Thimerosal in MMR

R. K. Gupta and colleagues point out in their 1993 article in Vaccine that adjuvants can cause unintentional aberrant signaling within the complex immune system and provoke adverse effects that no one could have anticipated. A vaccine ideally initiates an immune response; however, adjuvants can induce undesired adverse events. Unexpected boluses (dosages) of vaccines greatly disrupt an infant's networking processes between the immune, nervous and endocrine systems, leaving the child 's immune system with little to no ability to discern “self” from “non-self.” Children can receive four to five vaccines in one day. No one has studied the impact of this on a child

It is difficult to know the ingredients in a vaccine, since there are many companies making the same vaccine using their own trademarked names, and some may include another company's trademarked ingredient. For example, Thimerosal® is a trademark of Eli Lilly and Company for their adjuvant ingredient, which they sell to a variety of other pharmaceuticals for use in their vaccines. Some pharmaceutical companies have similar vaccines with various brand names—each containing the same toxic metal as another adjuvant.

Aluminum, a common adjuvant, has known toxicity on the kidney, with causal relationships to encephalitis, bone disease, and anemia in susceptible people. The safety, widespread use, and long-term consequences of aluminum in vaccines have not been evaluated in humans. Aluminum commonly used in vaccines was hypothesized as one factor leading to increased allergic diseases in 1978. Aluminum hydroxide induces inflammatory reactions of immune cells, releasing aberrant signaling proteins. Several vaccines contain aluminum: DTaP, DTP, DTP-HiB, Hep B, HepB-HiB, and tetanus. Mercury and aluminum together can exacerbate metal toxicity in a child and trigger autoimmune reactivity. Stephanie Cave, M.D., postulates that autism rates began to skyrocket after the Hep B and DPT vaccines were widely introduced in 1991.

Mercury is toxic to the central nervous system, the kidneys and the immune system. Thimerosal®, which consists of organic ethyl-mercury and thiosalicylate to prevent bacterial and fungal contamination, is also now reported to induce breaks in the DNA. A single vaccine may not contain toxic levels of Thimerosal®. However, multiple vaccines given on the same day or a single vaccine derived from the bottom of a Thimerosal®-containing vaccine may be the toxic insult necessary to trigger immuno-neurobiological damage. The FDA stated in 1999 that exposing infants to cumulative doses of ethyl-mercury may not be safe. In 2001, the FDA acknowledged that in the first six months of life children may be receiving higher mercury levels through vaccinations than was safe as defined by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

There are approximately 35 vaccines given to a child, according to the following schedule and containing mercury (noted by *) or aluminum: (noted by ++) or both.

Birth – Hepatitis B (Hep B) vaccine *++

2 mos - Diphtheria and tetanus toxoids with pertussis*++ (DTP), OPV (oral attenuated polio vaccine), HbCV (haemophilus influenza type b polysaccharide vaccine)* and Hep B*++

4 mos – Diphtheria, tetanus and acellular pertussis (DTaP)*++, OPV and HbCV*

6 mos – Hep B*++ and OPV

15 mos – MMR (measles, mumps and rubella), DTP*++, OPV, HbCV*

4-6 yrs – MMR booster, DTP*++, OPV

11-12 yrs – Adult tetanus, to be repeated every ten years.

A total of 237.5 micrograms of mercury before the age of two years old exceeds EPA's safe levels. A single daily exposure of 62.5 micrograms of mercury at four to six months of age is 41 times above safety standards of 1.51 micrograms of mercury for a child weighing 10 kg (22 lbs.). In 1999, the Public Health Safety (PHS) agencies, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and pharmaceutical vaccine manufacturers agreed Thimerosal® should be reduced in vaccines. However, it remains in vaccines such as the DTaP, DTwP, DT, Td, TT, many of the HiB, HepB called Engerix-B®, rabies vaccine adsorbed, meningococcal, pneumococcal, and all influenza vaccines. It is likely then that mercury and aluminum are contained in the DTaP, HiB and possible the HepB vaccines.

There are no safe levels of a poison for a child. There is a growing consensus among parents, clinicians and researchers who are treating autistic children with complementary and alternative medicines that cumulative toxicity occurs with each vaccine, until the body cannot excrete the toxins and begins to express the toxicity through neurodevelopmental damage, including autism spectrum disorders, mental retardation and speech disorders.

In June, 2003 a carefully documented study was published associating cumulative Thimerosal® levels with neurodevelopmental disorders after analyzing CDC public records. The authors, Mark Geier and David Geier, gained permission to study the CDC data base called Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS), which contains data from tens of millions of vaccines. They compared Thimerosal®-containing vaccines with non-Thimerosal®-containing DTaP vaccines. The study demonstrated that Thimerosal® was statistically associated with higher incidences of autism, mental retardation, and speech disorders. Males were found to have greater rates of autism and speech disorders than did females in the study.

A child has not developed the biochemistry to remove metals effectively from his/her body. Adjuvants enhance and potentially exacerbate damage caused by vaccines to the nervous, immune and endocrine systems. It is our community responsibility to re-evaluate the safety or potential harm of the vaccines to which we are exposing children. “Every parent deserves to be given truthful, unbiased information about diseases, vaccine content, and adverse reactions. A parent should be allowed to make a voluntary informed decision,” said Dawn Richardson, of Parents Requesting Open vaccination Education (PROVE), in September 2000.

http://www.wellbeingjournal.com/MMR.htm

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