A study evaluating whether exposure to mercury from thimerosal-containing vaccines contributes to autism found that the rate at which a child is able to eliminate mercury might play a role.
Children with the most severe autism had the lowest hair mercury levels, which suggests that they may not excrete the mercury effectively. Children without autism had significantly higher hair mercury levels, and the levels were correlated with mercury exposure from a variety of sources. Autistic children, on the other hand, did not show correlations between hair mercury levels and mercury exposure.
International Journal of Toxicology August, 2003;22(4):277-85
This study provides the clearest proof to date that small differences in mercury exposure and detoxification ability can drive huge differences in the brain development of small children. Recent studies sponsored by vaccine health officials who have attempted to reassure parents about the safety of so-called "low-dose" mercury exposures from vaccines have completely failed to assess individual sensitivity to this neurotoxin. It only takes one child in 100 to have reduced excretion capacity, and you can have an epidemic of neurological disease on your hands.
This article touches on an extremely important issue for anyone with children or who is planning to have children. While it may sound hard to believe that mercury, which has been linked to the soaring cases of autism in the United States, is still in vaccines being given to newborn babies, this is a very real problem.
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