Thimerosal is a reproductive TOXIN!!

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Sheri Nakken

Sunday, May 01, 2005 3:42 PM

Thimerosal is a reproductive TOXIN!!

 

Fri Apr 29, 2005 5:38 pm

Thimerosal is a reproductive TOXIN!

 

Bayer made Rhogam that contained 35 mcg of mercury, Bayer in 2003

 

Petitioned OEHHA to take thimerosal/mercury off the list of

reproductive toxins,

 

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 thier mothers were exposed to ethylmercury or thimerosal while

pregnant. "

 

http://www.oehha.ca.gov/prop65/CRNR_notices/pdf_zip/hgbayer1.pdf

 

 

The Flu vaccine that pregnant women are advised to get INJECTED with

contains 25 mcg of mercury! The EPA limit for ingesting mercury is 6

mcg.

 

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http://www.pe.com/localnews/opinion/syndicated/stories/PE_OpEd_Opinion_D_op11_au\

tism.f42d.html

 

 

Playing politics at kids' expense

Bill would insulate pharmaceutical firms from liability

April 10, 2005

By ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR.

 

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist has buried a provision in the

" Protecting

America in the War on Terror Act " to insulate the pharmaceutical industry

from liability for venal actions that may have poisoned an entire

generation

of Americans.

 

Mounting evidence suggests that Thimerosal, a mercury-based

preservative in

children's vaccines, may be responsible for the exponential growth of

autism, attention deficit disorder, speech delays and other childhood

neurological disorders now epidemic in the United States.

 

Prior to 1989, American infants generally received three vaccinations. In

the early 1990s, public-health officials dramatically increased the number

of Thimerosal-containing vaccinations without considering the cumulative

impact of the mercury load on developing brains.

 

Warning Issued

 

In a 1991 memo, Dr. Maurice Hilleman, one of the fathers of Merck's

vaccination programs, warned the president of the company's vaccination

division that 6-month-old children administered the shots on schedule

would

suffer mercury exposures 87 times the government safety standard (400

times

the current U.S. government's safe level). He recommended that

Thimerosal be

discontinued, " especially when used on infants and children. "

 

Merck ignored Hilleman's warning and, for eight years, government

officials

added seven additional shots for children containing Thimerosal.

 

Mercury is a known brain poison, and autism rates began rising

dramatically

in children who were administered the new vaccine regimens. A decade

ago the

American Academy of Pediatrics estimated the autism rate among American

children to be 1 in 2,500. Today, the CDC places the autism rate at 1 in

166, or one in 80 boys. Additionally, one in every six children is now

diagnosed with a related neurological disorder.

 

In 1998 the CDC's lead Thimerosal researcher, Dr. Thomas Verstraeten,

complained to his colleagues in a secret memo that, despite rerunning and

rethinking the research, the links between Thimerosal and autism " just

won't

go away. "

 

Secret Meeting

 

In 2000, CDC, FDA and pharmaceutical companies called a secret meeting to

review Verstraeten's findings. According to transcripts, participants were

alarmed about the undeniable link between the mercury preservative and

autism. Dr. Bill Weil told the group, " You can play with (the results) all

you want. They are statistically significant. "

 

Dr. Richard Johnston acknowledged he feared his grandchild getting

vaccinated. But the group was most concerned with keeping the findings

secret.

 

Numerous animal, DNA, epidemiological and other studies point to

Thimerosal

as the culprit in America's epidemic of neurological disorders.

 

Autistic children have been shown to have higher mercury loads than

nonautistics, and there have been reports of significant improvements in

some brain-injured children by removing mercury from their bodies.

 

Most of the symptoms of autism are similar to the symptoms of mercury

poisoning. Recently, scientists have been able to induce autism in certain

mice by exposing them to Thimerosal.

 

In a recent study, former FDA scientist Dr. Jill James uncovered a

scientific link that helps explain why Thimerosal injures some

children and

not others. That study found that many autistic children are genetically

deficient in their capacity to produce glutathione, an antioxidant

generated

in the brain that helps remove mercury from the body, a harmless

difference

until the child is exposed to large quantities of mercury.

 

Porter Bridges' experience is typical. In 1993, this healthy 4-month-old

slipped into a coma hours after receiving his vaccines.

 

Today, 11-year-old Porter is autistic, hyperactive and severely brain

damaged. He requires minute-to-minute supervision, is frequently afflicted

with violent seizures and is not yet toilet-trained.

 

After a seven-year legal fight, the U.S. government acknowledged that

Porter

was damaged by his vaccines. There are now 520,000 autistics in the United

States with 40,000 new cases each year.

 

High Cost of Care

 

The cost of caring for autistic children is conservatively $40,000

annually.

Families with children with autism and other neurological diseases have

filed more than 4,200 claims in the special federal " Vaccine Court. " Some

plaintiffs have also filed in trial courts.

 

Some Drug Makers Act

 

Thimerosal defendants include Merck, GlaxoSmithKline, Aventis, Weyeth and

Eli Lilly. Frist's newly proposed " anti-terror " legislation would create

insurmountable burdens of proof for plaintiffs in these cases and forbid

states from banning Thimerosal.

 

Drug makers wary of liability have reduced Thimerosal in children's

vaccines

in recent years, with the exception of Chiron and Aventis' pediatric flu

vaccine. Mercury-laced vaccine stocks were given to children until the end

of 2003.

 

Thimerosal's inventor, Eli Lilly, donated $226,000 to Frist's national

Republican Senate Campaign Committee in 2002 and bought 5,000 copies of

Frist's book on bioterrorism. Congress will vote on Frist's bill in

the near

future.

 

Instead of demanding the immediate removal of Thimerosal from all

vaccines,

and making the drug industry help defray the public and private costs of

caring for injured children, Frist's bill would give the industry a

free ride at public expense.

 

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is the chief prosecuting attorney for

Riverkeeper and

a senior attorney at the Natural Resources Defense Council.

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Another Study Links Vaccines to Autism

http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/cgi-bin/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=1766

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Laura Brod: Err on the side of caution: Get mercury out of vaccines

 

http://www.startribune.com/stories/1519/5377453.html

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Mercury rising

BY SARAH RICHARDSON

Sarah Richardson is a senior editor of Discover.

 

May 1, 2005

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