http://www.urmc.rochester.edu/news/story/index.cfm?id=1848
Babies Excrete Vaccine-Mercury Quicker than Originally Thought
February’s issue of Pediatrics offers another reason to rethink blaming the spike in autism diagnoses on thimerosal, a mercury-containing preservative routinely used in several childhood vaccines until the late ‘90s.
New research from the University of Rochester suggests that infants’ bodies expel the thimerosal mercury much faster than once thought – thereby leaving little chance for a progressive building up of the toxic metal. This debunks the myth, believed by some parents and some pediatricians, that the gauntlet of thimerosal-containing shots many infants received in the 1990s – when the average number of vaccines kids received increased sharply – had put them at risk for developmental disorders.
“Thimerosal has been used for decades, but the surge in vaccinations caused fear that possible accumulations of ethyl mercury, the kind in thimerosal, might exceed safe levels – at least, when based on the stringent risk guidelines applied to its better-understood chemical cousin, methyl mercury, which is associated with eating fish,” said Michael Pichichero, M.D., professor of Microbiology/Immunology, Pediatrics and Medicine at the University of Rochester and the study’s main author.
But scientists are learning that the two mercury species actually behave quite differently. In fact, the body rids the kind found in thimerosal more that 10 times faster than it removes the kind one might encounter in a Friday night fish fry.
In the Rochester study, 216 infants from R. Gutierrez Children’s Hospital (in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where thimerosal is still routinely used in vaccines) were divided into three age groups to have their blood-mercury levels tested both before and after shots were administered at either their newborn, 2- or 6-month checkup. Researchers learned that, in all three age groups, the half-life of ethyl mercury in the blood – or, the time it takes for the body to dispose of half the mercury, and then another half, and so on – was measured to be 3.7 days. That’s a far cry from the blood half-life of methyl mercury, which is 44 days.
“Until recently, that longer half-life was assumed to be the rule for both types of mercury. Now it’s obvious that ethyl mercury’s short half-life prevents toxic build-up from occurring. It’s just gone too fast,” Pichichero said.
To illustrate, researchers cite that infants in the 6-month-old group – who, in their lifetimes, had encountered more total ethyl mercury that any other group studied – still had the same pre-vaccination blood-mercury levels before their checkups as most 2-month-olds had before theirs. This suggests that, before each round of shots, the mercury has plenty of time to be cleared.
While the study was not specifically designed to assess the toxicity of thimerosal, it does provide data helpful for assessing related risk -- in light of the short blood half-life of ethyl mercury. Moreover, the study also showed that ethyl mercury was nearly undetectable in urine samples; instead, it seemed that most of it was eliminated via stools. That’s good, because mercury in large amounts is toxic to kidneys – yet in the study sample, there was no evidence suggesting any harm to renal tissues.
These findings come in the wake of recent news from the California Department of Health, which reported last month that autism rates continue to mushroom in spite of the widespread removal of thimerosal from most U.S. childhood vaccines in 2001, though it continues to be used in vaccines used elsewhere in the world.
Thimerosal, hailed for its bacteria-killing properties, has been a vaccine staple ingredient since the 1930s. But when the Environmental Protection Agency announced in 1999 that the cumulative exposure children typically received in vaccines might exceed a safe level for intake based on methyl mercury statistics (even this “safe level” was placed ten times lower than the amount held to pose real risk), public health officials, together with the American Academy of Pediatrics, recommended its removal – though still without concrete evidence of harm. The decision demanded a new formulation be created and administered — at a higher cost.
“Though it’s reassuring to affirm that these immunizations have always been safe, our findings really have greater implications for world health,” Pichichero said. “Replacing the thimerosal in vaccines globally would put these vaccines beyond what the world community could afford for its children. It’s a relief we haven’t cause to do that.”
Pichichero has served as consultant to the World Health Organization, and his research has held considerable weight in the WHO decision to continue using thimerosal in vaccines administered in nations outside the United States.
In the past, Pichichero has also served as a consultant to vaccine manufacturers including GSK Biologicals, sanofi pasteur, Wyeth Pharmaceuticals and MedImmune.
This research was supported by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health. It was performed in conjunction with investigators Angela Gentile, M.D, Norberto Giglio, M.D., and Veronica Umido, M.D., of R. Gutierrez Children’s Hospital in Buenos Aires; Carlos Gotelli, Ph.D., and Mariano Gotelli, Ph.D., of the Center of Toxicology Research in Buenos Aires; Lihan Yan, M.S., of EMMES Corp in Rockville, Maryland; and Thomas Clarkson, Ph.D., Elsa Cernichiari, M.S., Grazyna Zareba, Ph.D., and John Treanor, M.D., of the University of Rochester.
yes the healthy babies excrete it quick and efficient, that's why they don't get sick.
the ones who store it in their organs and nervous systems are the ones who get sick.
LOL!!! Once again the Trolling Stones contradict themselves. So babies excrete the mercury quickly and thus don't get sick according to your claim above. Therefore according to your own statement mercury in vaccines cannot cause autism. On the other hand you were claiming that the mercury in childhood vaccines causes disease including autism! Once again the trolls are caught in the act of making up whatever claims to fit their need at the time.
where is your record for curing kids with autism?
I'll bet a lot better than yours.
you need to learn about retention toxicity, this is one of your major shortcomings.
You need to learn how to read in general. That has been your major shortcoming. At NO time have I ever claimed mercury is harmless. The Trolling Stones keep making up things claiming I said things I never said since they need an excuse to attack me. Just look at the threads they have going on two separate forums right now with personal attacks on me over things I never said. Even more funny is how they keep bashing me claiming I try to ram facts down people's throat. Yet I have not posted on the one forum in how long? And look at the LONG list of attack posts that have continued as they try to convince people I am evil even going as low as to have several posters refer to me as a "baby killer" and claiming I am associated with Satan.
Even more ironic is the forum owner on the one forum says he is all for free speech and debate as long as it is kept civil. Yet there he is also as part of the Trolling Stones bashing me every chance he gets. I think he owns the second forum as well where he is also bashing me. Pretty hypocritical!!!! Especially for someone who is quoting Bible verses.
And people wonder why Curezone has gone downhill so bad. Why would anyone feel safe to post on Curezone when they see how the Trolling Stones gang up and attack anyone relentlessly if they dare question the safety of iodine or expose the hype over mercury amalgams or soy. You cannot question them because they think they are God and therefore are above contradiction!!!
All anyone has to do is visit these forums and see how they have been going on and on and on and on about me even though I have not even been responding to their posts in their forums. They want so bad to run me off of Curezone all because I posted some safety issues on iodine and posted evidence that the whole mercury issue has been over hyped. Note, that is not to say mercury is safe, just that so many of the claims have been over hyped. Of course they have no real evidence to come back with proving iodine is stirring up mercury or other heavy metals so all they have to come back with are the personal attacks and coming up with a bunch of BS about 90% of medical studies being fraudulent. Ironically, they post those medical studies as long as they say something they think backs their claims. More clear HYPOCRISY!!!
The more they post in attack mode though the more they show their true colors and the fact that they have no real evidence to present. If they cannot attack my evidence they attack me instead in an attempt to drive me away so I will not expose any more of their assumptions.
you made this same error when criticizing the alkalizers and assumed acid waste could not be stored in the body.
LOL!!! You clearly do not know how to read, nor how the body works. Are you aware of the well known fact that we cannot survive, nor even exist, without acids?!!!
Are you also aware of the fact that alkalosis is considerably more dangerous than acidosis?
In fact, I would bet that you cannot even name those acid wastes you claim are being stored, as well as how and where. Of course you would probably come up with some rare incidences such as someone having gout or having uric acid stones. I want to see you name the acids and how and where they are stored in the average person. Come on, let's see if you know anything on the subject.
Yes, you are banned here but you can submit your post in a PM to me and I will take out all the personal attacks you are so famous for and post the rest here to be addressed. If you cannot do it then you will simply prove my point that the problem the Trolling Stones have with me is that they cannot come up with any real evidence like I do so the only thing they have to come back with are the personal attacks.
Your detractors (those you call trolls)provide great comic relief.I'm sure you realize that 98-99% of cure zone readers know they are just a joke and while they may not contribute very much they do provide comic relief and you quickly correct their errors so there is no danger of them doing any harm.
Generally they are comic relief. We have not had so much bogus claims and science being presented to laugh at since Moreless.
But their constant ganging up to relentlessly attack anyone questioning their claims is tiresome. I just spent the whole night dealing with their BS claims. Time I could have been doing something else like working on my book. But of course their goal is to try and wear me down so I will stop exposing their lies and misrepresentations. All the more reason that the Terms of Service should be properly enforced on Curezone. The only reason they do this to me and to others that have questioned them is because they know they can get away with it.
Its such as shame because so many people have left Curezone due to their tactics and even more are afraid to post because they see what happens to those who dare present evidence opposing their bogus claims.
I have to go try to alkalize my system to cure my GERD right after I finish my liver flush.Later
Don't forget to get rid rid of your parasites by doing your 40 day water fast. Don't worry though you will get plenty of fluid with your coffee enemas.
Excellent nutrition, immune modulating herbs and adaptogens, and isolation if necessary for a while during outbreaks would not be doing "nothing". Like you said life is a risk no matter how you decide to live it, but it shouldn't be decided for you.EDIT: I also rely heavily on homeopathy
The internal damage from vaccines aside from the immediate ones (like death and autism) are often a little delayed, or a lot delayed. My son is an example. He did get a few vaccinations as a kid NOTHING like they give now. Then when he went to college--unbeknownst to me beforehand--he got a series of hepatitis vaccines and meningitis. Since then he has developed major psoriasis to the point where even I (who am scared to death of drugs) conceded it was his only shot at a normal life. He had tried everything.
It only started after these vaccinations.He tests positive for hepatitis so he can't donate blood, which he always had done.
I know its a weak correlation, but I can't figure it out. He also feels like he has the flu. He just powers thru it all. He prefers a paleo diet but isn't strict. He's gone gluten free--didn't help. He used homeopathic hcg--it was a miracle, but then it quit working. Do either of you have any experience with this?
I had a mother of a young girl contact me once. Her daughter was perfectly healthy until she got a series of vaccines. When I looked at the sheet of her vaccinations it was literally a page long!!! She started having a number of health issues afterward including seizures. The mother sent me a copy of her entire medical file, which took a while to read through. Unfortunately she died at the age of 14 before I could even finish reading through the file. So all these trolls who keep lying about me saying I am pro-vaccine really should shut up. It really shows their true colors when people actually research my posts on vaccines and see that these trolls are just making things up as usual.
I have seen the adverse effects of vaccines a number of times, but only the one to that extreme. Still the neurological damage that can occur from vaccines may not be all that common, but that does not matter when it is you or a loved one having the reactions.
I have also written on all the cases of cancer caused by the polio vaccines contaminated with the carcinogenic simian virus type 40 (SV-40) that was given to 90 million Americans.
As for your son, testing hepatitis positive means nothing. This does not mean he is infected with a hepatitis virus, nor that he was even ever exposed. There are no common lab tests that can confirm the presence of any particular virus. Unfortunately the quackery of antibody testing is considered almost 100% accurate even though this has been disproven in numerous studies. Even the hepatitis vaccines will cause a false positive on the antibody tests. It does not matter if he is infected or not though. As far as the government is concerned he is infected.
His symptoms though may not have anything to do with the vaccines. Psoriasis is considered autoimmune, which requires adrenal dysfunction in part to develop. Stress, such as college, can crash the adrenals.
I don't work with homeopathy so I cannot tell you much about that.
This poster thinks you are suggesting that something good comes from being "vaccinnated" would you explain your stance on that> Thanks,
Yes. I have stated numerous times first of all that there is no evidence that vaccines work. The whole concept of their working is based on the claim that smallpox was eradicated by vaccines. But many viruses such as Ebola, Marburg's and Lassa fever have all popped up and disappeared on their own accord. Since there are no vaccines for these viruses this proves that viruses can "die out" on their own. Was this the case with smallpox? Did it simply run its course? There is no way to prove either way. What we do know these days though are 1. You can still get diseases you are vaccinated for and 2. Diseases for which vaccines are being made mandatory are on the rise. This is pretty strong evidence that vaccines are not as effective as is being claimed.
As far as mercury in vaccines I have posted in the past that there is a very strong correlation to the use of Thimerosal, a mercury based compound, in vaccines and the rise in autism cases. Again I never claimed mercury was harmless. The Trolling Stones just keep making up lies about me so it gives them what they feel is an excuse to attack me.
I also pointed out that mercury has a very high affinity for lipids (fats), which is why the brain, which has a solid content primarily composed of lipids. Being that most of the infants tissues are composed of lipids the mercury has more "targets". But in particular again is the brain. And the rapidly developing brain of an infant would be more prone to the damaging effects of the mercury unlike the Trolling Stones who are brain dead already!
I have also clearly pointed out in previous posts that the rise in the incidence of autism directly correlates to when Thimerosal was first introduced in to vaccines.
And I pointed out that the study claiming no change in autism rates after Thimerosal was "removed" from all childhood vaccines was manipulated. In short they lied to the public about the removal of the Thimerosal from all the childhood vaccines. They only removed the Thimerosal from some of the childhood vaccines. Thus the children were still being exposed to the mercury.
If the Trolling Stones were capable of thinking for themselves then they would have thought to actually look up my old posts on the subject rather than blindly following each other's lies about me.
this might be a little off topic but I've heard (in school) that when we invaded the native americans a ton of them got sick from us.. it doesn't make sense to me that now people fly here from china, england, africa, everywhere on planes carrying who knows what, yet there aren't widespread epidemics happening 24/7. of course some people might associate this with vaccines, or maybe the babies are just born immune these days (i don't know if that's possible), but what is the reason we aren't getting sick like the native americans from the widespread contact of humans all around the globe, if it's not vaccines doing?
Actually vaccines have absolutely nothing to do with this.
To understand why let me give a basic explanation of antibodies. Antibodies are formed in response to foreign particles called antigens, such as viruses, bacteria, etc. We are taught that antibodies are specific to the antigen, which is not entirely true. Antibodies can vary from highly specific to non specific with most being somewhere in the middle. It is these antibodies that are the key. These semi-specific antibodies can react to other antigens creating an immunity to other pathogens with similar surface proteins. For example, the typhoid vaccine was shown to produce more antibodies to the HIV virus than the HIV virus itself did.
In short, as we are exposed to various pathogens our bodies produce antibodies that can cross react to other antigens giving us some protection against these other pathogens if they share some of the same protein markers.
When people came from other countries they brought pathogens that were not similar to anything the natives had been exposed to previously. This is why they were so decimated by these diseases. If you follow history a little further you will find that the more the outsiders interacted with the natives the less fatalities the natives had from these diseases. Think about it this way. By the 1800s the outsiders trying to steal the land from the natives would not have needed guns to kill the natives and take their land. They could have simply kept introducing the diseases they brought with them to wipe out the natives if the natives had not already started building up a natural immunity to these diseases. After all vaccines were not being used by the natives.