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2006--“The U.S. vaccine supply for infants and pregnant women is in a period of transition; the availability of thimerosal-reduced or thimerosal-free vaccine intended for these groups is being expanded by manufacturers …” ACIP http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr55e628a1.htm

2010--“The U.S. vaccine supply for infants and pregnant women is in a period of transition as manufacturers expand the availability of thimerosal-reduced or thimerosal-free vaccine to reduce the cumulative exposure of infants to mercury.” ACIP http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr59e0729a1.htm

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Yes, until the sad death of Professor Karen Wetterhahn, the whole world accepted the GRAS rating for mercury (Generally Regarded As Safe). Another HUGE, HUGE, HUGE lie but this is what our regulators, bless them told the world for decades.

The whole world did use mercury like there was no tomorrow and often true as for Michael Jackson?

http://www.wisegeek.org/what-is-mercurochrome.htm

Should help people realise that IGNORANCE, IGNORANCE in the face of danger, IGNORANCE for its own sake is a very valued, cherished and fatal trait in many humans.

Knowledge comes at a high price eg for Karen or persistant work against the establishment:

http://www.jneuroinflammation.com/content/pdf/1742-2094-7-20.pdf

a biological mechanism for how low levels of mercury may contribute to ASD pathogenesis.

No one wants to know this?

IGNORANCE is indeed highly valued even by regulators and governments.

I believe something like 99 per cent of USA babies get the vaccines recommended, indicating that most people are unaware of the LIES from government and regulators.

Strangely in all this the industry is probably the most responsible. How often is it the industry themselves that put their house in order. Almost always.

Rarely do regulators or government interfere. They take lobbying money by the tens of millions but for the people they represent they prosecute those that arent victims of Big pHARMa.

Apart from TERATOGENIC, MUTAGENIC and CARCINOGENIC mercury compounds which does contain some methylmercury moities there is the ALUMINIUM issue, the OIL issue and the REPEAT vaccine issues.

Vaccines do work or did work but today they often present part of the reason for the declining health in USA children on all fronts.

Autism, childhood cancers, sudden death, epilepsy, diabetes, false accusations of harm from parents and carers but never admissions of problems from abandoned vaccines or vaccines where impurities, mercury, oil et al have been removed.

And the new problem is GMO vaccines (more than ten years now) adding to the uncertainty of safety alongside aspartame in many medical products.

And if the child survives all his vaccines then their is now a GMO diet where again research proves harm from at least one GMO food, the one being tested properly. (Seralini NK603 maize).

My own answer is to avoid doctors like the plague and buy food as far as possible not from tins or packets.

Aspartame in more than 6 000 food items and GMO produced and again found to cause cancer in HUMANS and bizarrely in a group of medical personnel at rates exceeding 1 per cent. I find this frightening when you think of 19th century medicine and most doctors NEVER meeting one single case of cancer. (Shernhammer aspartame study on nurses for a long period).

The Precautionary Principle does not exist as it costs Big pHARMa too much money.

"Why in the world did it ever occur to "scientists" to inject it [mercury] in large quantities into every living human, dog, and cat?"

Oh scientists had little to do with it.

Thimerosal was invented by a Rockefeller researcher. I'll spare you my theories on WHY it was invented. I will say that once the Rockefellers discovered how ESSENTIAL the sun was for good health we started to learn how BAD the sun was for us.

Some of the initial testing on Thimerosal indicated much risk but as is the fashion now these negative results were ignored and not followed up. When your name is Rockefeller you get your products into production and thus the "need" for Thimerosal in medicine was found to be great.

By the time the FDA came into being Thimerosal was an old medical hand and the FDA grandfathered it in GRAS. The FDA has never tested Thimerosal for safety and we can safely assume NEVER will as they certainly KNOW it is NOT safe.

It never ceases to amaze me how many people still have no clue about the vaccine/autism controversy. Just yesterday, in a conversation with a stranger about Josh, the person said, "You mean you think vaccines can cause illnesses like autism? I never heard that."
Then just ask anyone about Honey Boo Boo and their faces light up with recognition.
Maurine

My interest in mercury started with the ability to use Google. I needed to know why my oldest son had all these symptoms such as depression, anxiety, sleeplessness, falling into a sudden rage without any reason. I Googled those words. What Google came up with was mercury. All of the websites Google came up with indicated that mercury caused all those symptoms. At that point I became convinces that mercury caused my oldest son's symptoms, and it started my interest in all mercury-related illnesses. I read all the books I could find, and I started a webpage on dental amalgam and mercury. That was in the year 2000. I learned how to write html and I got a lot of information. At some point later curzone kind of usurped my website. But I didn't care because I want all the information to get out.

The average 2 month old girl (10.5 lbs, less than 5 kg) who received three TCVs, 62.5 micrograms, in the 1990s, I guess received over three and 1/2 times the dosage considered above.

Of course that is assuming all this poison is distributed equally. The 1990s average dosing, or even greater, could still be occurring from unequally distributed thimerosal containing flu vaccine today.

In the State of Maryland, children on State insurance programs are not allowed to receive thimerosal free flu vaccines at any pediatric practice if over the age of three. You may not request self pay, you have no options other than to leave and go to Target at which time you lie and claim your children have no insurance.

Research says those that have Kawasakis disease goes on to have problems with lipid metabolism.

The heart muscles from that disease will slowly weaken.

They also say there are those with atypical Kawasakis - they don't have all the symptoms. So it could be easily missed.

Those that have the full blown syptoms though -- it looks just like the mercury known "Pinks Disease".

In the 1980s medical researchers did a survey of recent activities the family did before their child came down with Kawasakis.

A lot of them had cleaned their carpets.
I recently found that antimony is put on syntheic fibers.
Mold releases antimony in the air while growing on wet carpet. On the Kawasakis website there was one person that claimed he became with with Kawasakis the day after he played a a wet abandon carpet down by a creek.

Antimony acts on the body the same way a arsenic.
All the metals seem to act on the most basic level - affecting our ability to make energy.

The vaccine manufactures could start putting antimony in the vaccines.
When is the next massive deployment??? Never let a good crises go to waste.

Even if they get rid of the mercury which they say is a perservative - but we all have guessed correctly that it is an adjuvant -- there is still the aluminum.
Aluminium toxicity acts upon the same areas of the brain as Alzheimer's disease, and apparently children with autism.
Will they up the amount of aluminium to make up for the missing mercury?

Thank you, Dan. I agree wholeheartedly. It is also becoming more known that small amounts of mercury [ALL forms] are causing damage to the immune system. Scientifically, morally and ethically - thimerosal should not be used in any medical products. The irony:

AAP 2012
http://aapnews.aappublications.org/content/early/2012/06/01/aapnews.20120601-1.full?rss=1
"You’re going to have some people who feel that any amount of mercury in the environment is not a good thing,” said Michael Brady, M.D., FAAP, chair of the AAP Committee on Infectious Diseases."

AAP 2001
http://www.pediatricsdigest.mobi/content/108/1/197.full
"Mercury in all of its forms is toxic to the fetus and children, and efforts should be made to reduce exposure to the extent possible to pregnant women and children as well as the general population."

I do think AAP will be haunted by this. Meanwhile, mercury continues to damage bodies worldwide.

Thimerosal is 49.6% mercury.

In solution, Thimerosal rapidly breaks down to ethyl-mercury, a organic form of mercury, and sodium thiosalicylate.

One half milliliter dose of a Thimerosal-containing vaccine hypothetically carries a concentration of mercury at a level of 55 parts per million into the bodies of infants and toddlers, as well as the unborn children still inside their mommy's tummy.

Organic mercury itself is not what causes neurological problems. Neurotoxicity problems arise when the organic form of mercury compound decomposes into to the inorganic mercuric mercury form.

Ethyl-mercury, the organic form of vaccine mercury, crosses the blood-brain barrier where it decomposes into inorganic, mercuric mercury. In terms of ranking mercury compounds by neuro-toxicity, ethyl-mercury is at the top of the list.

It is noted in the literature that as ethyl-mercury was found to be decomposing to inorganic in the brains of children this was not part of the detoxification process.

Methyl-mercury, the organic form of tuna mercury, also crosses the blood-brain barrier, but it does not appear to decompose into the neurologically damaging inorganic, mercuric mercury as much as the organic form of vaccine mercury does.

This wide difference in organic mercury compound volatility suggests that the criminal decision of twelve plus years ago to not establish a FDA safe exposure level for internal injection of Thimerosal was a criminal decision to not establish a FDA safe exposure level for internal injection of Thimerosal twelve plus years ago.

American infants and toddlers do not come with full chem suits as the US Environmental Protection Agency suggests lab workers don prior to laboratory Thimerosal exposure, and they do not typically munch tuna sandwiches prior to an age of having teeth to munch them with.

Also as Dan Olmsted indirectly points out, doctors do not use syringes to directly inject tuna salad into the bodies of America's infants and toddlers, but they do inject ethyl-mercury laced vaccines into them still.

Incidentally, the 2005 study mentioned was seized upon by both sides of the Autism-Mercury debate. One side saw the greater levels of inorganic mercury in the vaccine mercury brain tissue specimens. The other side took the blood results to their mass media outlets prior to the meeting, and then flapped them around in the air at the 2004 Institutes of Medicine Autism-Mercury meeting as if they were Neville Chamberlain waving his "peace in our time" contract with Adolf Hitler claiming "it all gets pooped out". This was very careless to do since either fecal mercury samples of monkey dropping were not taken at all as part of the 2005 study, or they were taken and the authors of the study decided to not publish them.

So whether or not the 2005 study adds up to a hill of beans at all relates to accuracy and relevant methodology.

Demonstrating Autism as a result of micro-mecurialism or macro-mecurialism in very small subjects can be affected by whether or not the actual specimens are representative of portions of brains associated with cognitive skills, or tissue results came by scrambling lots and lots of monkey brains in a blender and separating the liquid mercury results from the solid mercury results and calling them organic or inorganic.

If you need a great way to explain why the FDA rational for thimerosol is insane you can use this from my 2008 AoA post:

THIMEROSAL AND VACCINES: WHAT YOUR DOC WANTS YOU TO BELIEVE
http://www.ageofautism.com/2008/06/thimerosal-and.html

"The FDA’s justification for safety of thimerosal exposure for infants under current recommendations is that the total possible exposure of 28 micrograms by 7 months of age is “significantly below the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) calculated exposure guideline for methyl mercury of 65 micrograms during the first 6 months of life for a child in the fifth percentile body weight.” The word “during” indicates the calculation was made based on the daily weight of this baby multiplied by the daily exposure limit, calculated each day, then totaled after 6 months. However, the EPA exposure guidelines are 0.1 mcg per kilogram body weight per day. For a 20 pound infant, the 65 micrograms calculated to be safe by the FDA would be 72 times more than allowed that day. The 12.5 micrograms of mercury in each of the mandatory two flu shots is actually 14 times more than the EPA guidelines for the average 6 month old.

This is the same as the FDA accepting that giving 8400 mgs of Tylenol (three 1 oz. bottles) all at one time at 6 months and another 8400 mgs at 7 months of age is “SAFE” because the baby could have received 43,200 mgs now that he is 180 days old.

Toxicologists emphasize that any poison’s harm will differ markedly depending on how the exposure is delivered, i.e. inhalation, oral ingestion, or injection.

Ironically, material safety data sheets for thimerosal make no mention of exposure through injection.