Thimerosal thoughts

Thorsen on the run from Police

2010-03-05T02:27:00.000-08:00

You will know that the Danish researcher Thorsen undertook a creative approach to epidemiology when he changed the criteria mid stream. His research claiming no link between Thimerosal and Autism has been widely used across the world as proof positive and poorly informed journalists just accept it.

Well there has been an interesting development... Dr Thorsen has gone missing from his University in Denmark - along with ten million kroner!!! The Police are after him!

Has he gone mad ? Could he not live with the knowledge of what he has done by his fraudulent research? Or has he joined his similarly integrity challenged pals over in the US at the CDC?

http://adventuresinautism.blogspot.com/2010/03/ten-million-kroner-and-head-of-denmark.html

Independent blog - Vaccines/Meadow and Miller

2008-06-22T06:18:00.000-07:00

http://blogs.independent.co.uk/openhouse/2008/06/have-your-say-5.html#comments

ADMISSION - CDC Thimerosal 2003 study was flawed

2008-06-22T04:24:00.000-07:00

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-kirby/cdc-vaccine-study-used-fl_b_108462.html

Breakthrough!!! Scientific link between Vaccine and Autism found

2008-05-19T15:36:00.000-07:00

http://www.pharmalot.com/2008/05/a-link-between-thimerosal-vaccines-and-autism/

AGE OF AUTISM: SICK MONKEYS: RESEARCH LINKS VACCINE LOAD, AUTISM SIGNS

2008-05-16T10:37:00.000-07:00

AGE OF AUTISM: SICK MONKEYS: RESEARCH LINKS VACCINE LOAD, AUTISM SIGNS

Healy breaks ranks - CBS News

2008-05-13T05:00:00.000-07:00

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/05/12/cbsnews_investigates/main4086809.shtml

Thimerosal (contained in vaccines) kills cells through the mitochondrial pathway - world wide concern

2008-04-25T08:25:00.000-07:00

Thimerosal induces neuronal cell apoptosis by causing cytochrome c and apoptosis-inducing factor release from mitochondria

Yel L et al.
Int J Mol Med. 2005 Dec;16(6):971-7.

There is a worldwide increasing concern over the neurological risks of thimerosal (ethylmercury thiosalicylate) which is an organic mercury compound that is commonly used as an antimicrobial preservative. In this study, we show that thimerosal, at nanomolar concentrations, induces neuronal cell death through the mitochondrial pathway. Thimerosal, in a concentration- and time-dependent manner, decreased cell viability as assessed by calcein-ethidium staining and caused apoptosis detected by Hoechst 33258 dye. Thimerosal-induced apoptosis was associated with depolarization of mitochondrial membrane, generation of reactive oxygen species, and release of cytochrome c and apoptosis-inducing factor (AIF) from mitochondria to cytosol. Although thimerosal did not affect cellular expression of Bax at the protein level, we observed translocation of Bax from cytosol to mitochondria. Finally, caspase-9 and caspase-3 were activated in the absence of caspase-8 activation. Our data suggest that thimerosal causes apoptosis in neuroblastoma cells by changing the mitochondrial microenvironment.
PMID: 16273274

Mitochondrial mediated thimerosal-induced apoptosis in a human neuroblastoma cell line (SK-N-SH)

Humphrey ML et al.
Neurotoxicology. 2005 Jun;26(3):407-16.

Environmental exposure to mercurials continues to be a public health issue due to their deleterious effects on immune, renal and neurological function. Recently the safety of thimerosal, an ethyl mercury-containing preservative used in vaccines, has been questioned due to exposure of infants during immunization. Mercurials have been reported to cause apoptosis in cultured neurons; however, the signaling pathways resulting in cell death have not been well characterized. Therefore, the objective of this study was to identify the mode of cell death in an in vitro model of thimerosal-induced neurotoxicity, and more specifically, to elucidate signaling pathways which might serve as pharmacological targets. Within 2 h of thimerosal exposure (5 microM) to the human neuroblastoma cell line, SK-N-SH, morphological changes, including membrane alterations and cell shrinkage, were observed. Cell viability, assessed by measurement of lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) activity in the medium, as well as the 3-[4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl]-2,5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide (MTT) assay, showed a time- and concentration-dependent decrease in cell survival upon thimerosal exposure. In cells treated for 24 h with thimerosal, fluorescence microscopy indicated cells undergoing both apoptosis and oncosis/necrosis. To identify the apoptotic pathway associated with thimerosal-mediated cell death, we first evaluated the mitochondrial cascade, as both inorganic and organic mercurials have been reported to accumulate in the organelle. Cytochrome c was shown to leak from the mitochondria, followed by caspase 9 cleavage within 8 h of treatment. In addition, poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) was cleaved to form a 85 kDa fragment following maximal caspase 3 activation at 24 h. Taken together these findings suggest deleterious effects on the cytoarchitecture by thimerosal and initiation of mitochondrial-mediated apoptosis.
PMID: 15869795

Biochemical and molecular basis of thimerosal-induced apoptosis in T cells: a major role of mitochondrial pathway

Makani S et al.
Genes Immun. 2002 Aug;3(5):270-8.
http://www.nature.com/gene/journal/v3/n5/pdf/6363854a.pdf

The major source of thimerosal (ethyl mercury thiosalicylate) exposure is childhood vaccines. It is believed that the children are exposed to significant accumulative dosage of thimerosal during the first 2 years of life via immunization. Because of health-related concerns for exposure to mercury, we examined the effects of thimerosal on the biochemical and molecular steps of mitochondrial pathway of apoptosis in Jurkat T cells. Thimerosal and not thiosalcylic acid (non-mercury component of thimerosal), in a concentration-dependent manner, induced apoptosis in T cells as determined by TUNEL and propidium iodide assays, suggesting a role of mercury in T cell apoptosis. Apoptosis was associated with depolarization of mitochondrial membrane, release of cytochrome c and apoptosis inducing factor (AIF) from the mitochondria, and activation of caspase-9 and caspase-3, but not of caspase-8. In addition, thimerosal in a concentration-dependent manner inhibited the expression of XIAP, cIAP-1 but did not influence cIAP-2 expression. Furthermore, thimerosal enhanced intracellular reactive oxygen species and reduced intracellular glutathione (GSH). Finally, exogenous glutathione protected T cells from thimerosal-induced apoptosis by upregulation of XIAP and cIAP1 and by inhibiting activation of both caspase-9 and caspase-3. These data suggest that thimerosal induces apoptosis in T cells via mitochondrial pathway by inducing oxidative stress and depletion of GSH.
PMID: 12140745

Autism Vaccines and Mitochondria - Dr Poling

2008-04-17T08:58:00.000-07:00

http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/opinion/stories/2008/04/11/polinged0411.html

Citations re heavy metal damage.

2008-04-17T07:51:00.000-07:00

How obvious does the damage and the proof have to be?

How many more decades of lies against the children?

http://www.talkaboutcuringautism.org/vaccines/autism-studies-april-2008.pdf

New York Times publishes LIES about details of Poling case

2008-04-01T03:25:00.000-07:00

Shocking misrepresentation by Paul Offit, made public by the New York Times. David Kirby sets out the lies.

This calls for a public explanation as to 1) Why Paul Offit lied in this manner 2) Why the New York Times published.

Paul Offit's conflicts of interest in the vaccine business are well known. Why are respectable newspapers still allowing free reign of warped opinion from conflicted individuals to take precedence over anyone who dares raise concerns?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-kirby/lies-my-new-york-time_b_94286.html

Scientific Misconduct Blog: Scientific integrity: Another resignation from the British Psychological Society

2008-03-19T10:49:00.000-07:00

Scientific Misconduct Blog: Scientific integrity: Another resignation from the British Psychological Society

Resignation from the British Psychological Society

2008-03-11T10:39:00.000-07:00

For readers of this blog, there may have been some interest in matters concerning myself and the British Psychological Society. After many years of what I consider to be harrassment, I finally won an Appeal against a Decision of two members of a Panel of three at the BPS and within two days the BPS attempted to bring another complaint having threatened that they would do that last year if I won against them.

I had proof that the complainant had already withdrawn the complaint when the BPS brought it to my attention, so I brought that to their attention. They convened a meeting and today I have been told the case is closed and there is no evidence of professional misconduct.

I have been prevented from resigning from this charitable organisation as they insisted on pursuing vexatious complaints fully knowing that.

Today March 11th 2008 I have finally resigned after 24 years. The organisation is not fit for purpose and is not made accountable when it makes grave errors and fails to protect the public.

Vaccines and Autism US case some TV coverage

2008-03-08T08:57:00.000-08:00

http://www.10news.com/video/15532255/index.html

CNN International - Vaccines and Autism

2008-03-06T07:22:00.000-08:00

This story based on the Poling case, is being discussed on CNN today

First Autism vaccine link - How Hannah made history

2008-03-06T06:31:00.000-08:00

http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/printedition/2008/03/06/autism0306b.html

REAL Science 2008 Anderson, Hooker and Herbert paper on autism

2008-03-06T04:12:00.000-08:00

Leaves one thinking - if the vaccines could themselves damage the mitochondria - then were they also responsible for the mitochondria condition in the first place in the Poling child?

Thimerosal is implicated in the Poling case and Thimerosal is known to interfere with our DNA.

Its been in vaccines since 1930 - so how many of us since then have been damaged, then passed it on genetically to some of our children to have it compounded by their own vaccines and made much worse when multiple vaccines came in, delivered ever earlier to vulnerable babies with immature immune systems?

This is a truly terrible tapestry of damage. A truly terrible chapter in our history and an international scandal.

http://www.marthaherbert.com/Anderson,%20Hooker,%20Herbert%202008%20AJBB.pdf

Robert Kennedy 2005 article on Thimerosal in Rolling Stone

2008-03-06T04:06:00.000-08:00

Seems timely to re-read this article from 2005.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/7395411/deadly_immunity

Press conference with Poling family on Autism Vaccine case this morning 11.30 on steps of Atlanta Federal Court

2008-03-06T03:48:00.000-08:00

LANDMARK FEDERAL COURT CONCESSION THAT LOCAL CHILD FROM ATLANTA
DEVELOPED AUTISM FROM VACCINES

CHILD JOINS PARENTS IN PRESS CONFERENCE ABOUT THIS HISTORIC RESULT AT
ATLANTA FEDERAL COURT HOUSE TOMORROW

LOCAL COUPLE FROM ATLANTA WILL JOIN WITH THEIR 9 YEAR OLD DAUGHTER,
HANNAH, IN A PRESS CONFERENCE DISCUSSING THEIR DAUGHTER'S DEVELOPMENT OF
AUTISM AS A RESULT OF VACCINES. THIS LANDMARK CASE ALLEGED THAT AUTISM
WAS CAUSED BY CHILDHOOD VACCINES AND WAS SCHEDULED TO BE HEARD AS A TEST
CASE BEFORE THE CONCESSION WAS MADE.

THE PRESS CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD TOMORROW, THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 2008 AT
11:30 AM ON THE STEPS OF U.S. FEDERAL COURTHOUSE AT 75 SPRING STREET IN
ATLANTA, GEORGIA.

THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL HAVE ESTIMATED THAT 1 IN 166 CHILDREN
HAVE AUTISM, AND MANY HAVE LINKED THE AUTISM EPIDEMIC IN THIS COUNTRY TO
THE MERCURY BASED PRESERVATIVE USED IN CHILDHOOD VACCINES.

Atlanta newspaper today on conceded autism vaccine case

2008-03-06T03:35:00.000-08:00

Note that the father of the child with autism is a Neurologist. I think he may have known what he was looking at when he witnessed his own daughter regressing after receiving a cocktail of vaccines.

Yet specialists such as Neurologists and Psychologists such as myself who have noted these changes, in accordance with our professional duty,have been routinely trampled over, mocked and vilified in favour of epidemiologists with conflicts of interest, who do not have the clinical skills nor the brief to determine whether individual cases occur.

http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/health/stories/2008/03/06/autism_0306.html

Eighteen real science studies on the damage done by Thimerosal

2008-03-05T02:07:00.000-08:00

The public has been led to believe that only large scale statistical studies can answer questions about whether there are any individual clinical adverse reactions.

This of course not the case.

The public needs to be aware of the massive conflicts of interest in those large studies and to use their common sense about what may have caused a reaction.

When epidemiological studies are cited, results from biological studies are routinely ignored, or even prevented given funding issues.

Below are a number of studies which look very appropriately, at what is happening to organisms when challenged with the mercury containing Thimerosal.

http://webmail.aol.com/34865/aol/en-gb/Mail/get-attachment.aspx?uid=1.18882257&folder=New+Mail&partId=4&saveAs=18_studies.doc

Transcript of David Kirby on Thimerosal in vaccines and Autism on Imus in the morning today

2008-03-04T08:06:00.000-08:00

IMUS: Good morning Mr. Kirby. How are you?
DAVID: I'm good. It's been exactly 3 years ago when you and Deidre really started bringing this to the people's attention. Boy, talk about "Ground Hog Day". It just seems like we're beating the same issues all over again, without getting anywhere.
IMUS. I thought it was kind of amusing to me, after Senator McCain said what he said in Texas, which I'll ask you about in a second....to see my name in a couple of columns blaming me for influencing him. When I've never said anything of the kind. I've got my own suspicions, but, any way, what exactly did Sen. McCain say now?
DAVID: Sen. McCain said, after being asked a question in Texas by a woman referring to the big court case, which was just conceded, in which the government said that a girl's vaccine injury led to and resulted in an ultimate diagnosis of autism. She asked him about it and he, to just about everyone's surprise, said he believed there was strong evidence to implicate the vaccine ingredient called thimerosal, in the rise in the numbers of cases. He said the rise of cases is indisputable, meaning it's not just better diagnosis, we have more autism in America today then we had 10 or 15 years ago. He's trying to figure out what is going on. He recognizes there is a national emergency. It may not be the mercury in the vaccines, it may not be the vaccines at all, but, until we get to the bottom of this it's refreshing, to say the least, to hear a politician out their talking about what a lot of other people are talking about. At some point, if you want to get into some of the studies that are coming out, McCain, who's been blasted in the last 24 hours, taking more "incoming" that I've received in 5 years in just 24 hours. He is referring to actual studies that have been published by very top flight scientists, and, he has a very good medical and science staff. He would not have made this statement flippantly, and, it didn't come out of nowhere.I
IMUS: The next question: There is scientific evidence out there suggesting that there is a definitive link?
DAVID: There's lots of science evidence, when taken together might suggest a link. Or might suggest a mechanism. My position has always been that this has not been proven one way or the other. Yes, there is evidence to refute, there is more evidence everyday to support this theory. People who oppose it, think this is over, and, I think it would serve them well to take a minute or two, go back to Pubmed, look at the studies that did not appear in the NY Times or on ABC news. We get filtered information in this country, and, I frankly don't blame people for thinking that this is bunk, baloney, proven over and done with. Anyone who brings it up is crazy....because they have not been given access to the studies. The American people have not been given all the information they need. They need to go out and find it. It's there, look at the brain studies that people from Harvard and Johns Hopkins. They are presenting with oxidative stress, heavy metals and mercury in the brain. Look at the study in Child Neurology that went back and looked at a previous study...lo and behold...they found that children with autism do have higher levels of mercury in their blood. A mistake was made in the original calculations and some mitrochrondrial studies have just come out....continue to come out....which are very germane to this court case. It all starts to fall into place, and it is hard science. It is peer reviewed. People are willfully ignoring it, some of them, they know its out there and they won't look at it. Most of the people online who are saying that John McCain is crazy, Don Imus is crazy, David Kirby is crazy....have not bothered to read these studies. It's frustrating because you want to have a scientific discussion but you are talking to people who only have half the picture.IMUS: Talking with David Kirby here on the Imus program, in an effort to get the audience to kill themselves. The vaccine manufacturers claim they took thimerosal out of the vaccines when? Not the flu vaccines but most vaccines.
DAVID: The media reports that all mercury came out of all shots in 2001. Nothing could be further from the truth.
IMUS: What is the truth?
DAVID: Well, we don't know and the government won't tell us.
IMUS: Well, why don't the vaccine manufacturers tell us?
DAVID: They don't have to.
DAVID: They stopped making mercury containing vaccines right around the end of 2001. Now, this stuff goes and gets shipped into warehouses. Then it gets into the pipeline, that's when the expiration date is placed on it, the day it leaves the warehouse. They stocked up on mercury containing vaccines as they were transiting into the mercury free formula. For those years, 2000, 2001, 2002, 1003 and I'm quite certain into 2004, a lot of this stuff was still sitting on shelves. In the meantime, we started giving the flu shot to pregnant women and infant children, which still contains the full amount of mercury. We never hit zero, and now we're back up. If a women who gets the flu shot is pregnant, the fetus will be exposed to that. Then the child gets another flu shot at 6 months, 7 months and 18 months. With all the residual mercury in some of the other shots, the child is getting about 85 micrograms of mercury, total exposure. Which is, yes, much less than it used to be, but, we're not at zero. And again, the mitrochrondial disease, at least for a subset of these kids, given that they have that disease, they might be sensitive to any amount of mercury, or any toxin that could set them over the edge.
IMUS: Then, in these vaccines, whether the mercury is used as a preservative or not, a trace amount of mercury is used in all vaccines.
DAVID: That's correct. About 1/2 micrograms in most of the shots these kids are getting. That's very, very little, in and of itself. The point is, if you do have some type of allergic problem with this or you do have an inability to secret it, it will accumulate in your body. I think the evidence is pointing now, beyond just mercury, beyond just thimerosal. I believe there are several things in our environment that can trigger several different types of conditions and predisposition's that ultimately manifest in symptoms we diagnose as autism. Whether it truly is classic autism or not, you don't really care.
IMUS: What are they?
DAVID: It may be genetics, because of mitrochrondial health, in other words, cellular energy, because of a pre-exisitng autoimmune condition, allergic condition. Given any set of those conditions, and then getting any set of triggers, mercury in vaccines, the number and type of vaccine we're giving now, pollution in the air, pesticides, flame retardants or even just if a kid is set up for regression.....whatever gets there first, I'm talking hypothetically, but, whatever gets there first may set off the regression. In most cases in this country, that insult came in the form of a vaccine.
IMUS: You know what I never understood? They warn people particularly pregnant women, not to eat fish because of the extraordinary high levels of mercury they found in fish. In fact, the NY Times did a study, went around to sushi joints and they found an insane level of mercury in these various fish. It's my understanding the form of mercury in fish is not as lethal as the form of mercury in vaccines. So, what has never made sense to me, if they don't want you to eat a less lethal form of mercury in fish, they think it's okay or fine to inject any amount of mercury into the bloodstream of an infant. Just on a common sense level, sounds to me INSANE!
DAVID: Some people think it is. It's certainly contradictory, that the NY Times reported the ultra high levels of mercury in Tuna, which means environmental levels in general are going up. They reported New Jersey is trying to implement mandatory flu vaccines for kids going to school. Everyone should go online right now and look up the flu vaccine. Look up the product insert. It will say, and don't quote me exactly, something like "this product has not been studied in pregnant women. The reproductive effects are unknown. The impact on the fetus is unknown. this product is not indicated for pregnant women unless medically necessary".
IMUS: Now you are not saying, I know I'm not saying, that there is a definitive, drop dead link between autism and thimerosal in vaccines. What you're saying and what I'm saying is, at some point, we need to all reach a definitive scientific determination if, in fact that is the case. Is that what you're saying?
DAVID. Absolutely.
IMUS: Okay, so why do people characterize you and others, and me, though I'm less to the story than anyone else, my wife is a big part of the story and so are you....why are you all characterized as being crazy when you are not saying what they say you are saying?
DAVID: If you sat down and read only the studies the people seem to be reading...and you ignore the studies that people like me and Diedre read, you would come to the same conclusion....David Kirby is crazy, what is he talking about? People need to do their own homework. Listen, I think the biggest problem here is we're all operating in a vacuum. This court case that was just conceded is a confidential document. The government does not think we should be able to see it.
IMUS: Now, you're talking about the vaccine court?
DAVID: I'm talking about the vaccine court. Now the family that just won this settlement can go back to court and ask permission of the government to talk about what happened to their child.
IMUS; What did the vaccine court determine?
DAVID: They determined this child have an underlying microchrondrial disorder, which produces low cellular energy and was aggravated by her vaccines. She got 9 vaccines in 1 day. 5 shots....9 vaccines. Within months she regressed into autism. In fact, she was diagnosed with full-blown autism.
IMUS: Why haven't we read about that in the NY Times or seen it on NBC nightly news?DAVID: Well, the NY Times is not particularly interested in this story. There are reporters out there this week trying to cover it, but, until the family gets permission from government to speak, I'm not sure how much coverage it actually is going to get. You know, I love being on your show, but, I wish instead of me being here this morning, you have somebody from the HHS. Because what we basically have over there is a wall of silence. Why is it not okay to talk about this? Why is this confidential? Exactly whose interests are being protected if the family says it's perfectly okay to talk about this....and...the family wants to talk about it? Why is the government saying we can't talk about it? Those rules are in place to protect the privacy of the family, which has already been waived.
IMUS: We're out of time .....thank you Mr. Kirby;

Listen to David Kirby tomorrow morning 6.28 East on Imus in the Morning on Thimerosal issues

2008-03-03T09:58:00.000-08:00

http://www.imusonair.com/

FINALLY - a politician with integrity speaks out on Mercury in vaccines. John McCain is the first Presidential candidate to publicly raise the issue.

2008-03-01T02:48:00.000-08:00

In the run up to the US Presidential election there is inevitably a tension between honestly addressing controversial issues and remaining silent about them. Which way should they turn? Which way would get them the votes/the brickbats?

David Kirby forewarns John McCain what is likely to happen now that he has publicly mentioned the extraordinary rise of autism (and indeed related disorders) and, shock horror, even mentioned the association with the 49.6% Mercury containing preservative Thimerosal, in vaccines since 1930, introduced by Eli Lilly.

On the other hand, a US election is looming and intelligent voters cannot miss the devastating facts that our population is sicker than ever, more dangerous than ever, that we are riddled with autism and related disorders and that safety has taken second place to profit with the crucial boundaries between big corporations and Governments long gone.

If the voting public is made aware that something could have been interfering with our neurological and immune system development since 1930 and that something could have also altered our DNA, but all this has been hidden and spun out, then the brave presidential candidate in the US or prime minister candidate in the UK who dares to expose the issues will be the ultimate winner.

Its about time the biggest medical and social scandal in our history is getting talked about on a world stage.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-kirby/senator-mccain-watch-out_b_89318.html

Common sense about the history of thimerosal vaccines - Anne Dachel

2008-02-28T15:37:00.000-08:00

----- Original Message -----
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Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 2:45 PM
Subject: RE: Panel: All children should receive flu shots - ContraCostaTimes.com

Panel: All children should receive flu shotsContra Costa Times, CA
By Barbara Feder Ostrov

Dear Barbara,

I read your story about the new ACIP recommendation that all schoolchildren receive the flu vaccine annually because, as Dr. Roger Baxter says, epidemics "begin at school."

Any concerns parents might have about the risk from exposure to mercury in the flu vaccine is dismissed. We're told, "Some parents may be concerned about thimerosal, a mercury-containing preservative present in some adult flu vaccines that long has been rumored to cause autism. However, Baxter said that the preservative is safe and that extensive scientific research has not found any link between thimerosal and autism."

Members of the autism community reading this would be quick to point out that it's wrong on several counts.

We're often told in the press that only "some parents" worry about exposing children to mercury in their vaccines. This implies that no one with scientific or medical credentials would feel the same way. This is totally false.

Do a search for Dr. Boyd Haley, University of Kentucky, Dr. Mady Hornig, Columbia University, Dr. Thomas Burbacher, University of Washington; Dr. Mark Geier, President of The Genetic Centers of America and David Geier, Vice President of The Institute of Chronic Illnesses, and Dr. Jill James, University of Arkansas. They are just a handful of the independent scientists whose work links vaccines to neurological damage in our children.

Research on vaccines can also be found on this link:
http://www.generationrescue.org/studies.html

The National Autism Association has said that while officials continue to claim that there is no science linking vaccines to autism, many peer-reviewed published studies confirm the link between vaccinations and neurological injuries.
http://www.national autismassociatio n.org/library. php )

We're talking about the second deadliest element on Earth and a known neurotoxin. I wonder how willing the pubic would accept the claim that it's safe to inject mercury into children if they knew about the history of thimerosal.

Thimerosal goes back 75 years. It was invented and tested Eli Lilly Pharmaceutical Company in 1930. The one study done on thimerosal was done by Eli Lilly on 22 adult patients suffering from meningitis. There was no chance for follow-up to observe long-term effects, as all of the patients died. Even if follow-up had been possible, damage to the developing brains of very young children would have remained an unknown. Eli Lilly said it was safe and the medical community just accepted it. After the creation of the FDA, its use was simply continued. This unconscionable oversight failure should call any safety claim into question.

In his book, Evidence of Harm, journalist David Kirby points out that "...many researchers had sent the company documents dating back to the 1930's, each raising a red flag about thimerosal." (EOH 207-209). Mr. Kirby chronologically lists over 70 years of scientific research on the damaging and deadly effects of thimerosal that was willfully ignored by Eli Lilly and the CDC.http://www.evidence ofharm.com/ Our CDC and FDA should be utterly embarrassed to make safety claims based on such a pathetic history of oversight.

In addition, back in 1991, Dr. Maurice Hilleman, one of the top vaccinologists in the world, wrote a memo to the president of Merck Pharmaceutical Co. warning about the high mercury levels children were receiving in their vaccines. That warning was ignored and mercury exposure was only increased with additional vaccines.
LA TIMES: PDF] '91 Memo Warned of Mercury in Shots

We are told that thimerosal in found in "some adult flu vaccines." That falsely implies that children aren't being exposed to mercury in their vaccines. Ninety percent of the vaccine available contains mercury. Good luck to parents who look for a mercury-free shot for children. Anyone three years and older gets 25 mcg. of mercury in their vaccines. According to the EPA, this much mercury is meant for someone weighing 550 pounds. Younger children get 12.5 mcg. of mercury that can be safely processed by someone weighing 275 pounds. Doctors give this vaccine to pregnant women at all stages of pregnancy and the massive mercury assault easily passes the placental barrier and enters the developing fetus.
This chart compares the vaccine schedules in 1983 and 2007. http://www.generationrescue.org/pdf/cdc_comparison.pdf This dramatic increase in the number of vaccines directly coincided with the explosion in the autism rate from one in 10,000 in the 1970s to one in 150 today, along with a host of chronic illnesses among our children like asthma, diabetes, bowel disorders, ADHD, and others.
There has never been a study to determine the cumulative effect of so many additional vaccines on a developing baby.
We're talking about much more than mercury in these vaccines. Other toxic ingredients like aluminum, MSG, formaldehyde, ether, and anti-freeze are commonly found in vaccinations. There is also the debate over the safety of the MMR vaccine which has three live viruses.

Tuesday, February 12 this ad ran in USA Today: Green our vaccines. And administer them with greater care.
http://www.generationrescue.org/pdf/080212.pdf It's a wakeup call on the need for safe vaccines. The ad ran again Feb. 27 in USA Today.

Dr. Baxtor further tells us, "The preservative is safe and that extensive scientific research has not found any link between thimerosal and autism." This incorrectly lets readers think that all the studies out there say mercury is safe and that's because we only get to hear about the CDC studies or ones financed by the drug industry.
Reporters usually go to the CDC for information on vaccines and autism. They will always say no research can find a link. What else would you expect? This is the agency that runs the vaccine program. They have for years promoted vaccines, especially mercury-containing vaccines, as safe. They have everything at stake in denying serious side effects. This is also the agency where hundreds of individuals have conflict of interest waivers because of money ties to the vaccine makers. Going to them to ask about a link to autism is like asking Phillip Morris if smoking is dangerous to our health. The media continues to give the CDC oversight over itself.
The CDC has endless studies that show no causal relationship between vaccines and autism. They never settle the issue however. If anyone actually looked, they'd discover that these are merely epidemiological studies, the kind produced by the tobacco industry in the 1940s and 50s to show no link between smoking and lung cancer.
This issue is the most heated controversy in medicine today and we need the press to present both sides in the debate. Many news sources are doing that. Here are some examples:
Immunizations: Progress or Poison
FOX 25 Oklahoma City OK

The incredible Combating Autism From Within series on KOMU-TV, Columbia, MO
http://www.komu.com/satellite/SatelliteRender/KOMU.com/b016a3b8-c0a8-2f11-0161-8d5496db95e8

Autism: To Vaccinate Or Not to Vaccinate CBS TV 4, FL
Parents Contest Mandatory Vaccinations WAPT, MS
Warned of disease risks, parents control kids vaccines Houston Chronicle
Are Vaccinat ions Safe for Your Kids?Christian Broadcasting Network, VA AGE OF AUTISM gives us additional opinion by Dr. Rosen :DOC VS. DOC OVER FLU VACCINE IN NEW JERSEY
Atlanta TV Autism Controversy: The CDC Responds and THE CDC RESPONDS: LISTENING TO DR. WHARTON)
Most flu shots contain mercury, but few know itMilwaukee Journal Sentinel

Parents fight to give their autistic son a more-normal lifeOrlando Sentinel, FL

This is a subject that is getting increased national attention and deserves accurate and fair coverage. Nothing could be more important than the health of our children.

Anne McElroy Dachel
Chippewa Falls, WI USA
715-723-0913
amdachel@msn. com

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Media Editor: AGE OF AUTISM

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US Government concedes vaccine case

2008-02-25T16:34:00.000-08:00

Looks like tapestry disorders might finally be making their debut and with it, Judges are seeing that there truly are connections between some vaccines, some of which contain Thimerosal, and some children.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-kirby/government-concedes-vacci_b_88323.html

Did a Thimerosal containing vaccine kill Sally Clark's children?

2008-02-13T01:31:00.000-08:00

http://www.spectator.co.uk/the-magazine/cartoons/30630/part_2/what-killed-sally-clarks-child.thtml

USA Today - Are we poisoning our children ?

2008-02-12T05:42:00.000-08:00

Due out in USA Today.

Compare figures for autism and vaccines given over 20 years ago with figures given today. Look at what the vaccines contain.

You CANNOT HAVE A GENETIC EPIDEMIC - so something has to have been happening within the environment. Make up your own minds whether it could be vaccines. Then contact your local politicians.

This is an international scandal.

http://www.generationrescue.org/pdf/080212.pdf

Asthma - TWICE as likely if Thimerosal vaccine given early

2008-01-29T13:12:00.000-08:00

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/story/4113937p-4709728c.html

Paediatricians attempts to censor Thimerosal story

2008-01-27T16:22:00.000-08:00

PEDIATRICIANS DEMAND CENSORSHIP FROM ABC
By JB Handley

Pediatricians, ABC and Censorship: Facts Are Scarier Than Fiction
By David Kirby
On Monday, the American Academy of Pediatrics will release the contents of a foreboding letter sent last week to ABC/Disney executives, demanding they cancel the January 31 premiere of a new legal drama series, "Eli Stone," because it features a family attorney who successfully argues in court that mercury-containing flu vaccine caused autism in one child

LETTER FROM ANNE DACHEL

Dear Dr. Jenkins,

Many in the autism community are stunned by the position of the American Academy of Pediatrics over the upcoming ABC series "Eli Stone." Your letter to ABC executives asking them to not to air the program which deals with the controversial claim that vaccines with the mercury cause autism indicates just how heated this issue is, but I don't think that censorship tactics will restore the public's trust in the vaccine program.

For years as we watched the autism rate soar from one in 10,000 in the 1970s to one in every 150 children today, the AAP failed to sound any alarm. As more and more children with autism filled doctors' waiting rooms, the AAP happily announced that the epidemic rate was due to "better diagnosing." When parents asked for guidance about the disorder that took away their children, they heard few answers, except that the cause was genetic.

The only thing the AAP has been able to tell the public for sure is that autism isn't the result of the vaccines that their child received. Even though the dramatically expanded vaccine schedule since the 1980s meant that children were exposed to horrendous levels of known toxins like mercury, aluminum, and formaldehyde, we were assured that all the studies show no link.

Your letter announces, "No scientific link exists between vaccines and autism." The modern-day population studies that play with the numbers and show that children vaccinated with mercury aren't more likely to have autism have failed to settle anything. The tobacco industry used studies like this in the 1940s and 50s as proof that smoking didn't cause lung cancer. They can be made to say anything the researchers want.

The American Academy of Pediatrics can't do the one thing that could settle the debate. They can't produce the results of the rigorous toxicity testing done on thimerosal seventy-five years ago BEFORE it was ever allowed in our children's vaccines. They do that because there was none. All the modern studies in the world can't make up for that oversight failure.

The issue here isn't the science, it's liability: Who will be held responsible if it's shown that through gross malfeasance a generation of children has been damaged by dangerous vaccines? Instead of protecting our children and calling attention to the epidemic of autism, the AAP is working to keep the issue from the attention of the public.

BELOW are a few stories taken from recent news accounts from around the U.S.
Every time stories like these come out, more questions are raised. Fewer and fewer parents will be willing to risk the health and happiness or their children when officials can tell us so little.

(By coincidence, yesterday these two stories citing vaccine damage appeared in the press:
Alert over jab for girls as two die following cervical cancer vaccinationhttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/health/healthmain.html?in_article_id=510221&in_page_id=1774&ct=5
U of M researcher links asthma, early vaccinationsWinnipeg Free Press - Winnipeg,Manitoba,Canada)
As the evidence mounts, the AAP seems to make self-protection a priority, not our children.

Anne McElroy Dachel

Attempts to manipulate TV Drama by Big Pharma

2008-01-27T15:53:00.000-08:00

The public may be shocked to learn that Big Pharma and the medics associated with it, influence the fiction that goes onto our screens in soaps etc. Many a medic with various vested interests helps advise on stories for TV dramas.

Furthermore, sometimes certain programmes make it through production and onto our TV screens without such groups knowing until its too late to stop production. When they do discover something has slipped through the net they galvanise all resources to prevent it going ahead or interfere with the message of the programme itself.

In the UK we had Judge John Deed as a BBC legal drama which had the nerve to include stories about MMR, vaccine trials in the Third World and other delicate matters. It has now disappeared. If anyone can find the DVD I would like a copy.

Now the US ABC network has been attacked for the story in it's legal series due to start on the 31st of this month because it features a family who win their case that their child was affected by the Thimerosal in his early vaccine.

Read David Kirby's excellent piece on this latest attempt to suppress freedom of speech about vaccines.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-kirby/pediatricians-abc-and-ce_b_83472.html

Vitamin C protects against Heavy Metal Poisoning and reduces behaviour disorders

2007-10-09T04:41:00.000-07:00

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, October 8, 2007
Vitamin Supplements Help Protect Children from Heavy Metals, Reduce Behavioral Disorders
(OMNS October 8, 2007) The ability of vitamin C to protect animals from heavy metal poisoning is well established. Recent controlled trials with yeast, fish, mice, rats, chickens, clams, guinea pigs, and turkeys all came to the same conclusion: Vitamin C protects growing animals from heavy metals poisoning. [1-7]
Benefits with an animal model do not always translate to equal benefits for humans. In this case, however, the benefit has been proven for a wide range of animals. The odds that vitamin C will protect human children are high.
There is a virtual epidemic of behavior problems, learning disabilities, ADHD and autism, and the number of children receiving special education services continues to rise steeply. Although not all causes are yet identified, growing evidence suggests that heavy metal pollution is a significant factor, and vitamin C is part of the solution.
Dr. Erik Paterson, of British Columbia, reports:
"When I was a consulting physician for a center for the mentally challenged, a patient showing behavioral changes was found to have blood lead some ten times higher than the acceptable levels. I administered vitamin C at a dose of 4,000 mg/day. I anticipated a slow response. The following year I rechecked his blood lead level. It had gone up, much to my initial dismay. But then I thought that perhaps what was happening was that the vitamin C was mobilizing the lead from his tissues. So we persisted. The next year, on rechecking, the lead levels had markedly dropped to well below the initial result. As the years went by, the levels became almost undetectable, and his behavior was markedly improved."
World-wide, coal and high sulfur fuel oil combustion release close to 300,000 tons per year of heavy metals, 100,000 tons of which are considered hazardous air pollutants by the US Environmental Protection Agency. [8] This includes arsenic, beryllium, cadmium, cobalt, chromium, mercury, manganese, nickel, lead, antimony, selenium, uranium, and thorium. These metals are also released to the air by the industrial processes that mine and refine metal-containing ores.
Heavy metals dispersed in the air as invisible particles are blown by the winds and therefore become widely dispersed. Few mothers or children can avoid both contaminated air and food, helping to explain why behavior problems are striking rich and poor alike.
University of Victoria professor Harold Foster, PhD, says, "Pregnant women need special protection because their fetus may be poisoned in the womb, so interfering with its development. In addition to vitamin C, nutrient minerals are also protective against heavy metal toxins. For example, selenium is antagonistic to (and so protective against) arsenic, mercury and cadmium."
Metals have always been a part of the environment, and our bodies have evolved methods to protect against them. This process involves vitamin-dependent metabolic pathways. [9] Additional vitamin intake, through the use of nutrient supplementation, can help speed up the removal process. Daily consumption of additional vitamin C and selenium is likely to protect children by helping to eliminate heavy metals from their bodies. One easy and inexpensive way to increase intake of these nutrients is by taking a vitamin C supplement with each meal, along with a multivitamin containing selenium. Vitamin supplements are remarkably safe for children. [10]
References:
[1] Borane VR, Zambare SP. Role of ascorbic acid in lead and cadmium induced changes on the blood glucose level of the freshwater fish, Channa orientalis. Journal of Aquatic Biology, 2006. 21(2), 244-248.
[2] Gajawat, Sunita; Sancheti, Garima; Goyal, P. K. Vitamin C against concomitant exposure to heavy metal and radiation: a study on variations in hepatic cellular counts. Asian Journal of Experimental Sciences, 2005. 19(2), 53-58.
[3] Shousha, Wafaa Gh. The curative and protective effects of L-ascorbic acid & zinc sulphate on thyroid dysfunction and lipid peroxidation in cadmium-intoxicated rats. Egyptian Journal of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, 2004. 22(1), 1-16.
[4] Vasiljeva, Svetlana; Berzina, Nadezda; Remeza, Inesa. Changes in chicken immunity induced by cadmium, and the protective effect of ascorbic acid. Proceedings of the Latvian Academy of Sciences, Section B: Natural, Exact and Applied Sciences, 2003. 57(6), 232-237.
[5] Mahajan, A. Y.; Zambare, S. P. Ascorbate effect on copper sulphate and mercuric chloride induced alterations of protein levels in freshwater bivalve Corbicula striatella. Asian Journal of Microbiology, Biotechnology & Environmental Sciences, 2001. 3(1-2), 95-100.
[6] Norwood, Joel, Jr.; Ledbetter, Alan D.; Doerfler, Donald L.; Hatch, Gary E. Residual oil fly ash inhalation in guinea pigs: influence of ascorbate and glutathione depletion. Toxicological Sciences, 2001. 61(1), 144-153.
[7] Guillot, I.; Bernard, P.; Rambeck, W. A. Influence of vitamin C on the retention of cadmium in turkeys. Tiergesundheitsdienst Bayern, Germany. Editors: Schubert, Flachowsky, Bitsch. Vitamine und Zusatzstoffe in der Ernaehrung von Mensch und Tier, Symposium, 5th, Jena, Sept. 28-29, 1995, 233-237.
[8] EPA Study on Nickel Releases from Burning Coal (The study shows about 10% of nickel in coal is released to the air. The press release estimates 10% of the other metals in coal with similar properties to nickel are also released to the air.) http://www.orthomolecular.org/12all/lt/t_go.php?i=61&e=MjQzMTM=&l=http://www.epa.gov/ttn/chief/le/nickel.pdf
[9] Lewinska, Anna; Bartosz, Grzegorz. Protection of yeast lacking the Ure2 protein against the toxicity of heavy metals and hydroperoxides by antioxidants. Free Radical Research, 2007. 41(5), 580-590.
[10] Saul AW. Vitamins and food supplements: safe and effective. Testimony before the Government of Canada, 38th Parliament, 1st Session, Standing Committee on Health. Ottawa, May 12, 2005. http://www.orthomolecular.org/12all/lt/t_go.php?i=61&e=MjQzMTM=&l=http://www.doctoryourself.com/testimony.htm
Vitamins are safe.
There is not even one death per year from vitamin supplementation. http://www.orthomolecular.org/12all/lt/t_go.php?i=61&e=MjQzMTM=&l=http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v03n04.shtml
Nutritional Medicine is Orthomolecular Medicine
Linus Pauling defined orthomolecular medicine as "the treatment of disease by the provision of the optimum molecular environment, especially the optimum concentrations of substances normally present in the human body." Orthomolecular medicine uses safe, effective nutritional therapy to fight illness. For more information: http://www.orthomolecular.org/12all/lt/t_go.php?i=61&e=MjQzMTM=&l=http://www.orthomolecular.org/
The peer-reviewed Orthomolecular Medicine News Service is a non-profit and non-commercial informational resource.
Editorial Review Board:
Abram Hoffer, M.D., Ph.D.Harold D. Foster, Ph.D.Bradford Weeks, M.D.Carolyn Dean, M.D., N.D.Erik Paterson, M.D.Thomas Levy, M.D., J.D.Steve Hickey, Ph.D.
Andrew W. Saul, Editor and contact person. email: drsaul@doctoryourself.com .

How infections develop when the immune system is compromised - Gulf War Illness and Autism examples

2007-10-01T07:58:00.000-07:00

http://www.immed.org/GulfWarIllness/CMIGWVC%20AutismPatients.pdf

Journal Watch on limitations of Thimerosal Study in New England Journal

2007-09-28T00:11:00.000-07:00

Thimerosal and Neurotoxicity
The effect of mercury exposure in children once again proves difficult to determine.
Considerable controversy surrounds the question of whether mercury preservatives in vaccines, such as thimerosal, are associated with impaired behaviors or cognition in children (see Journal Watch Psychiatry Aug 4 2004). These researchers examined 42 measures of neuropsychological and behavioral functioning in children aged 7 to 10 years from four HMOs. Using histories of vaccination, immunoglobulin experience, and other records, the researchers retrospectively calculated mercury exposure at three time points: neonatal (i.e., maternal), the first 28 days of life, and the first 7 months.
Children with low birth weight, meningitis, encephalitis, or other serious neurological diagnoses were excluded. The 1047 tested children represented only 30% of those eligible. Children of parents with the highest socioeconomic indicators had the highest exposure. Small yet significant negative and positive associations, some sex-specific, were identified between some individual neuropsychological tests and thimerosal exposure.
Comment: The authors, who expertly analyzed these data statistically, conclude that thimerosal does not produce meaningful clinical problems. However, the validity of this conclusion needs to be questioned because of possible confounding in the study sample. First, only 30% of cases were studied; how these cases may have differed from those who did not participate was not discussed. Second, the data were collected retrospectively. Third, the cases that were excluded — e.g., low-birth-weight babies — might be the ones most vulnerable to the effect of a neuroactive substance, but this issue was not addressed. Finally, the threshold dose for neurological impairment is unknown; therefore, to dismiss the vaccines given between ages 12 months and 7 years may be premature. Parents who ask about this issue still need to be informed of the complexities of studying this problem.
— Barbara Geller, MD
Published in Journal Watch Psychiatry September 26, 2007
Citation(s):
Thompson WW et al. Early thimerosal exposure and neuropsychological outcomes at 7 to 10 years. N Engl J Med 2007 Sep 27; 357:1281.
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Medline abstract (Free)

Dangerousness of propaganda saying highly toxic Thimerosal is safe

2007-09-27T23:58:00.000-07:00

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2007/09/vaccine-experts.html

Jenny McCarthy on Larry King - "best TV coverage on vaccines ever" says one mother of a vaccine damaged child

2007-09-27T06:16:00.000-07:00

http://www.rescuepost.com/rescue_post/2007/09/jenny-mccarthy-.html

Dan Olmsted in Conference Call on Thimerosal study

2007-09-27T06:14:00.000-07:00

http://www.rescuepost.com/rescue_post/2007/09/olmsted-on-au-2.html

Conflicts of interest in new CDC Thimerosal study

2007-09-27T01:49:00.000-07:00

Dr. Thompson reports being a former employee of Merck; Dr. Marcy, receiving consulting fees from Merck, Sanofi Pasteur, GlaxoSmithKline, and MedImmune; Dr. Jackson, receiving grant support from Wyeth, Sanofi Pasteur, GlaxoSmithKline, and Novartis, lecture fees from Sanofi Pasteur, and consulting fees from Wyeth and Abbott and serving as a consultant to the FDA Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee; Dr. Lieu, serving as a consultant to the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices; Dr. Black, receiving consulting fees from MedImmune, GlaxoSmithKline, Novartis, and Merck and grant support from MedImmune, GlaxoSmithKline, Aventis, Merck, and Novartis; and Dr. Davis receiving consulting fees from Merck and grant support from Merck and GlaxoSmithKline. No other potential conflict of interest relevant to this article was reported.

Toxic metal exposure and breast cancer

2007-09-27T01:23:00.000-07:00

As a breast cancer sufferer in 1997 facing the horror that black diagnosis brings to your own life and your family, any research which can throw a light onto its causes and treatment is welcomed by me.

I was diagnosed with what the oncologist called a fast growing Grade 3 breast cancer in January 1997 and went on to have surgery in February, started a daily radiotherapy routine shortly after, then had months of chemotherapy and Tamoxifen.

Knowing the history now of heavy metals in vaccines, particularly Thimerosal with its 49.6% Mercury since 1930, and my own reaction to that vaccine as a baby, I am not surprised I ended up with jaundice as a teenager and breast cancer in my forties.

New ways of looking at the epidemic of these conditions and others including disorders such as ADHD, Autism, Tics, speech and language impairments, allergies etc are urgently needed.

In an advanced world with the Pharmaceutical Industry earning billions we should not have epidemics of such problems. Something seems to be going very wrong.

Perhaps we could start by looking at conflicts of interest with Big Pharma crossing boundaries in Government departments and funding the big studies whilst ignoring the clinical facts of individual cases.

Meanwhile its down to every individual to do their homework and make their own decisions about what they want to do with their own bodies.

http://www.townsendletter.com/AugSept2007/toxicmetalbreastcancer0807.htm

US CDC Thimerosal study report by David Kirby - "possible adverse association between neonatal exposure to mercury and language development."

2007-09-26T15:55:00.000-07:00

Read David Kirby - Evidence of Harm - on this study and his conference call to the CDC today.

Despite the various flaws of the epidemiological study, which we are now becoming so used to in this extraordinary field, they are at least honest enough to admit to the adverse reactions.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-kirby/cdc-mercury-in-vaccines-_b_66007.html

300 per cent rise in Allergies in last 20 years - House of Lords UK report

2007-09-26T09:26:00.000-07:00

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/afp/20070926/tuk-britain-allergy-centres-a7ad41d_1.html

USA TODAY Generation Rescue AD - Less autism ADHD and Asthma in Unvaccinated kids

2007-09-26T08:11:00.000-07:00

It has taken the parents of children in America to run the survey and then place an ADVERT in USA Today to get this crucailly important message out.

Why was the survey/study not done by the CDC? Why is it not done by the Department of Health in the UK? By WHO?

Why, when the survey was done, and the expected results found, would the media not pick up on it?

How bad does the epidemic of neurodevelopmental conditions and allergies have to get before the obvious issue is raised?

Not doing the obvious survey and media failure to not even publish the result when it is done,
does rather speak volumes.

Congratulations Generation Rescue. You are living up to your name.

http://www.generationrescue.org/pdf/070626.pdf

Anne Dachel and Dr Boyd Haley on Channel 13 - on how Thimerosal in vaccines can lead to autism

2007-09-26T07:56:00.000-07:00

Channel 13 write up:

"When Ann Dachel of Eau Claire brought her son John in for a routine vaccination, she never expected his behavior was about to change."He didn't pick up on things around the time that he was 18 months to two-years-old, he wasn't speaking, he stopped babbling, I never would have connected that to vaccinations," Dachel said.But, after some research on her own, she soon did, discovering what she calls a clear connection between the increasing autism rate and rising exposure to vaccines with toxic substances like aluminum, MSG, formaldehyde and mercury."Our kids in the 1990's were getting just enormous load of mercury in their vaccines and that's when autism really exploded," she said.Ann's theory has some backing in the academic research world.

Dr. Boyd Haley, a leading University of Kentucky Researcher on the topic says thimerosal, a vaccine preservative with nearly 50 percent mercury has contributed to epidemic levels of autism in the US."Thimerosal is one of the most neuro-toxic compounds that's available or that we could even reasonably be exposed to, so common sense says you would look at that first and you would look at that very, very hard," Haley said.But, he says CDC research has been limited to population studies in Europe, areas he says don't have the high rate of vaccination we have here.He also says the CDC mandated the vaccine program in 1988 without any safety testing. However, according to a statement by the CDC scientific evidence does not support the idea that vaccine causes autism."The amount of mercury they are injecting into these babies on the day of birth would be safe by EPA standards eating fish, if the baby weighed 275 pounds," Haley said.

Dr. Haley says infants can't excrete mercury and though mercury isn't always found in the urine, hair or blood of children with autism, Arizona State Researchers have found considerably more mercury in their baby teeth than those without.Eau Claire Health Department Director Richard Thoune believes the benefits of vaccines, outweigh the risks.However, Dr. Haley says because of it's toxicity, the FDA took thimerosal off the market as a topical application in 1978, but it is still found in flu vaccine."

Bolen Report - A new public health crisis - an epidemic of autism

2007-09-20T06:26:00.000-07:00

Another new report - remember, you can't have a genetic epidemic, this has to be environmental.

http://www.bolenreport.net/feature_articles/feature_article061.htm

The Autism Epidemic - finally the media starts to get it

2007-09-20T06:15:00.000-07:00

Despite every effort by Governments to limit diagnoses of autism and dictate to Government professionals to 'not label' , like the efforts of the boy with his finger in the dyke, none of this has worked and we are now drowning in the tidal wave.

The number of children with autism has sky rocketed and even if Governments don't care about the suffering of the children and their families, they usually do care about money.

This tidal wave will bankrupt us all.

Finally it looks as if this message at least is getting out and as there are some responsible Media out there, the story is leaking out, at last.

http://www.mercurynews.com/politics/ci_6935084

The Government and Autism - NBC29 on the Autism Omnibus Hearings

2007-09-20T06:10:00.000-07:00

http://www.nbc29.com/Global/story.asp?S=7100063&nav=menu496_2_1

Cot Deaths and Vaccines - Child Protection turned on its head

2007-08-14T05:09:00.000-07:00

Recently a new paper was published by Hey and Bacon on the sensitive subject of how many mothers might have murdered their babies who died of 'cot death'. Yet a known and well researched link (under a heavy cloak of commercial secrecy) is that of an adverse reaction to some vaccinations but this is never mentioned. Over the years there have been many forms of spin and shifting sands of blame and counter blame but none so deeply distressing as the accusation that a mother has killed her child.

What stands out when mothers are accused is that adverse reactions to vaccine are routinely NEVER included in the differential diagnosis. This is deeply worrying, as it is a well known form of iatrogenic abuse. However rare, it happens, but if we do not acknowledge that it happens, and could have happened to the child in question, then as all other possibilities fall away, the mother stands accused.

Over the last decade we have seen dramatic developments within legal circles when it was established that Professor Sir Roy Meadow gave a wrong statistic in the case of Sally Clark, the mother whose children died after vaccines were given. His 73 million to 1 statistic was applied to the possibility that the children could have died from natural causes. It shouted out the message that these were impossible odds, so the mother must have killed them. A possible link to vaccines was never even brought into the Court. Professor Meadow was struck off and then re-instated as Expert opinions are just opinions, after all.

Sally Clark has now died as well as two of her children and we now have another published paper by Hey and Bacon which has raised the issue again and appears to want to take us back to the old position that more mothers do kill their children, supporting Meadow's thinking, even though the statistic he used to back it up and the way in which he used it has been thoroughly discredited.

The recent Hey and Bacon BMJ (British Medical Journal) article was written about by various people and Nigel Hawkes at Times took up the story.

Times Online allows for comments and my own comment was published along with a medic who writes in support of Professor Sir Roy Meadow and the idea that murder is more common than recent legal cases and the media interpretations would have us believe.

A cynic might suggest that this was a clean up operation. A non cynic might say this was new research backing up Meadow's thinking about mothers and murder.

However, this was not new research and I was to discover that Hey and Bacon did not even have access to the records of the cases in the research by Carpenter et al.

I discovered this through information provided to me by a mother who also lost two sons to cot death following vaccines and whose children were in the research on which these various studies have been based. She was disturbed by this 'new' research and wrote to all of the authors of the original Carpenter paper and the more recent Bacon and Hey paper. Only Dr Bacon had the decency to reply. She also wrote to the Times Online.

Her lengthy, detailed and highly important contribution was not published.

She sent her letter to me and I am re-producing it below as it raises issues of enormous concern, not least the fact that ranks close in and parents are refused information about their children even though careers have been built on the data .

Dear Sir,

I write in response to Nigel Hawkes article in Times online

Cot Death Suspicions are revived

I am a mother who had 2 SIDS deaths many years ago and am shocked at this paper by Hey and Bacon as it leaves out far too much information to reach the position it reaches in its rather clumsy attempt to (yet again) blame mothers and exonerate medics. Perhaps I can help with some of the information that has been omitted. Perhaps the public might then start asking questions about this research.

I became aware many years after my children’s deaths that data in relation to them had been used in published research. I was taken aback by this as I had not been informed of their inclusion nor had the authors of these ‘papers’ sought permission from myself for their inclusion.

‘Data’ in relation to my children was apparently used in the original Emery paper.

This paper was revisited by Carpenter et al in 2005 – and discussed by Gornall.

Hey and Bacon’s recent paper is again a revisiting of Carpenter et al and the original paper.

I set about trying to discover exactly what apparent data in relation to my children had been used in these papers.

Initially I tried ‘locally’ to obtain records in relation to my children; I then discovered that records in relation to my children ‘could not be found’.

These included GP, Health Visitor, Clinic, Midwifery and Birth, Vaccination, Hospital admission, Outpatient and Ambulance records.

With regard to Post Mortem records, all that was available was a brief 2 page Official Coroners Record for each child, which gave scant details and a cause of death as SIDS for both children. I knew that there had to be a Post Mortem File in relation to each child which obviously contained specific details of my children’s Post Mortems i.e. tests carried out, date and time of PM, samples taken etc.

It later was confirmed that my children’s Post Mortem Files ‘could also not be found’.

There were 40+ SIDS deaths in my city area (including my own children) these 40+ deaths occurred within a total of 2 years. For a population of approx 250.000 this appeared to be a high incidence. In fact this is documented by a GP as being ‘a significant blip’.

I discovered that all 40+ SIDS victims Post Mortem Files apparently also ‘could not be found’. It was clear that Post Mortem samples and organs were retained from many of these SIDS victims (including my own). Though why this happened, what was being tested for and the results of these tests apparently ‘were not available’ or ‘could not be found’.

Given the ‘research’ being carried out in my area by SIDS researchers I find it impossible to believe records in relation to 40+ children apparently have simply ‘disappeared’.

My second child was enrolled pre birth in Care Of the Next Infant Programme.

I reasoned that as my children had apparently been included in Emery’s original paper and others, it was reasonable to assume that CONI and or the authors of these papers had access to the missing records in relation to my children.

To have apparently included my children in these papers without this data would be professional suicide and would mean the criticisms levied against these papers had great merit and warranted investigation.

This would also mean that Hey and Bacon’s recent paper could be open to the same criticism.

CONI researchers released to me the daily ‘tick’ charts (filled out by myself and my children’s father), they also released to me daily weight charts (again filled out by myself and my child’s father) and weekly Health Visitor Contact sheets along with a few other telephone and contact records.

I knew that to have apparently included my children in ‘research and these published papers’ the authors of these papers needed to have had more detailed information in relation to my children that that which was released.

However I was told in no uncertain terms that these were the only records held. I am astounded.

There was a clear protocol for a ‘death on CONI scheme’, (As outlined by Emery and others)

The original paper states:

We studied all deaths in 6373 infants who had completed the CONI programme by December, 1999. After a CONI death, we made detailed enquiries into the previous death and the CONI death, including a family interview, a review of autopsies, and case discussion.

My children died pre 1999 and so by default would have been included in this paper.

However those that released the few papers detailed above deny any involvement after my son’s death, they and the authors of these papers refuse to answer specific questions in relation to my children’s inclusion in these papers.

Those that released these scant records to me deny that any information in relation to my children’s deaths was obtained.

I find this hard to believe especially has I have already said that Emery had stated in ‘other papers’ that my children died from probable inborn metabolic disorder and or familial cause. How could he reach these conclusions WITHOUT these records?

Though the people that released these scant records deny obtaining any post mortem records or information in relation to my children, in the papers released to me by them there was one page of the Official Coroners record, this could only have been obtained either from the Pathologist or the Coroner, which tells me that CONI did indeed request/obtain records in relation to my children.

We were visited at home by one of the authors of these papers pre my son’s birth and post his death. (As per the protocol for birth and death on scheme.) Recruitment of my child’s GP, Health Visitor and Paediatricians was secured by this person in relation to co operation and participation in their research. (As per their own protocol).

If no records were obtained re my children’s deaths, then why the visit to us as per their own protocol, why the recruitment of the GP, Health Visitor and Paediatricians? Any data gathered would be useless as research, WITHOUT complete records in relation to my children’s lives and deaths. So far the person who visited has declined to answer.

John Emery, sadly now deceased, contacted the Pathologist on the day of my son’s Post Mortem. (Though researchers at CONI deny this contact took place, I have the evidence to show this contact did indeed take place)

If it is true that CONI/Emery did not contact the pathologist and that records were NOT collected in relation to my children, then my children’s apparent inclusion in these papers means that these papers are worthless as research, they are based on incomplete data, their own ‘protocols’ for a death on scheme were not followed and it also means that they could not possibly have reached the conclusions they did based on ‘evidence’.

I say it would also mean the revisiting of these papers by Carpenter et al and Bacon and Hey is based upon flawed data.

One has to ask how many other children’s data used in these papers is incomplete.

If they did indeed have this data in relation to my children, then this means that the authors of these papers are withholding this data from the parents of the children they have ‘researched’. Data that parents have a right to have, worse still, it maybe that this data may aid some parents in legal proceedings and that gross miscarriages of justice may have occurred. Data they are withholding.

As a parent this data is apparently not available locally in relation to my own children. Therefore it is reasonable to assume that there may be parents involved in legal proceedings whose records in relation to their children have also ‘gone missing’. These parents, like my self previously, may not be aware that this data is apparently held or at least accessible by the authors of these papers. I certainly would not have been aware of my children’s apparent inclusion in published papers if I had not set about this path in recent years. The authors of these papers certainly do not volunteer this information to parents.

As I have said if the authors of these papers did not have this data in relation to my children and included them in research papers without this data, then these papers are worthless as research and deserve the criticisms levied against them. If Bacon and Hey also used incomplete data then they too will deserve such criticisms.

They CANNOT have it both ways.

I have contacted the authors of these papers in recent months and put it to them that to have apparently included my children in these papers, the authors must have been in possession of the entire records in relation to my children. I put it to them that to have apparently included my children in these papers based on the scant records released by CONI would have been professional suicide.

I have asked the authors of these papers to confirm or deny that my children were included in any of these papers, to date they have not even acknowledged my request. I have been stone walled by these ‘authors’.

I also put it them that in relation to my own children ‘they made detailed enquiries into the previous death and the CONI death, including a family interview, a review of autopsies, and case discussions took place’. I put it too them that I could not believe that their own protocols were not followed in relation to my own child’s death. A family interview did indeed take place pre and post my child’s death. Was I really expected to believe that a review of autopsy, detailed enquiries and case discussions did not take place? I think not.

I asked the authors of these papers what form the detailed enquries into my children’s lives and deaths took, were records and samples obtained? I asked if a review of my own children’s autopsies had taken place and what this entailed, I asked if a case discussion had taken place in relation to my own children and what data was used in these ‘discussions’. I asked the authors of these papers to release to me any and all data that they had used in preparation of these papers in accordance with their own protocols, relating to my own children…….. 2 months later I am still awaiting a response.

Certain quarters have actually told me that they now refuse to acknowledge or answer my questions, concerns or requests.

The point is that the authors of these papers CANNOT have it both ways. They either have these records or they don’t.

They either based these papers on complete data or they didn’t.

They included my children or they didn’t.

I say that these papers are not open to scrutiny by the very parents of the children they include.

With regards to Professor Meadow being right or wrong, I have evidence to show that in my area the SIDS rate was relatively high, especially amongst the Royal Naval Community. In at least 3 military married quarter estates there were a higher percentage of SIDS deaths then amongst the civilian population. In one area alone there were over 6 SIDS deaths in just over 18 months.

I am in possession of a letter from a Pathologist which states:
These multiple SIDS cases are very worrying. We have had several down here of three’s and fours and despite every care it seems impossible to do anything about it. All of the investigations seem to turn out negative and we even had one who was admitted to hospital because the parents were thought to be responsible and the baby died suddenly in the ward.

My city was one of 10 areas that was aiding and assisting SIDs researchers. It is clear that some of the authors of these papers were actively involved in research in my own area at the time of my children’s deaths in fact at the time of all 40+ SIDS deaths. Is it coincidence that the post mortem files in relation to these children ‘cannot be found’?

It is also clear that parental involvement within the deaths in my own area was foremost in the minds of all professionals involved. I have data that shows that parental involvement in these deaths was investigated and signs and symptoms of abuse actively sought.

In 2 years in one city it is clear that there were other families that had suffered 2 SIDS deaths. (This is confirmed by ‘other sources’) Families that had little or no connection with each other and families that lived in separate parts of the city. The only real connection between them being that the majority of deaths were amongst the military community.

To say that the chance of 2 SIDs deaths is rare is disproved by events in my own city.

With regards to Ms Blakemore Brown’s response:

My own child died within 36 hours of having his vaccines. My first child died approx 2 weeks after vaccines. I know of one other family (in my own city) whose child died within 24 hours of having vaccines. The parents were convinced that their child died as a result of the vaccines and actually told the pathologist when he gave the cause of death as SIDS that they thought there had been a ‘cover up’.

I have recently had released to me vaccination records for my children, (records that have taken over 5+ years to get released, records whose very existence was denied 5+ years ago) these say that I gave permission for my child to have his vaccines 2 weeks after he died! Why would I give permission for a dead child to have vaccines? There are other worrying discrepancies.

I find it interesting that the majority of deaths within my own area occurred on or around the time of vaccines being due. I understand that one ‘batch’ of these vaccines would have been enough to vaccinate the children of my own city. Was this a ‘hot’ lot?

Maybe the authors of these papers need to look at these issues; I would be interested to know why the subject of vaccine involvement in SIDS is completely ignored in these papers.

What is clear is that the authors of these papers do not take kindly to parents asking questions re their children’s data. Preferring to completely ignore parental requests, concerns and questions. I have been effectively stone walled by these authors. Why is that I have to ask?

Surely if the system is now, yet again, being encouraged to think of mothers as murderers, the authors of these papers cannot be selective in their reporting nor can theses authors base their reporting on incomplete data. Mothers like me, who have lost babies, fully welcome any discussions and research into the causes of their deaths but please don’t demonise and patronise us. We just need the truth.

Many thanks
A mum
Devon

25.07.07
I would like to make an addition to my response:

Carpenter said in his 2005 paper:
Repeat sudden unexpected and unexplained infant deaths: natural or unnatural
http://www.firstcandle.org/FC-PDF4/Research_Recent%20Studies/Infanticide%20or%20SIDS.pdf

We studied all deaths in 6373 infants who had completed the CONI programme by December 1999

Carpenter clarifies this further in this paper:
The Care of Next Infant (CONI) scheme, which started in
1988, was available in 75% of health districts in England,
Wales, and Northern Ireland by 1994 and is currently
available in 91%.

My second child was enrolled in this programme pre birth pre 1988. 1 other surviving child was enrolled pre 1988. This 'programme' was certainly up and running pre 1988. The name of the programme changed over time.

It seems that the Carpenter et al paper also cannot be taken seriously, setting aside my earlier concerns above, Carpenter et al have apparently only included babies since 1988, when Emery’s original paper apparently included babies that had died much earlier (including my own). If this is supposed to be a serious reworking of Emery’s original paper then Carpenter et al cannot be selective in what they leave out. Omitting whole years of data calls into question the credibility of this paper.

Emery said in his 1993 paper:
Acta Paediatr. 1993 Oct;82(10):873-6. Links
Recurrence of unexpected infant death.
Wolkind S, Taylor EM, Waite AJ, Dalton M, Emery JL.
Maudsley Hospital, London, UK.
Families which had experienced two or more unexpected infant deaths were the subject of detailed confidential enquiries, including necropsy examination. Cases were derived from two main sources: first, deaths occurring during a nationwide programme of support for families with a subsequent baby (8 families) plus 2 families from a series of confidential enquiries in Sheffield, and second, direct referrals from paediatricians (17 families). Fifty-seven deaths were studied. Twenty-four families had experienced 2 and three had experienced 3 deaths; 11 deaths (19%) were found to be adequately explained by history or post-mortem findings; 7 (12%) were probably accidental; 31 (55%) were most probably due to an action by one of the parents (filicide); only 5 (9%) were considered to be true or idiopathic sudden infant death syndrome; in 3 (5%) cases there was insufficient information to draw a conclusion. Five (18%) of the families lived in circumstances of serious social deprivation. A history of psychiatric illness was present in one or both parents in 18 (67%) of the families.

I say that Emery included my children in this paper.

However if he did not then why not? If this is the case then these papers are indeed selective in the children they represent.

I cannot get the authors of these papers to confirm of deny that data from my children was used in ANY of these papers, they refuse to answer and prefer silence.

A simple confirmation or denial as to my children’s inclusion and their data by these authors would be nice; surely I am allowed to know what research my children were involved in?

Or is it that I have them between a rock and a hard place? To say that they did seek detailed data from my children would mean that I have been lied to (and can prove it), it would mean that data has been withheld from me and it would also mean that permission was NOT sought from myself to seek and include this data which would open these ‘authors’ up to litigation. Or,

If they didn’t seek this information then this opens up these papers to legitimate criticism.

As a further addendum:

I emailed Dr Bacon:

This is his response:Dear XXXXXXX Thank you for your email. What you've told me is most distressing, and I should certainly like to help you if I could. However I'm afraid I'm not in a position myself to provide the information you seek. In preparing our paper Dr Hey and I used only the information given in the report by Professor Carpenter. We didn't know the identity of any of the cases, and we didn't see any other medical records or notes. Professor Carpenter states that his team studied all the available information about each case, but I don't know whether this always included the medical records. He or XXXXXX, who was in the team, could best advise you on this. In the 1980s, when cases were used in research, copies of the medical records were sometimes made for the researchers, while the originals stayed in the hospital where the patient was treated. Or sometimes the original notes were loaned out to the researchers on the understanding that they'd be returned later. Parents are now entitled to see the hospital medical records (which would normally include any post-mortem reports) of their children unless it's considered against the children's interest. You've probablyalready approached the hospital where your babies were taken when they died, but if you haven't, that's certainly worth trying. There may be a problem if the records have gone astray or have been routinely destroyed after a certain period. I don't know when you were last in contact with XXXXX, who coordinates the CONI programme. Most parents find her very helpful, and I'm sending her a copy of our email correspondence so that she can advise you if you decide to approach her again. I hope that this is some help, and that you'll be able to find some respite from the distress you've had for so many years. Yours sincerely, Christopher Bacon I would like to thank Dr Bacon for his response; he is the only one that has responded. However it is clear that Dr Bacon was not in possession of the records in relation to these children he simply based his ‘report’ on the Carpenter paper. The question has to be asked, what ‘data’ did Carpenter et al base their ‘paper’ upon? Given the ‘evidence’ I have gathered it seems that Carpenter et al based their ‘paper’ on incomplete data? I have approached XXXXX at CONI, however I am told NOT to contact her again and only contact her ‘Risk Management Officer’. Her ‘Risk Management Officer’ refuses to acknowledge my requests let alone respond to them. Why this heavy handed treatment when all I ask is reasonable legitimate questions in relation to my children, surely I have a right to know? I have approached Prof Carpenter and the co authors of the paper, 2+ months later I am still awaiting an acknowledgement, let alone a response. What is clear is that the ‘authors’ of these papers do not like parents asking questions about their children’s ‘data’ and its inclusion in ‘research’. I am treated appallingly by the very people who profess to care for parents like myself, why? …….Because I am asking difficult questions.

Nancy Hokkanen and Kim Stagliano - on the Cover up of vaccine damage and Autism

2007-07-21T02:40:00.000-07:00

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kim-stagliano/its-like-this-autism-_b_56599.html

Dan Olmsted on 'the story of a lifetime'- environmentally induced autism

2007-07-20T03:28:00.000-07:00

Dan has written 113 articles on this issue and even though this will be his last for UPI, he will not be stopping writing about Autism and its causes.

His concerns were raised early on when he found that there had been NO STUDIES of vaccinated versus unvaccinated children. WHY???

http://www.upi.com/inc/view.php?StoryID=20070717-103005-5761r

MMR, Mercury and the Mystery surrounding my book

2007-07-15T08:52:00.000-07:00

Tomorrow at the General Medical Council will start the case against Dr Andrew Wakefield and two other Doctors who raised concerns about children they assessed in the nineties, very worried that the problems they found were linked to adverse reactions to the MMR vaccine.

As there has been an almighty reaction by the Pharmaceutical lobby there has been NO public debate on exactly what has been going on.

In my book, Reweaving the Autistic Tapestry, having seen too many children with what I called 'tapestry impairments' many of which developed following the DTP and in fewer cases, the MMR, I suggested there may be a 'tapestry' causal effect with vaccines as one thread.

I mentioned Thimerosal and included some lawyers details here and in the US.

The launch of the book was at a CHADD conference in Anaheim California in October 2001. Eli Lilly were on the next stand and bought a copy of the book.

On my return to the UK there was no contact from the publisher.

Within weeks of my book being published parents were being told by Amazon that it was a 'rare book' and that it would take a year to get and would cost $79 plus post and packing!!!

There were none in the shops.

There were none in the warehouses of the retailers.

There were none in the Distributors.

The UK National Autistic Society carry all the books on Autism - except mine.

Probably nothing to do with my concerns about the vaccine, a small part of the book incidentally, or about my concern about the use of the label Munchausen Syndrome by proxy when children were genuinely ill - many had suffered reactions to vaccines. The fact that during the time my Editor was working on the book he was invited to change jobs and work on the MSBP/Factitious Illness Guidlelines at the RCPCH - Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, I am sure was total coincidence.

Guess I'm just paranoid when it comes to the things done by the powerful vaccine lobby and the need to protect the vaccine programme more than the public...

Prior to the documentary My Family and Autism being aired on the BBC, over a year after the trip to Anaheim, in which I am seen undertaking an assessment, I was able to at least get the book made more accessible.

If just one person is allowed to speak about their concerns without being leapt on from a great height, I might have confidence that the vaccine programme is safe - but I think they have gone too far and protested too much.

We all now want to know WHY???

Florida Today on Weldon's victory to take Mercury out of flu vaccines " Mercury is a neurotoxin"

2007-07-15T08:48:00.000-07:00

"Mercury is a neurotoxin considered harmful to the developing central nervous system of fetuses and infants."

http://www.floridatoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070713/BUSINESS/707130334/1003

Victory for parents - Weldon succeeds in BANNING MERCURY FROM VACCINES IN US

2007-07-15T08:34:00.000-07:00

http://www.pharmalive.com/News/index.cfm?articleid=458376&categoryid=10

Mail on Sunday highlights the terrible suffering of a child who reacted after MMR

2007-07-15T07:35:00.000-07:00

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/columnists/mailonsunday.html?in_article_id=468440&in_page_id=1791

'Chemical exposure' linked to autism - MERCURY IN VACCINES???

2007-07-09T03:57:00.002-07:00

At last it seems to be dawning on the very slow UK autism specialists and the media - myself excluded, as I have been saying this for years - that there is a much higher rate of autism than ever before - 1 in 58 now, yet 1 in 10,000 not so long ago. That represents AN EPIDEMIC of a totally debilitating disorder often accompanied by serious immune system impairments and painful bowel conditions. Asthma and ADHD are often part of what I have termed the 'tapestry' of disorders on the rise in our so called civilised Western world.

You cannot have genetic epidemics, so this is something else - and it is too rapid and large an increase to just be better diagnosis, especially in a country where politicians have tried to prevent diagnoses of autism by various means.

Simon Baron-C0hen who has inherited the genetic condition of sitting on the fence until the dust dies down - unlike his cousin Sasha - nevertheless is willing to whisper that maaayyybbbeee.... chemical exposure through pollutants could have something to do with this massive increase.

At last we have at least ONE answer which fits with concerns about certain vaccines and their effect on the developing system. Deadly toxic MERCURY, astonishingly, has been used in vaccines since 1930.

It forms 49.6% of the preservative THIMEROSAL.

This preservative was used by Eli Lilly in 1928 after it was found that children were dying after using multi-dose vials of vaccine. So bacteria was being spread from one to the other. The multi-dose vials were used to SAVE MONEY and MAKE MORE PROFITS FOR THE SHAREHOLDERS.

Ok. So clearly something had to be done. The choice:

1. Give single vaccines
2. Give multi-dose vaccines but use a preservative to kill off the bacteria.

Number 1 would have cost more, so Number 2 was chosen. It still is chosen, for flu vaccines and the Third World, whose millions don't have a clue what's happening, just as we didn't.

The trial of the vaccines containing this preservative was used on 22 dying meningitis patients.

Not surprisingly, it was not possible to fully test whether the product was dangerous, because the subjects were dying anyway. This confounding factor would have made it impossible to establish whether they died earlier than they should because of the vaccine, or because of the meningitis.

Political protection of Eli Lilly and indeed the vaccine industry as a whole in the West has ensured that this little story has never properly been told to the public, nor has Thimerosal in vaccines ever been tested properly.

But the concerns about the toxicity of this product have never subsided - albeit away from the public eye and usually quickly dismissed or mocked by Big Pharma shills if anything did sneak out.

If Baron-Cohen is right and chemical exposure can cause damage to people - and this is not rocket science - and this damage could lead to neurodevelopmental disorders which could include autism - then we are home and dry. MERCURY is the second most deadliest toxic metal on this earth - WHY WAS IT EVER PUT IN VACCINES?

Autism was first described a few years after Mercury was used in vaccines, when suddenly Kanner and Asperger, working across the world from each other in Austria and the US, began to see the same thing in the late 1930's.

The numbers remained much the same over the decades and autism was regarded as a rare disorder. Our focus was on diagnosis, education and forms of treatment. The National Autistic Society, set up by concerned parents in the 1960's, had its priorities right then. But, the message was always - "We don't know what causes this condition". Or " It's wholly genetic, don't have any more children". Tapestry thinking was a million miles away.

When my own interests in autism began in the 1970's, it was extremely rare. When you mentioned an autistic child to people they thought you were saying 'artistic' and no-one knew anything about it. When you say it now, everyone knows someone who has an autistic child.

This massive increase, now clear in these very late reports, shifted from a condition which came into professional consciousness in the 30's after the Mercury vaccine programme began in earnest across the West, and rapidly rose after the 1980's.

It is not a co-incidence that in the 1980's there was an accelerated Thimerosal containing DTP (Diptheria, Tetanus and Pertussis (Whooping Cough) ) programme which meant that babies were getting much more Mercury than they had previously been getting.

The shots were given to much younger infants, with obviously weaker immune systems, and the time between each vaccine was shortened.

US children were also given a shot on the first day of birth and more shots within the first few months of life, so they have seen an even more rapid rise in autism.

So much spin and big money given to those that weave it has blocked what is alarmingly obvious:

MERCURY IS A TOXIC METAL - A DEADLY POISON - AND HAS BEEN IN VACCINES SINCE 1930.

WHY?

What has it done to us all?

Why is public discussion prevented?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=WKK4IKDPVRDPVQFIQMGSFGGAVCBQWIV0?xml=/news/2007/07/08/nautism108.xml

UK finally gets there - WE HAVE AN AUTISM EPIDEMIC

2007-07-09T03:57:00.001-07:00

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2121521,00.html

Mercury side effects - courtesy of Tami in Seattle

2007-07-01T16:32:00.000-07:00

http://www.hbci.com/~wenonah/hydro/hg.htm

"All drugs have side effects" Glaxo Smith Kline quote

2007-07-01T02:55:00.000-07:00

As we know, the political spin machine has woven a story that there is no such thing as an adverse reaction or a side effect to a drug or vaccine, in order to slam the door shut of children damaged in such an iatrogenic way being recognised and compensated for it.

Knowing how that spin has resulted in smear campaigns and whitewashed reports masquerading as science and taken to similarly compromised Journals and Courts - all paid for by the pharmaceutical industry - makes this story all the more interesting.

http://seroxatsecrets.wordpress.com/2007/06/30/can-you-believe-they-really-said-this%E2%80%A6-reprise/

David Kirby - CDC has run out of excuses to do this vaccine research

2007-06-28T08:03:00.001-07:00

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-kirby/cdc-out-of-excuses-on-th_b_54088.html

Listen to Cedillo vaccine trial

2007-06-28T07:05:00.000-07:00

ftp://autism.uscfc.uscourts.gov/autism/index.html

Professor Gordon Stewart's warnings about DTP in the 1980's

2007-06-28T05:03:00.000-07:00

Professor Gordon Stewart was Emeritus Professor of Public Health into the eighties at the University of Glasgow when he began to have very serious concerns about the DTP vaccine. He was particularly worried about increasing reports of adverse reactions including convulsions and white shock after the vaccine in some children and death in some others. Professor Stewart worked with committees looking at these reactions, thought to be linked to the live pertussis antigen.

He was to be shocked when others in the committee were making public announcements that the vaccine was perfectly safe. He knew this was simply not the case.

Time moves on and political spin has whipped up a veritable confection trying to convince the public that there are no reactions to vaccine, even saying that reported adverse reactions are simply co-incidences.

Biological studies (see Dish of the Day below) on Thimerosal with its 49.6% Mercury content show the damage it can do to cells, the retina and to the way it collects in certain organs. Mercury's potential to draw live viruses to it as well as other vaccine ingredients is never even mentioned to the public.

Did Mercury draw the pertussis antigen to it, or did it act alone/separately? How will we know if the lies and spin continue despite the vast evidence of adverse reactions in VAERS in the US, the Yellow Card scheme in the UK, the Brighton Collaboration spanning both and through the work and warnings of men of high integrity such as Professor Gordon Stewart?

Read the recent Spectator article about the tragic case of Sally Clark whose children had just had vaccines when they died.

Other cases known to me of babies whose deaths followed the DTP ( and in some cases the MMR) also involved parents having to take the blame.

Professors who have remained completely silent on the issue of vaccines even when stood in Court speaking on Oath and who have led the way in this blame game, also sat on Adverse Reactions to Vaccination Committees. One of these is Professor Sir Roy Meadow who said there was a 73 million to 1 chance that Sally Clark's two babies died 'naturally'. Meaning that she must have killed them. No mention of the vaccines.

Professor David Southall has also been involved in studies linked to CONI schemes - Care of the Next Infant, run by the FSID (Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths) - after a baby died. Many died after a vaccine but he never mentions that either.

Could it be that for 25 years certain powerful individals have crafted theories to blame parents for the evidence of adverse reactions to vaccines set down right before their eyes? whilst others battled in vain to protect the public by raising concerns?

Will a new British Government headed by Gordon Brown, now, finally, protect the public and expose what has been happening to so many children ?

http://www.spectator.co.uk/archive/30630/what-killed-sally-clarks-child.thtml

The Tapestry of disorders is becoming all too obvious

2007-06-28T04:45:00.001-07:00

In the early nineties I began to see that the usual approaches to diagnosis with black and white diagnostic methods were not that helpful. So many children then emerging fell through the net.

That is because they were increasingly complex. They had a complex interweave of conditions - such as the Autism, ADHD and Asthma Generation Rescue finds as being higher in vaccinated boys. It was then that I began to use the metaphor of the Tapestry.

There also seemed at that stage to probably be a complex interweave of causes and certainly there need to be a complex interweave of interventions to maximise the chances of success so the metaphor worked on various levels of explanation.

Tragically and astonishingly, the system has done all in its power to deny this tapestry, and to play games with diagnosis and indeed with those doing the diagnosing.

Once respectable professionals now take the stand one after the other against children to talk about studies with clear conflicts of interest as a glance at the transcripts in the Cedillo case now running in New York will show. Shame on them.

It all started with that tapestry of corruption - Big Pharma in bed with Governments and now we have a tapestry of crippling life-long disorders in the lucky ones who survive adverse reactions to vaccinations. But until the tapestry of disorders and the causes are fully understood by the public, the majority of these children will continue to suffer as we have not even begun to address their complex needs as we should in our so called advanced society.

Vaccinated Boys twice as likely to have autism/ADHD and Asthma - Generation Rescue survey

2007-06-28T04:43:00.000-07:00

http://www.generationrescue.org/survey.html

The FIVE YEAR STRUGGLE for parents to get this to Court

2007-06-14T09:23:00.000-07:00

This schedule provides a glimpse at the struggle parents have been put through and the extraordinary lengths the system will go to in order to prevent the public becoming aware of a well known phenomenon - adverse reactions to vaccinations in some children.

http://www.uscfc.uscourts.gov/OSM/AutismDocket.htm

AChamps Daily report on the Vaccine Court cases

2007-06-14T08:07:00.000-07:00

http://achampblog.org/2007/06/11/day-1-the-first-hearing-begins-achamps-daily-report-on-cedillo-case-by-mary-holland-esq.aspx?results=1

Madeleine McCann - another victim

2007-06-13T13:36:00.000-07:00

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Thimerosal and MMR can combine to cause Autism: DAY ONE OF VACCINE TRIAL NEW YORK

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Dish of the Day: Red Herrings stuffed with Thimerosal - guaranteed 49.5% Mercury. Lisa Blakemore Brown 5th March 2005 British Medical Journal

2007-06-13T03:28:00.000-07:00

Dish of the Day: Red Herrings stuffed with Thiomersal - guaranteed 49.5% Mercury.
5 March 2005

Lisa C Blakemore-Brown, Psychologist UK based
Send response to journal: Re: Dish of the Day: Red Herrings stuffed with Thiomersal - guaranteed 49.5% Mercury.
Thiomersal/Thimerosal, a preservative developed in the late 1920's was manufactured by Eli Lilly and has been routinely used in vaccines and many other products since that time.
Thiomersal/Thimerosal contains 49.5% ethyl mercury. Methyl mercury is known to accumulate in fish and for this reason there is a safe daily limit for the amount of mercury adults are advised to not exceed. This is 0.1 mcg of Methyl Mercury per kilogram of weight. Babies have been given 25 microgrammes in each of the following vaccines: whole cell DTP and Hib, and the Hep B in the US. During this same period many very small premature babies have survived whereas in the past they would not have done so.
Over the course of the last century, individuals were given single vaccines with single amounts of mercury, but with the introduction of triple vaccines the amount of mercury contained within the preservative was multiplied and the cumulative effects are only just now being discovered by the public. Early papers on autism and battered baby syndrome appeared following the introduction of vaccines containing this preservative in the 30's and 40's and following the introduction of triple vaccines there has been an epidemic of autism - and genetic epidemics do not occur without some outside influence. It is also interesting that the Shaken Baby Syndrome and parent blame theories for odd medical presentations, have also vastly increased since these triple vaccines were brought in.
Thiomersal is still used in flu vaccines and other products but has been phased out in many childhood vaccines, but only very recently. For the UK it was August 2004 when the announcement was made.
Public Health agencies around the world have known about concerns with this neurotoxin for some years, and certainly since 1997 when the US Congress passed the FDA Modernization Act requiring the FDA to review all drugs that contained Mercury and determine their effect on humans. (3)
In 2000, recognising the cumulative amount of mercury in the triple vaccines, the FDA stated that children were receiving levels of mercury via this preservative far in excess of the 'safe' guidelines. Rough estimates suggested a child could be injected with 40 times the amount of mercury considered safe (3)
Despite the expected red herring arguments of the defensive, and the collaborative efforts of many countries to handle worrying data, many lab studies have explored the toxic effects of Thiomersal in humans and animals.
Evidence that Thiomersal can create changes at cellular level is rife in the literature (6,7,14,17,18.)A recent study concluded 'thimerosal is genotoxic in the cytochalasin B block micronucleus test with human lymphocytes. These data raise some concern on the widespread use of thimerosal.'(12)
Changes to phenotypes have been recognised (13) and the tapestry model allows for these various synergistic effects. For instance, it has been consistently shown that Thiomersal(Thimerosal) is a neurotoxin which is linked to the depletion of the protective anti-oxidant, glutathione (1,13,14,15,18,19)and that some individuals are more susceptible than others to such effects (4,16) Autistic individuals have been found to have lowered levels of glutathione and to have greater difficulties excreting mercury.
It is not impossible that earlier generations of constitutionally susceptible individuals were affected by the Mercury in their very early vaccinations, phenotypes were altered and in turn their offspring increased their risk factors for susceptibility to mercury damage.
Such susceptibilities, combined with an already weak immune system - in a baby. a medically vulnerable individual or an elderly person - further increase the risk factors.
As the changes triggered by Thiomersal appear at cellular level, including cell death and increased cellular permeability, it is not surprising that many forms of impairment are found.
'Exposure to organic mercury leads to primarily neurologic effects but a number of other organ systems may also be involved, including gastrointestinal, respiratory, hepatic, immune, dermal, and renal.' (2) Travis Haws has discussed Louis Reik's Disseminated Vasculomyelinopathy:an Immune Complex Disease relating to the multiple effects of infection once the immune system has been compromised. (20)
Effects of the preservative in preparations have found retinal (21) and corneal damage. (22)
The consistent reference to allergic effects and immune system interference (4, 5) maps onto my own findings that early vaccines seemed to trigger various allergies and intolerances in some children (See CASE ONE 2004 ebmj as an example taken directly from the medical notes)
My very early observations during the mid to late 1990's was that it was these medically vulnerable and allergic individuals who were more likely to have reacted to the MMR - which contains no Thiomersal. (23) Unfortunately because of Red Herring arguments and denial of what is known, we have yet to fully explore in a scientific way, why so many children reacted to vaccines.
In 2000 a meeting held in Simpsonwood US, revealed significant findings in a study by Verstraeten in relation to the emergence of a variety of neurodevelopmental disorders including tics, ADHD, speech and language and motor impairments - and Thiomersal. It has taken the Freedom of Information Act to expose what was shown in that meeting - and the steps taken to cover it up.
The epidemic of health and developmental problems in so called advanced countries is now undeniable. 1 in 10 children suffer from gastrointestinal disorders, 1 in 4 have asthma. A colleague last week mentioned that out of 16 children on a school trip involving his child, 15 had asthma. Children are arriving at school unable to use a knife and fork, pay attention or understand their social worlds, highly sensitised to all aspects of the real world.
When we have removed the Red Herrings - and those who cook them up - we might begin to take responsibility again for the health of millions across the world.
Refs:
1: Neurotoxicology. 2005 Jan;26(1):1-8.
Thimerosal neurotoxicity is associated with glutathione depletion: protection with glutathione precursors.
James SJ, Slikker W 3rd, Melnyk S, New E, Pogribna M, Jernigan S.
Department of Pediatrics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and Arkansas Children's Hospital Research Institute, Little Rock, AR 72202, USA. jamesjill@uams.edu
Thimerosol is an antiseptic containing 49.5% ethyl mercury that has been used for years as a preservative in many infant vaccines and in flu vaccines. Environmental methyl mercury has been shown to be highly neurotoxic, especially to the developing brain. Because mercury has a high affinity for thiol (sulfhydryl (-SH)) groups, the thiol-containing antioxidant, glutathione (GSH), provides the major intracellular defense against mercury-induced neurotoxicity. Cultured neuroblastoma cells were found to have lower levels of GSH and increased sensitivity to thimerosol toxicity compared to glioblastoma cells that have higher basal levels of intracellular GSH. Thimerosal-induced cytotoxicity was associated with depletion of intracellular GSH in both cell lines. Pretreatment with 100 microM glutathione ethyl ester or N-acetylcysteine (NAC), but not methionine, resulted in a significant increase in intracellular GSH in both cell types. Further, pretreatment of the cells with glutathione ethyl ester or NAC prevented cytotoxicity with exposure to 15 microM Thimerosal. Although Thimerosal has been recently removed from most children's vaccines, it is still present in flu vaccines given to pregnant women, the elderly, and to children in developing countries. The potential protective effect of GSH or NAC against mercury toxicity warrants further research as possible adjunct therapy to individuals still receiving Thimerosal-containing vaccinations.
2: Toxicol Ind Health. 2002 Apr;18(3):109-60.
Organic mercury compounds: human exposure and its relevance to public health.
Risher JF, Murray HE, Prince GR.
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, Division of Toxicology, Toxicology Information Branch, Clifton Road, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA.
Humans may be exposed to organic forms of mercury by either inhalation, oral, or dermal routes, and the effects of such exposure depend upon both the type of mercury to which exposed and the magnitude of the exposure. In general, the effects of exposure to organic mercury are primarily neurologic, while a host of other organ systems may also be involved, including gastrointestinal, respiratory, hepatic, immune, dermal, and renal. While the primary source of exposure to organic mercury for most populations is the consumption of methylmercury-contaminated fish and shellfish, there are a number of other organomercurials to which humans might be exposed. The antibacterial and antifungal properties of organomercurials have resulted in their long use as topical disinfectants (thimerosal and merbromin) and preservatives in medical preparations (thimerosal) and grain products (both methyl and ethyl mercurials). Phenylmercury has been used in the past in paints, and dialkyl mercurials are still used in some industrial processes and in the calibration of certain analytical laboratory equipment. The effects of exposure to different organic mercurials by different routes of exposure are summarized in this article.
3. Trade Off: Vaccine Maker Profits and Autism. Evelyn Pringle . Independent News Media. 4th March 2005
4: Med Pr. 2001;52(1):45-51.
[Genetic polymorphism of glutathione s-transferase as a factor predisposing to allergic dermatitis]
[Article in Polish]
Lutz W, Tarkowski M, Nowakowska E.
Zakladu Diagnostyki Laboratoryjnej, Instytutu Medycyny Pracy, Lodzi.
In the inductive phase of contact allergic dermatitis, simple chemical compounds (haptens) produce together with epidermic proteins adducts presented by Langerhans cells to T lymphocytes. Binding to protein carrier is a necessary condition of transforming a low-molecular allergen into immunogenic one and evoking immunological reaction. The production of allergen adducts with proteins is conditioned by the presence of electrophilic groups in their molecules, or their acquiring during biotransformation phase I. Active allergen metabolites undergo further alterations during biotransformation phase II which leads most frequently to the decline in their chemical activity and more rapid excretion from the body. The number of reactive metabolites (reactive allergens) available for producing adducts with proteins keeps the balance between activation and deactivation reactions. Glutathione S-transferases play a particular role in the allergens (or their metabolites) deactivation process in biotransformation phase II. These enzymes catalyse reactions responsible for the declined electrophilic potential of allergens (or their metabolites), and thus for the decrease in the number of allergen molecules able to produce protein covalent bindings (adducts). Glutathione S-transferases, occurring in the human cellular cytoplasm belong to five classes: alpha(GST A), mu(GST M), theta(GST P), pi(GST T) and Z(GST Z), as well as to one class present in microsomes. The study indicated the presence of isoenzymes GST T1 and GST M1 in the skin. Both isoforms participate in the process of low-molecular allergen biotransformation. Carriers of defective genes GST T1 and/or GST M1 are more vulnerable to allergenic effect of some allergens, e.g. thimerosal, which is associated with the absence of or decrease in the activity of isoenzymes GST T1 and GST M1.
5: Cell Biol Toxicol. 1999 Feb;15(1):57-62.
Mechanisms of drug-induced allergic contact dermatitis.
Lebrec H, Bachot N, Gaspard I, Kerdine S, Guinnepain MT, Laurent J, Pallardy M.
INSERM U 461, Faculte de Pharmacie Paris Sud, Chatenay-Malabry, France. hlebrec@infobiogen.fr
Allergic contact dermatitis is induced by a wide variety of drugs that trigger specific immune responses following topical exposure. Identified chemical structures involved in such reactions include the mercuric and thiosalicylic acid groups of thimerosal, the diphenylketone group of the anti- inflammatory drug ketoprofen, the amide or ester structure of local anesthetics, and the side-chain and thiazolidine ring of beta-lactams. The T cell responses to such compounds involve CD4+ and CD8+ alphabeta+ T lymphocytes and also CD4 /CD8 gammadelta+ T cells. Although "T helper 2" cytokine production by drug- specific human T cells from patients with allergic contact dermatitis has been described, T helper 1-like and T cytotoxic 1-like responses clearly play key roles in this cutaneous reaction.
6. Int J Biochem. 1994 Jan;26(1):93-6.
Effect of thimerosal on cytosolic calcium and phosphatidylserine synthesis in Jurkat T cells.
Pelassy C, Breittmayer JP, Ticchioni M, Aussel C.
INSERM U343, Faculte de Medecine, Nice, France.
1. We investigated the effect of the thiol reagent, thimerosal on calcium movements in the Jurkat T cell line. 2. Thimerosal induced a rise in cytosolic Ca2+ concentration due both to a release of Ca2+ from intracellular stores and a Ca2+ influx. 3. Thimerosal, released Ca2+ from the same intracellular stores than CD3 mAb and ionomycin. 4. Emptying the Ca2+ intracellular stores was accompanied by a marked decrease of phosphatidylserine synthesis indicating that phosphatidylserine synthesis occurs within or close to the endoplasmic reticulum Ca(2+)-stores as previously described in CD3-, ionomycin- or Ca(2+)-ATPase inhibitor-treated lymphocytes.
7. Biochim Biophys Acta. 1992 Oct 19;1111(1):65-74.
Effect of the sulfhydryl reagent thimerosal on cytosolic free Ca2+ and membrane potential of thymocytes.
Gukovskaya AS, Trepakova ES, Zinchenko VP, Korystov YN, Bezuglov VV.
Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Biophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Moscow Region.
The sulfhydryl reagent thimerosal at concentrations 5-100 microM has been found to induce a variety of changes in ion transport in rat thymocytes. In particular, [Ca2+]i increases about 10-fold from the basal level. The [Ca2+]i response to thimerosal displays a two-stage time course, with the main [Ca2+]i rise during the second stage. Evidence has been obtained for the depletion of intracellular Ca2+ pools in thimerosal-treated cells, however, Ca2+ mobilization from intracellular stores does not contribute significantly into [Ca2+]i rise. Thimerosal elicits permeability not only for Ca2+, but also for Mn2+ and Ni2+, which is Ca(2+)-dependent. We failed to get any evidence on thimerosal- induced inhibition of the plasma membrane Ca(2+)-ATPase. The induction of Ca2+ influx, rather than inhibition of Ca(2+)-ATPase, accounts for the disturbance of [Ca2+]i homeostasis in thimerosal-treated cells. Thimerosal also elicits changes in monovalent ion fluxes resulting in marked depolarization. The latter seems unrelated to the changes in [Ca2+]i and is suggested to be mediated both by increased permeability for Na+ and a decreased one for K+. Thimerosal significantly stimulates AA release from thymocytes. Evidence has been presented that AA metabolite(s), probably, LO product(s), may mediate the changes in the transport of mono- and divalent cations elicited by the sulfhydryl reagent. Prolonged treatment of thymocytes with thimerosal resulted in cell death.
8. Lancet. 1991 Aug 3;338(8762):315-6.
Ecotoxicol Environ Saf. 1985 Oct;10(2):150-8.
Effect of organomercurial poisoning on the peripheral blood and metabolite levels of a freshwater fish.
Gill TS, Pant JC.
This work evaluated the hematological and biochemical changes in the fish, Puntius conchonius, under experimental organomercurial poisoning. Long- term (8 weeks) exposure to 3.63 and 6.03 mg/liter methoxyethyl mercuric chloride (MEMC) (0.2 and 0.33 fractions of 96-hr LC50) led to morphological aberrations in mature erythrocytes including nuclear and cytoplasmic deterioration, vacuolation, chromatin condensation, and hypochromia. Immature erythrocytes showing membrane leakage were also encountered. Erythrocyte count and hemoglobin (Hb) were significantly lowered after 1 and 3 weeks followed by a marginal rise persisting upto 8 weeks. Differential leucocyte counts revealed significant thrombocytopenia, lymphocytosis, and neutropenia. Collateral evaluation of blood glucose and tissue glycogen levels revealed significant hyperglycemia as well as glycogen depletion in liver and brain. Heart glycogen content evinced a substantial increase after 5 and 8 weeks exposure.
9. Rev Neurol (Paris). 1979;135(11):827-33.
[Morvan's fibrillary chorea]
[Article in French]
de Bray JM, Emile J, Basle M, Morer T, Bastard J.
Two cases of Morvan's chorea are reported. One of the patients presented the characteristic of having had two attacks, the first after organic mercury preparations, and the second after gold salts for inflammatory rheumatism. The second case had facial fibrillations only, and this was followed by a regressive polyradiculoneuritis one month later. This latter case raises certain diagnostic problems. The existence of a particular type of immuno-allergic tendency could be validly related to a triggering effect of various etiological agents (metals such as mercury or gold salts, or infective agents). The absence of hypotonia, and a regressive course appear to be the characteristics that distinguish fibrillary chorea from the continuous activity syndrome of the muscle fibers described by Isaacs.
10. Contact Dermatitis. 1980 Jun;6(4):241-5.
Merthiolate hypersensitivity and vaccination.
Forstrom L, Hannuksela M, Kousa M, Lehmuskallio E.
Epicutaneous tests with 0.1% merthiolate in petrolatum showed hypersensitivity in 96 of 4647 eczema patients (2.0%) and in seven of 105 healthy recruits (7%). There was a marked preponderance of young age classes in the eczema group. Twelve of 41 merthiolate-positive patients tested reacted to mercury alone, three to thiosalicylic acid alone and one to both. The remaining 25 patients reacted to neither of the individual components although the merthiolate complex as a whole gave a positive test result. Forty-five of the merthiolate- positive patients were tested subcutaneously with 0.5 ml of a 0.01% merthiolate solution, i.e. a dose equal to that contained in one shot of tetanus toxoid, for example. Nine patients developed a local reaction at the site of the injection, and the area became eczematous in four cases. In one of the patients the eczema spread over the body, causing fever. Since merthiolate-sensitive patients also react to merthiolate administered intracutaneously, the vaccinator should avoid the use of a needle whose outer surface has been contaminated when the vaccine was aspirated from the bottle. However, even when this precautionary measure is taken, local reactions can be expected in such a high percentage of merthiolate-sensitive persons that merthiolate in vaccines should be replaced by another antibacterial agent.
11. Contact Dermatitis. 1986 Nov;15(5):309-10.
Reactions to merthiolate in infants.
Novak M, Kvicalova E, Friedlanderova B.
12. Arch Toxicol. 2003 Jan;77(1):50-5. Epub 2002 Nov 06.
Thimerosal induces micronuclei in the cytochalasin B block micronucleus test with human lymphocytes.
Westphal GA, Asgari S, Schulz TG, Bunger J, Muller M, Hallier E.
Department of Occupational Health, Georg-August-University Gottingen, Waldweg 37, 37073 Gottingen, Germany. gwestph@gwdg.de
Thimerosal is a widely used preservative in health care products, especially in vaccines. Due to possible adverse health effects, investigations on its metabolism and toxicity are urgently needed. An in vivo study on chronic toxicity of thimerosal in rats was inconclusive and reports on genotoxic effects in various in vitro systems were contradictory. Therefore, we reinvestigated thimerosal in the cytochalasin B block micronucleus test. Glutathione S-transferases were proposed to be involved in the detoxification of thimerosal or its decomposition products. Since the outcome of genotoxicity studies can be dependent on the metabolic competence of the cells used, we were additionally interested whether polymorphisms of glutathione S-transferases (GSTM1, GSTT1, or GSTP1) may influence the results of the micronucleus test with primary human lymphocytes. Blood samples of six healthy donors of different glutathione S-transferase genotypes were included in the study. At least two independent experiments were performed for each blood donor. Significant induction of micronuclei was seen at concentrations between 0.05-0.5 micro g/ml in 14 out of 16 experiments. Thus, genotoxic effects were seen even at concentrations which can occur at the injection site. Toxicity and toxicity-related elevation of micronuclei was seen at and above 0.6 micro g/ml thimerosal. Marked individual and intraindividual variations in the in vitro response to thimerosal among the different blood donors occurred. However, there was no association observed with any of the glutathione S-transferase polymorphism investigated. In conclusion, thimerosal is genotoxic in the cytochalasin B block micronucleus test with human lymphocytes. These data raise some concern on the widespread use of thimerosal.
13. Int J Hyg Environ Health. 2001 Jul;203(5-6):479-81.
Inhibition of the human erythrocytic glutathione-S-transferase T1 (GST T1) by thimerosal.
Muller M, Westphal G, Vesper A, Bunger J, Hallier E.
Department of Occupational and Social Medicine, Georg-August- University Gottingen, D-37073 Gottingen, Germany. mmuelle3@gwdg.de
We have investigated the interaction of thimerosal, a widely used antiseptic and preservative, with the human erythrocytic GST T1 (glutathione-S- transferase T1). This detoxifying enzyme is expressed in the erythrocytes of solely the human species and it displays a genetic polymorphism. Due to this polymorphism about 25% of the individuals of the caucasian population lack this activity ("non-conjugators"), while 75% show it ("conjugators") (Hallier, E., et al., 1993). Using our newly developed HPLC-fluorescence detection assay (Muller, M., et al., 2001) we have profiled the kinetics of enzyme inhibition in erythrocyte lysates of two individuals previously identified as "normal conjugator" (medium enzyme activity) and "super-conjugator" (very high activity). For the normal conjugator we have determined a 2.77 mM thimerosal concentration to inhibit 50% of the GST T1 activity. In the case of the super-conjugator a 2.3 mM thimerosal concentration causes a 50% inhibition of the enzyme activity. For both phenotypes a 14.8 mM thimerosal concentration results in residual enzyme activities equal to those typically detected in non-conjugator lysates. Thus, sufficiently high doses of thimerosal may be able to change the phenotypic status of an individual--at least in vitro--by inhibition of the GST T1 enzyme.
14. Int Arch Occup Environ Health. 2000 Aug;73(6):384-8.
Homozygous gene deletions of the glutathione S-transferases M1 and T1 are associated with thimerosal sensitization.
Westphal GA, Schnuch A, Schulz TG, Reich K, Aberer W, Brasch J, Koch P, Wessbecher R, Szliska C, Bauer A, Hallier E.
Abteilung fur Arbeits- und Sozialmedizin, Georg-August-Universitat Gottingen, Germany. gwestph@gwdg.de
OBJECTIVE: Thimerosal is an important preservative in vaccines and ophthalmologic preparations. The substance is known to be a type IV sensitizing agent. High sensitization rates were observed in contact-allergic patients and in health care workers who had been exposed to thimerosal-preserved vaccines. There is evidence for the involvement of the glutathione system in the metabolism of thimerosal or its decomposition products (organomercury alkyl compounds). Thus detoxification by polymorphically expressed glutathione S-transferases such as GSTT1 and GSTM1 might have a protective effect against sensitization by these substances. METHODS: To address this question, a case control study was conducted, including 91 Central European individuals with a positive patch-test reaction to thimerosal. This population was compared with 169 healthy controls and additionally with 114 individuals affected by an allergy against para-substituted aryl compounds. The latter population was included in order to test whether possible associations were due to substance-specific effects, or were a general feature connected with type IV immunological diseases. Homozygous deletions of GSTT1 and GSTM1 were determined by polymerase chain reaction. RESULTS: Glutathione S-transferase M1 deficiency was significantly more frequent among patients sensitized to thimerosal (65.9%, P = 0.013) compared with the healthy control group (49.1%) and the "para-compound" group (48%, P = 0.034). Glutathione S-transferase T1 deficiency in the thimerosal/mercury group (19.8%) was barely elevated versus healthy controls (16.0%) and the "para-compound" group (14.0%). The combined deletion (GSTT1-/GSTM1-) was markedly more frequent among thimerosal-sensitized patients than in healthy controls (17.6% vs. 6.5%, P = 0.0093) and in the "para- compound" group (17.6% vs. 6.1%, P =0.014), revealing a synergistic effect of these enzyme deficiencies (healthy controls vs. thimerosal GSTM1 negative individuals, OR = 2.0 [CI = 1.2-3.4], GSTT1-, OR = 1.2 [CI = 0.70-2.1], GSTM1/T1-, OR = 3.1 [CI = 1.4-6.5]). CONCLUSIONS: Since the glutathione-dependent system was repeatedly shown to be involved in the metabolism of thimerosal decomposition products, the observed association may be of functional relevance.
PMID: 11007341 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
15 Toxicol In Vitro. 2004 Oct;18(5):563-9.
Property of thimerosal-induced decrease in cellular content of glutathione in rat thymocytes: a flow cytometric study with 5-chloromethylfluorescein diacetate.
Ueha-Ishibashi T, Tatsuishi T, Iwase K, Nakao H, Umebayashi C, Nishizaki Y, Nishimura Y, Oyama Y, Hirama S, Okano Y.
Laboratory of Cellular Signaling, Faculty of Integrated Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokushima, Minami-Jyosanjima 1-1, Tokushima 770-8502, Japan.
There is a concern on the part of public health community that adverse health consequences by thimerosal, a preservative in vaccines for infants, may occur among infants during immunization schedule. Therefore, the effect of thimerosal on cellular content of glutathione was examined on thymocytes obtained from 4-week-old rats using a flow cytometer and 5-chloromethylfluorescein diacetate. Thimerosal at concentrations ranging from 1 to 10 microM reduced the cellular content of glutathione in a concentration-dependent manner, and the complete depletion of cellular glutathione was observed when the cells were treated with 30 microM thimerosal. L-Cysteine significantly attenuated the actions of thimerosal to reduce the glutathione content and to increase the intracellular Ca2+ concentration. Prolonged incubation (24 h) with 1-3 microM thimerosal induced the apoptosis. The cytotoxic action of thimerosal was greatly augmented when the cells suffered oxidative stress induced by H2O2. It may be unlikely that thimerosal exerts potent cytotoxic action under the in vivo condition because the blood concentration of thimerosal after receiving vaccines does not seem to reach micromolar range and nonprotein thiols at micromolar concentrations are present in the blood.
16: J Invest Dermatol. 2003 Nov;121(5):1039-44.
Thiol antioxidants block the activation of antigen-presenting cells by contact sensitizers.
Bruchhausen S, Zahn S, Valk E, Knop J, Becker D.
Department of Dermatology, University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany.
Strong contact sensitizers are able to induce signal transduction mechanisms such as tyrosine phosphorylation and activation of MAP kinases in antigen-presenting cells. We studied the capacity of different antioxidants (ascorbic acid, alpha-tocopherol, pyrrolidine dithiocarbamate, N- acetylcysteine, and glutathione) to block the increase in tyrosine phosphorylation in human monocytes seen after stimulation with strong contact sensitizers. Human peripheral blood mononuclear cells were stimulated with 5-chloro-2-methylisothiazolinone plus 2-methylisothiazolinone in the presence or absence of these antioxidants. The total amount of membrane-associated phosphotyrosine in CD14+ cells was quantified using flow cytometric techniques. Complete inhibition of tyrosine phosphorylation was noticed when cells were stimulated in the presence of N-acetylcysteine or glutathione. Using N-acetylcysteine as inhibitor similar results were obtained for cells stimulated with formaldehyde, thimerosal methyldibromoglutaronitrile, diphenylcyclopropenone, p-phenylenediamine, toluene-2,5-diamine, and 2,4-dinitrofluorobenzene. By use of a trinitrophenyl-specific monoclonal antibody it was shown that N-acetylcysteine as well as cysteine prevents the binding of 2,4,6-trinitrochlorobenzene to proteins in monocytes and monocyte-derived mature dendritic cells. Furthermore, the capacity of N-acetylcysteine to block the activation of p38 and ERK1/2 MAP kinases by 2,4,6-trinitrochlorobenzene was demonstrated. The radical scavengers ascorbic acid and alpha-tocopherol as well as the nuclear factor kappaB inhibitor pyrrolidine dithiocarbamate failed to prevent the increase in tyrosine phosphorylation. Our data present evidence that reactive oxygen species as well as transcription factor nuclear factor kappaB seem to be unimportant for the induction of tyrosine phosphorylation by contact sensitizers. On the other hand, protection of thiol groups using compounds with free sulfhydryl groups is very effective to block this process. This finding may have implications for prevention of occupational sensitization to strong contact allergens.
17. Toxicology. 2004 Jan 15;195(1):77-84.
Effect of thimerosal, a preservative in vaccines, on intracellular Ca2+ concentration of rat cerebellar neurons.
Ueha-Ishibashi T, Oyama Y, Nakao H, Umebayashi C, Nishizaki Y, Tatsuishi T, Iwase K, Murao K, Seo H.
Laboratory of Cellular Signaling, Faculty of Integrated Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokushima, Tokushima 770-8502, Japan.
The effect of thimerosal, an organomercurial preservative in vaccines, on cerebellar neurons dissociated from 2-week-old rats was compared with those of methylmercury using a flow cytometer with appropriate fluorescent dyes. Thimerosal and methylmercury at concentrations ranging from 0.3 to 10 microM increased the intracellular concentration of Ca2+ ([Ca2+]i) in a concentration-dependent manner. The potency of 10 microM thimerosal to increase the [Ca2+]i was less than that of 10 microM methylmercury. Their effects on the [Ca2+]i were greatly attenuated, but not completely suppressed, under external Ca(2+)-free condition, suggesting a possibility that both agents increase membrane Ca2+ permeability and release Ca2+ from intracellular calcium stores. The effect of 10 microM thimerosal was not affected by simultaneous application of 30 microM L-cysteine whereas that of 10 microM methylmercury was significantly suppressed. The potency of thimerosal was similar to that of methylmercury in the presence of L-cysteine. Both agents at 1 microM or more similarly decreased the cellular content of glutathione in a concentration-dependent manner, suggesting an increase in oxidative stress. Results indicate that thimerosal exerts some cytotoxic actions on cerebellar granule neurons dissociated from 2-week-old rats and its potency is almost similar to that of methylmercury.
18: Genes Immun. 2002 Aug;3(5):270-8.
Biochemical and molecular basis of thimerosal-induced apoptosis in T cells: a major role of mitochondrial pathway.
Makani S, Gollapudi S, Yel L, Chiplunkar S, Gupta S.
Cellular and Molecular Immunology Laboratories, Division of Basic and Clinical Immunology, University of California, Irvine 92697, USA.
The major source of thimerosal (ethyl mercury thiosalicylate) exposure is childhood vaccines. It is believed that the children are exposed to significant accumulative dosage of thimerosal during the first 2 years of life via immunization. Because of health-related concerns for exposure to mercury, we examined the effects of thimerosal on the biochemical and molecular steps of mitochondrial pathway of apoptosis in Jurkat T cells. Thimerosal and not thiosalcylic acid (non-mercury component of thimerosal), in a concentration-dependent manner, induced apoptosis in T cells as determined by TUNEL and propidium iodide assays, suggesting a role of mercury in T cell apoptosis. Apoptosis was associated with depolarization of mitochondrial membrane, release of cytochrome c and apoptosis inducing factor (AIF) from the mitochondria, and activation of caspase-9 and caspase-3, but not of caspase-8. In addition, thimerosal in a concentration-dependent manner inhibited the expression of XIAP, cIAP-1 but did not influence cIAP-2 expression. Furthermore, thimerosal enhanced intracellular reactive oxygen species and reduced intracellular glutathione (GSH). Finally, exogenous glutathione protected T cells from thimerosal-induced apoptosis by upregulation of XIAP and cIAP1 and by inhibiting activation of both caspase-9 and caspase-3. These data suggest that thimerosal induces apoptosis in T cells via mitochondrial pathway by inducing oxidative stress and depletion of GSH.
19. Int Arch Occup Environ Health. 2000 Aug;73(6):384-8.
Homozygous gene deletions of the glutathione S-transferases M1 and T1 are associated with thimerosal sensitization.
Westphal GA, Schnuch A, Schulz TG, Reich K, Aberer W, Brasch J, Koch P, Wessbecher R, Szliska C, Bauer A, Hallier E.
Abteilung fur Arbeits- und Sozialmedizin, Georg-August-Universitat Gottingen, Germany. gwestph@gwdg.de
OBJECTIVE: Thimerosal is an important preservative in vaccines and ophthalmologic preparations. The substance is known to be a type IV sensitizing agent. High sensitization rates were observed in contact-allergic patients and in health care workers who had been exposed to thimerosal-preserved vaccines. There is evidence for the involvement of the glutathione system in the metabolism of thimerosal or its decomposition products (organomercury alkyl compounds). Thus detoxification by polymorphically expressed glutathione S-transferases such as GSTT1 and GSTM1 might have a protective effect against sensitization by these substances. METHODS: To address this question, a case control study was conducted, including 91 Central European individuals with a positive patch-test reaction to thimerosal. This population was compared with 169 healthy controls and additionally with 114 individuals affected by an allergy against para-substituted aryl compounds. The latter population was included in order to test whether possible associations were due to substance-specific effects, or were a general feature connected with type IV immunological diseases. Homozygous deletions of GSTT1 and GSTM1 were determined by polymerase chain reaction. RESULTS: Glutathione S-transferase M1 deficiency was significantly more frequent among patients sensitized to thimerosal (65.9%, P = 0.013) compared with the healthy control group (49.1%) and the "para-compound" group (48%, P = 0.034). Glutathione S-transferase T1 deficiency in the thimerosal/mercury group (19.8%) was barely elevated versus healthy controls (16.0%) and the "para-compound" group (14.0%). The combined deletion (GSTT1-/GSTM1-) was markedly more frequent among thimerosal-sensitized patients than in healthy controls (17.6% vs. 6.5%, P = 0.0093) and in the "para- compound" group (17.6% vs. 6.1%, P =0.014), revealing a synergistic effect of these enzyme deficiencies (healthy controls vs. thimerosal GSTM1 negative individuals, OR = 2.0 [CI = 1.2-3.4], GSTT1-, OR = 1.2 [CI = 0.70-2.1], GSTM1/T1-, OR = 3.1 [CI = 1.4-6.5]). CONCLUSIONS: Since the glutathione-dependent system was repeatedly shown to be involved in the metabolism of thimerosal decomposition products, the observed association may be of functional relevance.
20. Travis Haws Re:Re:Re:Re: A Fatal Misdiagnosis. bmj. February 18th 2005.
21, J Neurosci Res. 1996 Apr 15;44(2):149-56.
Pharmacological characterization of inositol-1,4,5,-trisphosphate binding to membranes from retina and retinal cultures.
Lopez-Colome AM, Lee I.
Instituto de Fisiologia Celular, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico.
Light and excitatory amino acids (EAA) stimulate the phosphoinositide cycle in the vertebrate retina. The regulation of Ca2+ release from intracellular stores by inositol-1,4, 5-trisphosphate (IP3) involves an interaction of this compound with specific receptors. By means of [3H]IP3-specific binding, we studied the kinetic and pharmacological properties of IP3 receptors in the chick retina as well as in primary cultures of neurons and glia from this tissue. The equilibrium time for the binding reaction was 15 min and was optimal at alkaline pH (8.3). IP3 receptor displayed high affinity (K(B) approximately 40 nM) and selectivity for D-IP3, compared to D-IP4 > L-IP3 > D-IP2 > D- IP1. These characteristics were the same in subcellular fractions from outer (P1) and thinner (P2) plexiform layers, binding sites being more abundant in P2 (2.65 pmol/mg protein). IP3 receptors were present in both neuronal and glial cultures, but were concentrated in neuronal cultures. Binding was not affected by ryanodine, or caffeine, related to calcium-induced calcium release (CICR)channels, nor by the endoplasmic reticulum Ca2+ ATPase inhibitor thapsigargin, while heparin affectively inhibited IP3 binding. GSSG and thimerosal increased the affinity of [3H]IP3 binding from IC50 approximately 80 nM to IC50 approximately 40 nM; this effect was reversed by DTT. Binding in zero Ca2+ was decreased by low concentrations of Ca2+ (350 nM). These results suggest that actions of IP3 in the retina are regulated by physiological changes in intracellular pH and Ca2+ concentrations, as well as by the oxidation state of the receptor. Additionally, the presence of IP3 receptors in Muller glia opens the possibility of IP3 participation in nonsynaptic signalling through Ca2+ waves in glial cells.
22. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 1977 Apr;16(4):273-80.
Effect of the ophthalmic preservative thimerosal on rabbit and human corneal endothelium.
Van Horn DL, Edelhauser HF, Prodanovich G, Eiferman R, Pederson HF.
Widespread use of the mercurial-containing preservative thimerosal as an antibacterial agent in ophthalmic drugs and solutions warranted an investigation into its possible cytotoxic effects on the functional and ultrastructural integrity of the corneal endothelium. No changes in corneal thickness were observed during 5 hours' perfusion of the endothelium of rabbit and human corneas with 0.0001 and 0.0005 percent thimerosal in glutathione bicarbonate Ringer's solution (GBR). Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) of the endothelium of the 0.0001 percent group revealed normal ultrastructure. SEM and TEM of the endothelium of corneas perfused with 0.0005 percent thimerosal for 5 hours revealed condensed mitochondria, cytoplasmic vacuoles, and cytoplasmic flaps at the apical end of the cellular junctions. Perfusion of higher concentrations (0.001 and 0.005 perecnt) of thimerosal in GBR resulted in increases in corneal thickness after 2 hours and irreversible ultrastructural damage to the endothelial cells by 5 hours. Corneas perfused with 0.01 and 0.1 percent thimerosal in GBR showed a rapid and immediate increase in corneal thickness and endothelial cell death and necrosis within 1 hour. It is postulated that the mercury in thimerosal becomes bound to the cell membrane protein sulfhydryl groups, causing an increase in cellular permeability; These results suggest that the prolonged exposure of the corneal endothelium to thimerosal in the accepted antimicrobial dosage of 0.005 to 0.001 percent may result in functional and structural damage to the endothelium.
23. Blakemore-Brown Reweaving the Autistic Tapestry. Jessica Kingsley Publishers London 2002.
Competing interests: Expert in Autism and associated tapestry impairments

American Chronicle on Thimerosal vaccine trials

2007-06-13T03:10:00.000-07:00

http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=28898

As predicted - media spinning itself dizzy

2007-06-13T01:57:00.000-07:00

I have given it a couple of days to see how the media have reported on the crucially important vaccine trials in New York, as an experiment really.

As predicted, the US media in general are ill informed but consistently serve up the mantra 'there is no connection' etc. At least David Kirby is being given a chance to speak in a number of news programmes. Maybe he can make them see sense.

For the UK media, shamefully sunk deep in New Labour spin, the story has not even made it as a serious issue. Clare Dyer, long standing supporter of medical theories gone wrong, made a cynical passing reference to it whilst putting the boot in for the UK families who are consistently thwarted in their efforts to find justice for their damaged children. It is sad yet amusing that Tony Blair heavily criticised the UK media yesterday calling them 'feral' when in fact the Press have been very protective and supportive of the Blair spin machine for a decade. What would he say if they did their jobs properly and exposed this and many other atrocities against children?

There is evidence of startling ignorance in the Press reporting of the vaccine trials. For instance stories have referred to MMR and Mercury (as part of the Thimerosal) But MMR does not and cannot contain this preservative - because it contains live viruses which the Thimerosal would kill. This means that there is either: an additional problem with the MMR (and secret meetings indicate this to be the case with some named vaccines such as the Urabe vaccine standing out as dangerous, leading to its removal ) and/or the damage done to the immune system of some vulnerable children by the earlier Thimerosal containing DTP will make it easier for the MMR to cause more damage later. Boyd Haley, a chemist, also speaks convincingly of the synergistic effect of the mercury and other heavy metals - maybe also the pertussis antigen - and the live viruses.

Another consistent blind and ignorant Press line is that Thimerosal was removed from vaccines in 1999. Not true. The longstanding serious concerns about Thimerosal over decades led to a decision to gradually remove it from childhood vaccines in 1999 - but there is NO EVIDENCE that it has been removed, or how much of it has been removed.

As an example of what happens, in the UK, the Press reported that Thimerosal had been removed in 2004. However, in a 2005 FOIA request to the Department of Health I was informed personally that THERE HAD BEEN NO PRODUCT RECALL.

That means that the product could still be in use. There is NO EVIDENCE to say this is not happening in the US.

It is in flu vaccines and my own mother had a series of heart attacks after she was given it.

Furthermore, the media reference to Thimerosal being removed is designed to dismiss concerns. This is not appropriate when :

Children were damaged before that date when it indisputably was in the DTP vaccines
It could still be in use given the above facts
It is STILL IN FLU VACCINES
It is in vaccines sent to the Third World

WHO, the CDC and the UK authorities spin the conflicting ideas that:

1. It has been removed in the West (given concerns about evidence of harm)
2. It can remain in vaccines for the Third World as there is no evidence of harm.

The fact that MMR does not contain Thimerosal does not give Pharma schills a chance to sneer that this leaves the argument about Thimerosal flat on its face.

Far from it. It makes the whole situation infinitely worse for the Pharmaceutical Industry.

Listen to New York Vaccine Trials

2007-06-13T01:53:00.001-07:00

ftp://autism.uscfc.uscourts.gov/autism/index.html

David Kirby and the vaccine court

2007-06-09T14:33:00.000-07:00

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/topics/vaccine%20autism

Smoke, Mirrors and Spin - how they dragged us into the nettlebed. Lisa Blakemore-Brown

2007-06-09T08:29:00.000-07:00

'Women and Children first' - er...not these days. All is not honourable when money and power take over. Even the children get trampled under the golden soles of the rich and powerful - and don't worry, none of that gold will rub off - they make sure of that.

For as long as Thimerosal has been in vaccines - since 1930 - various forms of persuasion and suggestibility have been used to hide and spin out the truth of the damage it does and the damage other vaccines such as MMR may have done. This may come as a shock because you might wonder how any ethical corporation can deny the truth that Mercury is the second deadliest poison on this Earth - and we have been injecting it into infants for 77 years.

For decades this was relatively easy - no internet, not even phones and TV for the majority in the earliest days.

Commercial meetings involving the most eminent and the most trusted, could be held in secret, no notes to be removed from the room and all heads to be emptied before leaving, mouths to utter only the agreed mantras - on pain of loss of job. Any mouth inclined to whisper the truth would find itself silenced forever. No doubt handsome rewards were also in place to buy silence. Maybe even Knighthoods !

Disasters could easily be put to the back of one's corporate mind only to very occasionally explode in the middle of a long night to leave those with some conscience in a cold sweat - briefly.

As time went on, and public communications improved, things became a little more difficult. There was the media for a start and the scoops it was so fond of. No worries - a little infiltration and the same tactics could be used from the inside. But the forms of spin, the methods used to slam shut every door behind which the truth may lay, had to become more and more complex - especially as the problems were increasing not decreasing with mass propaganda and accelerated vaccine programmes during the 1980's.

These tactics included parent blame when a child succumbed to an adverse reaction, training of professionals to see vaccine damage symptoms as indicative of child abuse (but never iatrogenic), vilification of professionals who spoke out, debate silenced, denial of any alternative to the mantra - 'there is no connection between death and vaccines/autism etc and vaccines/brain damage and vaccines/auto immune disorders and vaccines - there's no evidence of harm'. The latter phrase entered the mantra after David Kirby wrote his book 'Evidence of Harm' about three mothers who uncovered through FOI the secret Simpsonwood meeting in Atlanta Georgia. In that meeting Dr Verstraeten who worked for the CDC displayed his slides on the effects of Thimerosal on the child's developing system. It was so clear he could say what a child would develop depending on the day he had the vaccine and the weight of the child. In other FOI obtained emails he said it didn't matter what he did, the data sang out the same message. There was a significant association between the Thimerosal containing vaccine and neurological damage. Clearly this was unwanted news and Dr Verstraeten soon found himself out of work with the CDC - to a job with Big Pharma. He soon changed his tune.

Governments and their health agencies could easily be won over with a bit of lobbying, touch of infiltration, threats and promises, engagement of a 'dirty layer' of dodgy people who would happily do their dirty work, spreading spin and rumour, vilifying and harrassing critics, setting up smoke and mirrors to disguise the truth etc. Before you knew it - we were all in the nettlebed.

We all stung so much we couldn't think straight - and in that state could easily miss what was staring us in the face - and that was just how Big Pharma and those in an unholy alliance with them wanted it.

Conflicts of interest abound in anything to do with vaccine issues. Big Pharma funds the Health agencies epidemiology and data is held close to the corporate chest. They mark their own homework. Even conflicts exist within Courts.

Spin entered the picture with a vengeance in 1980's and 90's. Adverse reactions morphed into 'coincidences', anyone and everyone who reacted must have some genetic problem - so why did this not manifest itself in the same symptoms before the vaccine? The answer shifts to 'well it would have happened anyway'. But it didn't - until the vaccine. All else is theory.

When the smoke clears, and the stinging dies down, it's the children we see, and the crystal clear audit trail that leads right back to the before and after stories when they had their vaccinations.

Lets hope the Judges in New York can climb out of the nettlebed to see through the smoke - and put the children first, at last.

Legal News - Tony Mauro on the Vaccine Case

2007-06-09T08:20:00.000-07:00

http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1180947929140&pos=ataglance#

The Vaccine Hearings - Anne McElroy Dachel

2007-06-09T08:05:00.000-07:00

The Vaccine Hearings: "Science has spoken"

By Anne McElroy Dachel

We're in the midst of an epidemic of autism. There is no other word for it. On average in the U.S., one in every 150 kids is autistic. One in every 94 boys has the disorder. Some places have much worse statistics. New Jersey tops the nation with one in every 94 kids affected, including one in every 60 boys. Another child is diagnosed with autism every 20 minutes in America. These statistics however, don't seem worrisome to officials.

The one in 150 rate came out in February and the numbers should have gotten everyone's attention. We should be moving mountains to figure out what's happening to our children, but that just isn't the case. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced the rate with no sense of alarm. The Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post both had brief items about new autism numbers in which we were told not to worry, "the new data do not mean that autism is on the rise because the criteria and definitions used were not the same as those used in the past." Dr. Marshalyn Yeargin-Allsopp, chief of the developmental disabilities branch at the CDC said only that the new rate shows that autism is an "urgent public health issue" and a "major public health concern." Neither of those terms indicates that autism is anything to worry about and news reporters writing on the subject take their cue from the CDC.

The scariest thing about the fact that so many hundreds of thousands of U.S. children have autism, is the fact that hundreds of thousands of adults don't. Eighty percent of autistic Americans are under the age of 18. That figure is based on the well-kept statistics coming out of California. It would seem only logical that someone somewhere should be doing something. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention still can't decide if autism is really increasing or if it just seems that way because doctors are better at diagnosing it. They are also the first to throw up their hands and proclaim that autism has no known cause and no known cure. The one thing they can emphatically tell us is that vaccines do not cause autism.

In 2004, they directed the Institute of Medicine to look at the vaccine question and report back. The IOM did just that and found a host of population studies that showed no connection between vaccines with the mercury-based preservative, thimerosal, or the MMR (Mumps, Measles, and Rubella) vaccine and the explosion in autism. They happily declared vaccines to be safe and recommended researchers look elsewhere for the cause of autism. It didn't bother the IOM that in the case of thimerosal, there wasn't a single toxicological study that showed the mercury used in vaccines was safe.

The findings of the IOM Report were supposed to have settled the issue. Hundreds of articles on the controversy have faithfully reported that "studies show no link" between vaccines and autism based on the IOM Report. Still, the parents have persisted, joined by a growing number of doctors and scientists and on June 11th, they'll get a chance to make their case fairly in a special federal "Vaccine Court." Or will they?

Experts will be called in for both sides. One for the defense will be Eric Fombonne, MD of Montreal. He's periodically in the news where he repeats "studies show no link" based on his population studies done in Canada. While Fombonne is usually described as an expert, it's rarely noted that his expertise in mercury toxicity comes from being a psychiatrist, not a toxicologist.

David Kirby, author of Evidence of Harm, recently wrote an article called, See You in (Vaccine) Court, in which he discusses the proceedings, including the fact that parents are prevented from seeing certain information on vaccine injuries.

Kirby tells us, "Petitioners were just denied access to the government's vast vaccine safety database of HMO patients, which was used by CDC officials to conduct a four-year study that ultimately found no link between thimerosal and autism. Earlier versions of the study, obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, however, clearly showed increased risks for many neurodevelopmental disorders, depending on the dose of thimerosal administered."

Kirby relates that parents filing suits "will be forever barred from seeing the actual raw data, in order to replicate what the CDC researchers found. (Exact replication is impossible because original datasets, culled at taxpayer expense, somehow "went missing" and are no longer available for re-analysis - a possible felony violation of the federal Data Quality Act)."

The mainstream press has publicized the hearings that involve 4,800 suits. An AP article by Kevin Freking, Vaccine Claims to Get Their Day in Court, was published by a number of news outlets. Freking begins his piece by telling readers, "Science has spoken when it comes to the theory that some childhood vaccines can cause autism. They don't, the Institute of Medicine concluded three years ago. Soon, it will be the courts turn to speak." Those disconcerting statements make the outcome sound like a foregone conclusion, but Freking does allow one of the parents, Scott Bono of Durham, N.C., to say that the 2004 IOM Report findings were "preordained by the federal government."

To be fair and balanced, Freking includes commentary to the contrary from vaccine patent holder, Paul Offit, MD. Offit retreats to the traditional mantra of thimerosal defenders: "The report from the Institute of Medicine pointed to five large studies, here and abroad, that tracked thousands of children since 2001 and found no association between autism and vaccines containing the preservative thimerosal." That is yet another rendition of "studies show no link." No one, of course, ever asks, "What studies?" Those large studies Offit refers to are epidemiological studies. Epidemiological studies were made famous by the tobacco industry in the 1940s when they were used to show smoking didn't cause lung cancer. This type of research is easily flawed and the numbers manipulated. Any reputable scientist knows that population studies alone are not proof.

Someday someone in the press will ask Dr. Offit how he can defend thimerosal as safe, when volumes of toxicological research show it isn't. Maybe a reporter will further bring up the pathetic history of thimerosal and ask Offit why he seems untroubled by the fact that it was never tested by the FDA.

In the AP article, mercury isn't a big concern for Paul Offit. He tells us that mercury is "part of the natural environment. There's no escaping it." One might wonder what Dr. Offit would consider a "safe level" of something that's the second deadliest element on Earth and known neurotoxin.

Offit also had a piece in the Boston Globe recently about the hearings. In At Risk: vaccines, he warns that unfavorable judgments will threaten the vaccine supply. Manufacturers will be scared out of the business. Children's very lives will be put at risk if we dare to question vaccine side effects. Parents have nothing to back their claims, according to Offit in the article. He again tells us "There is plenty of evidence to refute the notion that vaccines cause autism. Fourteen epidemiological studies have shown that the risk of autism is the same whether children received the MMR vaccine or not, and five have shown that thimerosal-containing vaccines also do not cause autism." While parents don't seem to have a prayer according to Dr. Offit, the hearings will proceed.

The first one of the 4,800 claims will be heard next week by a special three judge panel. In an article, Thimerosal and Autism: Final Round? posted online by Michael Krauss we are told that there will be three weeks of testimony in the first case, Cedillo v Secretary of Health and Human Services. Krauss tells us, "a 1986 federal law provides that, in lieu of suing manufacturers for negligent design or warning, those claiming to be injured by vaccines may choose to file claims against the government in the Court of Claims. Special masters acting as trial judges hear such cases and award damages if a causal connection has been established. No fault on the part of the manufacturers need be established, only causation."

While that sounds fair, a closer look reveals some unsettling things about the proceedings. Robert Krakow, an attorney who represents families in the proceedings and the father of a son with a pending claim, wrote a response to Paul Offit's Boston Globe article saying, "That vaccines have had a great impact on human health is no justification for the trampling of children's rights and relegation of their claim for compensation under law to legal insignificance. Offit seems to think that anything that threatens the vaccine program has no social value. The vaccine program has saved so many lives, according to Offit, that harm caused by vaccines merits no investigation."

Krakow further tells us, "Offit is simply wrong and his view, moreover, lacks any semblance of balance. He wants protection for the vaccine industry at any cost - including the price of the health of thousands of children."

It's strange that in the face of an epidemic number of children with autism and a heated controversy over the cause, Dr. Offit doesn't welcome the hearings. If he is so confident that the science has settled the issue, why does he need to resort to dire predictions that manufacturers will abandon the business? What happened to the democratic process? Has the stage already been set in the press with reports like Freking's AP story where the lead sentence announces, "Science has settled the issue"?

Wendy Fournier, President of the National Autism Association, says this about Offit's remarks: "He writes of massive litigation that could force companies to leave the vaccine business, when the vaccine manufacturers in fact cannot be held liable. Any money awarded to these suffering families will be paid by you and me. A $.75 fee is added to the cost of every vaccine and put into The Vaccine Injury Compensation Program to compensate people who are injured by them. The manufacturers are not held responsible and therefore have no incentive to produce safe vaccines for consumers."

Michael Krauss notes that "thousands of parents will 'virtually' attend the trial, by speakerphone." They will be listening for their side to be told and the overwhelming science on deadly and damaging vaccines to be honestly presented. This is the side that so far hasn't been heard.

According to Kevin Freking and Paul Offit, "science has already settled the issue." Let's hope the three special masters hearing the case don't agree. If that were true, these hearings are nothing but a kangaroo court. The definition of such a court is "a sham legal proceeding.. The outcome of such a trial is essentially made in advance." A huge audience will be listening to hear their side; they won't accept the the IOM findings again based on the same evidence that "studies show no link."

Anne McElroy Dachel
Chippewa Falls, WI USA
715-723-0913
amdachel@msn.com

Member:
A-CHAMP
(Advocates for Children's Health Affected by Mercury Poisoning)http://www.a- champ.org
National Autism Association (NAA)
http://www.national autismassociatio n.org

Michael Moore, Filmmaker for the people on Eli Lilly and Thimerosal

2007-06-09T01:52:00.000-07:00

Thank you Michael for listening to the multiple thousands of parents - not just in the US - who KNOW their child reacted to a vaccine containing this 49.6% Mercury preservative.

Open this link and scroll down to see what Michael said to the Big Pharma schills trying to harrass him over Sicko - right there in Cannes.

http://pharmamkting.blogspot.com/2007/06/phrma-sent-sicko-spy-to-cannes.html

Understanding Mercury Concentration by Tim Kasemodel

2007-06-08T10:51:00.000-07:00

Understanding Mercury Concentration

Imagine an 8 story building, 100’ square filled with water (6,229,000 gallons) divided into 1 billion parts
1 part per billion = 1.2 inches square

To understand mercury concentration, dilute 6,229,000 gallons of water with the amounts of mercury below:

Preservative level mercury – including Pediatric flu:
50,000 parts per billion concentration
44 inches square of mercury
Trace level mercury vaccines:
DtaP+Hib 600 ppb concentration 10 inches square of mercury
Hepatitis B 1000 ppb concentration 12 inches square of mercury
Adult flu 2500 ppb concentration 16.5 inches square of mercury
Mercury levels mentioned in peer reviewed science and its noted effects:

100 ppb causes immune system cell death (Pessah ¹) 5.5 inches square of mercury
10 ppb causes immune system inhibition (Pessah¹) 2.6 inches square of mercury
3 ppb causes brain neuron cell death (Haley²) 1.7 inches square of mercury 0.2 ppb causes inhibition of enzyme methionine synthetase –the main pathway of mercury excretion in the body (Waly/Deth³), 3/4 inches square of mercury Low levels such as these also inhibit the production of heme by blocking the porphyrin pathway; decrease in heme production prevents the normal production of hemoglobin and affect the production of glutathione, an important antioxidantDecreasing of heme levels makes one susceptible to many other toxins.

*100 ft per side
44 in. per side
10” to 16 5”
5.5”
1.7”
¾” – A “sugar cube” of mercury diluted into 6,229,000 gallons of water eliminated activity supporting the excretion of mercury itself
1 - http://www.ehponline.org/members/2006/8881/8881.html
2 - http://www.generationrescue.org/pdf/haley.pdf
3 - http://www.nature.com/mp/journal/v9/n4/abs/4001476a.html

Prepared by the Minnesota Natural Health Legal Reform Project

Autism Bulletin re: Monday's Hearing

2007-06-08T10:34:00.000-07:00

http://autismbulletin.blogspot.com/2007/06/special-federal-court-to-hear-autism_06.html

David Kirby, ex New York Times, writes about the vaccine case

2007-06-08T07:13:00.000-07:00

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-kirby/see-you-in-vaccine-cour_b_51224.html

Lift off - Monday 11th June 2007 New York Vaccine Court

2007-06-08T05:51:00.000-07:00

Welcome to Thimerosal Thoughts.

On this site you can explore a little known subject which is about to lift off in a Vaccine Court Monday in New York, when 4800 children's cases will be looked at.

This is the first time this has ever happened and Thimerosal has been in vaccines since 1930!

So welcome to stuff that might blow your mind - or it might have already done that.

The Pharmaceutical Industry allied to Western Governments have ensured this subject remains out of the public view for 77 years.

Its time that changed.