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CDC, FDA Cover-Up of Mercury in Vaccines Causing Autism
Posted by: Dr. Mercola
March 31 2004 | 5,416 views

 

Are health agencies such as the CDC and the FDA covering up evidence that a mercury preservative in children’s vaccines resulted in an epidemic of autism?

Rita Shreffler of Nixa, Missouri sent her son’s baby tooth to a lab back in August 2001. A nine-year-old boy, Andy had been diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome, a type of autism, just one year earlier.

Shreffler had just read a report in the journal of Medical Hypotheses implying that mercury poisoning linked to an additive in children’s vaccines could be the cause of such neurological disorders.

A test showed that Andy’s tooth contained a mercury level of 3,040 parts per billion compared to the limit for mercury in drinking water of 2 ppb and the limit for mercury amounts of waste going into a landfill is 200 ppb according to the Environmental Testing Laboratory.

When Shreffler was asked how Andy was exposed to so much mercury, she explained that babies had been exposed to excess levels of mercury from a vaccine preservative called thimerosal.

Some scientists claimed that the vaccine had been discontinued for cattle back in the early 1990s and couldn’t understand how it was still being used.

Scientists continued to claim that they were sure this wasn’t being allowed in the use of children’s vaccines, but they were wrong.

The questions that resulted from these studies:

  • Was the use of a mercury preservative in vaccines directly responsible for the outbreak of autism that is now plaguing our country?

  • Were the health of millions of infants compromised because federal health officials feared liability issues regarding their agencies, vaccine manufacturers and loss of compliance with the federal vaccine program?

  • Are studies showing a link between thimerosal-containing vaccines and autism being discounted as a result of conflicts of interest and data manipulation?

  • Are parents, researchers and members of Congress seeking conspiracies when none exist making such claims?

An estimated one in 250 American children was diagnosed with autism in 2002. This was a significant increase from the one in 500 in 2000 and one in 5,000 in the 1980s. Currently, approximately 3,500 families of autistic children are required by Congress to go through an extra step of going to a special federal vaccine court, before they engage in any civil litigation.

Mother Jones News March/April 2004



Dr. Mercola's Comments:
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I have found that the root cause of the hundreds and hundreds of autistic children I have seen over the years can be traced back to the hepatitis B vaccine, which is packed with a mercury preservative called thimerosol, they were given on their first day of breathing air.

The hepatitis B vaccine is such a problem because the central nervous system of a newborn infant is very susceptible to toxic influences. This wouldn’t be such a problem if this vaccine were given later in life, as it is in many other countries.

You would think this is a wake-up call to companies to pull thimerosol from vaccines, however it is still being used as a preservative in vaccines. If you still aren’t convinced of the value and safety in avoiding vaccines, you should NOT let your child receive vaccines from the multi-dose vials because they still contain thimerosol.

Be sure to inform the physician or nurse that you want the single dose vaccination container and request that you would like to actually witness the removal from the vial and you would like to take the empty vial home with you as proof that they didn’t receive the mercury-contaminated vaccine.

By doing this, you will at least avoid one of the problems with the vaccines.

Before you decide to vaccinate your children, do them a favor and look into the many risks and side effects associated with common childhood vaccines. Doing so could mean the difference between life and death.

Related Articles:

Mercury in Vaccines

Vaccine Preservative's Effects May Have Been Known

Update on Mercury Poisoning from Vaccine

Safe Minds’ Assessment of the Thimerosal-Containing Vaccine Study

Many Vaccines Are Still Made With Mercury

Childhood Vaccines Exceed Federal Guidelines for Mercury






 
 
 
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