Correction: There has been no evidence that thimerosal causes autism

BreastImplantAwareness.or · medicine forum beginner Joined: 11 Jun 2006 Posts: 47

Thanks so much Ms Drew, for the many well documented links.

No wonder they have so many Vaccination Flacks ... look at what they
are pretending isn't true.

Just an excerpt:

http://www.safeminds.org/pressroom/pres_releases/060502Herman.pdf

Past and Current Mercury Exposures. At least two studies documented
blood mercury
levels in infants following administration of TCVs that exceed the CDC
adult toxic
exposure limits of >10mcg/L (50 nmol/L). 13 A mercury blood level of
20.55 nmol/L was
observed five days after a 37.5 mcg exposure from two TCVs. 14 Another
study observed
a level of 23.6 mcg/L after a 12.5 mcg exposure from one TCV.15
Infants may have
routinely experienced peak blood mercury levels of 48.3 nmol/L;16 well
above the
presumed safety threshold of 29.0 nmol/L. Throughout 1990’s and
beyond, most infants
had 62.5 mcg exposures from three TCVs at the two-month visit.
Depending on the manufacturer, the influenza TCV given to infants and
pregnant women
contains either 2,000 or 50,000 parts per billion (ppb) of mercury.
EPA requires liquid waste
exceeding 250 ppb to be sent to a special hazardous waste landfill.
Drinking water cannot
exceed 2 ppb.
Institute of Medicine. In 2001, the IOM concluded that the evidence
was inadequate to accept
or reject a causal relationship between thimerosal exposure from
childhood vaccines and
neurodevelopmental disorders and found the hypothesis to be
biologically plausible. It also
recommended using thimerosal-free vaccines.17
I
n 2004, the IOM panel focused solely on autism, leaving the 2001
conclusions on
neurodevelopmental effects intact. The 2004 autism review ignored
pre-publication data from
clinical studies and instead relied on published epidemiological
studies; in particular, the Hviid
Demark study.18 Many methodological flaws have been cited in that
Denmark and the U.S. had
different vaccine schedules and thimerosal exposure levels, and many
children in one age
cohort were “lost” between observation periods impairing use of trend
analysis techniques and
introducing bias.19 The study also claimed that Danish autism rates
increased after TCVs were
discontinued in 1992 but simultaneously, official autism counts
shifted from only including
hospital cases to also including outpatient cases. The authors
conceded that the association
may be spurious. A study of this caliber is unsuited for formulating
national public health policy
or sufficient to exonerate a potent neurotoxin.
* * *
Much of the rest of the developed world has discontinued use of TCVs.
Russia banned it 20
years ago and now, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Austria, Netherlands,
Japan and the United
Kingdom have followed suit. Earlier this year, the European Parliament
passed a resolution
calling for an investigation of the health impact of ethylmercury in
vaccines “with a view to
restriction of such use and a total ban.” In the U.S., a 1999 Joint
Statement issued by leading
health organizations stated, “thimerosal-containing vaccines should be
removed as soon as
possible.” Seven years later, thimerosal is still in U.S. vaccines and
with the new influenza
recommendations, the cumulative dose per body weight to the fetus and
to children is
approaching maximum 1990’s exposure levels.

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