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Sunday, October 10, 2004 4:18 PM

Flu Vaccine Shortage -- Thimerosal to Blame?

 

 

Author of New Book on Thimerosal Says:

Flu Vaccine Shortage -- Thimerosal to Blame?

 

Friday October 8, 9:37 am ET

 

 

 

NEW YORK, Oct. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- " Everyone is asking how

the Chiron shut-down will affect vaccination rates this year, but few

are asking how this could have happened, " says David Kirby, author of

the forthcoming book Evidence of Harm - Mercury in Vaccines and the

Autism Epidemic: A Medical Controversy, from St. Martin's Press.

Kirby is also a contributor to the health and science pages of The

New York Times and other publications. This week, Chiron's Fluvirin

vaccine was pulled after contamination with the potentially dangerous

serratia bacteria was found. " Chiron used the mercury-based

preservative thimerosal as a sterilizing agent in making Fluvirin, to

prevent exactly this type of contamination, " says Kirby, whose book

explores the possibility that thimerosal could have contributed to

the rising numbers of cases of autism, ADD and other childhood

disorders. " Thimerosal is also used as a preservative in multi-dose

vials. By definition, no thimerosal-containing solution should have

live bacteria present in its final formula. "

 

Thimerosal, Kirby adds, " has never been proven to be 100% safe, and

now we see again that it is not 100% effective either. " A law to ban

thimerosal childhood vaccines was just signed by California Governor

Arnold Schwarzenegger.

 

Vaccine making is nasty business, and microorganisms thrive in the

warm egg-based brew used to produce the flu shot. The microbe-rich

solution is treated with thimerosal, as a sterilizing agent, to kill

all the bugs. Most mercury is removed before packaging, though 25

micrograms-per-dose remain in each 10-dose vial, to avoid

contamination from repeated puncture of the seal by syringes.

 

This vaccine was contaminated with serratia at the company's factory

in Liverpool, England. " But with so much thimerosal in the mix, how

was the bacteria was able to survive? " Kirby asks. Thimerosal, it

seems, is not a perfect preservative. In 1982, an FDA panel reported

that thimerosal only prevents the growth of new bacteria rather than

killing all the organisms altogether. It said mercury-based

preservatives should be removed from topical products, and proposed

that thimerosal was " not generally recognized as safe and effective. "

 

In fact, thimerosal was singled out as being " no better than water

in protecting mice from fatal streptococcal infection. " And it was

35.3 times more toxic for embryonic chick heart tissue than for

Staphylococcus aureus. Other studies found that up to 26 percent of

the population was hypersensitive to thimerosal. Fluvirin's package

insert warns that it should not be given to " anyone with a history of

hypersensitivity to any component of the vaccine, including

thimerosal. "

 

" This raises some troubling questions, " Kirby says. " If thimerosal

doesn't work, why are we using it? And why did it take the British

Government to intervene on behalf of the safety of Americans? Now we

face an imminent flu season with only half the vaccine needed.

Millions will go unvaccinated and people could die because thimerosal

failed to perform its job. Government and industry must work to

develop a safe AND effective way of making flu vaccine. "

 

 

 

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