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Thimerosal Dangers

Thimerosal is a preservative that was used in medicines and vaccines to kill bacteria. It is a cheap, effective way to improve the shelf life of vaccinations and medicines, reducing the cost of storing and shipping medicine. The problem with Thimerosal is that it contains a large amount of a highly toxic form of mercury, nearly 49.6% by weight. Thimerosal has been long suspected of causing mercury poisoning and autism in infants and children.

Mercury Exposure

Mercury is a toxic (poisonous) heavy metal, known to cause severe birth defects, damage to the central nervous system, immune system and renal failure.

All of us are exposed to small amounts of mercury every day. There is mercury in silver dental fillings, and in much of the seafood we eat. Normally, this amount of mercury poses little or no threat to the health of a typical adult.

Thimerosal contains a highly toxic from of mercury, which is up to 50 times more harmful that the mercury normally found in the environment. When an infant is vaccinated, this heavy metal is injected directly into the child's bloodstream. (This is far worse than ingesting the metal.) To make matters worse, infants and children develop so rapidly that they are much more susceptible to mercury than an adult. Within the first two years of life, many children have already been injected with enough toxic mercury to far exceed acceptable "safe" levels.

Autism

Autism is a combination of impairments involving language and communication, sensory dysfunction, abnormal movements and problems with social relatedness. People who suffer from this syndrome may exhibit a need for sameness and routine. Thimerosal, a preservative frequently added to childhood vaccines, has become a major source of Mercury in infants. Medical literature and U.S. government data indicates that:

• Most cases of idiopathic autism, in which an extended period of normal development is followed by an emergence of symptoms, can be blamed on early exposure to mercury.
  
• This type of autism represents a unique form of Mercury poisoning.
  
• Excessive mercury exposure from Thimerosal in vaccine injections is responsible for causing the traits of autism
  
• Certain genetic and non-genetic factors establish a predisposition whereby thimerosal's adverse effects occur only in some children
  
• Vaccinations containing thimerosal are causing a previously unrecognized syndrome

Remember: The damage to the brain done by thimerosal my show up anytime in a child's development, and may not be immediately apparent after the initial exposure.

On July 7, 1999, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the US Public Health Service issued a joint statement finally calling for removal of thimerosal, a mercury-containing preservative, from vaccines. Despite the concerns, the CDC encourages all parents to have their children vaccinated. Yet the major drug manufactures have not recalled existing stock of medicines containing this toxic compound.