Medical News Commentaries - Iatrogenic Disease & Mercury Poisoning

[Guest guest]

> " Mark Sircus Ac., OMD " <director

> Medical News Commentaries - Iatrogenic

 

> Disease & Mercury Poisoning

> Wed, 11 Aug 2004 00:33:28 -0300

>

> Dear reader,

 

> Below find the first installment of Iatrogenic Death

> and Disease via Acute

> and Chronic Mercury Poisoning - A Crisis in Medical

> & Dental Science. This

> is the beginning of a series of materials from the

> International Medical Veritas

> Association (IMVA), which is the first organization

> to become concerned about

> mercury poisoning on a global level.

>

>

>

> The IMVA is destined to directly confront the World

> Health Organization (WHO),

> and many government and medical bodies that still

> promote the use of thimerosal

> (mercury) in vaccines and mercury in amalgam teeth

> fillings. Our primary concern is

> with the children and the next child or newborn

> about to be hurt, not with

> medical self-images or hurt professional pride. Thus

> we are obligated to inform

> and to contradict, in no uncertain terms, the false

> assurances given by many

> medical and governmental agencies about the safety

> of mercury containing products.

> In this regard we are calling for an investigation

> of a kind the world has

> never seen before.

>

>

>

> This is the Medical News Commentaries, the

> publishing branch of the IMVA. If

> you do not want to receive any more communications

> from us just hit return

> and please send us an notice in the

> subject line.

>

> Regards,

>

> Mark Sircus Ac., OMD

> Executive DirectorInternational Medical Veritas

> Associationhttp://www.imva.info

>

>

>

> Iatrogenic Death and Disease

> via Acute and Chronic

>

> Mercury Poisoning

 

> A Crisis in Medical & Dental Science

 

>

> Introduction

>

> The number of people in the United States who

> die iatrogenic deaths

> is estimated by Dr. Barbara Starfield[ii] to be

> approximately 225,000 to 284,000

> a year, which included 106,000 deaths from properly

> prescribed medicine. These

> are considered avoidable deaths occurring at the

> hands of doctos in hospitals.

> Gary Null Ph.D. and his medical colleagues[iii]

> estimate the iatrogenic death

> figures much higher – 786,000 by including

> outpatient deaths estimated at 199,000

> (noted but not included by Starfield), and other

> categories of iatrogenic deaths

> like malnutrition perpetuated in hospitals, bedsores

> and infections - 108,000,

> 115,000, and 88,000 respectively. The high end of

> these numbers represents

> 6 jumbo jets falling out of the sky each and every

> day and that is just for

> the population in America.

>

>

>

> In children there are many unexplained deaths

> that are classified as either

> Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) or Shaken Baby

> Syndrome, where the last

> thing medical officials concede is the possibility

> that mercury and other toxins

> in vaccines are the cause. Thus there are other

> deaths that can be laid at

> the feet of the medical profession that are not

> counted in the above statistics.

> This is most controversial for we have many areas

> where deaths are not considered

> iatrogenic when they actually are. Notably, the high

> toxicity of chemotherapy

> and anti viral medication cause many deaths that are

> not counted since death

> is always attributed to the disease not to the

> highly dangerous treatment protocols.

>

>

>

>

> A great factor to consider also in counting

> iatrogenic deaths is the fact

> that many iatrogenic death and disease go

> unreported. The FDA and the AmericanCollege

> of Physicians and Surgeons believe the majority of

> adverse drug or surgical

> events never get reported because doctors are afraid

> they will get sued if

> they report an error. According to Dr. David

> Kessler, former head of the Food

> and Drug Administration, “Only about 1 percent of

> serious events [adverse drug

> reactions] are reported to the FDA.”[iv] The general

> rule of thumb presently

> used though is between 10%[v] to 20% percent of

> serious events getting reported.

> Thus the above numbers represent conservative

> figures, not figments of imagination.

> On a world wide level it is anyone’s guess what the

> actual numbers are. It

> might be fair to just multiply by about twenty

> (scaling for populations percentages)

> yielding about 15 million deaths or 120 jumbo jets

> falling per day instead

> of six. The international numbers though could be a

> magnitude order higher

> due to special factors and considerations.[vi]

>

>

>

> The production of disease by the prescriptions of

> physicians is what is usually meant by iatrogenic disease.

>

>

>

> Iatrogenic disease is more difficult to count

> but the specific case of

> mercury poisoning gives us a window onto the hidden

> dimensions of what is a

> medical nightmare in progress. Despite the growing

> evidence to a causal link

> between mercury and neurological disorders, such as

> autism, attention deficit

> disorder, language delay, and learning difficulties,

> which are being reported

> on a world wide basis to be rising

> dramatically,[vii],[viii],[ix] the Institute

> of Medicine (IOM)[x] and the CDC,[xi] and a long

> string of other medical organizations[xii]

> are certifying mercury, one of the most toxic

> chemicals known to man, as being

> safe for use in vaccines. And they continue to do

> that even as they alert the

> public to a pandemic that has one child in 166 being

> diagnosed with autism

> spectrum disorders and as many as one in six

> children diagnosed with a developmental

> disorder and or with behavior problems.[xiii] This

> means that out of the 4

> million born each year in the United States

> approximately 24,000 will be devastated

> with autism whose cause is being increasing blamed

> on mercury poisoning. And

> perhaps as many as 600,000 children with mild to

> severe learning disorders,

> which in part or in whole caused by the neurological

> destruction of brain cells

> that mercury is proven to precipitate. According to

> Dr. Mark Geier, who has

> studied the CDC’s own data, “Kids who received 100

> micrograms of thimerosal

> were over ten times more likely to have autism than

> the kids who received no

> mercury containing vaccines”. Dr. Geier and his son

> David Geier calculated

> the overall neurodevelopment damage that can be

> sourced to mercury toxicity

> to be approximately 2,402,505 cases.[xiv]

>

>

>

> A careful reading of the published medical

> research clearly demonstrates

> that all sensible concern for published scientific

> research regarding the toxicity

> of mercury has been cast aside exposing the entire

> world’s population to grave

> unwarranted harm.[xv] Mercury is a cumulative

> poison, and used with other toxic

> substances in medicine, like aluminum, antibiotics,

> and formaldehyde, create

> lethal and semi-lethal cocktails that damage human

> life. As each year passes

> scientists in laboratories around the world are

> showing that mercury poisoning

> is creating a wide swath of iatrogenic disease.

>

>

>

> Tragedies are evident in many areas, including

> the harm caused by food

> additives, preservatives, pesticides, water

> fluoridation, cancer and AIDS treatments,

> anti-depressive medications and other drugs having

> only marginal, if any, benefit.

> Many scientists and doctors have analyzed the

> dangers embedded in the health

> care system in general and concur that the current

> health care system is broken.

> Some eminent physicians high in the medical

> establishment like Dr. Donald Berwick,

> a Harvard trained physician who is a professor at

> both Harvard Medical School

> and the Harvard School of Public Health, conclude

> that nothing short of a medical

> revolution, that focuses on eliminating the danger,

> waste, confusion, and arrogance

> of modern medicine will do.[xvi]

>

>

>

> Some people believe that every drug is a poison

> and every dose of every

> drug produces disease. When we look, for example, at

> the fact that all forms

> of aspirin lead to approximately fifteen thousand

> deaths a year, we can begin

> to see that there is a basic truth spoken about

> drugs and the disease they

> create. All drugs do have side effects that create

> collateral damages to human

> organisms that in the extreme lead to death and

> chronic disease. This paper

> concerns drugs and dental products of high toxicity,

> specifically vaccines

> containing thimerosal and dental amalgams, both

> which are approximately fifty

> percent mercury by weight.

>

>

>

> Western medicine has been particularly blind to

> some very important aspects

> of healthy living according to Gary Null Ph.D. and

> his medical associates.

> “1) Stress and how it adversely affects the immune

> system and life process.

> 2) Insufficient exercise; 3) excessive caloric

> intake; 4) highly processed

> and denatured foods grown in denatured and

> chemically-damaged soil; 5) exposure

> to tens of thousands of environmental

> toxins.”[xvii]Medical science and the

> medical establishment have a difficult time dealing

> in a forthright way with

> both iatrogenic death and disease and this is

> illustrated clearly when they

> define the most toxic substances as being safe no

> matter what evidence is put

> before them.

>

>

>

> It is the inability to see the effects of chronic,

> low level toxicities on human health that has been,

> and remains, our greatest failing as intelligent

> beings.

Dr. Boyd Haley

Chairman of Chemistry Dept.

KentuckyUniversity

>

> Though mercury is not the only toxic material

> medicine tolerates in its

> products we pick on mercury for several principle

> reasons. First it is one

> of the most toxic substances known to mankind.

> Second it is commonly placed

> only inches from the brain in most people’s mouths,

> and thirdly, because it

> is injected, via the childhood immunization

> schedule, directly into the bodies

> of babies starting from the first day of life.

>

> The American Iatrogenic Association is devoted

> to the study and reporting

> of medical errors that lead to disease and death.

> But they also believe that

> approved medical practices have led to many cases of

> iatrogenic disease and

> death. The common use of mercury in medicine and

> dentistry provides us with

> a prime example of an approved and commonly used

> medical and dental practice

> that hurts people in significant ways. Mercury,

> which has been removed from

> most other medical products, is still endorsed by

> the world’s dental organizations

> and its presence in thimerosal, a compound used in

> vaccines, is endorsed by

> the World Health Organization.

>

> What follows, in laymen’s language, is a

> sweeping picture of a chemical

> nightmare that has occurred because medical and

> dental authorities have thrown

> to the wind the sound reasoning of unbiased and

> reputable scientists, who deal

> with toxicology, pathology, pharmacology and cell

> biology, thus exposing uncountable

> millions of adults and children around the world to

> serious injury, death,

> and lifelong mental impairment.[xviii]

>

>

>

> The first chapter exposes one of the greatest

> mistakes made by modern medical

> science, the practice of injecting thimerosal

> (mercury) into the bodies of

> newborns and infant toddlers via the childhood

> immunization schedule. The second

> chapter deals with how doctors compound the problem

> with the practice of injecting

> as many as nine vaccines into a child during a

> single office visit. This increases

> the amount of dangerous chemical compounds

> simultaneously mixed together and

> the amount of mercury a child will receive in one

> sitting. The third chapter

> probes the dental profession use of mercury based

> amalgam dental fillings and

> the serious damage that comes from constantly

> leaking amalgam that spill vaporous

> mercury into the oral cavity.[xix][xx][xxi][xxii] We

> will find dentists contributing

> greatly to the mercury poisoning of the human race

> through the use of materials,

> that when removed from the mouth, are considered

> highly dangerous toxic waste

> by the Environmental Protection Agency and must be

> handled in a certain way

> to protect dental office personnel from mercury

> poisoning. Many dentists know

> of the dangers of removal and recommend leaving the

> amalgams in, believing

> it is healthier to maintain toxic waste dumps in

> human mouths.

>

>

>

> Mercury has been appropriately removed from all

> other

> medical products except these, for it is one of the

> most

> toxic and dangerous elements known to

> mankind.[xxiii]

>

>

>

> Dr Andrew Wakefield, the British

> gastroenterologist whose research in

> 1998 raised the first fears that the MMR combined

> jab could be linked to children

> developing autism, says about the thimerosal, " It

> should never have been there

> in the first place. Despite how they try to sell it,

> there is evidence that

> there is an association between mercury in vaccines

> and childhood disorders.

> Mercury was taken out of animal vaccinations 20

> years ago because it was too

> toxic. Why on earth have we still been putting it in

> jabs for our children? "

>

>

>

>

> If we choose to live with atrocious medical

> behaviors, as is suggested

> by medical authorities in the US and elsewhere

> around the world, who see no

> problem using highly poisonous materials, we can

> doubt the future direction

> of civilization and certainly the protective

> paternal nature of government

> and medical organizations. To deliberately inject

> poisons into newborn babies

> for reason (or no reason)[xxiv][xxv] is not

> justifiable under any circumstances.

> And to continue to use toxic materials for fillings

> in teeth, when alternatives

> are now available, is appalling.

>

>

>

> Heavy metal exposure during early development is

> associated

> with impaired neurological and cognitive

> function.[xxvi][xxvii]

> Dr. M. Waly

Department of Pharmaceutical Science

Northeastern University

Though all is quiet in regards to the amalgam

> issue lawmakers in the United

> States are in open rebellion against medical

> authorities at the CDC, the pharmaceutical

> companies, and the World Health Organization, which

> all still favor the use

> of thimerosal (mercury) even though many researchers

> are presenting its grave

> dangers. Presently Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska and

> Kansas have all presented legislation

> to ban thimerosal in childhood vaccines, and in

> April of 2004, federal congressman

> Dr. Dave Weldon and Congresswoman Carolyn Murphy

> from New York introduced legislation

> to ban mercury from vaccines at the federal

> level.[xxviii] Though there is

> a firestorm sweeping the halls of science, board

> rooms in pharmaceutical companies,

> a conflagration that is reaching the steps of the

> congress in Washington, with

> over four thousand cases of vaccine poisoning

> pending, in the third world the

> issue is not being discussed and as such children in

> most countries are being

> injected with full strength doses of mercury under

> the auspices of the World

> Health Organization.

>

>

> Any competent biochemist would look at the structure

> of thimerosal and identify it as a potent enzyme

> inhibitor.

> What is surprising is that the appropriate animal

> and laboratory testing was not done on the vaccines containing

> thimerosal (and aluminum) before the government embarked on a

> mandated vaccine program that exposed infants to the levels of

> thimerosal that occurred.

> Dr. Boyd E. Haley

Mercury poisoning is the hidden disaster of

> public health and goes undiagnosed

> simply because of the stubborn intransigence of

> health officials that seem

> to be only worried about mercury in fish. From

> Alzheimer’s disease, to a devastating

> lineup of other neurological diseases including

> Parkinson’s, ALS, MS, autism

> and AD - mercury is known to be a potent

> neurotoxicant that either is the prime

> cause of such disorders or certainly is seen to

> exacerbate these neurological

> diseases.[xxix]

>

>

>

> If there is " any doubt whatsoever " about the safety

> of mercury in vaccines then it should be removed.

> Professor John Oxford

> Queen Mary's School of Medicine and Dentistry

>

> Take a single case of intense mercury poisoning

> in a child, a case where

> they have suffered from intense stripping of tubulin

> from the axon structure,

> or what is commonly known as demyelinating

> disorders[xxx],and you are talking

> about a child who will live in a state of perpetual

> agony incomprehensible

> to most people. No one knows today what percentage

> of demyelinating diseases

> is directly caused by mercury poisoning from

> vaccines but if we trust in basic

> chemistry and the efforts of researchers around the

> world we can believe it

> to be quite high. Thus the many diseases[xxxi]

> listed by Andrew Cutler, who

> has a PhD in chemistry from Princeton, that could be

> caused by mercury poisoning,

> leads us to suspect a vast source of iatrogenic

> disease that outpaces all other

> forms of iatrogenic suffering and death.

>

> The catastrophe with mercury poisoning has been

> a slowly escalating phenomenon

> that broke through a certain barrier in the past

> decade and now stands clear

> as a visible trend to basic scientists who have

> become increasing alarmed,

> especially as public health officials have

> stonewalled them. What we have is

> a human disaster unequalled in the history of the

> human race in progress and

> a medical establishment pretending that nothing is

> happening.

>

>

>

> What we have is the biggest iatrogenic

> catastrophe that has ever happened.

> Dr. Mark Geier

In regards to mercury in vaccines.

>

>

>

In reality medicine has come up with many

> disease categories, diagnostic

> labels that simply hide the truth. Autism is

> actually a deflection, a way of

> denying the very simple truth that most of these

> children have been poisoned

> by the use of mercury in medicine and dental

> products, as well as by a long

> list of toxins flooding the environment. Yes there

> are complicating factors

> that need to be discussed in depth, but as the

> latest information from California

> shows, as mercury levels in vaccines are being

> reduced there, new reports of

> autism are declining.[xxxii] The largest and most

> unethical medical experiment

> in history is still on though; our children have

> been and continue to be the

> guinea pigs of the western medical establishment.

> Beyond all reason we find

> both medical and dental science supporting the

> extensive use of mercury denying

> each and every indication that they are doing great

> harm.

>

> International Medical Veritas Association

> http://www.imva.infodirector (AT) imva (DOT) info

>

> Mosbys Medical Dictionary 5th Ed. 1998 states:

> IATROGENIC [Gk., iatros,

> physician, genein, to produce], caused by treatment

> or diagnostic procedures.

> An iatrogenic disorder is a condition caused by

> medical personnel or procedures

> or through exposure to the environment of a health

> care facility, including

> fears instilled in patients by remarks or questions

> of examining physicians.

> See also: 'nosocomial', (iatrogenesis, iatrogeny,

> n.) Within the orthodox medical

> community, the reference to iatrogenic illness is

> most frequently focussed

> upon iatrogeny due to errors of judgement,

> administration, etc. by medical

> practitioners, whilst carrying out their tasks: the

> focus being errors that

> are made because tasks and judgements of the

> individual practitioners, nurses

> etc. are erroneous. IMVA sees a much expanded

> definition, whereby the medical

> knowledge itself that is presently held as correct

> and sacrosanct by the medical

> orthodoxy is, nevertheless, not itself immune to the

> charge of causing iatrogenic

> illness.

>

> [ii] Starfield, Barbara. Is US Health Really the

> Best in the World? JAMA, July

> 26,2000-Vol 284, No 4

>

> [iii] Null Gary, Dean Carolyn, Feldman, Martin,

> Rasio, Debora, Smith, Dorothy.

> Death by Medicine. Nov 2003 – Nutrition Institute of

> America.

> [iv]Remarks by David Kessler, M.D. Medwatch Health

> Professionals Meeting May

> 4, 1993 “Yet even though reports from health

> professionals are critical to

> protecting the public health, the unfortunate fact

> is that most practitioners

> do not think to report adverse events or product

> problems that might be associated

> with medications, devices or other products

> regulated by the FDA. One survey

> found that barely half of physicians were even aware

> that FDA had a reporting

> program. And according to one study, only one

> percent of serious events are

> reported to the Agency. Meanwhile, up to 11 percent

> of hospital admissions

> may be due to drug reactions, one review article

> concluded.”

>

> [v]The FDA estimates that only about 10% of adverse

> reactions are reported

> (Reported by KM Severyn, R.Ph.D. in the Dayton Daily

> News, May 28, 1993. Ohio

> Parents for Vaccine Safety, 251 Ridgeway Dr.,

> Dayton, OH45459), a figure supported

> by two NVIC investigations (NVIC, " Investigative

> Report on the Vaccine Adverse

> Event Reporting System " ).

>

> [vi]Dr. Ali Al-Bayati, pathologist and toxicologist,

> believes that much of

> the collapse we are seeing in the immune systems of

> the African people (AIDS)

> is actually being provoked by malnutrition and

> starvation, not by the HIV virus.

> Secondly these vast populations of malnourished

> people are being subjected

> to repeated vaccination campaigns, which their

> immune systems have no way of

> supporting. Any physician worth their weight in salt

> would tell you it is counter

> indicated to give shots to a child who has a bad

> cold or flu for reactions

> that hurt even a healthy child can devastate one

> with a compromised immune

> system. Populations weakened by hunger and

> malnutrition are much weaker than

> people with colds or the flu so vaccinations are

> completely counter indicated.

> The large number of vaccines given to children is

> causing damage in the U.S.,

> but much less than in Africa, since they have the

> combined affects of vaccines

> and malnutrition.See Tale of Two Hammers –

>

>

http://www.congregator.net/medicalnews/sircus/mn040218.html

>

> [vii]Yeargin-Allsopp M, Rice C, Karapurkar T,

> Doernberg N, Boyle C, Murphy

> C. Prevalence of autism in a US metropolitan area.

> JAMA 2003; 289: 49-55. PubMed

>

> [viii] M.I.N.D Institute. Report to the Legislature

> on the Principal Findings

> from the Epidemiology of Autism in California: A

> Comprehensive Pilot Study.

> UC Davis: Sacramento, CA, 2002.

>

> [ix] Chakrabarti S, Fombonne E. Pervasive

> developmental disorders in preschool

> children. JAMA 2001; 285: 3093-3099. ArticlePubMed

>

> [x]Institute of Medicine - Immunization Safety

> Review: Vaccines and Autism

> – May 17,2004http://www.iom.edu/report.asp? id=20155

>

> [xi]Center of Disease Control – http://www.cdc.gov

>

> [xii] The AMA, the AAP, WHO, UNICEF, the UM and

> every other medical organization,

> except the IMVA (International Medical Veritas

> Association) accepts and publishes

> on their Internet sites the final decision of the

> IOM and the CDC.

>

> [xiii] Autism Alarm. CDC & AAP alert.

>

> [xiv] Grier, D. Letter to Hillary Clinton. March

> 22, 2003

>

> [xv]The Centers for Disease Control and the

> AmericanAcademy of Pediatrics have

> issued a statement asserting, “the available

> scientific evidence has not shown

> thimerosal-containing vaccines to be harmful.” Their

> statement is false and

> totally misleading. Following are some of the

> scientific studies that demonstrate

> thimerosal, a mercury-containing substance that is

> used as a preservative,

> to be harmful and to be a highly probably causal

> factor in autism. Note that

> these studies are consistently ignored in the

> medical establishment’s publications

> claiming that there is no evidence for

> vaccine-caused autism.

>

> 1 Bernard S, Enayati A, Redwood L, Roger H, Binstock

> T. Autism: a novel form

> of mercury poisoning. Med. Hypotheses. 2001

> Apr;56(4):462-71. PMID: 11339848

>

> 2 Geier DA, Geier MR. An assessment of the impact of

> thimerosal on childhood

> neurodevelopmental disorders. Pediatr Rehabil. 2003

> Apr-Jun;6(2):97-102. PMID:

> 14534046

>

> 3 Geier MR, Geier DA. Neurodevelopmental disorders

> after thimerosal-containing

> vaccines: a brief communication. Exp Biol Med

> (Maywood). 2003Jun;228(6):660-4.

> PMID: 12773696

>

> 4 Geier & Geier. Parents' worries about thimerosal

> in vaccines are well founded!

>

http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/eletters/112/6/1394

>

> 5 David Baskin, M.D. et al. Thimerosal induces DNA

> breaks, caspase-3 activation,

> membrane damage, and cell death in cultured human

> neurons and fibroblasts.

> Toxicol Sci. 2003 Aug;74(2):361-8. Epub 2003 May 28.

> PMID: 12773768

>

> 6 Mady Hornig, M.D Etiologic factors and

> pathogenesis of autism: evidence from

> clinical studies and animal models. IOM

> presentation, Feb 9 2004 Audio only:

> http://www.iom.edu/view.asp?id=19108

>

> 7 Richard C. Deth, Ph.D. Effects of Mercury on

> Methionine Synthase: Implications

> for Disordered Methylation in Autism DAN! 2003

> Philadelphia

>

-http://216.117.159.91/powerpoint/dan2003/RichardDeth.htm

>

> 8 Richard C. Deth, Ph.D. A Link Between Thimerosal

> and the Brain: Can Vaccines

> Affect Central Nervous System Function? Molecular

> Psychiatry 2004, Volume 9.

>

> 9 Vojdani A, Pangborn JB et al. Infections, toxic

> chemicals and dietary peptides

> binding to lymphocyte receptors and tissue enzymes

> are major instigators of

> autoimmunity in autism. Int J Immunopathol

> Pharmacol. 2003 Sep-Dec;16(3):189-99.

> PMID: 14611720

>

> 10 Jeff Bradstreet, M.D. A Case-control Study of

> Mercury Burden in Children

> with Autistic Disorders and Measles Virus Genomic

> RNA in Cerebrospinal Fluid

> in Children with Regressive Autism. IOM

> presentation, Feb 9, 2004 Slides:

> http://www.iom.edu/view.asp?id=18578

> - Audio: http://www.iom.edu/view.asp?id=19130

>

> 11 Valsamakis A et al. Altered virulence of vaccine

> strains of measles virus

> after prolonged replication in human tissue. J

> Virol. 1999 73(10): 8791-7.

> PMID 10482633

> http://jvi.asm.org/cgi/reprint/73/10/8791.pdf

>

> The CDC's original findings before the CDC began to

> manipulate the data, obtained

> via the Freedom of Information Act: High risk values

> for thimerosal injections

> and a range of neurologic problems, including ADHD,

> tics, language problems,

> and autism.

>

http://factsformedia.com/factsformedia/thimerosalstudy.pdf

>

> Excerpts from CDC’s in-house conference: Thimerosal

> sequelae

>

>

http://www.nationalautismassociation.org/library/IOM%20Simpsonwood%20in%20bold.p\

df

>

> 12 Congressman, Dr. Weldon's letter to the CDC

> director, available at:

>

>

http://momsonamissionforautism.org/Autism_Central/Dr_Weldon_Responds.shtml

>

> Institute of Medicine presentation of Congressman

> Dave Weldon, M.D. -

>

http://www.nationalautismassociation.org/pdf/Weldon.pdf

>

> 13 Geier MR, Geier DA. Autism and

> thimerosal-containing vaccines: analysis

> of the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System

> (VAERS). IOM presentation, Feb

> 9, 2004. Slides:

> http://www.iom.edu/view.asp?id=18392 -- Audio:

> http://www.iom.edu/view.asp?id=19120

>

> 14 David Baskin, M.D. Relation of Neurotoxic Effects

> of Thimerosal to Autism.

> IOM presentation, Feb 9, 2004. Audio only:

> http://www.iom.edu/view.asp?id=19124

>

> [xvi] Article in the Boston Globe about Dr. Donald

> Berwick.

>

> [xvii] Null Gary, Dean Carolyn, Feldman, Martin,

> Rasio, Debora, Smith, Dorothy.

> Death by Medicine. Nov 2003 – Nutrition Institute of

> America.

>

> [xviii] All of the basic statistics found in this

> report are from the United

> States, which holds approximately 1/20th of the

> world’s population.

There according to Dr. Mark Grier the overall neurodevelopmental

> damage that can be sourced

> to mercury toxicity runs into 2,402,505 cases,

> millions with a devastating

> line up of other neurological diseases including

> Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s,

> ALS, MS, autism and AD.

We have thousands of children found dead from vaccines

> in the federal data bases in the United States,

> which report only a fraction

> (10 percent according to officials at the FDA), many

> kids dead from Sudden

> Death Syndrome (many of which who should be counted

> as vaccine provoked death)

> many babies dead from Shaken Baby Syndrome (where

> parents are accused of killing

> their kids instead of the vaccines and the mercury

> and other chemicals contained

> therein) and officially, according to studies

> published in reputable medical

> journals between 250,00 and 786,000 iatrogenic

> deaths, in the United States

> alone.

Both reports (Dr. Starfield in the New

> England Journal of Medicine who

> reports 250,00 deaths agrees with Dr Null et al, who

> reported 786,000 in a

> Journal of Nutrition, both agree that 106,000 die

> each year from properly d

> medicines.) On a world wide level it is impossible

> to track the numbers and

> whether they would be directly proportional, meaning

> multiply all the numbers

> by 20, or greater or lesser.

Many complex factors must be taken into consideration.

> For example in Africa, where populations are

> starving and malnourished, they

> administer vaccines in a totally contraindicated

> fashion (to populations with

> severely weakened immune systems) thus increasing

> the collateral damages and

> deaths.

>

> [xix] Haley, Boyd. Dangers of Mercury Based Amalgam

> Dental Fillings. Prestented

> to The Committee on Governmental Reform: Dental

> Amalgam Hearing on 14 November

> 2002

>

>

http://hem.passagen.se/ethysell/dokument/Denmatu/bilaga1.html?k

>

> [xx] Kennedy Ron MD. Dental Amalgam Mercury

> Poisoning

>

> http://www.medical

>

-library.net/sites/_dental_amalgam_mercury_poisoning.html

>

> [xxi] Haley Boyd. In response to an article on the

> ADA web site by the AD.

>

> http://www.whale.to/m/haley.html

>

> [xxii] Independent Chemist, M.Sc., retired The Real

> Scientific Truth of Amalgam,

> The Behavior of Mercury in the Body Causing Chronic

> Diseases.

>

> http://www.laleva.cc/choice/mercury_cronicdis.html

>

> [xxiii] The argument that the thimerosal containing

> vaccines could not deliver

> the amount of mercury to cause a systemic illness is

> somewhat refuted by the

> history of the disease classified as acrodynia.

> Perhaps autism will end up

> like acrodynia, where the removal of the causative

> material (ie., mercury containing

> teething powders) lead to cessation of the disease

> and the identification of

> the cause.

Due to the perceived low levels of

> mercury in the teething powders

> and the wide-spread use of mercury in medicine at

> that time it was 10 years

> after the removal of the mercury containing teething

> powders before medicine

> acknowledged that mercury exposure was the causal

> factor. It is significant

> to notice that many of the symptoms of acrodynia are

> similar to the clinical

> picture of children identified today as autistic,

> with attention deficit disorder,

> etc. that have no family history of such diseases or

> illness classifications.

>

>

> [xxiv]A good graph of contagious disease incidence,

> which begins at 1900 (or

> earlier), will show a picture of death, disease

> incidence and severity that

> declined by 90% (average) before vaccine

> introduction. Plague and scarlet fever

> declined without vaccine. Measles declined in

> mortality 99.7% before vaccine

> introduction. At some point we might inevitably

> conclude that vaccine ‘necessity’

> is a sales gimmick not a scientific reality.

> “Scientific medicine has taken

> credit it does not deserve for some advances in

> health.

Most people believe

> that victory over the infectious diseases of the

> last century came with the

> invention of immunizations. In fact, cholera,

> typhoid, tetanus, diphtheria

> and whooping cough, etc, were in decline before

> vaccines for them became available

> - the result of better methods of sanitation, sewage

> disposal, and distribution

> of food and water,” wrote Greg Beattie in

> ‘Vaccination: a Parent’s Dilemma.’

>

>

> U.S.A. DEATHS

Diphtheria Pertussis Tetanus Measles

> 1901 48,839 33,094 28,065 11,956

>

> 1911 20,350 20,285 11,503 7,615

>

> 1921 12,267 14,724 7,818 4,919

>

> 1931 4,388 9,850 4,709 2,957

>

> 1941 1,135 4,399 2,384 1,013

>

> 1946 467 1,460 1,697 469

>

> 1951 125 558 1,093 268

>

> 1956 45 206 788 203

>

> 1961 22 82 550 162

>

> 1966 15 32 282 44

>

> 1971-5 12 122 122 17

>

>

>

> The public has never been told that the death rate

> from infectious diseases

> fell long before vaccines were introduced. The chart

> cited above is based on

> information found in Tim O’Shea’s book, The Sanctity

> of Human Blood, and Michael

> Alderson’s book, International Mortality Statistics.

> It shows yearly U.S. death

> rates for four common diseases between 1906 and

> 1975. The propaganda campaign

> for vaccination has been so successful that most of

> us automatically believe

> that vaccines are so effective they are responsible

> for the virtual eradication

> of serious childhood illnesses. But nothing could be

> further from the truth.

> “Up to 90% of the total decline in the death rate of

> children between 1860-1965

> because of whooping cough, scarlet fever,

> diphtheria, and measles occurred

> before the introduction of immunizations and

> antibiotics,” stated Dr. Archie

> Kalokerinos, M.D. Most ministries of health around

> the world show graphs that

> start in the 1950’s or even 70’s to make the

> vaccination look as if they have

> been responsible for the eradication of diseases,

> but when you take the graphs

> back to the early 1900’s or late 1800’s you soon see

> that vaccination have

> done little to help the decline of said diseases.

>

> [xxv]Anderson, H.B.The Facts Against Compulsory

> Vaccination. 1929

>

> Organized Physicians Were Just As Sure That the

> Inoculation of People With

> Smallpox Was a Good Thing As They Now Are That

> Vaccination Is Necessary But

> Smallpox Inoculation Resulted In Actually Spreading

> the Disease and Was Made

> a Penal Offence in England in 1840.

>

> [xxvi] Strong MJ, Garruto RM, Joshi JG, Mundy WR,

> Shafer TJ. Can the mechanism

> of aluminium neurotoxicity be integrated into a

> unified scheme? Journal Toxicol

> Environ Health 1996; 48:599-613.

>

> [xxvii] Mendola P, Selevan SG, Gutter S,Rice D.

> Environmental factors associated

> with a spectrum of neurodevelopmental deficits. Ment

> Retard Dev Disabil Res

> Rev 2002; 8:188-197

>

> [xxviii] Geier David, Geier Mark – Phone

> conversation August 1, 2004

>

> [xxix] Haley, Boyd. Affidavit of Boyd E Haley,

> Professor and Chair, Department

> of Chemistry, University of Kentucky

>

http://64.41.99.118/vran/vaccines/mercury/mer_haley.htm

>

> [xxx] Demyelinating disorders A medical condition

> where the myelin sheath is

> damaged. The myelin sheath surrounds nerves and is

> responsible for the transmission

> of impulses to the brain. Damage to the myelin

> sheath results in muscle weakness,

> poor coordination and possible paralysis. Examples

> of demyelinating disorders

> include Multiple Sclerosis (MS), optic neuritis,

> transverse neuritis and Guillain-Barre

> Syndrome (GBS).

>

> Primary pain is related to the demyelinating process

> itself. This neuropathic

> pain is characterized often as having a burning,

> gnawing, or shooting quality.

> Acute pain conditions include trigeminal neuralgia,

> painful optic neuritis,

> and Lhermitte’s syndrome. Chronic pain conditions

> such as dysesthesias in the

> limbs, joint pain, and other musculoskeletal or

> mechanical pain problems develop

> as a function of spasticity and deconditioning

> associated with demyelinating

> disorders

> [xxxi] Mercury can cause a bewildering variety of

> diseases. According to Andrew

> Cutler, who has a PhD in chemistry from Princeton,

> “Modern physicians are

> not trained to find the root cause of a sick

> person's problems. They are trained

> to translate what they see into latin, look it up in

> their textbook, and apply

> a cookbook treatment. With a toxin that poisons

> fundamental metabolic processes

> different people will experience different symptoms

> to start off, depending

> on their own individual biochemistry. As the

> poisoning becomes more and more

> serious, further symptoms surface and the modern

> doctor adds more diagnoses

> - a patient who starts with depression might later

> be considered to have hypothyroidism,

> allergies and asthma in addition. But no thought is

> given to why one person

> should develop more and more " diseases, " when a

> single diagnosis - chronic

> mercury poisoning - could account for them all. Some

> of the " diseases " a modern

> physician might mistakenly misdiagnose chronic

> mercury poisoning as are:

> Addison's disease

>

> Gastritis

> Allergies

>

> Hypogonadism

>

> Alzheimer's' disease

>

> Hypothyroidism

> Amylotrophic lateral sclerosis

>

> Infertility

> Ankylosing spondylitis

>

> Insomnia

> Anorexia nervosa

>

> Irritable bowel syndrome

>

> Anxiety

>

> Juvenile arthritis

> Asthma

>

> Learning disabilities

> Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

>

> Lupus erythromatosus

> Autoimmune disease

>

> Manic depression

> Bipolar disorder

>

> Multiple chemical sensitivities

> Borderline personality disorder

>

> Multiple sclerosis

> Bulimia

>

> Myasthenia gravis

> Candidiasis

>

> Obsessive-compulsive disorder

> Chronic fatigue

>

> Panic attacks

> Colitis

>

> Parkinson's disease

> Crohn's disease

>

> Pervasive developmental disorder

> Depression

>

> Psychosis

> Endocrine disorders

>

> Rheumatoid arthritis

> Environmental illness

>

> Schizophrenia

> Fibromyalgia

>

> Sciatica

> Food allergies

>

> Sleep disorders

> Yeast syndrome

>

>

>

> [xxxii] Reported informally to the IMVA by Dr. Boyd

> Haley and confirmed by

> Dr. Mark Geier and David Geier.

>

>

> Mark Sircus Ac., OMD

> Director International Medical Veritas Association

> http://imva.info