Mercury in Vaccine! Was your child affected?

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If you believe your child or children may have been affected

please call toll free 1-866-MERCTOX (1-866-637-2869) or fill out the

questionnaire.

 

Mercury Poisoning from Vaccines: A Generation at Risk

A full generation of children in America was exposed to dangerous doses of

highly toxic ethyl mercury from 1990 through 2000. Children were injected

with the toxic mercury that was a major ingredient in a chemical product

called thimerosal, an additive and biological preservative packaged into

multi-dose vials of many childhood vaccines. With each dose of vaccine that

contained thimerosal, a child would also get an injection of toxic mercury.

Each one of those mercury injections exposed the child to levels of toxic

mercury in excess of the federal government's own safety guidelines.

 

Mercury is widely known to cause neurological damage, often permanent.

Current clinical and epidemiological research suggests that the

mercury-laden thimerosal so widely given to children by the drug companies

in the 1990's might cause a range of neurological and neurodevelopmental

injuries, including autism. Compounding this public health disaster is that

the toxic exposure was entirely avoidable. The thimerosal was added merely

as product packaging for the multi-dose vials, and is not needed as a

preservative when the vaccines are packaged in single-dose vials or

single-use syringes. Thimerosal had nothing to do with vaccine safety, and

everything to do with the profits and convenience of packaging for the

pharmaceutical companies.

 

Government and Drug Company Response

The federal government recommended in 1999 that the drug companies should

provide a thimerosal-free vaccine supply by the summer of 2001, but allowed

the continued use of vaccine products containing thimerosal. On October 1,

2001, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) went one step further, urging that all

remaining stocks of thimerosal-laced vaccines be removed from use

immediately and destroyed. Amazingly, the drug companies refused to tell the

IOM how much mercury-laced vaccine product remained on the market and in

use. The IOM also called for extensive and immediate scientific and clinical

studies to assess this critical health issue, but could not identify where

the money for this needed research will come from.

 

Urgent Action Needed

For a generation of injured children, the drug company and government

response is too little and too late. The hope for those children is for a

massive research and clinical effort to develop effective treatments for the

mercury-induced injuries so that the children can recover. Results for

innovative treatment programs are encouraging. For children exposed to

mercury but not yet showing symptoms, the hope is for research and medical

monitoring that will identify late-onset problems quickly enough that

treatment will make a difference.

 

For all of these children, the research and treatment programs nationwide

will require millions of dollars, money that should come from the drug

companies that profited from the use of thimerosal as a vaccine additive.

Forcing the multi-billion dollar international pharmaceutical industry to

pay for this essential research and medical monitoring is the goal of a

group of parents' support groups, law firms, health care providers and

academics.

 

The links on this page will direct you to scientific and medical information

on mercury-induced injuries, to the key sources of information about current

research into the toxic effects of mercury in vaccines, and to other

organizations involved in the assessment and treatment of kids affected by

mercury.

If you believe your child or children may have been affected please call

toll free 1-866-MERCTOX (1-866-637-2869).

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> Mercury Poisoning from Vaccines: A Generation at Risk

> A full generation of children in America was exposed to dangerous

doses of

> highly toxic ethyl mercury from 1990 through 2000. Children were

injected

> with the toxic mercury that was a major ingredient in a chemical

product

> called thimerosal, an additive and biological preservative packaged

into

> multi-dose vials of many childhood vaccines. With each dose of

vaccine that

> contained thimerosal, a child would also get an injection of toxic

mercury.

> Each one of those mercury injections exposed the child to levels of

toxic

> mercury in excess of the federal government's own safety guidelines.

>

> Mercury is widely known to cause neurological damage, often

permanent.

 

Go on the autism-mercury list (also on ! groups) if you believe

your child has a problem with this. There is much discussion of

chelating the mercury out, and many of those " irreversible " problems

go away.

 

There is also much discussion of how to chelate versus how the

doctors say to do it, which often makes the children even worse.