How can Govt Of India declare mercury in vaccines to be safe?

[Guest guest]

To Dr Raju C Shah, Chairman, Immunisation Committee, Govt of India. Dt: 30.11.2006 Dear Sir, Sub: Removal of Thiomersal from vaccines/ Vaccine safety. ---------- We are enclosing the reply we have received from Dr Pradeep Haldar, Assistant Commissioner (Universal Immunisation Program), in response to our petition to Hon'ble President of India on the need to remove Thiomersal from vaccines. The reply unfortunately reflects shallow thinking as well as disregard for safety of infants whose health Dr Haldar is supposed to protect.

Dr Haldar declares that Thiomersal is safe and that vaccines without the mercury containing decontaminant are unsafe. Thus Dr Haldar admits that vaccines are unsafe per se. It gives us no solace that heavy metals, deadly neurotoxins, carcinogens, immunosuppressants and immunodestroyers have to be used in material doses to make the vaccines safe. So what are these vaccines? Should we at all take the risk of injecting our children with this deadly slush? His remarks also contradict the ground reality in USA, UK and other European countries where every effort is being made to ban Thiomersal in vaccines, cutting across medical and political differences, and to increase the supply of Thiomersal free vaccines

by removing the mercury from the end product. The end users are still not happy because this process does not ensure mercury free vaccines and the mercury presence of 0.5mcg per vaccine shot remains a real and potent threat. Dr Haldar is obviously very casual and slipshod on this extremely serious issue and we are forced to come to the conclusion that our children are not in safe hands. We would request the concerned authorities to place the UIP in apolitical, dependable and conscientious hands. After all the life and health of the future of our country is at stake here. The IMA and IAP should please look into this. It does not take a lot of intelligence to calculate the amount of mercury being pumped into our children (a minimum of 25mcg per vaccine shot x the number of vaccines delivered) and determine the probable toxic effects on unfortunate

toddlers considering that they receive the shots when their livers are not yet producing bile, let alone be capable of tackling deadly neurotoxins and other toxic vaccine ingredients. They also lack a developed myelin sheath to protect their fragile nervous systems. It must not be ignored that the infants are subjected to two Thiomersal laced tetanus shots while still in their mothers womb which are mandatory for pregnant women and which travel to the fetus via the placenta. Raw mercury, in any form, is known to cross both the placenta barrier as well as the blood brain barrier. We have also brought to your notice that the US EPA is very concerned about the toxicity of mercury and states that mercury can be tolerated to the extent of 0.1mcg per kg of body weight in adults,

ingested, not injected. What the total quantum of mercury, combined with aluminium which makes it more toxic, could be doing to our children when injected directly into their bloodstream bypassing the natural immune system barriers is now more than evident with figures of over 40,00,000 autistic children alone staring at our face. The total number of vaccine damaged children in India will be a huge figure. We hope your goodself, who is more knowledgeable on the issue, will step in and ensure that vaccines do not convert perfectly healthy children into grotesque victims of brain and central nervous system damage leading to what we term autism, meningitis, encephelopathy, epilepsy, PDDNOS, ADHD, and other forms of brain and nervous system disorders. This is over and above serious intestinal problems reported due to the use of multiple viruses in the DPT/DPaT, which is a part of the

UIP. Deaths due to vaccine shock and acute allergic reactions is another contentious issue. Parents of autistic children in UK, USA and Europe have demanded that concerned officials who have obviously "fallen asleep at the switch" as per US Govt investigators, be tried in human rights courts for experimenting with the human population aka Nuremberg trials. We sincerely wish the matter be resolved in our peace loving Gandhian idealogy led country without resorting to such unpleasant measures. We once again reiterate that the entire process of vaccine selection, long term testing, gathering information on international vaccine politics and bioterrorism dangers, informing public about all possible adverse reactions, taking informed consent, compensating vaccine damage victims, and looking after their treatment and rehabilitation needs should be under a board comprising competent Indian doctors from the IMA, IAP, NIMHANS, IAPP, AYUSH, Immunologists, peoples representives, and activists. There should be no foreign intervention or political manipulation of any kind. All this has been already suggested by distinguished members of the IMA Sub Committee on Immunisations I am sure the IAP and other medical associations will agree with this. This is our final letter (notice) on the subject. If we do not hear from you by December end, we will be constrained to take this matter up as a PIL in the Supreme Court to save our future generation from planned Genocide and corrupt practices. Yours faithfully, Jagannath Chatterjee, Health & Human Rights Activist, Vaccine Damage Victim. www.manitham.net www.loksatta.org encl: mail a,a, received from Assistant Commissioner (UIP). cc: HE Sri Abdul Kalam, Hon'ble President of India, HE Sri B S

Sekhawat, Hon'ble Vice President of India, Dr Manmohan Singh, Hon'ble Prime Minister, Ms Sonia Gandhi, Chairperson UPA, Sri Somnath Chatterjee, Hon'ble Speaker, Lok Sabha, HE Sri Y K Sabharwal, Hon'ble Chief Justice, Supreme Court of India, Sri L K Advani, MP, Leader of Opposition, Lok Sabha, Sri Jaswant Singh, MP, Rajya Sabha, Dr Anbumani Ramadoss, Union Minister for Health & Family Welfare, Ms Renuka Chaudhury, Minister for Women & Child Development, Secretary, Department of Health, Secretary, Department of Family Welfare, Director General,

Health Services, Vice Chairman, Knowledge Commission, Director, DBT, President, IMA President elect, IAP, President, IAPP, Dean, NIMHANS, President, Society for Scientific Values, Dr. Leo Rebello, Health Freedom Activist, Bombay Dr Pradeep Haldar, Assistant Commissioner (UIP), Director, Dept of AYUSH, Govt of

India, Chairman, National Human Rights Commission, GAVI/WHO/UNICEF/World Bank Represantatives in India, Hon'ble Members, Autism Forums of India, Eminent Doctors, Scientists, Immunologists, Lawyers, Journalists & Activists. ------------------------------- No. T-13014/06/2006-CC & V Government of India Ministry of Health & Family Welfare (Department of Family Welfare) Nirman Bhawan, New Delhi Dated : the 29th November, 2006 To, The Under Secretary(P) President’s Secretariat, Public –1 Section, Rastrapati Bhawan, Delhi-110004. Sir, I am to refer to your letter No. PI/C-99155 dated 22.09.2006 forwarding a e-mail message from Dr. Jagannath Chatterjee a Health reform activist regarding possible cause of increasing case of autism and neurological or behavioral disorder in children due to presence of Mercury along with other heavy metals and to inform that this matter has been considered by the National Technical Advisory Group on Immunization (NTAGI) during its meeting

held on 23rd March, 2006 and recommended that “no change in the current policy of using thiomersal ( mercury salt) containing vaccine is necessary as the health of vaccinated infants are not affected by use of thiomersal as preservative in multi-dose vials. Use of multi-dose vial without thiomersal would be unsafe ( due to contamination by environmental bacteria, particularly S aureaus). The Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety (GACVS) during August, 2003 after review of epidemiologic evidence and phamacokinetic profile of thiomersal concluded that

there is currently no evidence of mercury toxicity in infants, Children or adults exposed to thiomersal in vaccines. The GACVS during its fourteenth meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, on 6-7 June, 2006 reviewed the data again and the conclusion previously reached and re-affirmed that there is no evidence of toxicity in infants, children or adults exposed to thiomersal in vaccine. It is also concluded that there is no reason to change the current immunization practices with thiomersal containing vaccines on the grounds of safety. In view of the recommendation of NTAGI, there is no need to change the current Immunization practices with thiomersal containing vaccines. This may be communicated to the petitioner as this Department do not have the address of petitioner. This issues with the approval of Secretary(H & FW). Yours

faithfully, ( Dr. Pradeep Haldar) Assistant Commissioner(UIP) Tele-011-23062728 Copy to: Shri Jagannath Chatterjee, Health Reform activist, E-mail- jagchat01 It seems that we may almost have a double standard as far as medical theories are concerned. As long as man does something, it's science. When nature does something, it's quackery. - Dr G E Poesnecker, (Nature Cure 2000).

Check out the all-new Mail beta - Fire up a more powerful email and get things done faster.