Posted on 01/19/2005 8:23:48 PM PST by Coleus
Autism bump. Sorry, I don't have my full list with me....
Even though the risk of thimerosal is hypothetical, thimerosal began to be removed from childhood vaccines in 1999. The federal government, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and others agreed that thimerosal should be reduced and eliminated in vaccines as a precautionary measure. The FDA encouraged companies to comply with this recommendation. Currently, all routinely recommended vaccines manufactured for infants in the United States are either thimerosal-free or contain only trace amounts.
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For the 2004-2005 flu season, the CDC is recommending that children ages 6 months to 23 months get vaccinated annually against the flu (influenza) with the inactivated flu shot. "The influenza vaccine is available both with thimerosal as a preservative and without it," Midthun says. "But the benefits of flu vaccination outweigh any theoretical risk from thimerosal."
According to the CDC, the amount of flu vaccine without thimerosal as a preservative will increase as manufacturing capabilities expand. "To eliminate thimerosal as a preservative from flu vaccines, manufacturers will have to switch from multi-dose to single-dose preparations, which requires greater filling and storage capacity," Midthun says.
If thimerosal is the culprit, then I think epidemiologists or administrators for special education funding might have started to notice a decrease in the incidence of the diagnoses of autistic spectrum disorders.
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I followed the link, but couldn't find the first several paragraphs. I find it hard to believe that the NIH would write this...
Infant flu vaccine is thimerosol free; the "adult" vaccine isn't.
I had noticed that "bottles" of contact-lens saline solution that I bought for my children said "Contains no thimerosal." I wondered what that statment was referring to.
I'm now wondering what other products, that people used every day, contained thimerosal.
or sodium ethylmercurithiosalicylate is a mercury-containing organic compound (organomercurial) that has been used since about 1930 as an antimicrobial preservative in a number of biological and drug products, including many vaccines. Thimerosal effectively inhibits/prevents bacterial and fungal growth, and is widely used as an preservative in aqueous biopharmaceutical and drug products, particularly those packaged in multiple use vials (needle repeated inserted to withdraw contents for injection), and in cosmetics and other products. [snip]With a formula of C8H9HgNaO3S2 and molecular weight of 404.82 Daltons, thimerosal is 49.6% mercury by weight. [snip]
Back in the 1980's (and maybe even after that), contact lens solution contained Thimerosol. I used it for years, and so far haven't had any signs of mercury toxicity.
Glad to hear that!
The Canadian media lit up yesterday with stories about the mercury content in thimerosal and how, when used as a preservative in baby food (certain formulas), could contribute to infants' consuming nearly a lifetime's recommended level of the chemical by the time they were starting on solid foods.
Mercurochrome (a different mercury based antiseptic) was commonly used, too.
I agree, hard to believe. Aluminum cookpans cause alzheimers. Cell phones cause brain cancer. Silicon breast implants cause breast cancer. If it weren't for all this mass-produced capitalist technocratic poisoning, we'd all live longer, healthier, more productive lives. Okay, so, we'd have an insufficient food supply, and we'd die of tooth absesses or have all of our teeth pulled by age 30, but with a mortar and pestle, we could grind up our food *before* putting it into our mouths. It'll work.
The Mercury Amalgam Scam:
How Anti-Amalgamists Swindle People
Stephen Barrett, M.D.
http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/mercury.html
YOUR GOVERNMENT AT WORK
CDC vaccines study slammed as cover-up
Data linking mercury exposure, neurodevelopment said 'manipulated'
I followed the link, but couldn't find the first several paragraphs. I find it hard to believe that the NIH would write this... >>>
You may want to e mail this person:
Department of Pediatrics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and Arkansas Children's Hospital Research Institute, Little Rock, AR 72202, USA. jamesjill@uams.edu
As for "neurotoxin", there are many of these around us on a daily basis; however, adverse reactions are dose dependant. Capsaicin (contained in Cayenne Pepper) is a neurotoxin. Should we ban Cayenne Peppers? Common insecticides are neurotoxins as well. And don't forget Botox (in addition to it's use in wrinkles, botulinum toxin is used therapeutically in children with cerebral palsy to improve mobility).
As for the increase of children labeled as Special Ed, one explanation for this is that medical science has made a lot of advancements, and children that otherwise would have died if born several decades ago, are now living past infancy, yet have lingering disabilities that require placement in Special Ed.
I agree that mercury is a neurotoxin, but the scientific evidence that it causes such widespread maladies is lacking.
Click on your link from the body of your post: "Neurotoxicology January 2005;26(1):1-8". The paragraphs written above this link in the body of your post are not contained at this link. That was my point. Who wrote this? Was this part of another abstract? I don't see any of this at either of the links you provided. It just seems odd to me that a scientific abstract would be so opinionated.
. That was my point. Who wrote this? Was this part of another abstract?
no, it was commentary and an opinion.
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