Mercury in Vaccinations

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Does anyone have any information on mercury-free vaccinations? My daughter is asking me to help her find information. I figured this would put a lot of brains to work instead of just one.

A website etc, would be fine. I just need facts and quick, because my little grandson is going to get some shots soon. I am not discussing the matter of pro-shot versus no-shot. I am just looking for information about mercury free injections. Thank you all.

Talk to you later.

-- Bob in WI (bjwick@hotmail.com), November 07, 2001

Answers

"Mothering" magazine has had articles on this. See if they have a website.

-- gita (gschmitz@directcon.net), November 07, 2001.

Had no idea there would be mercury in a vacination.....but up to 4 months ago had no idea that mercury was in fillings that dentists put in our mouths....my daughter is now havig hers removed after she became very ill.... she had been getting worse and worse, with no doctors finding the cause. She found it herself, went to her doctor, told her about it. He sent her to a head doctor! But after reading all the infirmation she provided him and seeing her lab results he did apologize. In the meantime she is going through treament to remove the mercury from her body. BTW the ADA has hid the mercury facts. Could it be becasue they are part owners in the places that make the product? hmmmmmmmm

-- Lynnda (venus@zeelink.net), November 08, 2001.

good morning, Go to www.google.com and put in 'thimerosol' the mercury derivitive preservitive that the feds have now banned. YIPPIE, us paranoids got the word out that mercury has no place in pediatric preventive medicine! Also research 'a cellular' vaccine vs. 'whole/killed virus' vaccines. Could also try parenting.com, babytalk, & other parenting sites.

-- bj pepper in C. MS. (pepper.pepper@excite.com), November 08, 2001.

Bob - I just purchased and read a book about vaccines. I know you aren't looking at the issue of whether or not to vaccinate but this book does discuss in detail why you may want to avoid mercury. The title is "What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Children's Vaccinations by Stephanie Cave, M.D., F.A.A.F.P. Copyright is 2001. From what I've been able to gather, the only way to know for sure that a vaccine is free of mercury is to ask for the package and insert the vaccine actually comes in. Even though certain vaccines have had the mercury removed, they are always doctors who have older vaccines that they use up first. Good luck to your daughter and her son - this is an issue close to my heart.

-- Mel Carroll (frank.a.carroll@worldnet.att.net), November 09, 2001.

My wife is the immunization coordinator for a 13 town area here in the northeastern corner of Connecticut, and she suggests you try the Center for Disease Control website.

Click here:Center for Disease Control

-- Glenn (gj_usa1@yahoo.com), November 10, 2001.



check out this site, and their archives if they have them. It should have info on mercury in vaccines: www.909.shot.com

-- (jclayton@mhonline.net), November 12, 2001.

I am simply fowarding this information along. Some of you may have seen it already or may be aware of this ongoing issue. I don't want to stir up a hornets nest.

>Lawsuit Filed for Mercury in Vaccines Causing Autism > >An announcement was made today by the law firm of Waters & Kraus, the firm >that filed the first known lawsuit alleging that a mercury preservative in >children's vaccines caused neurological damage to an infant ultimately >diagnosed with autism. > >Waters & Kraus is leading a consortium of ten firms in as many states that >are actively prosecuting cases of this nature 1(firms listed below). > >Andy Waters, the lead attorney in the cases, announced that his firm is >now >in possession of a previously unreleased confidential report authored by >Centers for Disease Control scientists which studied autism as a potential >neurological injury caused by mercury in children's vaccines. > >A different version of the report was made public and has been cited by >the >recent Institute of Medicine study as inconclusive on the issue of whether >the mercury-based vaccine preservative known as thimerosal has contributed >to cause a nationwide epidemic of regressive autism and other neurological >disorders in small children. > >The confidential version of the study, however, clearly demonstrated that >an >exposure to more than 62.5 micrograms of mercury within the first three >months of life significantly increased a child's risk of developing >autism. >Specifically, the study found a 2.48 times increased risk of autism - that >is to say, children with the exposure were more than twice as likely to >develop autism as children not exposed. > >In the United States, courts of law have generally held that a relative >increased risk of 2.0 or higher is sufficient to substantiate that a given >exposure causes disease. As but one example, in the case of Cook v. United >States, 545 F.Supp. 306, at 308 (Northern District - California 1982) the >Court stated that, "in a vaccine case, a relative risk greater than 2.0 >establishes that there is a greater than 50% chance that the injury was >caused by the vaccine." > >Waters indicated that, in many of the cases his firm has evaluated, >including the case filed in a Texas state court on behalf of the Counter >family, the affected child received more than 62.5 micrograms of mercury >through pediatric vaccines in the first three months of life. > >The confidential report, which was obtained by the SAFEMINDS support and >advocacy group, states: > >"As for the exposure evaluated at 3 months of age, we found increasing >risks >of 'neurological developmental disorders' with increasing cumulative >exposure to thimerosal ... within the group of 'developmental >disorders'... >for the sub-group called 'specific delays,' and within this subgroup for >the >specific disorder 'developmental speech disorder,' and for >'autism,''stuttering' and 'attention deficit disorder.'" > >Waters called the report's contents and the fact that it was kept from the >public as "shocking, but unfortunately not surprising, given the political >influence of pharmaceutical companies and the tremendous liability they >face >if they are forced to compensate thousands of families for the costs of >care >that these children require." > >Waters added that "no amount of money can give these children back the >potential that they were born with, and no amount of money will comfort >the >parents that watched helplessly as their children literally just slipped >away." > >The purpose of the lawsuits his firm is currently prosecuting, said >Waters, >is "to bring to the surface the truth on this issue, a truth that >government >agencies seem unwilling to admit, perhaps for fear that parents will stop >vaccinating their children, and to force the companies that profited from >this disastrous mistake to shoulder the responsibility that so many >families >now bear on their own, often without even the aid of health insurance >benefits." > >PROVE > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- >DR. MERCOLA'S COMMENT: > >If you know someone who may have suffered a vaccine injury, please have >them >place a call to either Melissa Miles at (214)357-6244 for media inquiries, >or Victoria Gibson at (800)226-9880 for client inquiries. They may also >call >the firms listed below for more information about class action lawsuits >against the vaccine manufacturers. > >It seems that one of the most effective strategies for ending this >nightmare >of autism caused by mercury and vaccines will be through legal actions. >The >drug companies need to be held responsible for selling products that may >be >causing damage. > >The vaccine litigation wars are just beginning in the US. Numerous >contaminated vaccine suits against manufacturers are already in progress >in >the UK. > >If you are not yet aware of the connection between autism, mercury and >vaccines, please read Dr. O'Shea's excellent review below. > >By age two, American children have received 237 micrograms of mercury >through vaccines alone, which far exceeds current EPA "safe" levels of .1 >mcg/kg. per day. That's one-tenth of a microgram, not one microgram. > >Not all vaccines have mercury. It is put in as a preservative in the >multi-use vials. So if, for whatever reason, you chose to give you child >an >immunization, please ask the doctor for the SINGLE use vial. > >I would suggest watching him or the nurse actually drawing it up out of >the >vial and then actually asking for the vial to confirm that it is the >single >dose vial. > >It is this mercury, and other vaccine side effects, that have contributed >to >the enormous rise in autism that has been experienced, not only in the US, >but all over the world. > >Day of birth: hepatitis B-12 mcg mercury: > >30 x safe level > >At 4 months: DTaP and HiB on same day - 50 mcg mercury: > >60 x safe level > >At 6 months: Hep B, Polio - 62.5 mcg mercury: > >78 x safe level > >At 15 months the child receives another 50 mcg: > >41 x safe level > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- >References: > >Other firms working with Waters & Kraus to prosecute individual cases >involving thimerosal exposure are: > > >ANDERSON & KRIEGER, APLC 40925 County Center Drive, Suite 210 Temecula, >California 92591 Telephone: 909-296-5090 > >DOGAN & WILKINSON 726 Delmas Avenue Pascagoula, Mississippi 39567 >Telephone: >228-762-2272 > >DORAN & MURPHY, LLP 1234 Delaware Avenue Buffalo, New York 14209 >Telephone: >716-884-2000 > >EVERT & WEATHERSBY, L.L.C. 3405 Piedmont Road, Suite 225 Atlanta, Georgia >30305-1764 Telephone : 404-233-8718 > >HENDRICKSON & LONG 214 Capital Street P.O. Box 11070 Charleston, W. VA >25339 >Telephone: 304-346-5500 > >JONES, MARTIN, PARRIS, & TESSENER LAW OFFICES, PLLC 410 Glenwood Ave., >Suite >200 Raleigh, North Carolina 27603 Telephone: 919-821-0005 > >LEACH, SCHWARZ & STRASSBERG 11 Bala Ave. Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania 19004 >Telephone: 610-668-7964 > >MARTZELL & BICKFORD 338 Lafayette Street New Orleans, Louisianna 70130 >Telephone: 504-581-9065 > >WISE & JULIAN, PC 3555 College Avenue Alton, Illinois 62002 Telephone: >618-462-2600 > > >http://www.me rcola >.com/2001/oct/31/mercury_lawsuit.htm >>>> ---



-- Craig Giddings (ckgidd@netins.net), November 21, 2001.


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