Guest guest Posted September 21, 2004 Report Share Posted September 21, 2004 " Bea Bernhausen " beabernhausen Mon, 20 Sep 2004 18:26:37 -0700 (PDT) Pediatric Medical Journal says Mercury in Vaccine is GOOD FOR BABIES *************************************** The Darkening Age of Medicine International Medical Veritas Association Mark Sircus AC., OMD - http://www.imva.info Authors note: Almost a year ago I wrote the Dark Ages of Medicine but nothing could have prepared me for what I read yesterday from Reuters Health News on an essay published in Pediatric medical journal. If there is any article that single-handedly destroys the integrity of modern medicine and the field of pediatrics we have it in hand. It really is a sad day for medical science and medical journals for what has been published destroys the concept of peer review and the integrity of epidemiological studies and evidence. For those who might find, like I did, the following to be absolutely unbelievable you can verify at: http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=RLTWROPOPVKBSCRBAELCFF= A?type=healthNews & storyID=6269126 Mercury-Containing Vaccines May Help Not Harm Kids Fri Sep 17, 2004 04:26 PM ET NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - There have been widespread concerns that mercury-based preservatives used in vaccines might impair the neurological development of children, but the opposite seems to be true. Immunizing infants with vaccines containing the preservative thimerosal may actually be associated with improved behavior and mental performance, according to two British studies published in the medical journal Pediatrics. Dr. Jon Heron of the University of Bristol, and colleagues followed 12,956 children, born in 1991 and 1992, until they were about 7-1/2 years old. Information was collected on doses of thimerosal-containing diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis vaccines given at ages 3, 4, and 6 months, as well as on measures of behavior, fine motor skills, speech, tics and special education needs. Instead of finding that outcomes were worse with increasing exposure to thimerosal, the authors saw less hyperactivity and conduct problems at 47 months, better motor development at 6 months and at 30 months, and reduced difficulty with sounds and need for speech therapy. In the second report, Dr. Nick Andrews of the Communicable Disease Surveillance Center, London, and colleagues conducted a look-back study involving 107,152 children born between 1988 and 1997. There appeared to be protective effects from thimerosal-containing vaccine exposure for general developmental disorders, attention-deficit disorder, and unspecified developmental delay. The only condition associated with increased risk with increasing thimerosal exposure was tics. However, " the vast majority of tics were minor transient events, " the authors note. Hence, they conclude that " there is no reason to change current immunization practices with thimerosal-containing vaccines on grounds of safety. " SOURCE: Pediatrics, September 2004. © Reuters 2004. . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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