bobbythefap1 wrote on Apr 3
rd, 2012 at 10:30am:
FDA admits in court case that vaccines still contain mercuryhttp://www.naturalnews.com/035432_vaccines_mercury_court_case.htmlhttp://thewatchers.adorraeli.com/2012/04/02/fda-admits-in-court-case-that-vaccin... Quote:It is a common myth today that the vaccines administered to children no longer contain the toxic additive thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative linked to causing permanent neurological damage. But a recent federal case involving the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has revealed that, contrary to this widely-held belief, thimerosal is actually still present in many batch vaccines, including in the annual influenza vaccine that is now administered to children as young as six months old.
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Mercury-Based Vaccine Preservative Lives Onhttp://www.courthousenews.com/2012/03/23/44979.htm Quote:The Food and Drug Administration is not liable for approving a mercury-based vaccine preservative because more expensive, mercury-free vaccines are available upon request, a federal judge ruled.
Thimerosal is a mercury-based compound that is FDA-approved as a vaccine preservative. Organizations such as the Coalition for Mercury-Free Drugs, however, have expressed concern about the preservative.
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Quote:Mercury is the second most toxic element on earth to plutonium. Toxicity of mercury has been linked to many different diseases, including autism, learning disabilities, Alzheimer’s, multiple sclerosis, fibromyalgia, lupus, chronic fatigue syndrome, arthritis, depression, and bipolar disorder. The amount of mercury found in one mercury thermometer is enough to pollute a small lake.
Health effects of mercury toxicity have been a concern because of the potential for it to act as a poison. Toxic doses of mercury can cause developmental effects in the fetus, as well as affecting the kidney and the nervous system in children and adults. Mercury exists in a number of different chemical forms, each one consisting of different levels of toxicity. The forms of mercury can also be converted from one to another in the environment and in the body, so symptoms caused by mercury poisoning depends on the precise chemical forms involved.
Mercury can be toxic when inhaled, eaten, or when placed on the skin. Low concentrations of mercury may appear to have no effect but signs of toxicity can develop later or become more noticeable with continued exposure. When toxicity in humans takes place loss of feeling or a burning sensation in arms and legs, psychological effects, loss of memory, loss of vision, loss of hearing, paralysis, congenital malformations, kidney toxicity, and death may occur. Prenatal toxicity can result in a child with normal appearance at birth but who later exhibits a developmental delay in the ability to walk and/or talk. Because of the long latent period for observable effects, the need for treatment may be recognized too late.
Health effects vary according to the amount of mercury exposure is taken into the body. The health risks of mercury at low levels of exposure remain uncertain, but this continues to be a highly debatable topic with ongoing scientific investigation. Fetuses, infants and small children appear to be particularly sensitive to mercury because their brains are still developing. Vaccines with mercury have been considered to contribute to autism, learning disabilities, Alzheimer’s Disease, and other neurological conditions, and an FDA review conducted in 1998 determined that, at the time, children who received the full complement of childhood vaccines were potentially exposed to levels of mercury that were sometimes 30 to 50 times the acceptable levels established by the EPA.
High-level exposures to mercury can cause serious effects or even be lethal. Several historical examples of epidemic mercury poisonings in other parts of the world provide classic examples of investigative epidemiology and toxicology and serve to highlight the reasons why regulators are concerned about mercury. Effects on the brain and nervous system are frequently seen with high-level exposures to mercury and can be quite severe.
So much BS, such a small space.
Mercury is most certainly not "the second most toxic material on the earth besides plutonium". How can anyone believe anything from a site that promotes such dribble as fact?
http://www.mycolleaguesareidiots.com/archive/2009/09/21/428.aspxAnd Natural News? Seriously, you take your advice from the Health Danger?
http://www.thetwentyfirstfloor.com/?p=1145If you're woried about mercury, then you'd better stop eating fish, since a single can of tuna contains more of it than receiving a lifetime of old, thiomersal-preserved vaccines.
Generally speaking, all
childhood vaccines are thiomersal-free and have been for a decade. The US do administer a few that still have it, but we don't in Australia.
Either way, the supposed health effects have long been debunked. One only needs to compare stats from a decade ago, when kids received a dozen thiomersal-preserved vaccines to today where they generally receive none. There has been no decline in chronic illness or autism, despite the massive reduction (or elimination) from the schedule.
There have also been numerous studies into effects, and nothing has been found.
That rubbish KIGGs survey you posted further down is absolute tripe. No controls, a self reporting study done by an anti-vaccination group on their website. What would you expect it to say? It would be like a tobacco company doing a survey on their website and declaring that cigarettes are safe.
Suggest you look at some real, scientific research rather than the made-up rubbish from loopy antivaxxers. Here's a few for a start:MMR/Autism:
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa021134MMR/Autism:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/02/080204212852.htmVaccines/Autism:
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/118/1/e139.abstractVaccines/Neutological development:
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2010/05/24/peds.2009-2489.ab...Vaccines/Asthma:
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/123/3/944.abstractVaccines/Asthma&Allergies:
http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.91.7.1126Vaccines/Diabetes:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11731639Too many vaccines?
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/109/1/124.full?hits=25&FIRSTINDEX=...