Thimerosal/mercury compound poisoning!

Mercury is one of the most toxic substances on earth. Although vaccines are not the only source of exposure to mercury in humans, but they definitely are the largest sources of mercury for children. At present ethyl mercury is injected into Infants, Children, Pregnant women through vaccines and other products which contain Thimerosal used as a preservative. Thimerosal is a mercury compound containing nearly 50% ethyl mercury. The effects of Thimersal which has been used in vaccines since 1930's had not been focused upon until recently. Mercury in traces (1microgram per dose) was considered harmless, but most of the vaccines contain anywhere from 25 to 100 microgram per ml!!! Thimerosal is now being discussed as a possible cause of a variety of increasing neurodevelopmental (autism, nervous tics, speech delays, ADHD etc) and auto-immune disorders. Recent studies (published in march 2006, University California Davis) in monkeys and mice have shown fundamental damages in nervous system and immune system even when Thimerosal was present at a concentration as low as 20 parts per billion, dendritic cells lose their ability to respond normally! Dendritic cells are responsible for activating Tcells, if dendritic cells give wrong message or no message to the T-cells, a childs immune system could be abnormal, and dysfunctional immune systems can not only hamper physical and mental growth, but also give rise to as close as 150 other incurable disorders!

Conception to the first six months are very crucial for the brain development and it is in these months that the newborns are exposed to unsafe deadly levels of mercury through vaccines. Ideally no Child should recieve Thimerosal laden vaccines, but maximum caution should be used from conception to six months. Scientists believe that with our current knowledge we cannot establish any safe dose of thimerosal for infants. It is too damn toxic!

It is shocking that most parents are unknowingly a party to this poisoning when they get their kids get vaccinated. As patients we are never told of the pros and cons of medication and neither do we pause to question, at the outset...Sometimes I wonder if the doctors are aware of these themselves (if not aware, they should STOP PLAYING GOD NOW! and update themselves before more harm is done). Even more shocking is the effort of developed nations to conceal research and findings pointing towards this and making the developing countries the scapegoats. Devloping countries have so many more basic agendas to deal with, that such issues take the boot, lie dormant/dead somewhere...but this is surely no excuse to infuse our progeny with poison and ruining their lives altogether! Vaccine manufacturers in the USA phased out Thimerosal out of injections given to american infants, but continued to sell the thimerosal based supplies in developing countries till very recently. The CDC(centre for disease control) and FDA(food and drug administration) actually helped, bought the tainted vaccines and exported them to developing countries..!!! appalling!!!

Many countries have stopped the use of Thimerosal in vaccines (Russia in 1980's, followed by Scandinavia, Japan, UK and the USA). Infact in California, as of July 2006 it will be a crime for a doctor to give mercury vaccines to a child below 3 and also to a pregnant woman.....and to think that most of our kids (Hepatitis B, DPT, Hib, MMR, Flu, Meningococal, Pneumococcal etc all contain thimerosal in deadly doses) and mothers to be (tetanus toxoid injections) are still using vaccines that contain much higher levels (3 to 6 times) than the banned ones is atrocious. The infuriating irony is that today, when other countries have banned or are planning to do so, early in 2006 the Indian Government and WHO are collaborating in a process that may result in increased use of Hepatitis B vaccines for infants. We are carelessly playing with and risking the future of our children, our nation...its high time we wake up and identify this as an important issue as only when we recognise the problem, we can address related issues (like, remedial measures/ treatments, help and banning etc),or risk increase in manmade developmental disorders in our children for no fault of theirs!!!

The Good news is that in the USA there has been a steady decline in new cases of autism for three consecutive years since banning almost all thimerosal vaccines between 2000 and 2002. WILL WE WAKE UP AND PREVENT THE WORSE? We need to make our citizens aware, to question more, to be aware of rights to access of knowledge and excercising their right to choose....we need to take charge....after all its about, our kids and their lives, and definitely not about the marketing skills and gimmics and economics of some armtwisting manufacturers lobby or some developed nation. People first...always...

Some websites on this subject
www.safeminds.org
www.generationrescue.com
some webpages
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0616-31.htm
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0616-31.htm
http://www.chem.cmu.edu/wakefield/
http://news.monstersandcritics.com/lifestyle/consumerhealth/....
http://news.monstersandcritics.com/lifestyle/consumerhealth/....
Book
'Evidence of harm' by David Kirby

If anybody has any clue on reversing the thimerosal poisoning in kids, that leads to multitude of disorders ........please use this forum to let others know!