According to Natural News, thimerosal
is the preservative of choice for vaccine manufacturers. First introduced by
Eli Lilly and Company in the late 1920s and early 1930s, the company began
selling it as a preservative in vaccines in the 1940s. Thimerosal contains 49.6
percent mercury by weight and is metabolized or degraded into ethylmercury and
thiosalicylate. Mercury, or more precisely, ethylmercury, is the principle
agent that kills contaminants. Unfortunately, mercury also kills much more than
that.
The Department of Defense
classifies mercury as a hazardous material that could cause death if swallowed,
inhaled or absorbed through the skin. Studies indicate that mercury tends to
accumulate in the brains of primates and other animals after they are injected
with vaccines. Mercury poisoning has been linked to cardiovascular disease,
autism, seizures, mental retardation, hyperactivity, dyslexia and many other
nervous system conditions. That's why the FDA rigorously limits exposure to
mercury in foods and drugs. Some common sources of mercury include dental
amalgam fillings, various vaccines and certain fish contaminated by polluted
ocean waters.
The toxicity of mercury has never
been in question. The real question is precisely how much mercury-laced
thimerosal is toxic, and what are the possible consequences for our children at
low doses?
Eli Lilly and Co. supposedly
answered this question for us back in 1930. Concluding thimerosal to be of
"a very low order of toxicity... for man," the company hired its own
doctors to perform thimerosal experiments in Indianapolis City Hospital on
meningitis patients during a severe outbreak in 1929. This 60-year-old evidence
was still quoted on the company's brochures as recently as 1990. Andrew Waters,
who is involved in a lawsuit against Eli Lilly, claims that most critical
studies on the toxicity of thimerosal were suppressed by the company until now.
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Hepatitis B vaccines aren't the
only immunizations under suspicion. According to Burton Goldberg in Alternative
Medicine, scientists are finding stronger and stronger links between
thimerosal and neurological damage. One report by Dr. Vijendra Singh of the
Department of Pharmacology at the University of Michigan found a higher
incidence of measles, mumps and rubella vaccine (MMR) antibodies in autistic
children.
The National Vaccine Information
Center in Vienna, Virginia, has noted a strong association between the MMR
vaccine and autistic features. Reporting similar findings, the Encephalitis
Support Group in England claims that children who became autistic after the MMR
vaccine started showing autistic symptoms as early as 30 days after
vaccination. The diphtheria, pertussis and tetanus vaccine (DPT) given at two,
four and six months has triggered autistic symptoms as well.
When the FDA finally formally
released this information in 1999, the news came too little, too late for some
parents. The damage had already been done.
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