@Illek said:
Alien, I hate to break it to you but there is more mercury within a can of TUNA than in a vaccination. In respect to the Autism debate, there has been no proof offered to show even a tenuous link. Also mercury poisoning, whether high dose single episode or long term mild exposure has no effects that resemble Autism.
<big>Does H1N1 vaccine contain the same mercury as a little can of tuna?</big>
Some have said that the mercury often found in a tuna sandwich has more mercury than the flu vaccine. But in fact, there is a difference between the mercury in fish (methylmercury) and the mercury in the form of thimerosal (ethylmercury) in vaccines.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) conducts mercury toxicity studies which involves contamination from fish, air, and other environmental sources. This study is about inorganic, or elemental mercury, like that found in a tuna sandwich. In the body, inorganic mercury can become organic, usually as methylmercury (as from tuna).
Dr. Tim O'Shea explains: Methylmercury has long been associated with serious neurological disorders, demyelinating diseases, gut disease, and visual damage. ((1) Merck)
The mercury in vaccines, however, is in the form of thimerosal. Once in the body, thimerosal is converted to a much more powerful organic form: ethylmercury. ((2) Bernard)
Studies show that thimerosal (ethylmercury) is far more toxic than methylmercury
Injected thimerosal (ethylmercury) is a much more toxic form of mercury than what one may acquire from eating open-sea fish (methylmercury). This has to do with the difficulty of clearing thimerosal from the blood. Ethylmercury has a major preference for nerve cells. Without a complete blood-brain barrier, an infant's brain and spinal cord are sitting ducks. Once in the nerve cells, mercury is actually changed back to the inorganic form, where it becomes tightly bound, and unable to cross back out through the blood brain barrier. ((3) Pederson, 1999). Mercury can then remain for years, like a time-release capsule, causing permanent degeneration and death of brain cells in an unpredictable fashion.
And this is how mercury can be the original and unidentifiable cause of virtually any permanent neurological disease that mysteriously pops up later in life. Also, the body normally clears mercury by fixing it to bile. But before six months of age, infants don't produce bile. Result: mercury can't be excreted. ((4) Koos and Longo, 1976)
Four separate government agencies have set safe levels for methylmercury, but no safe levels have ever been set for thimerosal, because thimerosal isn't included in toxicity studies! (5) Egan, 1999).
Drug makers agreed to phase thimerosal out of most vaccines after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration found in1999 that mercury levels in children who had gotten multiple shots often exceeded safety levels set by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Nonetheless, thimerosal remains in seasonal flu and swine flu vaccine as well as other vaccines (even when the insert says free of thimerosal, many contain trace amounts). By age two, American children have received 237 micrograms of mercury through vaccines alone, which far exceeds current EPA "safe" levels of .1 mcg/kg. per day. That's one-tenth of a microgram, not one microgram.
Just look at three days of infant vaccinations:
At birth, hepatitis B, contains 12 mcg mercury…that's 3 X the safe level. At four months, DtaP and HiB on the same day, contains 50 mcg mercury, that's 60 X the safe level. At six months, Hep B and Polio, contains 62.5 mcg mercury, that's 78 X the safe level.
Dr. Boyd Haley, one of the world's authorities on mercury toxicity, chemistry department, University of Kentucky, warns, "You couldn't even construct a study that shows thimerosal is safe, it's just too darn toxic. If you inject thimerosal into an animal, it will sicken. If you apply it to living tissue, the cells die. If you put it in a petri dish, the culture dies. Knowing these things, it would be shocking if one could inject it into an infant without causing damage." (Deadly Immunity; RollingStone.com)
CDC epidemiologist, Tom Verstraeten, in June 2000, had analyzed the agency's massive database containing the medical records of 100,000 children. He announced that it appeared, thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative in the vaccines, was responsible for a dramatic increase in autism and a host of other neurological disorders among children. "I was actually stunned by what I saw," Verstraeten said, as he cited the staggering number of earlier studies indicating a link between thimerosal and speech delays, attention-deficit disorder, hyperactivity and autism.
Since 1991, when the CDC and the FDA had recommended that three additional vaccines laced with the preservative, thimerosal, be given to extremely young infants - in one case, within hours of birth - the estimated number of cases of autism had increased fifteenfold, from one in every 2,500 children to one in 166 children. (Deadly Immunity; Robert Kennedy,RollingStone.com)
The amount of mercury in a tuna sandwich doesn't compare to the toxicity of mercury in the form of thimerosal in vaccines. They are not the same.
Stay informed, eat well, live well.
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