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It's rare that I ping all of you back to the same thread, but comment 26 has a link of what appears to be the latest info from the FDA on "Thimerosal in Vaccines." You may want to bookmark it. Here's the chemical structure of Thimerosal that I found at a Canadian government URL. EXPOSURE TO THIMEROSAL IN VACCINES USED IN CANADIAN INFANT IMMUNIZATION PROGRAMS, WITH RESPECT TO RISK OF NEURODEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS

It can be chemically described as C9H9HgNaO2S or ethylmercurithiosalicylic acid. Here are three other links worth considering.

AAAS: Kids Do Okay After Pregnant Moms Eat Mercury-Laden Fish

MERCURY MYTHS I have not read MERCURY MYTHS completely, just glanced at it. Caveat emptor.

Mercury and its Many Forms

What are the signs and symptoms of organic mercury poisoning?

Organic mercury compounds are very damaging. They are toxic by ingestion, inhalation, and skin and eye contact. These mercury compounds can attack all body systems.

hate to tell you, but they too that stuff out of vaccines quite a few years ago...didn't help...

There might be an increase in Autism, but I suspect a lot of it is
1 premies and kids with meningitis now live
2 autism is a gentler diagnosis than mental retardation so many kids who are retarded with some abnormal behavior get diagnosed as autistic.

rIn the 1950's these kids were called "retarded"...and institutionalized.the few "high functioning" autistics were called "childhood schizophrenia" and blamed on bad mothering technique...

but now we see the opposite: Retarded kids are called "autistic" when they are really only hyperactive with neurological behavior problems...autism is a specific disease, concerning language, sensory sensitivity, and interpersonal relationship problems...most autistic kids are retarded, but that's like saying most kids with cerebral palsy have some retardation...the common thread is where the brain was damaged...

And LOTS of things can cause it...
Some are prenatal, with the kid showing problems from birth...others are probably viral encephalitis...where the kid is normal, then gets a high fever, and then deteriorates neurologically...

Measles used to be a cause, so blame measles vaccine if you want...we also used to blame it on whooping cough vaccine, but now we have a new vaccine, and fewer post shot fevers, but not much improvement in "autism"...

Fetal alcohol syndrome is a common cause...and I always wonder how much of the increase is due to drug use of moms...

Lead poisoning was a cause...and some used to suspect lead in gasoline fumes caused the high hyperactivity/retardation rates in inner city kids...

But mercury?
Yup...the Japanese had a mercury dump that caused Pink syndrome and a lot of problems...but you'd get more from eating fish than you would from the tiny amount in shots...

and did you know that in NOrthern Minnesota, we weren't supposed to eat local fish more than once a week due to mercury? Yup...I saw a lot of "autism" there...mainly due to cocaine and fetal alcohol syndromre....not mercury.