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September 19th 03, 08:08 AM
Vaccine Mercury 'Likely' Damaged
Thousands Of Children
Mercury In Vaccines 'Likely Caused Neurological
Damage To 1000s Of Children'
'Baby Hair' Study Shows Autistic Children
Have Altered Response To Mercury
9-17-3
CAMBRIDGE (U.S. Newswire) -- A study published this month in the
International Journal of Toxicology, the official journal of the American
College of Toxicology, provides the strongest clinical evidence to date
supporting the theory that mercury exposure is tied to autism.
The study, co-authored by Mark Blaxill, a director of Safe Minds, suggests
a biological mechanism for the hypothesis first advanced by Safe Minds that
autism is a form of mercury poisoning and that exposure to the
mercury-based preservative thimerosal in vaccines has likely caused
neurological damage to thousands of children. Blaxill, along with
co-investigators Amy Holmes, MD and Boyd Haley, PhD, assessed mercury
exposure levels among 94 autistic children and 45 normally developing
controls. They found higher pre- and postnatal exposures in the autistic
group. Then they took a novel approach to measuring mercury distribution in
the study subjects during infancy: they collected the first lock of baby
hair that had been taken years earlier from each child to determine its
mercury content. In a result that appears surprising at first, they found
that the autistic hair mercury levels were only a fraction of the controls'.
"Our findings might seem counter-intuitive," says Blaxill, "but if you take
into account the higher exposures of the autistic children, you quickly see
that these reduced hair levels suggest that less mercury was being excreted
by these babies. This is because mercury must be in the blood in order to
be taken up by the hair follicle, and mercury must be in the blood in order
to be eliminated from the body. If it's not in the hair, then it is not in
the blood. And if it's not in the blood to be eliminated, more mercury is
retained and available to cause neurological damage in infants who
subsequently develop autism."
One finding of the study that will be sure to draw attention is the
relatively high levels of mercury in the hair of normal infants. These
levels appear to be a direct result of the number of mercury-containing
amalgam fillings in the mother, as well as the mother's fish consumption,
during pregnancy. Many popular fish species contain high levels of mercury.
These results appear consistent with the notion that mercury levels in
women of child-bearing age are already dangerously high.
Thimerosal-containing infant vaccines can then push vulnerable children
over the edge.
"This study provides the clearest proof we have seen so far," said Sallie
Bernard, executive director of Safe Minds, "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 that 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."
Safe Minds renews its call for action based on this latest report. The
group calls for the following measures.
- The NIH must implement and fund the Institute of Medicine's research
recommendations on thimerosal, mercury and neuro-developmental disorders,
including autism.
- The CDC must be removed from any supervisory role in vaccine safety
research. Such research should be undertaken by independent researchers
without ties to the CDC or to vaccine manufacturers.
- The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) should issue an immediate recall
of all thimerosal-containing vaccines. The FDA and the World Health
Organization should require the immediate production of thimerosal-free
formulations and the investments in sterile production required to make
these vaccines safe.
[as if simply removing thimerosal will make ANY vaccine safe. ~ingri]
- The Bush administration should hold a summit on the autism epidemic and
encourage large-scale investigation into the environmental causes of
autism, a public health crisis that dwarfs the threats from infectious
diseases like SARS and the West Nile virus.
- The CDC should make available its internal data from vaccine safety
records to independent researchers in order to investigate the likely role
of thimerosal in causing neurodevelopmental disorders in children exposed
to thimerosal-containing vaccines.
-- Safe Minds (Sensible Action For Ending Mercury Induced Neurological
Disorders) is a non-profit parents organization founded to investigate the
continuing risks to infants and children of exposure to mercury from
medical products, including thimerosal in vaccines. Its Web site is
http://www.safeminds.org.
http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=119-08252003
© 2003 U.S. Newswire
**************************************
Ingri Cassel, President
Vaccination Liberation - Idaho Chapter
P.O. Box 457
Spirit Lake, ID 83869
(208)255-2307/ 888-249-1421
www.vaclib.org
"Free Your Mind....
From The Vaccine Paradigm"
"When we give government the power
to make medical decisions for us, we,
in essence, accept that the state owns
our bodies."
~U.S. Representative Ron Paul
Thousands Of Children
Mercury In Vaccines 'Likely Caused Neurological
Damage To 1000s Of Children'
'Baby Hair' Study Shows Autistic Children
Have Altered Response To Mercury
9-17-3
CAMBRIDGE (U.S. Newswire) -- A study published this month in the
International Journal of Toxicology, the official journal of the American
College of Toxicology, provides the strongest clinical evidence to date
supporting the theory that mercury exposure is tied to autism.
The study, co-authored by Mark Blaxill, a director of Safe Minds, suggests
a biological mechanism for the hypothesis first advanced by Safe Minds that
autism is a form of mercury poisoning and that exposure to the
mercury-based preservative thimerosal in vaccines has likely caused
neurological damage to thousands of children. Blaxill, along with
co-investigators Amy Holmes, MD and Boyd Haley, PhD, assessed mercury
exposure levels among 94 autistic children and 45 normally developing
controls. They found higher pre- and postnatal exposures in the autistic
group. Then they took a novel approach to measuring mercury distribution in
the study subjects during infancy: they collected the first lock of baby
hair that had been taken years earlier from each child to determine its
mercury content. In a result that appears surprising at first, they found
that the autistic hair mercury levels were only a fraction of the controls'.
"Our findings might seem counter-intuitive," says Blaxill, "but if you take
into account the higher exposures of the autistic children, you quickly see
that these reduced hair levels suggest that less mercury was being excreted
by these babies. This is because mercury must be in the blood in order to
be taken up by the hair follicle, and mercury must be in the blood in order
to be eliminated from the body. If it's not in the hair, then it is not in
the blood. And if it's not in the blood to be eliminated, more mercury is
retained and available to cause neurological damage in infants who
subsequently develop autism."
One finding of the study that will be sure to draw attention is the
relatively high levels of mercury in the hair of normal infants. These
levels appear to be a direct result of the number of mercury-containing
amalgam fillings in the mother, as well as the mother's fish consumption,
during pregnancy. Many popular fish species contain high levels of mercury.
These results appear consistent with the notion that mercury levels in
women of child-bearing age are already dangerously high.
Thimerosal-containing infant vaccines can then push vulnerable children
over the edge.
"This study provides the clearest proof we have seen so far," said Sallie
Bernard, executive director of Safe Minds, "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 that 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."
Safe Minds renews its call for action based on this latest report. The
group calls for the following measures.
- The NIH must implement and fund the Institute of Medicine's research
recommendations on thimerosal, mercury and neuro-developmental disorders,
including autism.
- The CDC must be removed from any supervisory role in vaccine safety
research. Such research should be undertaken by independent researchers
without ties to the CDC or to vaccine manufacturers.
- The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) should issue an immediate recall
of all thimerosal-containing vaccines. The FDA and the World Health
Organization should require the immediate production of thimerosal-free
formulations and the investments in sterile production required to make
these vaccines safe.
[as if simply removing thimerosal will make ANY vaccine safe. ~ingri]
- The Bush administration should hold a summit on the autism epidemic and
encourage large-scale investigation into the environmental causes of
autism, a public health crisis that dwarfs the threats from infectious
diseases like SARS and the West Nile virus.
- The CDC should make available its internal data from vaccine safety
records to independent researchers in order to investigate the likely role
of thimerosal in causing neurodevelopmental disorders in children exposed
to thimerosal-containing vaccines.
-- Safe Minds (Sensible Action For Ending Mercury Induced Neurological
Disorders) is a non-profit parents organization founded to investigate the
continuing risks to infants and children of exposure to mercury from
medical products, including thimerosal in vaccines. Its Web site is
http://www.safeminds.org.
http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=119-08252003
© 2003 U.S. Newswire
**************************************
Ingri Cassel, President
Vaccination Liberation - Idaho Chapter
P.O. Box 457
Spirit Lake, ID 83869
(208)255-2307/ 888-249-1421
www.vaclib.org
"Free Your Mind....
From The Vaccine Paradigm"
"When we give government the power
to make medical decisions for us, we,
in essence, accept that the state owns
our bodies."
~U.S. Representative Ron Paul