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Mercury Contamination is Destroying Public Health and Spawning an Autism Epidemic
Posted by:
Dr. Mercola
August 14 2007 |
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Mercury toxicity and autism are like “mirror images of each other,” according to Dr. Kurt Woeller, an osteopathic physician in Temecula, California who focuses his practice on children on the autistic spectrum.
Woeller believes that a series of childhood vaccines containing the mercury-based preservative thimerosal is to blame for the rising numbers of autism in the United States.
“My suspicion is that the mother had a toxic mercury load that has filtered to the child, and the mercury-containing vaccine was the straw that broke the camel‘s back," he says.
Thimerosal has been banned in many countries, including Denmark, Great Britain, and Austria, for two decades, but the United States only recently reduced or eliminated thimerosal in vaccines for children 6 and younger. Flu vaccines in the United States still contain thimerosal.
Further, rates of autism increased when the Center for Disease Control added additions to the recommended vaccination program for infants in 1988. In the 1980s, autism rates were estimated at six in 10,000 children. Today, autism rates are one in 150 children, though some say autism affects closer to one in 50 children in some areas.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has acknowledged that thimerosal can be a neurotoxin, and in 2004 stated that thimerosal-containing vaccines were associated with autism. Nearly 5,000 families have filed lawsuits claiming that childhood vaccinations caused their children‘s autism.
As of 2003, there were 1.5 million autistic U.S. children, and costs for their care is an estimated $90 billion per year.
Ecology Center
Dr. Mercola's Comments:
Autism rates have exploded in recent years, with U.S. states each reporting
increases of at least 500 percent
in the last decade. It is becoming increasingly difficult to deny the very real connection between exposure to mercury, a known neurotoxin, and this once-rare disease.
It seems that avoiding potent neurotoxins like mercury, especially in vaccines, can be highly protective against neurological diseases like autism. This is likely one of the primary reasons why
the Amish have such low rates of autism
, since the avoid vaccines.
In fact, when mice were exposed to the mercury preservative, thimerosal in a study, they showed many
behavioral and neuropathological features of autism disorders
, including:
Larger brain sizes
Limited ranges of behaviors in addition to a decreased exploration of environments
Abnormal responses to unique environments
Deviations in brain architecture affecting areas that control emotions and thought
Childhood vaccines clearly seem to be one major culprit influencing the autism epidemic. In fact, 50 years ago when the vaccine schedule for infants contained just four vaccines, autism was a rarity.
Today, the Center’s for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Childhood Vaccination Schedule includes 11 vaccines, some of which are actually triple whammies (such as Measles, Mumps, and Rubella). Infants receive multiple doses of these powerful agents all before they turn 1 year old, and it’s just too much for some children to take.
On top of that, at least one of the vaccines recommended to children,
the flu shot
, still contains thimerosal!
Mercury is in the Environment, Too
Aside from childhood vaccinations, children are also exposed to
mercury from air pollution
(coal-burning plants release mercury into the environment at alarming rates) and contaminated groundwater.
Children can also be exposed to mercury while in the womb. If a pregnant woman has high levels of mercury in her system, from eating a lot of fish, for instance, the baby could be at risk. Studies have shown that the
level of mercury in the umbilical cord blood of newborns
is 1.7 times higher than the mercury level in their mother's blood.
Even just eating fish two or more times a week has been found to raise mercury levels seven times beyond those in women who had not eaten any fish for a month, according to the CDC.
What can you do?
If you are a new parent, or a parent-to-be, you are starting off on the right foot: you’re getting informed. The more you know about the
potential risks of vaccinations
, and of mercury contamination in the environment and other sources, the better able you will be to make wise decisions for the health of your child.
Looking for a few pointers right now? I’d recommend the following to any and all parents:
Do your homework about vaccinations,
BEFORE vaccinating your child.
Make an informed choice so you know ALL the pros and cons before you capitulate to the pressure and expose your child to a potentially dangerous intervention. Many vaccines now have mercury removed but there are a fair number out there that are still loaded with this dangerous metallic poison.
Women, if you are pregnant or planning to be,
avoid eating fish
unless you can verify, via lab testing, that it does not contain mercury. You can get all the benefits of fish, without the risks, by taking a high-quality, purified krill oil.
Calculate your child’s risk of mercury poisoning from vaccines
using the calculator in this link.
Related Links:
Autism Rates Fall With the Removal of Mercury
CDC, FDA Cover-Up of Mercury in Vaccines Causing Autism
Why Some Amish Children Have Autism
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