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Mercury Element Toxic Study On Vaccines

An important NIH-funded study that was published online today in the journal of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), Environmental Health Perspectives, entitled “Comparison of Blood and Brain Mercury Levels in Infant Monkeys Exposed to Methylmercury or Vaccines containing Thimerosal.” This study was funded through a direct contract with NIEHS and has yielded important information that challenges many of the assumptions used to formulate national public health policy regarding mercury in vaccines, including the potential risk to infants.

In this study, Thomas Burbacher and Thomas Clarkson, two of the leading experts in mercury toxicology and analysis, along with their colleagues, present new data describing how non-human primates handle different forms of mercury. Their results also highlight how much we still do not know about the potential dangers of this mercury-based preservative that is still used in most childhood flu vaccines and many vaccines administered in developing countries.

"Data from the current study predicts that while little accumulation of Hg [mercury] occurs over time with repeated vaccinations, accumulation of Hg of the brain of infants will occur. Thus, conclusions regarding the safety of thimerosal drawn from blood Hg clearance data in human infants receiving vaccines may not be valid, given the significantly lower half life of Hg in the brain as observed in the infant macaques [monkeys]”

Thousands of parents of children with neurodevelopmental disorders and many members of the press continue to contact me on a regular basis regarding these unanswered questions. I have always been and remain a strong supporter of childhood vaccinations. I support the decision to immunize infants against the flu. Given the lack of information that exists about the toxicity of thimerosal, particularly to vulnerable children, I believe that complete removal of mercury from flu vaccines in the immediate future is the best way to eliminate an exposure to a potential neurotoxin and enhance uptake of the vaccine in the pediatric population. I believe this indicates the need for a proactive approach from HHS.

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