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The EPA, unlike the FDA, has conducted research into mercury’s toxicity and health risks. While the EPA sets a limit exposure of mercury at 0.1 micrograms/kg, the FDA in its favoritism towards mercury’s use in vaccines raises the stakes to 0.4 micrograms. The FDA’s figure has no valid supporting scientific data and is arbitrary in order to continue sanctioning the use of in vaccines. The World Health Organization (WHO) sets the limit higher; this may account for the WHO’s aggressive campaigns to inoculate the world’s poorer populations with heavily laced-mercury and stockpiled vaccines from the drug makers. The Committee, however, found the EPA evaluation to be “scientifically validated.” Consequently, a person receiving a single flu shot, with 25 mcg/kg of thimerosal would need to weigh approximately 550 pounds for it to be considered a safe quantity. Therefore it is no surprise that the series of four thimerosal-laced flu shots, or 100 mcg/kg, can lead to long-term cumulative damage for any age group, including the later onset of dementia conditions such as Alzheimer’s. [2009 Nov] Federal Health Agencies Continue to Deceive Americans: Congressional Report on a Vaccine Mercury-Autism Link Ignored for Six Years by Richard Gale and Gary Null, Ph.D
Although they are similar organic molecules, studies show that an equivalent dose of "ethyl" mercury can actually deposit more mercury in the brain. So, if a child receives a shot with 25 micrograms of mercury, the child would have to weigh 550 pounds to remain within the recommended safe level of exposure. [2009 Sept] Warning About Flu Vaccines from Clifford Shoemaker, Esq.
With respect to the statement: “Pharmaceutical companies
will be reluctant to subject themselves to the liability of selling
vaccines if even the truth cannot protect them from lawsuits,”
consider these observations:
When the truth comes to light, and the vaccine makers are
proven to have knowingly failed to prove their vaccines
were safe as required by law and were knowingly distributing
adulterated vaccines and other drugs, then, when the
applicable criminal RICO statutes are invoked, as they
should be, the federal government should:
Seize these vaccine makers and all their assets, and
Then operate these vaccine makers as not-for-profit firms
where the profits are used to pay for the harm done until
all claims are paid
In addition, the federal government should also appropriately
prosecute all of those who participated in this racket (including
government officials, health officials, and vaccine
apologists).
As those who were engaged in, assisting, or a party to, this
racket are convicted they should be permanently debarred from
working in any capacity in any FDA-regulated industry or in
the federal government, and, as restitution, in addition to any
fines levied, all those persons convicted of actively participating
in any aspect of this racket should be sentenced to tend to those
institutionalized individuals who have been directly harmed by
this racket for an appropriate number of years.
Key realities about autism, vaccines,
vaccine-injury compensation, Thimerosal, and autism-related research----Gary
S. Goldman, Ph.D & P.G. King PhD
mercury poisoning has been and is a major causal factor
in those who have been diagnosed with an autism spectrum
disorder (ASD), as well as in several disorders and diseases
that, prior to 1970, were virtually non-existent in children (e.g.,
childhood asthma and type-II diabetes) or rare (an ASD, where
reported incidence rate estimates were on the order of 1 – 5 in
10,000), and have since become epidemic (occurring at a rate >1 in 1,000 children).
These now-epidemic childhood diseases include, but are not
limited to: asthma, type-I and type-II diabetes, obesity, gastroenteritis,
ulcerative colitis, leukemia, MS, severe food allergies,
ADHD, ADD, and the ASDs, including autism, pervasive developmental
disorder – not otherwise specified (PDD-NOS) and
Asperger’s.
These are all childhood medical conditions where mercury
poisoning has been shown to be an actual or a probable causal
factor. Key realities about autism, vaccines,
vaccine-injury compensation, Thimerosal, and autism-related research----Gary
S. Goldman, Ph.D & P.G. King PhD
Thus, even today’s child can easily be exposed to 100 micrograms
of Thimerosal (50 micrograms of mercury) from vaccines
by 7 months of age. Moreover, because the developing child being exposed to a
50-microgram dose of Thimerosal in utero (from the mother’s
being given a Thimerosal-preserved flu shot) may weigh less
than 1% of the weight of full-term child, the potential for harm
may easily exceed that by the post-partum child by a factor
greater than 100.
............The CDC has recommended administering one of those
Thimerosal-preserved vaccines, the Thimerosal-preserved
influenza vaccine, for pregnant women and babies,
federal officials have continued the knowing mercury poisoning
of children and adults while touting the removal of Thimerosal
as a preservative from most of the other early childhood vaccines
and proclaiming these removals as if they were the removal
of Thimerosal from all vaccines – classic examples of
misdirection and deceit.
Key realities about autism, vaccines,
vaccine-injury compensation, Thimerosal, and autism-related research----Gary
S. Goldman, Ph.D & P.G. King PhD
Attempts by independent researchers to obtain the underlying
data sets from the original authors in the epidemiological
studies touted by the CDC and other vaccine apologists (except the
2004 Ip et al. study) as supporting the claims of “no
link” have been repeatedly rebuffed. Interestingly, a November
2007 paper by Desoto and Hitlan, entitled Blood Levels of Mercury
Are Related to a Diagnosis of Autism: A Reanalysis of an
Important Data Set, independently reviewed the basis data from
the previously published Ip et al. epidemiology study reporting
no evidence of a link between the blood levels of mercury and
autism. The reanalysis, with which the authors of the original
epidemiological article agreed, found that the original article’s
inaccurate conclusions were based on a significant calculation
error and a less-than-appropriate choice of t-tail statistical test.
Thus, no independent analysis has been able to confirm the
validity, or lack thereof, of the findings reported in the studies
upon which the 2004 IOM committee relied. In
the case of the key U.S. study by Verstraeten et al., CDC
officials have claimed that the original data sets have been
“lost.” Key realities about autism, vaccines,
vaccine-injury compensation, Thimerosal, and autism-related research----Gary
S. Goldman, Ph.D & P.G. King PhD
Thus, the real question is when are vaccine apologists going to cease raising questions that have been answered and start admitting that Thimerosal-containing vaccines have mercury poisoned and are continuing to mercury-poison our children and ourselves to the point that some children and some adults are sub-acutely mercury poisoned and exhibit those symptoms that are used to in the diagnosis of a wide variety of neurodevelopmental (e.g., the autistic disorder, pervasive developmental disorder– not otherwise specified [PDD-NOS], Asperger’s, attention deficit disorder [ADD] and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder [ADHD]) and other disorders (asthma, diabetes, obesity, multiple sclerosis (MS), and food allergies) in our children, and, for those old enough to miss the prenatal and early childhood Thimerosal-poisoning, “dementias” (e.g., Alzheimer’s) in ourselves. Key realities about autism, vaccines, vaccine-injury compensation, Thimerosal, and autism-related research----Gary S. Goldman, Ph.D & P.G. King PhD
Such marketing coincidences (Thimerosal in/Calomel out) seem to be events orchestrated by those who also stood to gain from the continuing the sub-acute mercury-poisoning of babies, which increases not only the short-term medical customer base in the affected children but also, because it causes many of them to develop life-long “chronic” diseases, increases the number of times these customers will need to be seen, treated, and, in most cases, prescribed medicines. Key realities about autism, vaccines, vaccine-injury compensation, Thimerosal, and autism-related research----Gary S. Goldman, Ph.D & P.G. King PhD
With respect to the myth’s claim, “by 2002 no new
childhood vaccines with Thimerosal were being sold in the
U.S.,” this is also false because, among other Thimerosal-containing
vaccines that could be given to children in 2002, the
Thimerosal-preserved influenza vaccine, which, by its nature, is
a new vaccine every year, was effectively knowingly added to
the recommended vaccination schedule for pregnant women as
well as to the recommended childhood vaccination schedule in
April of 200228 at a time when all doses of the influenza vaccine
approved for “healthy children aged 6–23 months” were
Thimerosal preserved.
Sixth, compounding the harm, in April of 2002, the CDC’s
recommendation that the Thimerosal-preserved influenza vaccine
be given to pregnant women who would be in their second
and third trimesters of their pregnancies during the influenza
season, thereby knowingly recommending the Thimerosal and
mercury poisoning the developing child in utero when the risk
of harm is even greater than it is postpartum and the results
published in 197729 clearly found that Thimerosal-preserved
influ vaccines that were given to pregnant women significantly
increased (with a hospital-standardized relative risk of 2.0 or
higher) their children’s risk of serious birth defects (cleft palate
[RR = 7.1], microcephaly [RR = 2.3], and pyloric stenosis [RR
= 2.0]). Key realities about autism, vaccines,
vaccine-injury compensation, Thimerosal, and autism-related research----Gary
S. Goldman, Ph.D & P.G. King PhD
[Letter Feb 2008]
Mercury, Vaccines, And Autism: One Controversy, Much
Propaganda---Michael F. Wagnitz
The author cites the inventors of thimerosal and writes, "extensive in
vitro testing shows that thimerosal was 40 to 50 times as effective as phenol
against Staphylococcus aureus." He then claims "concerns over
neurotoxicity in infants receiving thimerosal from vaccines were never raised by
medical or government authorities before the late 1990s." This is false. In
1982, an independent panel was convened by the FDA. The panel called for the
removal of mercury, including thimerosal, from all over-the-counter products. It
declared thimerosal as being both unsafe and ineffective. It was singled out as
being "no better than water in protecting mice from fatal streptococcal
infection." It was shown to be 35.5 times more toxic to embryonic chicken
heart tissue than the aforementioned Staphylococcus aureus.
He goes on to declare that the "comparatively miniscule
exposures [of thimerosal] involved in vaccines were well within all published
guidelines for mercury exposure." Unfortunately, he never took the time to
analyze a vaccine vial for mercury concentration. The Hepatitis B vaccine,
administered at birth for over ten years, contained 25,000 parts per billion
(ppb) of mercury in the multi-dose vaccine vial. The multi-dose DTP and
Haemophilus B vaccine vials, administered 4 times each in the 1990s to children
at 2, 4, 6, 12 and 18 months of age, contained 50,000 ppb mercury. According to
the EPA, any liquid that contains more than 200 ppb mercury is to be classified
as hazardous waste based on toxicity (3). It's hard to believe that a
level of mercury 250 times higher than hazardous waste levels would be referred
to as "miniscule." The fact is, on any given day of receiving even a single
thimerosal containing vaccine in the 1990s, all published guidelines for mercury
exposure were exceeded.
Several pages of the paper examine the toxicity of
methylmercury and its past use as a fungicide. We are led to believe that this
form of mercury is much different than ethylmercury, the type found in vaccines.
This is in spite of the fact that ethylmercury was used for the same purpose. In
fact, Ethylmercurric Chloride, the material used as a fungicide (which was
banned long ago) is what is used to make thimerosal. This can be easily
confirmed by looking in a Merck Index. We now know that this type of mercury
deposits twice as much inorganic mercury in the brains of primates as compared
to equal doses of methylmercury (4). Inorganic mercury, following the de-methylation
of organic mercury, has been identified as the primary neurotoxic agent in
primate studies (5).
Dr.Boyd Haley
RESPONSE TO 2008 R. SCHECHTER AND J. GRETHER PUBLCIATION Autism was
not a known, described illness until about 1941-3, 8 to
10 years after the introduction of thimerosal and similar organic
thiol-mercury compounds in biological mixtures used in medicine and other
areas. This argues against autism being a genetic illness.
In 1977, 10 of 13 infants treated in a single hospital by topical
application of thimerosal for umbilical cord infections died of mercury
toxicity. This same topical was used on adolescents without obvious ill
effects which strongly supports the concept that infants are very
susceptible to thimerosal toxicity.
The recent increase (starting about 1990) of autism spectrum
disorders correlated well with the advent of the CDC mandated vaccine
program which increased thimerosal exposures with increased vaccinations.
Due to its toxicity, thimerosal would have to be suspect for causing
autism.
As expected by science, extensive
searching for a genetic cause of autism has not turned
up a significant find that would explain the recent
increased rate in autism. The latest genetic find, at best, might explain
0.5% of autism causation. Most agree that a genetic predisposition is
likely (like those that lead to low glutathione levels), but that a toxic
exposure is absolutely needed. Consider also, that this increased toxic
exposure would have had to occur in all 50 states at about the same time
as all states have reported similar increases in
autism rates. Only something like the government
recommended vaccine program fits this need for a time
dependent, uniform exposure of a toxin throughout all the states.
In the
Schechter-Grether study it is implied or assumed that all
thimerosal containing vaccines were gone by the end of 2002 due to their
expiration dates. I don't think this is a valid assumption. I have
talked to mothers who asked to see the vaccine inserts
as late as 2004 and found thimerosal present as a
preservative in infant vaccines being used in certain
clinics. Also, in 2004 the influenza vaccine was recommended by
the CDC for infants 6 months of age and older. It would appear as if a
thimerosal free vaccine time-frame would be very hard to identify, if one
ever existed.
..........The study of non-vaccinated populations is a
very obvious experiment that the CDC and its
supporters appear to refuse to consider. This makes
me suspicious that this knowledge exists and is being
suppressed because knowledge of the rate among the non-vaccinated
population would answer many questions.
[2008] Dr Ayoub Speech at rally The AAP leadership knows very well that vaccines cause autism. We need not waste anymore efforts in trying to educating them, we need to indict them. They may me morally bankrupt, but they are not stupid. They have lied to legislators, they have lied to journalists, they have lied to Pediatricians, and worse of all, they have lied to you and your children.....One thing is abundantly clear, the don't give a damn about scientific truth and they don't give a damn about you or your children. I hope the autism community continues to move forward and expose all those involved who have put millions of children in harm's way.
[Nov 2007]
Dissecting A Thimerosal Study by Heidi
Stevenson So, the expert quoted has made a statement that has nothing to do
with the study and he holds a patent on a dangerous vaccine being pushed on tiny
babies for a disease that holds almost no risk if they're healthy. Is this the
sort of person whose opinion on the issue—especially considering the fact that
his statement has nothing to do with the study in question—is worthwhile?
Clearly, it is disingenuous
to suggest that there is no risk in thimerosal. It doesn't require studies to
realize that fact. The study examined in this article shows clearly that those
producing it are well paid by the pharmaceutical firms that profit by its use.
The flaws in the study are huge. Over two-thirds of its original sample group
were eliminated, and many of those eliminated have characteristics that would be
more likely to document harm.
Yet, the news
media and medical shills for the pharmaceutical industry are already hawking the
claims. Worse, they're doing so by using the people in the medical industry who
are already deep in the pockets of pharmaceutical firms. This is the reality of
most of the medical studies being done and touted today: They are bought and
paid for by those who profit from the results. Thus, whatever is necessary to
show whatever the profiteers wish to see is done. Could there be any other valid
reason for eliminating small babies from this study?
"Maurice R. Hilleman Ph.D., a leading expert on
immunization, developed over 40 vaccines and published more than 480 original
articles on virology, epidemiology, immunology, and infectious diseases.
Two years ago, a 1991 confidential
memo from Dr. Hilleman to the head of Merck’s vaccine division was made
public.(2) In the memo, Dr. Hilleman wrote “The regulatory control agencies
in some countries, particularly Scandinavia (especially Sweden) but also UK,
Japan, and Switzerland have expressed concern for thimerosal, a mercury
preservative, in vaccines. Some countries require absence of thimerosal from
single-dose package. This trend will probably spread… Sweden is requiring
thimerosal free single-dose packaging of all products as soon as can be
reasonably achieved. The deadline for DT is January, 1992… “The focal point for
present concern is in Scandinavia… The immediate Merck concern is to be able to
qualify for sale of single-dose products in Sweden and in Norway and Denmark…
The public awareness has been raised by the sequential wave of experiences in
Sweden including mercury exposure from additives, fish, contaminated air, bird
death from eating mercury-treated seed grains, dental amalgam leakage, mercury
allergy, etc… In some instances, public immunization programs may be endangered
by public refusal to accept vaccines with thimerosal.”
Dr. Hilleman went on,
“For babies: The 25 µg of mercury in a single 0.5 ml dose and extrapolated to
a 6 lb baby would be 25X the adjusted Swedish daily allowance of 1.0 µg for a
baby of that size… If 8 doses of thimerosal-containing vaccine were given in
the first 6 months of life (3 DPT, 2 HIB and 3 Hepatitis B) the 200 µg of
mercury given, say an average size of 12 lbs would be about 87X the Swedish
daily allowance of 2.3 µg of mercury for a baby of that size.”
To put all this into
perspective: In 1991, we have an international expert (and the # 1 US vaccine
expert) on vaccines telling the chief of the vaccine division of the largest US
vaccine manufacturer that it is imperative to immediately produce
mercury-free vaccines for Scandinavian children in order to avoid
exposing them to unacceptable levels of mercury and to guarantee a market share.
All this while the CDC and the FDA
were introducing a new mercury-containing vaccine and no one, including members
of the medical profession, was uttering not a word and doing absolutely nothing,
about the copious amounts of mercury that were being injected in American
infants."--The
First Cancer Vaccine: Facts and Failings By
F. Edward Yazbak, MD, FAAP
"Thimerosol is the preservative in immunisation shots, so anytime you get an immunisation shot you are undergoing the same procedure that in the University Lab we used to give animals auto-immune disease---give a little tiny injection of mercury. And when you get an immunisation shot you are getting a little tiny dose of mercury there."---Hal Huggins
"When the link between the use of unsafe, mercury-laden vaccine and autism, ADHD, asthma, allergies and diabetes becomes undeniable, mainstream medicine will be sporting a huge, self-inflicted and well-deserved black eye. Then will come the billion-dollar awards, by enraged juries, to the children and their families. I can't wait."--Dr Rimland MD
"A major cause of the Roman Empire's decline, after six centuries of world dominance was its replacement of stone aqueducts by lead pipes for the transport and supply of drinking water. Roman engineers, the best in the world, turned their fellow citizens into cripples. Today our own "best and brightest," with the best of intentions, achieve the same end through childhood vaccination programmes yielding the modern scourges of hyperactivity, learning disabilities, autism, appetite disorders, and impulsive violence."--Harris Coulter
"There is a fact, which you may know or may not know, and this is that in my country, in Sweden, thimerosal has been removed from vaccines in 1998. And one of the reasons for it is a report on the Pharmacovigilance Working Party of the European Agency for evaluation of medical products. And what they basically say is that alteration of the immune system due to mercury could have consequences on the ability of the host to withstand viral attack. So Swedish people make a lecture. And since I have been working in toxicology laboratory for 20 years, I know that there is always risk assessment. And they decided they don't want to take the risk."---DR. VERA STEJSKAL
Chelation
In a study last year, we found that about 40 percent of the children
that we looked at (out of a total of perhaps 120) showed marked improvement,
particularly in the younger age group. In most of the ones that resolve, the
children go from not having any speech or eye contact to complete dialogue with
good eye contact. It's the two, three, and four year olds that resolve most
quickly. Within about six to eight months time, they get to a point where you
can't tell that they were ever autistic. It's amazing. The parents come into our
office in tears; they'll fly across the country just to show the children to us.
Balancing Biochemistry: An Interview
with Stephanie Cave
Presently my colleague and I are treating over 1500 children with this
problem (autism). In the past five years we have seen
an incredible number of children recover from this devastating illness and take
their places beside their schoolmates and siblings. .....We
test all developmentally delayed children for the presence of heavy metals. Hair
is screened followed by a determination in urine after a challenge of an oral
chelator, DMSA (2,3 Dimercaptosuccinic). It is rare that we find any child with
a developmental problem who does not have increased levels of mercury in the
urine after a chelator challenge. An interesting phenomenon is that we are
finding many more lead intoxicated children than blood screen would indicate.
Lead amplifies the toxicity of ethyl mercury in the brain.
.....The abnormal findings that we see in autism involving the immune
system, GI tract, and central nervous system are also seen in mercury poisoning.
These include, but are not limited to changes in T lymphocytes, low levels of
glutathione, low sulfate levels, IgA deficiency, and the presence of myelin
basic protein antibodies in brain. The children are responding well to the use
of oral chelators and supplements, which take out heavy metals. We are measuring
levels in urine as we treat. The changes in the children are remarkable with
each dose of a chelator. This treatment may take months to complete, but the
chance for recovery is evident on a daily basis. Because mercury has such
far-reaching effects in the destruction of function in many systems of the body,
our treatment also involves nutritional repletion of cellular chemistry,
normalization of gastrointestinal bacterial balance, dietary programs, and
restoration of liver detoxification systems.
Our medical training did not
adequately prepare us for this challenge. We learned little about testing for
heavy metals and even less about treating. The word chelation is not in the
vocabulary of most physicians. The few physicians who are treating these
children are inundated with them in their practices. The good news is that they
are responding well to the chelation treatment. The changes in neurological
functioning are remarkable with each day of treatment.
[2002] AUTISM AND
IMMUNIZATIONS by Stephanie F. Cave, M.S., M.D.,
F.A.A.F.P.
DMSA binds to the mercury and removes it from the body. It is approved by the FDA for lead detoxification. As it circulates through the body, metals attach to it and are then excreted in the urine. It pulls out mercury, aluminum, antimony, and arsenic. My colleague Amy Holmes did a study that showed that autistic babies had very little mercury in their hair, ten times less than normal children. This was at a time when we knew that the exposure was very high because of the vaccines that were given. A lot of people who were looking for high mercury in the hair of the autistic children didn't find it and thought that the theory was wrong--they assumed that mercury in the hair meant that there was mercury in the body. But in fact the mercury was being retained. We know it is there when we treat because we can measure the amounts excreted in the urine. Balancing Biochemistry: An Interview with Stephanie Cave
Autism
"I think that the biological case against Thimerosal is so dramatically
overwhelming anymore that only a very foolish or a very dishonest person with
the credentials to
understand this research would say that Thimerosal wasn’t
most likely the cause of autism."---
Interview of Dr. Boyd E.
Haley by Teri Small:
Searching for children who had not been exposed to mercury in vaccines -- the kind of population that scientists typically use as a "control" in experiments -- Dan Olmsted scoured the Amish of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, who refuse to immunize their infants. Given the national rate of autism, Olmsted calculated that there should be 130 autistics among the Amish. He found only four. One had been exposed to high levels of mercury from a power plant. The other three -- including one child adopted from outside the Amish community -- had received their vaccines.----Deadly Immunity By ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR.
"During these investigations, numerous scientists from around the globe have testified before the committee, and have presented credible peer-reviewed research studies that indicated a direct link between the exposure of mercury, a widely known neurotoxin, and the increasing incidences of autism."----Congressman Dan Burton (R-IN), Chairman, Subcommittee on Human Rights and Wellness, U.S. Congress, Head of Three Year Congressional Investigation into Mercury In Medicine, September 8, 2004
It is only during the last day of the conference that we learn that most of the objections concerning the positive relationship between thimerosal-containing vaccines and ADD and ADHA were bogus. For example, Dr. Rapin on page 200 notes that all children in the study were below age 6 and that ADD and ADHD are very difficult to diagnose in pre-schoolers. She also notes that some children were followed for only a short period. THE TRUTH BEHIND THE VACCINE COVER-UP By Russell Blaylock, M.D.
Unsafe
"You couldn't even construct a study that shows thimerosal is safe. It's just
too darn toxic. If you inject thimerosal into an animal, its brain will sicken.
If you apply it to living tissue, the cells die. If you put it in a petri dish,
the culture dies. Knowing these things, it would be shocking if one could inject
it into an infant without causing damage." ----Dr.
Boyd Haley, Professor and Chair, Dept. of Chemistry, University of Kentucky and
one of the world's leading authorities on mercury toxicity.
(Excerpt from Deadly Immunity)
The medical literature is abound with studies on the deleterious effects of mercury on numerous enzymes, mitochondrial energy production, synaptic function, dendritic retraction, neurotubule dissolution and excitotoxicity, yet, he sees only a "theoretical risk" associated with an ever increasing addition of thimerosal-containing vaccines THE TRUTH BEHIND THE VACCINE COVER-UP By Russell Blaylock, M.D.
Dr. George Lucier, toxicologist and former director of the Environmental Toxicology Program, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences says, "Thimerosal contains organic mercury. Organic mercury is a known developmental neurotoxin and the fetus and infants are at special risk. Public health policies should not allow infants to be purposely injected with organic mercury."
"It is the elimination of this "spark", i.e. mercury, for which we now have an easy and effective solution. Along with some supportive therapies, autism and certain other neurodegenerative diseases can be fully and permanently reversed. This is NOT a theory but rather, a protocol that has already been clinically validated and the evidence is irrefutable."----Dr. Rashid Buttar, DO, FAAPM, FACAM, FAAIM, Vice Chairman, American Board of Clinical Metal Toxicologists, Doctor of Toxicology, one of many physicians successfully treating children with Autism Spectrum Disorders, Testimony Before Subcommittee on Human Rights and Wellness, U.S. Congress May 6, 2004
NAAR should know that I was on the WHO immunology panel for 20 years and continually urged discontinuation of thimersol in vaccines. The only ones who listened were the Scandinavian countries (esp. Finland, where I hold an honorary Ph.D.). Those countries banned thimersol in 1992.-----H. Hugh Fudenberg, M.D.
Mercury toxicity/safety
"There is no safe level of mercury and no one has actually shown there is a safe
level and I would say mercury is a very toxic substance."--Dr Friberg MD Ph.D. former
head of toxicology WHO.
"Thimerosal is more toxic to essential enzyme activity than elemental mercury even. And it becomes still more toxic if it has been exposed to light. There are 50 mcg Thimerosal in a vaccine. Using the equation 50 mcg/6 lb baby = x/180 lb adult, the comparable dose for an adult would be 1.5 mg. Do any of the adults recommending Thimerosal for kids want to line up for injections of 1.5 mg Hg?"--DAN! Conference Notes
"The maximum amount of mercury that the Environment Protection Agency allows people to be exposed to is 5,000 times smaller than the permissible amount of lead exposure; in other words the EPA apparently considers mercury to be 5,000 times more toxic than lead."---- Marcia Basciano DDS at annual meeting of IAOMT san diego 1994.
According to Chang at the University of Arkansas, one microgram damages nerve tissue. It takes 70 days to eliminate half of it.......Glioma cells of the brain are destroyed at 0.2 ppm ionic mercury, and only 0.04ppm of methylmercury. Even the most resistant parts of the central nervous system are destroyed at 2.5 ppm. Ten ppm ionic mercury will induce cancer-causing DNA-DNA cross-links. This amount can also cause genetic defects....The blood-brain barrier loses its protective selectivity at 1ppm within hours of administration of either ionic form or methylmercury....One atom of mercury kills (cells)."---Hal Huggins
"Studies on the toxicity of mercury to mammalian neurons in culture demonstrate that low nanomolar levels can have lethal effects. Experiments using this system have also demonstrated, in agreement with published literature, that many antibiotics, other heavy metals and chemicals increase the toxicity of mercury and thimerosal (ethyl mercury). Additionally, in this same system the female hormone estrogen decreases thimerosal's toxic effects. In contrast, the male hormone testosterone greatly increases the toxicity. This may explain the 4 to 1 ratio of boys to girls that become autistic and the observation that boys represent the vast majority of the severe cases of autism. "---Boyd Haley, Ph.D. (Testimony Before the House Government Reform Committee)
"Thimerosal is commonly used as an antiseptic/preservative in vaccines in the range of 1:10,000 to 1:20,000. Welsh's and Hunter's 1940 findings, applied to current thimerosal use in vaccines, lead to the conclusion that thimerosal completely inhibits phagocytosis in blood, one of the body's most vital immune defenses!"--Jamie Murphy
Mercury levels
"I reviewed my sons vaccine record to find that
all his early vaccines contained thimerosal and he had received 187.5 mcg of mercury in
his vaccines given the first six months of life. At each visit, two, four, and six, he
received a total of 62.5 mcg of mercury. These levels exceeded EPAs allowable daily
exposure of 0.1 mcg per kilogram at two months 125 fold."---Lyn Redwood, RN, MSN, CRNP
What many Pediatricians were calling a “small amount” of mercury was actually a grand total for Will of 213 mcg or 316,530,973,856,000,000 molecules of mercury.--Angela's Story
"The vaccine contains 125,000 nanomolar level of mercury if it has Thimerosal as a preservative. That’s a huge amount. And one nanomolar levels in the baby will prevent the macrophages from going through phagocytosis. In other words, they will lose their ability to eat viruses and bacteria that are in the blood that shouldn’t be there, and so Thimerosal suppresses the immune system. This is well known and has been well described in the literature for a long time; that mercury is an immune system suppressor and you see that these autistic children have a truckload of immune problems. So you would prevent that from occurring. That is documented research and I don’t know how the government can even ignore it, or the agencies of the government can ignore it. Interview of Dr. Boyd E. Haley by Teri Small:
In Katie Wedell's article, "A matter of understanding/Parents question role of
mercury in rising number of Autism cases," she states, "Mercury is commonly used
as a preservative in vaccines in a small amount." She
goes on to say, "There is no proven link between the
small amounts of mercury found in vaccinations and autism."
Thimerosal (50 percent mercury) is added to vaccines
at a concentration of 1:10,000. This is
equivalent to a concentration of 100,000 parts
per billion (ppb). This puts the concentration of
mercury in the vaccine vial at 50,000 ppb. To put this in perspective,
liquid waste that exceeds 200 ppb of mercury must be
disposed of in a special hazardous waste landfill. Drinking water cannot exceed
2 ppb mercury. "Small" would probably be the last word to use when describing
the amount of mercury in vaccines.
Michael Wagnitz, Madison, Wis.
"Coincidentally, soon after Cong. Mica's hearings, CDC (via FDA) discovered that "the mercury dose in vaccines recommended for American babies in their first six months of life exceeds the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) limit for methyl mercury." [Severyn K citing Harvey SC. Heavy Metals - in Goodman LS and Gilman A. The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics, 5th ed., Mackmillan 1975, p. 937 - in Vaccine News Alert, July 1999, published by Kristine M. Severyn, RPh, PhD, Director, Vaccine Policy Institute, 251 West Ridgeway Dr., Dayton, OH 45459, phone and fax: (937) 435-4750.]"--Todd Gostaldo
0.5 parts per billion (ppb) mercury = Kills human neuroblastoma cells (Parran
et al., Toxicol Sci 2005; 86: 132-140).
2 ppb mercury = U.S. EPA limit for drinking water
http://www.epa.gov/safewater/contaminants/index.html#mcls
20 ppb mercury = Neurite membrane structure destroyed (Leong et al., Neuroreport
2001; 12: 733-37).
200 ppb mercury = level in liquid the EPA classifies as hazardous waste.
http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/hazwaste/mercury/regs.htm#hazwaste
25,000 ppb mercury = Concentration of mercury in the Hepatitis B vaccine,
administered at birth in the U.S., from 1990-2001.
50,000 ppb Mercury = Concentration of mercury in multi-dose DTaP and Haemophilus
B vaccine vials, administered 4 times each in the 1990's to children at 2, 4, 6,
12 and 18 months of age. Current "preservative" level mercury in multi-dose flu
(94% of supply), meningococcal and tetanus (7 and older) vaccines. This can be
confirmed by simply analyzing the multi- dose vials. [Letter Feb 2008]
Mercury, Vaccines, And Autism: One Controversy, Much
Propaganda---Michael F. Wagnitz
"And combination of substances in toxicology can be greater than the sum of its parts. "With lead and mercury, for instance, a toxicity rating of 1 for each mercury and lead equals not 2, but 60 when combined."---Hal Huggins
Aluminium
"We have demonstrated the
toxicity of thimerosal by using it to kill neurons in culture. At 50 nanomolar thimerosal
the neuron killing capacity/rate is about doubled with the addition of levels of
aluminium found in vaccines. The aluminium alone at this level is not
demonstrated to be toxic, so it is enhancing the toxicity of the thimerosal. It likely
does this by increasing the rate that thimerosal breaks down releasing ethylmercury which
is the toxic material" -------Testimony Prof Boyd Haley, University of Kentucky, Chair
and Head of Chemistry.......
Another important factor with regard to mercury on the mind, which officials at the CDC, FDA and the professors in the IOM do not consider, is synergistic toxicity - mercury's enhanced effect when other poisons are present. A small dose of mercury that kills 1 in 100 rats and a dose of aluminum that will kill 1 in 100 rats, when combined have a striking effect: all the rats die. Doses of mercury that have a 1 percent mortality will have a 100 percent mortality rate if some aluminum is there. Vaccines contain aluminum. Mercury on the Mind by Donald W. Miller, Jr., MD
"One publication showed that combining mercury and lead both at LD1 levels caused the killing rate to go to 100% or to an LD100 level (12). An LD1 level is where, due to the low concentrations, the mercury or the lead alone was not very toxic alone (i.e., killed less than 1% of rats exposed when metal were used alone). The 100% killing, when addition of 1% plus 1% we would expect 2%, represents synergistic toxicity. Therefore, mixing to non-lethal levels of mercury plus lead gave an extremely toxic mixture! What this proves is that one cannot define a “safe level of mercury” unless you absolutely know what others toxicants the individual is being exposed to. The combined toxicity of various materials, such as mercury, Thimerosal, lead, aluminum, formaldehyde, etc., is unknown. The effects various combinations of these toxicants would have is also not defined except that we know they would be much worse than any one of the toxicants alone. So how could the ADA take any exception, based on intellectual considerations, to my contention that combinations of Thimerosal and mercury could exacerbate the neurological conditions identified with autism and AD? Autism and AD have clinical and biological markers that correspond to those observed in patients with toxic mercury exposure. Why would the ADA take this position? I personally feel like I have been in a ten-year argument with the town drunk on this issue. Facts don’t count and data is only valid if it meets the pro-amalgam agenda......The synergistic effects of mercury with many of the toxicants commonly found in our environment make the danger unpredictable and possibly quite severe, especially any mixture containing elemental mercury, organic mercury and other heavy metal toxicants such as aluminum."--Boyd Haley http://www.whale.to/m/haley.html
Antibiotics
[See:
Neomycin (MMR vaccine)]
"Studies on the toxicity of mercury to mammalian neurons in
culture demonstrate that low nanomolar levels can have lethal effects.
Experiments using this system have also demonstrated, in agreement with
published literature, that many antibiotics, other heavy metals and chemicals
increase the toxicity of mercury and thimerosal (ethyl mercury). Additionally,
in this same system the female hormone estrogen decreases thimerosal's toxic
effects. In contrast, the male hormone testosterone greatly increases the
toxicity. This may explain the 4 to 1 ratio of boys to girls that become
autistic and the observation that boys represent the vast majority of the severe
cases of autism. "---Boyd
Haley, Ph.D. (Testimony Before the House Government
Reform Committee)
"Also, it’s not only those children, but those who are on antibiotics are much more susceptible to all types of mercury toxicity, because antibiotics have been shown in experiments with rats to prevent the excretion of mercury. So, it builds up in the bodies of these children......The same thing with diets: milk diets increase the retention of mercury in the bodies of children....the diet, the antibiotics and what we call synergistic toxicity of the exposure to other heavy metals, which is rampant in this country. Interview of Dr. Boyd E. Haley by Teri Small
Suppress research on dangers and connection to diseases
Mainstream medical journals, like Pediatrics and The New England Journal of
Medicine, only publish studies that claim thimerosal is safe. And it
turns out that these articles are written in large
part by researchers in the pay of vaccine makers, as
the Coalition for Safe Minds (Sensible Action For
Ending Mercury-Induced Neurological Disorders), a private nonprofit
organization, has shown. Editors of these journals will not publish
studies that show a link between thimerosal and autism
like "Thimerosal in Childhood Vaccines,
Neurodevelopment Disorders, and Heart Disease in the United
States" by Mark and David Geier, which
documents a strong association between the amounts of
mercury injected in vaccines and autism. Such articles
can only find acceptance in alternative (i.e., "politically
incorrect") journals like the Journal of American Physicians and
Surgeons, where this one was published.
Mercury on the Mind
by Donald W. Miller, Jr., MD
"In my view, this is not a scientific issue. This is about as proven an issue as you’re ever going to see, and what’s occurring here is a cover up under the guise of protecting the vaccine program. And I’m for the vaccine program. You keep covering it up and your not going to have a vaccine program," Geier
The CDC through their own studies have shown a child is much more likely to develop a neurodevelopmental delay such as Autism, ADHD, Speech Delay if given mercury containing vaccines (Thimerosal), but then marked their own research as confidential and not to release. They later altered their own data to show no link between mercury containing vaccines and these neurological disorders. Angela's Story
.Let me tell you a little bit about Simpsonwood. The
Simpsonwood Conference Center meeting happened in June of 2000. When the CDC had
looked at the data (right after they said the mercury should come out), they
decided to look further and see if maybe mercury was harmful. How's that for
timing? They had a guy working for them from Belgium, who was just here for a
couple of years, Thomas Verstraeten. They dumped the mercury issue in his lap
and said, "Here, look at the numbers." As it turns out, he was probably a pretty
honorable guy. I think he just wanted to do good science, and he was so far
removed from American politics and pharmaceutical company politics that he could
try. He was honest. He ran the numbers and his first run of the numbers was just
shocking. They showed an elevated rate of autism of 7.62 for kids who received
more than 25 micrograms at one month of age compared to kids who received none.
He sent his findings out, and, not liking the numbers, they had him re-run them.
So he re-stratified the kids and broke them down to various categories and
groups and he managed to get the autism rate down to 2.48. Anything over 2.0 in
a court of law is considered causation. Remember, he started with 7.62. He wrote
an e-mail to his colleagues, a very famous e-mail called, "It Just Won't Go
Away." I almost titled the book that, because the phrase comes up repeatedly.
When you put the findings and the
e-mails together, the situation comes into context, and it becomes very clear
what they were saying, and that they were extremely concerned. An increased
autism risk of 2.48 was clearly unacceptable, so they re-ran the numbers again,
adding more kids in, and got the autism rate down to 1.69. Then they took the
new figure and they had this meeting at Simpsonwood where they invited the FDA,
the drug company people, the pediatrics people, and the government people, and
they had a little powwow. They didn't invite anybody from the public, including
SafeMinds. There was talk of inviting SafeMinds but, in the end, that group
didn't get an invitation. At this meeting Verstraeten spent two days presenting
his findings. There was a discussion and there was a transcriber there.
I sometimes wonder if these people
knew that they were being recorded, because when you read the minutes you just
can't believe the atrocities: they're shocking. I'm sure they didn't think that
the minutes would ever see the light of day. Thank God for the Freedom of
Information Act; America is a great country. Thank God we have a media and thank
God we have parents like the ones in SafeMinds who stayed on top of this.
Otherwise we would never have gotten this information. I'm not even an
investigative reporter. These people just dumped documents on me and I went
through them. That was hard, but it wasn't as hard as what they did, and I
really admire them.
Conference Presentations: David Kirby
Eli Lilly cover-up
"In July
2002, the Indianapolis Star newspaper quoted the lawyers Waters and Kraus as
saying that "Lilly flim-flammed scientists for years with a 1931 study that
concluded thiomersal wasn't harmful
to humans". The Star went on: "The study, published in the American Journal
of Hygiene, reported that merthiolate has a very low order of toxicity......for
man".
Digging further, Waters found out that the study's toxicity data came
from experimental use of thiomersal by doctors from Lilly and Indianapolis City
Hospital on meningitis patients during a severe outbreak in 1929-30. 'The 1931
study on a cohort of severely ill people (who all died) ended up being quoted
in Lilly brochures into the 1980s', Waters said. 'It very clearly demonstrates
an effort to do an unethical study and then paint the results in a certain way
that helps them sell this product'. Lilly ignored or covered up later evidence
that thiomersal, which contains 50 per cent mercury by weight, can be dangerous
to humans", Waters said."--David
Thrower
"The documents clearly demonstrate that Lilly's thimerosal product, the mercury-based vaccine preservative implicated in a number of recent law suits as causing neurological injury to infants, was known as early as April 1930 to be dangerous. In its apparent eagerness to promote and market the product, in September, 1930, Eli Lilly secretly sponsored a "human toxicity" study on patients already known to be dying of meningococcal meningitis. Senior partner Andrew Waters stated that, "Lilly then cited this study repeatedly for decades as proof that thimerosal was of low toxicity and harmless to humans. They never revealed to the scientific community or the public the highly questionable nature of the original research.""--Press release
LES INCOMPETANTS: OPEN LETTER TO THE AAP
By K. Paul Stoller, M.D. As a pediatrician,
who has been a fellow of the AAP for two decades, I find the AAP’s approach to
the autism epidemic to be deeply disturbing. Not only have they allowed the myth
of better diagnosing (as the reason for all the notice given to affected
children) to be perpetuated, but when they were put on notice at the CDC’s
Simpsonwood meeting in 2000, that
the mercury in the preservative Thimerosal was causing speech delays and
learning disabilities, they obfuscated and hide that information. They never
made good on their 1999 pledge to have Thimerosal eliminated from vaccines and
almost a decade later joined in the protest against a fictitious TV show (Eli
Stone) because it was critical of mercury being in vaccine.
Out of 132 million doses of the worthless1 flu vaccine for the 2007-08
flu season, 8 million doses are Thimerosal free. That means 94% contain the full
amount of Thimerosal.
Thimerosal was tested only once, by Eli Lilly
on 22 adult patients suffering from meningitis. There was no chance for
follow-up to observe long-term effects, as all of the patients in this "study"
died. Even if follow-up had been possible, damage to the developing brains of
very young children would have remained an unknown. Eli Lilly said it was safe
and the medical community accepted it. After the creation of the FDA, its use
was simply continued. The federal government has never tested the type of
mercury in vaccines for toxicity. This is an unconscionable oversight failure at
best, at worse it is an example that we have left consensus reality to be
created by the liars, thieves, cheats, killers, and the junk scientists they
employ.
How it came to pass the AAP joined
these rogues and became an active participant in this skullduggery is beyond
reason – is even beyond greed. They have remained silent as mercury laden
vaccine continue to be exported and used in all third world and second world
countries.
We are living in a time where an
incredible overplay and lies and self-aggrandizing behavior and non-science is
the norm. We have tolerated the junk science that has covered up the true cause
of this epidemic at a considerable cost to science, the public, and our very way
of life in this country. Is it stretch to realize that by putting our collective
heads in the sand about the autism epidemic we have made it possible for the
destruction of our very civilization?
False
information about mercury levels
During an investigation into the mercury issue, HAPI learned that Thimerosal,
a 50% mercury compound, is still being used to produce
most vaccines and that the manufacturers are simply "filtering it
out" of the final product. However, according
to Boyd Haley, PhD, Chemistry Department Chair,
University of Kentucky, mercury binds to the antigenic protein in the vaccine
and cannot be completely, 100% filtered out.
All four vaccine vials tested contained mercury
despite manufacturer claims that two of the vials were
completely mercury free. All four vials also
contained aluminum, one nine times more than the other
three, which tremendously enhances the toxicity of mercury causing
neuronal death in the brain. It is the position
of Dr. Haley as well as HAPI that if mercury can be
detected in any vaccine using standard instrumentation, the content
should be disclosed in the product insert and manufacturers
should not be allowed to call the product "mercury free".
Vaccines Are Not Mercury Free
Babies;
mercury levels and excretion
And if, as Professor Boyd Haley has shown, some babies can NOT get rid of
mercury, ...what then? It seems to be
conveniently dismissed as if neonates "are just small adults".
They are not. Neonates of all species have very different biochemistry
and immune systems to adults, and that is an issue and
problem that the pharmaceutical industry has yet to
either admit or grapple with.
Hilary Butler letter to BMJ 2004
Dr. David Baskin, Professor of Neurosurgery at Baylor College of Medicine, told the Committee that brain tissue absorbs mercury five times more than other body tissues. And infants and small children are furthermore five times more sensitive to mercury’s toxicological effects compared to adults. [2009 Nov] Federal Health Agencies Continue to Deceive Americans: Congressional Report on a Vaccine Mercury-Autism Link Ignored for Six Years by Richard Gale and Gary Null, Ph.D
"A single vaccine given to a six-pound newborn is the equivalent of giving a 180-pound adult 30 vaccinations on the same day. Include in this the toxic effects of high levels of aluminum and formaldehyde contained in some vaccines, and the synergist toxicity could be increased to unknown levels. Further, it is very well known that infants do not produce significant levels of bile or have adult renal capacity for several months after birth. Bilary transport is the major biochemical route by which mercury is removed from the body, and infants cannot do this very well. They also do not possess the renal (kidney) capacity to remove aluminum. Additionally, mercury is a well-known inhibitor of kidney function."--Boyd Haley Ph.D.
[2004 jan] In conclusion, for those who have a decreased ability to excrete mercury, as has been demonstrated for several different genotypes, there can be little doubt that mercury concentrations once administered to children as part of the childhood routine vaccination schedule resulted in a significant number of children developing autism. This is especially true following a sudden increase in the amount of mercury administered, as occurred in the United States in the early 1990s when the amount of mercury administered to children in the first six months of life more than doubled as part of the routine childhood immunization schedule (i.e. from 75 micrograms of mercury from three DTP immunizations to 187.5 micrograms from three DTP, three Hib, and three hepatitis B immunizations).....It is also clear that if somehow, despite the over whelming evidence, the IOM determines, that either thimerosal did not cause or that they are not sure that it caused the current epidemic of autism and other neurological disorders, that the IOM must demand the immediate expenditure of billions of dollars as part of an all out effort to immediately determine what is causing this epidemic before it totally destroys our society. [jan 2004] A Review of the Relationship between Thimerosal and Autism. David A. Geier and Mark R. Geier, MD
Unfortunately for some of us, the media used Wakefield to derail the real issue. To those who really know the A - Z of the issue, MMR is simply, for some children, the straw that breaks the two-humped camel's back. Other children don't need an MMR to get vaccine-provoked disintegrative disorders. The real issue is that vaccination in the first few months of neonate"hood", increases mercury levels in the blood of infants (1) Hilary Butler letter to BMJ 2004
"MERCURY, one of the most dangerous substances known to man, is being used in a series of infant vaccines - in spite of a warning from NHS advisers that its use as a cheap preservative "may be toxic" to babies aged under six months..... "The very low thiomersal concentrations present in the pharmacological and biological products are relatively non-toxic in adults," the UKMI report says. "But it may be toxic in utero [in the foetus] and during the first six months of life." It is the first time any UK health official has admitted to the danger posed by mercury in vaccines."--Media Jan 2003
"We seem to have about 50% of members who suffer from auto-immune diseases, such as diabetes, lupus, M5, rheumatoid arthritis etc, whereas the general population suffer from 5 - l0%. There is no doubt in my mind that we have significant and common on going health worries, compared to people who did not suffer from pink disease."---Heather Thiele.
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