Much is known about the deadly effects of mercury, thimerosal and vaccines, but did you know early testing of thimerosal was done on people who were terminally ill? Great way to be able to claim thimerosal is a safe product, if you can get away with it, which Big Pharma did for a long time.

I find it almost incomprehensible thimerosal, the well-documented, toxic preservative that contains mercury, is still in many vaccines, years after federal agencies have mandated that it be removed. Especially when it comes to injecting infants with toxic chemicals when their nervous systems are just forming, because physicians certainly should know better. That's why you should think long and hard at the risks and side effects associated with these toxins before you even think about vaccinating your kids.

Dr. Mark Sircus wrote an excellent piece for his association that he agreed to share with us about the short history of mercury, thimerosal and vaccines and how they proved to be a terrible trio that has ruined the health of far too many people over the past 75 years.

By Dr. Mark A. Sircus Ac., OMD
International Medical Veritas Association

Until recently most infants have been receiving up to 15 doses of mercury-containing vaccines by the time they are 6 months old. It is almost inconceivable that these heavy burdens of foreign immunologic materials, introduced into the immature systems of children, could fail to bring about disruptions and adverse reactions in these systems. -- Dr. Harold Buttram

Today, not enough has changed in the United States and nothing in the third world, which because of cost, still use the multi-vials that contain the highest levels of mercury.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO) "Most vaccines could be made thimerosal-free quite quickly, but they would not contain a preservative. It is not safe to use multi-dose vials of certain vaccines without some form of preservative. One solution would be to use single-dose vials, but this solution is very expensive and not always technically possible. If a new preservative were to be used, the product would have to be re-licensed, taking a long time. Equally if thimerosal was removed from a vaccine, it would have to be re-licensed as well."

The WHO took the position that it was not an option for developing countries, due to practical constraints and the high cost, to remove the mercury from third world vaccines. The WHO said, "The risk from side effects of thimerosal is theoretical, uncertain and, at most, extremely small."

The IMVA is the first medical organization to become concerned about mercury poisoning on a global level and is thus destined to directly confront the World Health Organization (WHO), which as recently as February 2003 was promoting the worldwide use of thimerosal in vaccines stating, "The safety of vaccines containing thimerosal as a preservative has been well established in over 60 years of use worldwide, with no scientific basis to suggest that ethyl mercury derived from thimerosal results in toxicity including damage of the CNS."

The WHO believes it is better to keep on poisoning the human race in mass for various reasons:

• Insufficient production capacity and infrastructure of pharmaceutical companies for transportation and storage
• Increases in costs
• Shortages that might occur from switching over to thimerosal-free vaccines

Thimerosal-rich vaccines allow needles to be inserted repeatedly, which means such vials are cheaper for companies than packaging doses of vaccine separately, without the dangerous preservative. In 2000, approximately 80 percent of vaccinations administered globally were supplied in multi-dose vials.

Thimerosal-Free or Not?

However, new concerns have arisen regarding the safety and cost-effectiveness of multi-dose vaccine vials. And, even in vaccines that are certified thimerosal-free, this mercury-based compound is still used in the manufacturing process and, as such, traces of it remain. Mercury is dangerous even at concentrations much lower than is found in vaccines, yet as we see again and again, health officials at all the major health organizations around the world repeat that the risk is very small and parents should not be concerned.

Removal of thimerosal, even if complete, will not solve the problem of autism. It will help tremendously, but will not stop the epidemic of autism. Though mercury, even in sub toxic doses has been shown to strongly activate microglia causing the secretion of two powerful excitotoxins, glutamate and quinolinic acid, in concentrations that are neurotoxic. Aluminum has a similar mode of action, though less potent. When combined with mercury, there is at least additive toxicity if not synergestic toxicity. -- Dr. Russell Blaylock

Dr Gregory Ellis agrees with Blaylock: "Autism is upon us because it's the outcome of the 50-year experiment of dousing every living being with an overload of toxic substances, including vaccines." Speaking of her autistic patients, Dr Stephanie Cave said, "You would be amazed at the devastation in their chemistries when you get down to the cellular level." She also said, "I think in later years we are going to look back at aluminum the way we are looking at mercury now."

It should be noted that since thimerosal is not the only hazardous substance added to vaccines we are not being assured of anything if merely one component is removed, which it has not, even after all the major medical organizations "recommended" its removal in 1999.

"Aluminum salts are used as vaccine adjuvants based on their ability to improve dendritic cell response to presented antigens. The aluminum concentration of vaccines varies from 0.125 to 0.85 mg/dose, which would produce concentrations of approximately 0.7 to 4.5 uM, if uniformly distributed in the body water of a seven kg infant," reported Dr. M. Waly at Northeastern University, who found, at these low concentrations, cellular problems are created independently and in combination with mercury.

Dr. Boyd Haley reported from his laboratory experiments "Aluminum is not nearly as toxic to neurons in culture as is thimerosal." At the University of Kentucky, he did experiments to determine if aluminum would increase the toxicity of very low levels of thimerosal. "The results were unequivocal: The presence of aluminum dramatically increased the rate of neuronal death caused by thimerosal. Therefore, the aluminum and thimerosal combination found in vaccines produces a toxic mixture that cannot be compared to situations where thimerosal alone was the toxic exposure."

The Big Confusion

Mercury and aluminum not only are directly toxic to brain cells but also over-stimulate the brain's immune system. -- Dr. Russell Blaylock

The fact is that today, most routinely recommended pediatric vaccines manufactured for the U.S. market still contain thimerosal, though according to the Institute of Medicine (IOM), "only trace" amounts remain. And, of course, this is exactly what they thought five years ago. In 1999, Dr Neal Halsey, who heads the Hopkins Institute for Vaccine Safety said, "My first reaction was simply disbelief, which was the reaction of almost everybody involved in vaccines.

"In most vaccine containers, thimerosal is listed as a mercury derivative, a hundredth of a percent. And what I believed, and what everybody else believed, was that it was truly a trace, a biologically insignificant amount. My honest belief is that if the labels had had the mercury content in micrograms, this would have been uncovered years ago. But the fact is, no one did the calculation."

So confusing is the subject of traces and what levels of thimerosal are still used in vaccines that the WHO had to create terminology for clarification. Removal of thimerosal means specifically thimerosal was used during the production process but removed at a certain stage of production resulting in residual traces remaining.

Reduction of thimerosal means that it is still used but reduced in comparison with the amount in the already licensed vaccines. Only thimerosal elimination means that it is not used at any stage of production and is thus considered thimerosal free.

Different researchers have done experiments with what are considered traces and have shown thimerosal "to cause adverse effects on methylation synthesis (MS) activity at concentrations well below the levels produced by thimerosal containing vaccines," said Dr. Waly and associates at Northeastern University.

They found, "The ethylmercury-containing preservative thimerosal inhibited both IGF-1 (insulin-like growth factor-1) and dopamine-stimulated methylation with an IC50 of 1nM and eliminated MS activity. It should be noted that reduced IGF-1 levels have been reported in autism, which may also contribute to impaired myelination."

CDC Shares Part of the Blame

Newborns, especially preterm infants, may have decreased ability to both oxidize and eliminate mercury. -- Stajich, et al

Dr. David Baskin at the department of Neurosurgery at Baylor College of Medicine demonstrated, "that thimerosal in micormolar concentrations rapidly induce membrane and DNA damage, and initiate caspase-3 dependent apoptosis in human neurons and fibroblasts." In their studies, cells were incubated with 125nM-250uM concentrations of thimerosal. They reported thimerosal is toxic if applied in micromolar concentrations from 1uM to 250uM.

Dr. J. Curtis Pendergrass and Dr. Boyd Haley confirm this stating, "Pure thimerosal was toxic at the low nanomolar level -- an extremely low concentration, about 10,000 times less than the thimerosal concentration found in most vaccines. These results leave little doubt about thimerosal being the toxic agent in the vaccines."

This document makes it clear that a massive cover up is taking place.

Despite a growing body of science linking autism to mercury and thimerosal, the protests of hundreds of thousands of concerned parents across the country, the pharmaceutical industry continues to put mercury into vaccines for both children and adults even though they know mercury is toxic to the human brain. Our Food and Drug Administration and our health agencies are asleep at the switch, and they're letting children and adults be damaged day after day by allowing mercury to continue to be put into vaccines for adults and children. -- U.S. Rep. Dan Burton (R-Ind.)

It's not only that the U.S. government is vigorously contesting thimerosal claims under the Vaccine Injury Compensation Act (VICA). This, in part, can be seen as one major reason for the cover up and denial of the mercury issue. The other, of course, is the fear that any open admission on the part of the federal authorities, will threaten the exceptionally high vaccination rates. Since the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) defines its very existence on vaccination rates, it is not too difficult to see the double bind they are in.

The CDC is culpable of conflicts of interest, which have compromised the safety of the vaccine supply, putting our nation's children at risk. Placing pharmaceutical profits and their own obsession with high vaccination rates above our children's health, the CDC has failed to evaluate objectively the cumulative mercury exposure incurred through the standard infant immunization schedule.

It is tragically ironic with people concerned about biological and chemical warfare that our own vaccine supply has been laced with lethal neurotoxins that are proven to be very harmful to health. Hiding behind dubious definitions of what constitutes proof, the pharmaceutical industry and their supporting organizations in the medical establishment have put up high walls of denial that prevent them at looking at the truth and making meaningful changes that would take children out of harms way immediately.

Thus it is the law which will hopefully, in the end, vindicate the sufferings of thousands of families who have either lost their loved ones due to "lethal injections" and hundreds of thousands to millions of families around the world who have seen their healthy children fall into the pain of autism spectrum disorders.

Mercury toxicity is not rocket science. Our medical establishment simply does not want to admit that a major mistake has been made. -- Boyd Haley Ph.D.

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Mark A. Sircus Ac., OMD, is director of the International Medical Veritas Association and, as senior editor, launched the first issue of the Medical Veritas Journal of Medicine. Dr. Sircus was trained in acupuncture and oriental medicine at the Institute of Traditional Medicine in Sante Fe, N.M., and in the School of Traditional Medicine of New England in Boston.

He served at the Central Public Hospital of Pochutla, in México, and was awarded the title of doctor of oriental medicine for his work. One of the first nationally certified acupuncturists in the United States, he was persecuted by the medical board of New Hampshire in the early 1980s for practicing medicine (acupuncture) without a license. This led him to diversify his healing work into other areas especially counseling and psychology.

Today, Dr. Sircus is spearheading a dramatically different medical organization dedicated to unifying the various disciplines in medicine with the goal of creating a new dawn in healthcare. Dr. Sircus is particularly concerned about the effect vaccinations have on vulnerable infants and is identifying the common thread of many toxic agents that are dramatically threatening present and future generations of children.

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