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FLU SHOT POSES MERCURY
RISK
Contributed by Croft Woodruff
Once again it is time to warn those
who wish to do their own thinking and not get caught up in Gullible's
Travels over the annual flu shot.
A prominent drug store chain with locations throughout the
greater Vancouver area is currently offering flu shots at $10.
a jab. When questioned, one of the firm's pharmacists said there
is no mercury listed among the vaccine's ingredients. However,
when asked if thimerosal was listed she admitted that it was
and was surprised to learn that thimerosal is a mercury compound.
Dr Hugh Fudenberg [recognized as the world's leading immuno-geneticist
and the 13th most quoted biologist of this century with 850 papers
published in peer reviewed journals], has stated: "if an
individual has had five consecutive flu shots between 1970 and
1980 [the years that were studied] the chance of getting Alzheimer's
Disease is 10 time higher than if he or she had one, two or no
shots."
When asked why this was so, Fudenberg said it was due to the
mercury and aluminum that is in every flu shot and most childhood
shots. The gradual mercury and aluminum buildup in the brain
causes cognitive dysfunction.
While the John Hopkins Letter [November 1998] warns that Alzheimer's
is expected to quadruple, reports from the United Kingdom indicate
Alzheimer's is spreading to British young. Doubling in the past
decade, the disease is being found in people as young as thirty.
Physicians say they are baffled as to the cause.
Dr. Fudenberg's web site is at http://www.nitrf.org/
More on mercury:
1: Neurotoxicology 2001 Oct;22(5):6917 Books, LinkOut
Predicted mercury concentrations in hair from infant immunizations:
cause
for concern.
Redwood L, Bernard S, Brown D.
Coalition for Safe Minds, Cranford, NJ 07016, USA. tiredwood@mindspring.com
Mercury (Hg) is considered one of the worlds most toxic metals.
Current
thinking suggests that exposure to mercury occurs primarily from
seafood
contamination and rare catastrophic events. Recently, another
common source
of exposure has been identified. Thimerosal (TMS), a preservative
found in
many infant vaccines, contains 49.6% ethyl mercury (EtHg) by
weight and
typically contributes 25 microg of EtHg per dose of infant vaccine.
As part
of an ongoing review, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
announced in
1999 that infants who received multiple TMS-preserved vaccines
may have been
exposed to cumulative Hg in excess of Federal safety guidelines.
According
to the centers for disease control (CDC) recommended immunization
schedule,
infants may have been exposed to 12.5 microg Hg at birth, 62.5
microg EtHg
at 2 months, 50 microg EtHg at 4 months, 62.5 microg EtHg at
6 months, and
50 microg EtHg at approximately 18 months, for a total of 237.5
microg EtHg
during the first 18 months of life, if all TMS-containing vaccines
were
administered. Neurobehavioral alterations, especially to the
more
susceptible fetus and infant, are known to occur after relatively
low dose
exposures to organic mercury compounds. In effort, to further
elucidate the
levels of ethyl mercury resulting from exposure to vaccinal TMS,
we
estimated hair Hg concentrations expected to result from the
recommended CDC
schedule utilizing a one compartment pharmacokinetic model. This
model was
developed to predict hair concentrations from acute exposure
to methymercury
(MeHg) in fish. Modeled hair Hg concentrations in infants exposed
to
vaccinal TMS are in excess of the Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA)
safety guidelines of 1 ppm for up to 365 days, with several peak
concentrations within this period. More sensitive individuals
and those with
additional sources of exposure would have higher Hg concentrations.
Given
that exposure to low levels of mercury during critical stages
of development
has been associated with neurological disorders in children,
including ADD,
learning difficulties, and speech delays, the predicted hair
Hg
concentration resulting from childhood immunizations is cause
for concern.
Based on these findings, the impact which vaccinal mercury has
had on the
health of American children warrants further investigation.
PMID: 11770890 [PubMed in process]
In the United States every time a new childhood vaccine
is mandated it means another billion dollars a year worth
of business to drug giant Merck. - cw |
