Florida and
Carolyn Maloney from New York have reintroduced H.R. 881, a measure that
would eliminate mercury from vaccines.


LA Times: '91 Memo Warned of Mercury in Shots


Motherjones.com: Toxic Tipping Point
Are the CDC, the FDA, and other health agencies covering up evidence that a
mercury preservative in children's vaccines caused a rise in autism?


Mercury on the Mind - By Donald W. Miller, Jr., MD
Although they afflict widely different age groups, autism and Alzheimer's
disease share a common cause: mercury. Dr. Boyd Haley, professor and chair
of the chemistry department at the University of Kentucky, and Dr. Bernard
Rimland, founder of the Autism Research Institute, presented evidence at
this year's Doctors for Disaster Preparedness meeting that connects mercury
with these diseases.


THE TRUTH BEHIND THE VACCINE COVER-UP
By Russell Blaylock, M.D


Mercury and human health - Idaho Observer


Vaccine Data Leads to a Shocking Discovery


New Study from Northeastern University Suggests Link Between Vaccine
Ingredients And Autism, ADHD


CDC Vaccine Data Leads Scientists to Shocking Discovery


The MMR scandal shows a business riddled with conflicts of interest


Precipitous Increase in Autism Cases May Be Tied To Childhood Vaccines


Toxic Tipping Point - Mother Jones - Are the CDC, the FDA, and other health
agencies covering up evidence that a mercury preservative in children's
vaccines caused an epidemic of autism?


Is Mercury Toxicity an Autoimmune Disorder?


CDC, FDA Become Targets for Investigation, Says National Autism Association


Unbelieveable!! -- CDC Still Allows Mercury in Infant Flu Shots


Mercury : The Winged Messenger - Book on mercury and autism


National Autism Association Questions IOM and CDC Cover-Up -- How Far Will
They go to Protect Toxic Vaccines?


Vaccination, autism and thimerosal: Vaccine critics blast mercury report


Row over autism link to vaccines


New Columbia University Study Confirms IOM Vaccine-Autism Report is Wrong


International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology An excellent on-line
presentation of the dangers of mercury fillings in teeth


Crematoria warned over mercury


Discover Magazine - March 2005: Our Preferred Poison
A little mercury is all that humans need to do away with themselves quietly,
slowly, and surely


Red Flags Weekly: Vaccines and Immune Suppression (subscription needed)


Found on the Alternative Medicine Forum, posted there by Donna:


Bayer made Rhogam that contained 35 mcg of mercury, Bayer in 2003 Petitioned
OEHHA to take thimerosal/mercury off the list of reproductive toxins, After
parents with disabled children filed lawsuits. [The EPA limit for INGESTING
mercury is 6 mcg! Pregnant women continue to be INJECTED with 25 mcg of
mercury via the flu vaccine!] What happens to these disabled children, Some
require many different medications just to survive.


Here is OEHHA reply to Bayer.


OEHHA (Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assesment) reports;


"The scientific evidence that PMA and Thimerosal cause reproductive
toxcitity is CLEAR and VOLUMINOUS.


The evidence for its reproductive toxcitity includes severe mental
retardation or malformations in human offspring who were poisoned when their
mothers were exposed to ethylmercury or thimerosal while pregnant."


http://www.oehha.ca.gov/prop65/CRNR_...p/hgbayer1.pdf


From The CancerCoverUp.com Monthly Newsletter | MAY 2005 | Volume 4, Issue 5
The Autism Epidemic: Is Organized Medicine Hiding The Truth?


Taking a shot
Rich Tucker - April 30, 2005
Where some see a crisis, others see an opportunity.


Bush Administration Knew Childhood Vaccines Cause Autism
by Evelyn J. Pringle - www.dissidentvoice.org
February 7, 2005


FDA Knew Dangers Of Thimerosal-Vaccines For 60 Years
September 02, 2005 By: Evelyn Pringle - Independent Media TV ?
Since the 1930s, mercury-based Thimerosal has been added to vaccines as a
preservative to boost drug company profits by allowing vaccine makers to
package in bulk instead of individual doses. According to newly discovered
research, which was supported by a grant from the American Medical
Association, government agencies have known for 60 years that Thimerosal was
neither safe or effective, and that it should have been removed as a
preservative in pharmaceutical products.


"For a long period mercurial compounds, such as bichloride of mercury,
headed the list of chemical which were thought to be effective in the
killing of microorganisms," it said. However, the authors basically state
that Thimerosal as a preservative is useless, "It is not highly germicidal
and especially does not possess high germicidal value in the presence of
serum and other protein mediums. The loss of antibacterial activity of
mercurials in the presence of serum proves their incompatibility with
serum."


Are health agencies such as the CDC and the FDA covering up evidence that
a mercury preservative in children's vaccines resulted in an epidemic of
autism?

No. Health agencies around the world have researched vaccines thoroughly.
There is no
evidence at all to support any theory linking vaccines to autism. However
there's plenty of evidence linking illness and death to children whose
parents refused to let them be vaccinated.

The above proves otherwise.

If you're really worried about mercury - there's plenty in fish thanks to
polluted seas. Why don't you concentrate your efforts there?

You need to look up all my posts about *all forms* of mercury.