Thimerosal - Safe When Injected, But Hold Your Breath and Don’t Swallow!

Anyone who has paid any attention to the great vaccine debate over the last couple of years will have heard of Thimerosal. It’s a chemical that has historically been added to vaccines as a preservative. There’s been debate about whether this mercury derivative has been in any way responsible for the huge increases in childhood autism over the last decade.

Of course, vaccine-makers have claimed that their products are, and have always been, safe. Most have, however, publicly said that they no longer use Thimerosal in their vaccines. Not because it is unsafe, but simply because the public asked for it. (yeah, right!)

In any event, here’s an interesting bit of info from the Merck website. Thimerosal is classified as VERY TOXIC, and even has the wicked skull and cross bones symbol in red, no less! Here’s how they define “very toxic”: Inhalation, swallowing, or absorption through the skin in very small amounts can cause considerable damage to health, and may sometimes be lethal. There is serious evidence of severe, possibly irreversible, damage to health by single, repeated, or prolonged absorption. How can it be toxic if absorbed through the skin unto the bloodstream, but safe when injected directly into the body? So be warned: Don’t breathe it. Don’t drink it. Don’t let it get on your skin. But, it’s okay to inject it into the bloodstream of infants, over and over and over and over again…. yeah, sure.

Read a great article about mercury poisoning in the March 2005 issue of Discover Magazine.

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While there is more information on the pros and cons of vaccines than I could ever pour through to determine it's relavence for this blog, or it's factual content even; I am not here to preach for or against vaccinations. I am here to help you find leads to inform yourself and weigh your own risks.

Here is an article by a journalist in search of Amish children with Autism (since they don't vaccinate). Her results are predictable.

Personally, I don't see how injecting our children with chemicals, which we have determined to be toxic in other instances, are considered 'safe' for this usage. Ethyl Mercury, formaldahyde, etc.

Picture an infant, newly exposed to... well, to everything. And everyone. Their tiny bodies, sometimes fragile, trying to adjust to 'life' and building immunity to everyday exposures, germs, and even the toxins we live with and don't consider; such as perfume, laundry detergent, dryer sheets, allergens, new foods or formulas, air pollutants, etc. Now add a tri-fold vaccine like or DPaT, which they never receive alone, so add the Polio and HIb. Now you have 5...that's FIVE diseases injected in one office visit, our children are fighting. But not just the diseases, also each vaccines preservative of choice. Formaldahyde, mercury, other un-pronouncable chemicals the body has to strain out and eliminate. And that's in a healthy baby with no obvious complications. I just don't get it.

Some 26 vaccinations are recommended for children before age 2, and while doctors keep telling us they are safe, more parents (and doctors) are fighting for the right to decline vaccinations and still enter children in school, day care centers and summer camps.

Look up acrodynia, a condition written about in the early 1900s that sounds exactly like autism and was shown to be caused by teething powder containing mercury. The disease disappeared when the teething powder was taken off the market.

What parent believes it's an acceptable risk that his or her 2-year-old could be brain damaged by a DPT (diphtheria, pertussis and tetanus) shot? As our fear of these diseases recedes, what we fear more are the pharmaceuticals themselves. Too much big money is behind vaccination to get the truth from the government or the manufacturers! Too many scientists say vaccinations don't work. The diseases being vaccinated against are cured by a healthy immune system, while vaccinations debilitate the immune system. These are just a few of the obvious reasons NOT to get a vaccination without FIRST informing yourself of the way vaccines work and what is in them.

See Also:
Why My Child Won't Be Getting The MMR

Parents Don't Know Who To Trust On Vaccinations

Legally Avoiding Vaccines In The USA

The Other Side of Vaccines

The Other Side of Vaccines
By Ingrid Maida
Exclusive to Eastern Group Publications

Heralded as one of the 20th Century’s greatest medical achievements, child vaccinations have today become society’s indispensable weapon in the fight against contagious diseases. So heavily promoted are vaccine’s benefits, rarely do people doubt their effectiveness, or bother to inform themselves of their potential risks.Yet risks do exist.

Richie was born in New York in 1983 and, as is the custom, was injected with the DPT (Diphtheria, Pertussis and Tetanus) vaccination when he turned two-months-old. Thirty-three hours later, Richie, whom up until then was a healthy baby boy, had died. The death certificate stated that the cause of his passing was “irreversible shock due to a probable reaction to DPT vaccination."

Although some would believe that his case is a unique exception, the facts say otherwise.“Because vaccination is a medical procedure that carries a risk of injury or death, every citizen should have the right to be fully and accurately informed about a vaccine's benefits and risks,” said Barbara Fisher, founder and director of the National Vaccination Information Center, NVIC, based in Virginia. “Everyone should be allowed to make an informed, voluntary decision without being harassed or punished by the State.”

However, the administering of immunizations to children is not something that most parents have the power to decide. Just after birth, for example, every baby is immunized against Hepatitis B, well before a mother can inform herself about the vaccine. Requiring children be given a long list of immunizations before they can attend school is now a routine fact of life.

“Whenever the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recommends a new childhood vaccine for ‘universal use’, state health officials add it to the mandatory vaccination list for school requirements,” states Fisher.

While kept mostly out of mainstream view, an organized anti-vaccination movement has existed worldwide for several decades. Those who are at the forefront of this movement are not only thousands of parents of children who have been afflicted or even died from adverse reactions to immunizations, but also a growing number of doctors who seriously question the benefits vs. risks of child immunizations.

In 1996, after many years of lobbying, the Food and Drug Administration, FDA, substituted the DTP vaccine with the modified “acelluar” DtaP. According to Fisher, the old DTP vaccine, which is still used to today in Latin America, showed that 1 in every 875 people injected with it suffered convulsions, fainting spells or shocks; 1 in every 110,000 suffered cerebral inflammation; and 1 in every 310,000 suffered permanent brain damage.Until the FDA ordered the removal of DTP in 1996 after considering it too dangerous, it was administered for years and seen as a reliable vaccine by most government authorities, medical professionals and parents.

“We have been questioning one-size-fits-all national vaccine policies and calling for better quality scientific research into why so many children are becoming autistic, learning disabled, hyperactive, asthmatic and diabetic and suffering other kinds of brain and immune system problems after repeated vaccinations,” stated Fisher.

Even as some diseases like polio have almost disappeared from the face of the earth, due to massive vaccinations according to most health officials, other afflictions have spread with greater force, generating diverse investigations into the possible role vaccinations have played in their expansion.One of the most common allegations is that the MMR (Mumps, Measles and Rubella ) vaccination is somehow responsible for the dramatic rise in autism in American children.

According to a study performed by Dr. Mary Megson, autism was diagnosed in 1 out of every 10,000 children in 1978. But in 2000 it had become an “epidemic” that affected 1 in every 500 children in the U.S.

In London, Prime Minister Tony Blair fanned the flames of this controversy when in February of last year he refused to respond to questions asking whether his son had already been administered the MMR vaccine.

Due to innumerable cases of children having had some kind of adverse reaction to one or several vaccines, in 1986 the U.S. government created the National Compensation Program. Since 1988, this fund has handed out more than $558 million to 638 victims (affected adversely by vaccines) and/or their family members.

In 2002, the World Health Organization, WHO, reported 24,199 cases of adverse reactions to vaccinations in the U.S. In that same year, WHO announced only 8,296 cases of pertussis, 37 cases of measles, 27 cases of tetanus, one case of diphtheria and zero cases of polio in the U.S.

Health authorities today continue to push mandatory and voluntary vaccinations on the public, while always adding new vaccines to the already long list (like the flu vaccines). They also continue to stress that none of these have serious side effects. At the same time, those who oppose this health policy insist that not only are there too few investigations being performed on the possible negative effects of vaccines, but also that there is too much unknown about their long term effects.

“The outstanding scientific question that is yet to be answered, however, is whether the use of many vaccines in early childhood is contributing to chronic disease later in life,” said Fisher. “The use of multiple vaccines (38 doses of 12 vaccines currently) in early childhood is a relatively new development over the last 20 years.”