It only takes 35 mcg of mercury to kill a
rabbit. The little bit in your thermometer is enough to pollute a 20 acre lake.
Thimerosal has been used as a vaccine preservative since 1930's. Until
recently, it was generally viewed as safe, reliable and a defender against bacterial and
fungal contaminants. It's sometimes added during production as a guarantee against
contaminations. Thus, no need to manufacture the vaccines in a sterile environment.
Thimerosal contains 49.6% mercury by weight.
At high exposure, mercury causes neurotoxicity in the human body. Especially in that
of fetus and small infants who's brains are still underdeveloped. However, because
of thimerosal's track record against contaminants, it's incredibly hard for manufacturers,
and all "powers that be" to get rid of it. (This knowledge should give one
a good concept of the Russian Roulette when messing with bacterium and viruses. The
game gets even more dangerous-potentially fatal- when involving one of the most toxic
substances of the earth, second to plutonium: Thimerosal).
The Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research
(CBER), In 1999, learned that thimerosal had surfaced as a safety issue in Europe.
One of their jobs, appointed in 1999 was to add up the total amount of mercury given to
children through vaccines. Shortly after that they found thimerosal to be in 30
licensed pediatric vaccines. According to their calculations, a 6 month fully
vaccinated child receives 75 mcg from three doses of DTaP, 75 mcg from three doses of the
Hib, and 37.5 from three doses of Hepatitis B. This totals to 187.5 mcg of mercury.
Conclusion was eventually made that mercury intake from vaccines is above the limit
set by EPA for children under 6 months.
The findings were incredibly serious considering
that millions of children had been and still were receiving mercury at much higher levels
deemed safe by EPA. However, this serious concern was muddled because for the
following reasons: 1-three federal agencies that published mercury safety guidelines were
in disagreement (EPA, FDA, and ATSDR), 2- EPA's guidelines were based on a single does of
mercury which exposed 81 children in Iraq while in utero, 3-CBER's finding was
clouded by differences in the nature of exposure between the 81 children in Iraq and those
vaccinated.
No one could explain how the differences in exposure
could effect the potential neurotoxicity of mercury. Fear of CBER's findings
reaching the already growing concerned public became a concern for the big wigs. If
this information got out into the public, parents would find more reason to make more
noise against the immunization program. CDC downplayed these concerns and any idea
to educate pediatric physicians of the mercury content and CBER's findings. They
loathed the idea of calling some vaccines "bad" (thimerosal-containing vaccines)
and some "good" (thimerosal free vaccines). However, Hasley of John
Hopkins University (advocate for "safe vaccines") disagreed. They feared
the potential for unending future lawsuits. Argument over delaying the Hepatitis B
vaccine, normally given at birth, arose. The CDC Hepatitis branch saw this as
trouble since they'd been working on getting Hepatitis B for routine vaccination.
Their fear was that the Hep B vaccination rates would slide. That alone was a threat
because some states were under pressure from vaccination protestors to drop Hep B for
school registration. Thus, a furious case against delaying the Hep B vaccine was
underway. CDC wouldn't stop raging about the annual cases of Hep B in children under
10 years of age. This led to the argument of removing thimerosal from vaccines.
Hep b manufacturers do have thimerosal free vaccines. However, they are more
expensive.
I find CDC's attitude towards the human
population revolting. Especially that of our precious babies.
