I read last week how the U.S. Geological Survey did a study that found mercury in fish from every one of 291 streams they tested across the United States. You don’t need me to tell you that mercury is dangerous, but I started researching mercury to find out how dangerous.
However, digging for facts about mercury took me in a completely different direction... back to the swine 
flu. Many vaccinations, such as the swine flu vaccine now being foisted on an unsuspecting public (I strongly encourage you to read Mark Reinoso’s column), contain a preservative made with mercury. Why? Well, vaccines are often delivered to a doctor’s office in a multi-dose vial with a rubber stopper. You’ve probably seen a nurse or doctor poke a needle through the rubber and draw some fluid into a syringe. After that first puncture, bacteria could enter the vial and contaminate the vaccine, so it needs a preservative.
The most commonly used vaccine preservative is called Thimerosal. Here’s what the FDA has to say about it: “Thimerosal is a mercury-containing organic compound (an organomercurial). Since the 1930s, it has been widely used as a preservative in a number of biological and drug products, including many vaccines, to help prevent potentially life threatening contamination with harmful microbes. Over the past several years, because of an increasing awareness of the theoretical potential for neurotoxicity of even low levels of organomercurials and because of the increased number of thimerosal-containing vaccines that had been added to the infant immunization schedule, concerns about the use of thimerosal in vaccines and other products have been raised. Indeed, because of these concerns, the Food and Drug Administration has worked with, and continues to work with, vaccine manufacturers to reduce or eliminate thimerosal from vaccines. Thimerosal has been removed from or reduced to trace amounts in all vaccines routinely recommended for children 6 years of age and younger, with the exception of inactivated influenza vaccine.”
In other words, ‘we know it’s dangerous; So dangerous that we are trying to reduce it or remove it completely from vaccines. But we’re going to go ahead and put it in flu vaccine.’ And of course that includes the swine flu vaccine. And it is in there, I read the label.
Thimerosal is nearly 50% mercury. Now, there is mercury and then there is mercury. Organic mercury – that contained in Thimerosal – is more dangerous than inorganic mercury, as it tends to hang around in the body longer. How dangerous is it?
According to one report, “In 1977, a Russian study found that adults exposed to ethylmercury, the form of mercury in thimerosal, suffered brain damage years later. Studies on thimerosal poisoning also describe tubular necrosis and nervous system injury, including obtundation, coma and death. As a result of these findings, Russia banned thimerosal from children's vaccines in 1980. Denmark, Austria, Japan, Great Britain and all the Scandinavian countries have also banned the preservative.”
So, basically, we have a vaccine that may not be needed, that was manufactured in a such a hurry by mega-corporations that the government has exempted them from liability, that hasn’t been adequately tested, and that contains a known poison.
What could possibly go wrong?
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We have the same problem here in Australia where the government imposed monopoly company CSL is deliberately in order to maximise their profits supplying the swine flu in multidose vials with thiomersal even although the same company supplies seasonal flu in single dose syringes, because it was agreed here many years ago thiomersal was not safe. Now CSL are arguing because FDA still allows thiomersal it is OK for them to restart using it in Australia for this purpose. How sad when a large pharma company is prepared to sacrifice public safety in the interests of increasing profits. But hardly surprising. The most disappointing thing is the governments refusal to take any stand on such issues.
1) Thimerosal contains ethylmercury, which is markedly less dangerous than methylmercury because it does not penetrate to the central nervous system and has not been shown to bioaccumulate.
2) The NIAID recommended in 1999 to reduce the use of thimerosal in childhood vaccines as part of a generalized program to reduce mercury exposure from all sources, not because it is particularly unsafe.
3) The CDC/NIH recognizes people's concerns about thimerosal and won't be "foisting" anything on us. The pandemic H1N1 vaccine will be available in three forms this fall: a 10-dose vial which necessarily contains thimerosal, a 1-dose vial without thimerosal, and a pre-loaded 1-dose syringe without thimerosal. Dr. Fauci of NIH announced yesterday on a webcast about H1N1 concerns for pregnant women that the thimerosal-free vaccines are being preferentially targetted to expecting mothers and young children.
Chris, You're a complete fool! There is no deabate about whether ethylmercury enters the brain. All short-chain organomercury compounds do. Once in the brain they dealkylize to Hg++ which remains permanently trapped and causes degenerative brain disease. In primate studies, it's been shown that injected thimerosal leaves behind twice as much Hg++ as equal doses of ingested methylmercury. It is more toxic! Bill, if one tests a multi-dose vaccine vial for mercury they will find it contains 50,000 ug/l Hg, a level 250 times higher than what the EPA identifies as hazardous waste! What a crock.
Sadly, there are folks who will avoid getting a flu shot, because they are worried about the toxic effect of thimerosal, but will go home that night and finish off a pack of cigarettes while having a soothing drink of alcohol, possibly over a hastily heated up microwave meal and think very little about the long term health impacts of those daily decisions. You run a MUCH greater risk of doing your body damage from smoking, drinking or eating fatty foods on a regular basis, that you do from any sort of health impact from a flu vaccine with Thimerosal.
You run a MUCH greater risk of doing your body damage from smoking, drinking or eating fatty foods on a regular basis, that you do from any sort of health impact from a flu vaccine with Thimerosal.
i'm not fool
i'm immune without any flu shots with or without thimerosal and my kids too. i know ways to get immunity without flu shots. never had taken them in my life and never will. i don't need this wart inside my body period.
I don't think Thimerosal is banned in Scandinavia. We had an "opportunity" to get a flu shot at work and it contained Thimerosal.
its all about money! not just money but making sure only certian people get it!! if you think your goverment cares about you, you are just dumb!!!
Needles, used once then disposed of. Bottles containing vaccine need to be manufactured as well as the needles to use. Why not make a one time use vaccination needle that gets disposed of after use and eliminate the risk? No need for mercury to prevent bacteria from contaminating a use once only product. It may cost a bit more, but what value do they put on a life? The only foreseeable problem would be if the plastic's used to make the needle were made in a country know for putting lead in their product's......
Absolutely not. The FDA is not saying thimerosal is dangerous. They are saying that because of hew and cry from the anti-vaccine lobby they would rather remove thimerosal in order to get people to take vaccines instead of worrying about a non-issue. Given the seriousness of the impending swine flu I too would rather manufactures not use thimerosal. Not because I'm worried about it. Because I don't want people to fear getting a vaccine and thereby increase the risk of serious pandemic.
Bill, have you read Evidence of Harm by David Kirby? It is very interesting and informative on the subject at hand. I think you will be appropriately horrified by it.
bill, i linked this article with mine. good work. examiner.com/examiner/x-672-Disease-Prevention-Examiner~y2009m9d27-NYS-health-workers-must-receive-flu-immunization-despite-Obama-vaccine-is-completely-voluntary
I'm a nurse. I'll quit my job and let the government support me and the children. I'll home school them and we'll have a happier healthier life anyway.
Any variety of mercury gives a shelf life of years as opposed to months which translates into less manufacturing costs and more profits. Big Pharma wants more profit from each dose so they lobby to keep mercury listed with the FDA as a "safe" preservative. It's not a safety issue, it's a money issue. But don't worry because if your child is the unlucky one that develops mental retardation or epilepsy or any other vaccine induced illness, you can recive "compensation" under a federal program to keep Big Pharma profitable:
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The Thimerosal is only one issue with the "swine" flu vaccine. The other is the adjuvant squalene, which is the same that was used in the anti-anthrax vaccine given our service people before Gulf War I. Many of them came down with Gulf War Syndrome which is similar to Guillain-Barre Syndrome. The Australian manufacturer listed this as a potential side effect.
There are single use syringes that don't contain Thimerosal. The nasal spray version of the vaccine also has no Thimerosal.
I've yet to see anyone associate mercury levels in vaccines with illness except through inference. Let's see some science.
"if one tests a multi-dose vaccine vial for mercury they will find it contains 50,000 ug/l Hg, a level 250 times higher than what the EPA identifies as hazardous waste"
Fancy that.
Do yourself a favor and avoid that dangerous vaccine. Not only it contains thimerosal which is a poison by itself, but it is also stuffed with even nastier "goodies". Not mentioning that it is only 60% effective at best, meaning it will help only 6 people out of 10, and the possibility of getting the downside is 100%. Your common sense and clean hands are your best friends in battle against any flu...
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