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Thimerosal (Mercury) Exposure during Pregnancy Linked to Autistic Disorders
Thimerosal (Mercury) Exposure during Pregnancy Linked to Autistic Disorders
Press Release Contact: For Immediate Release CoMeD Director [Rev. Sykes (Richmond, VA) 804-364-8426] May 18, 2007 CoMeD Sci. Advisor [Dr. King (Lake Hiawatha, NJ) 973-997-1321] WASHINGTON, DC - In the May 2007 issue of the Journal of Maternal-Fetal and Neonatal Medicine (http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/con...b=all~order=pa ge), the official journal of the European Association of Perinatal Medicine, the Federation of Asia and Oceania and Perinatal Societies, and the International Society of Perinatal Obstetricians, a new study, "A Prospective Study of Thimerosal-Containing Rho(D)-Immune Globulin Administration as a Risk Factor for Autistic Disorders," was published by Dr. Mark R. Geier (President, the Genetic Centers of America) and David A. Geier (Vice-President, the Institute of Chronic Illnesses). This new study shows that administration of Thimerosal-preserved Rho(D)-immune g lobulin preparations during pregnancy significantly increases the risk for offspring developing autistic disorders. This finding is consistent with previously published research by Dr. Amy Holmes, Mark Blaxill, and Dr. Boyd Haley in the International Journal of Toxicology (2003), and refutes the recent study funded by Johnson & Johnson (a maker of Rho(D)-immune globulins) that failed to find an association between Thimerosal-preserved Rho(D)-immune globulins and autistic disorders. Since the late 1980s, Rho(D)-immune globulin preparations have been routinely administered to Rh-negative women in the US during pregnancy at 28 weeks gestation, a prenatal period corresponding to damage occurring in the fetal brain, that has been associated with autistic disorders. Unfortunately, until 2001, some formulations of Rho(D)-immune globulins manufactured for the US market contained Thimerosal, a mercury-containing compound (49.6% mercury by weight). As a result, administration of Thimerosal-preserved Rho(D)-immune globulins exposed Rh-negative pregnant women to bolus doses of mercury ranging from 10.5 t o greater than 30 micrograms mercury per administration at critical prenatal developmental periods. In some cases, Rh-negative women received several Rho(D)-immune globulins during their pregnancy. In addition, if the fetus was Rh-positive, the mother was administered another Rho(D)-immune globulin after birth. When that infant was breastfed, then, that infant would receive another significant mercury exposure. In this new study, the researchers examined a total of 53 non-Jewish Caucasian patients with a diagnosis of an autistic spectrum disorder (ASD), born from 1987 through 2001, who prospectively presented to the Genetic Centers of America for outpatient genetic/developmental evaluations from June 1, 2005 through March 31, 2006. Imaging and laboratory testing were conducted to rule-out other causal factors for their ASDs. As race-matched controls, the frequency of Rh-negativity was determined from 926 non-Jewish Caucasian pregnant women who presented for outpatient prenatal genetics care to the Genetic Centers of America between 1980 and 1989. Children with a diagnosis of an ASD were more than twice as likely to have an Rh-negative mo ther than the controls. Each ASD patient with an Rh-negative mother was administered a Thimerosal-preserved Rho(D)-immune globulin during her pregnancy. These researchers concluded that their results provide insights into the causal role prenatal mercury exposure may play in some children diagnosed with autistic disorders. Note: For those who wishing to confirm, whether or not, their child is mercury poisoned, they may want to have a urine porphyrin profile analysis (UPAA) test done. For more information, visit the Coalition for Mercury-free Drugs (CoMeD)'s web site: http://www.Mercury-freeDrugs.org http://www.nccn.net/~wwithin/A Prospective Study of Rho Immune Globulin as a Risk Factor for Autism1.pdf |
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Thimerosal (Mercury) Exposure during Pregnancy Linked to AutisticDisorders
This is garbage.
Basically, it is an ad to have a useless lab test (UPAA). If you ever get a half a brain, you should be able to figure it out. |
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Thimerosal (Mercury) Exposure during Pregnancy Linked to Autistic Disorders
"Robert Watson" wrote in message news:_Dl3i.31$ky6.11@trnddc02... This is garbage. Basically, it is an ad to have a useless lab test (UPAA). If you ever get a half a brain, you should be able to figure it out. oh yeah, of course, how naive of me you only need 2 brain cells to see vaccine mercury is the main cause of autism maybe you have too many talking of useless tests, this is how you quacks make out mercury doesn't cause autism http://www.whale.to/vaccine/wagnitz.html |
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Thimerosal (Mercury) Exposure during Pregnancy Linked to Autistic Disorders
http://www.whale.to/vaccine/wagnitz.html
Okay. I read it. Excerpt: "... research has shown that autistic kids do not excrete mercury efficiently. The hair would not contain any measurable amounts of mercury" I've seen that study. And it puzzles me how SafeMinds has enthusiastically seized upon it in light of their own past assertions. After all, it was HIGH levels of mercury in the hair of an autistic child that launched what became SafeMinds in the first place. Check this out: http://www.thinktwice.com/Merc_Med.pdf That's SafeMinds president Lyn Redwood testifying before Congress in 2000 about how HIGH levels of mercury in her son's hair proved that mercury causes autism. "Heavy metal analysis detected 4.8 parts per million mercury in his hair, the allowable levels being less than 1 part per million... Since my son has never eaten fish nor seafood nor had dental amalgams, I had no other identifiable source for his mercury levels outside of the thimerosal exposure from his vaccines and my RhoGAM injections." That is, far from being inefficient hair excretors, it appears from her own testimony that her autistic son's hair follicles were champion mercury excretors. Cut to 2004. Here she is again testifying before Congress in 2004, this time claiming that LOW levels of mercury in the hair of autistics is proof that mercury causes autism. http://www.safeminds.org/pressroom/p...yfullfinal.pdf Okay. So which is it? Can our autistic kids excrete mercury, or can't they? And what does it prove if they can or can't? I asked David Kirby this question at local forum where he was flogging his book (Evidence of Harm). He couldn't explain it. All he could do was lamely restate the obvious and scientifically meaningless observation that "some autistic kids have high levels, and some have low". Uh huh. And he might just as well have added "... and some have normal levels". Like my autistic son. Prediction: a study will find that distribution of hair mercury levels in autistic kids matches the distribution in other kids, and SafeMinds will come up with a theory about how THAT proves mercury causes autism. Not only is SafeMinds selective about which facts it accepts, it actively discards inconvenient facts that it previously accepted -- even facts that the organization was built on in the first place -- not because those facts themselves are incorrect, but simply because those facts contradict their latest theory. That's bad science. But it evidently takes more the 2 brain cells to recognize that. |
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Thimerosal (Mercury) Exposure during Pregnancy Linked to Autistic Disorders
"JOHN" wrote:
"Robert Watson" wrote in message news:_Dl3i.31$ky6.11@trnddc02... This is garbage. Basically, it is an ad to have a useless lab test (UPAA). If you ever get a half a brain, you should be able to figure it out. oh yeah, of course, how naive of me you only need 2 brain cells to see vaccine mercury is the main cause of autism Not according to Dr Wakefield. Have you told him he is wrong? maybe you have too many talking of useless tests, this is how you quacks make out mercury doesn't cause autism http://www.whale.to/vaccine/wagnitz.html -- Peter Bowditch aa #2243 The Millenium Project http://www.ratbags.com/rsoles Australian Council Against Health Fraud http://www.acahf.org.au Australian Skeptics http://www.skeptics.com.au To email me use my first name only at ratbags.com |
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Thimerosal (Mercury) Exposure during Pregnancy Linked to Autistic Disorders
wrote in message ups.com... http://www.whale.to/vaccine/wagnitz.html That's SafeMinds president Lyn Redwood testifying before Congress in 2000 about how HIGH levels of mercury in her son's hair proved that mercury causes autism. Cut to 2004. Here she is again testifying before Congress in 2004, this time claiming that LOW levels of mercury in the hair of autistics is proof that mercury causes autism. http://www.safeminds.org/pressroom/p...yfullfinal.pdf Assuming you are right. So what? Does that mean mercury is safe and doesn't cause autism? |
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Thimerosal (Mercury) Exposure during Pregnancy Linked to Autistic Disorders
On May 21, 1:15 pm, wrote:
http://www.whale.to/vaccine/wagnitz.html Okay. I read it. Excerpt: "... research has shown that autistic kids do not excrete mercury efficiently. The hair would not contain any measurable amounts of mercury" I've seen that study. And it puzzles me how SafeMinds has enthusiastically seized upon it in light of their own past assertions. After all, it was HIGH levels of mercury in the hair of an autistic child that launched what became SafeMinds in the first place. Check this out:http://www.thinktwice.com/Merc_Med.pdf That's SafeMinds president Lyn Redwood testifying before Congress in 2000 about how HIGH levels of mercury in her son's hair proved that mercury causes autism. "Heavy metal analysis detected 4.8 parts per million mercury in his hair, the allowable levels being less than 1 part per million... Since my son has never eaten fish nor seafood nor had dental amalgams, I had no other identifiable source for his mercury levels outside of the thimerosal exposure from his vaccines and my RhoGAM injections." That is, far from being inefficient hair excretors, it appears from her own testimony that her autistic son's hair follicles were champion mercury excretors. I am a Rhogam mom, My son does not have autism. I also had my sons baby hair tested for mercury, it was 13.78 mcg. This was for a 6 month old infant. Does this mean my son excretes mercury? I dont think so. This just shows the high levels that were in his blood at the time. In Japan at the Institute of Minamata Disease, They check for mercury via hair samples. It is the most accurate way to show mercury for the past few months. What I have come to conclude from my studies...Some kids can not excrete mercury at all(They would be children VERY disabled, Cerebral Palsy, Microcephaly, ect) Some excrete a little mercury, They too would be very disabled. Some are slow excreters, some are fast excreters. In Japan when there was the huge mercury poisoning outbreak, NOT all the children were born disabled, yet they ate the same fish from the same waters. So this means there had to be a genetic link where the kids could not excrete the mercury. This is significant, because some say its the "dose" that makes the poison. The Japan study proves that its not the dose that made the poison or ALL the children would have been born disabled. Its like smoking ciggarettes, some develop cancer. Some can smoke 60 years and never develop cancer, yet someone else could develop cancer just from second hand smoke. I think where the Autism group is wrong, is that they believe thier children can not excrete mercury. I believe for the most part they are good excreters, But were dosed enough with mercury to cause Autism. If they were not excreters, They would be excreting a lot of mercury when they chelate, and I havent seen that happening, Although they do get thier kids to rid thier bodies of some mercury. Nothing compared with what they were injected with. Mercury in the Rhogam has been proven to cause severe mental retardation in unborn children. Bayer made Rhogam, Bayer in 2003 Petitioned OEHHA to take thimerosal/mercury off the list of reproductive toxins, Here is OEHHA reply to Bayer. OEHHA (Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assesment) reports; "The scientific evidence that PMA and Thimerosal cause reproductive toxcitity is CLEAR and VOLUMINOUS. The evidence for its reproductive toxcitity includes severe mental retardation or malformations in human offspring who were poisoned when thier mothers were exposed to ethylmercury or thimerosal while pregnant." http://www.oehha.ca.gov/prop65/CRNR_...p/hgbayer1.pdf |
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