• Thiomersal contains ethylmercury, a mercury compound which is related to, but significantly less toxic than, the neurotoxic pollutant methylmercury. (wikipedia.org)
  • Thimerosal, which is present in most flu vaccines, is highly toxic and synergistically toxic, meaning it becomes significantly more toxic when in the presence of other chemical compounds such as aluminum and many antibiotics. (naturalnews.com)
  • With ingredients this questionable and this toxic in the vaccines, you would want to be confident that the vaccines are highly safe and effective, but there is limited evidence to support this notion. (naturalnews.com)
  • Much less is known about the toxicity of ethylmercury, but it is felt to be wise to assume that it too is toxic. (astaines.eu)
  • Ethylmercury is an organic toxic mercury compound and the focus of the debate over mercury in vaccines. (everlyreport.com)
  • The second level shows irrefutable evidence, from peered reviewed journals in immunology, neurology, toxicology, etc., that the very same mercury used at high toxic levels in the flu vaccines, as well as in trace amounts in other vaccines, is toxic in all circumstances. (blogspot.com)
  • We believe it is a crime to inject mercury into the bodies of any pregnant woman and child, while knowing that thimerosal is extremely toxic. (blogspot.com)
  • 1] Glancing at the foot-high stack of published clinical studies on the desk, years of independent research identifying certain neurological impairments, such as Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD), and cellular organ damage resulting from vaccines containing the toxic ethylmercury preservative commonly known as thimerosal, it is incomprehensible to fathom the depth of scientific denial in Sebelius' statement. (blogspot.com)
  • Mercury and most of its compounds are extremely toxic. (psgr.org.nz)
  • Why is it that the same level of critique and skepticism isn't used for the same type of toxic compounds not placed on skin, but inserted directly into the bloodstream? (thezeropointlife.com)
  • Dr Richard Halvorsen, author of the book The Truth About Vaccines said: "Thimerosal is an extremely toxic substance and a known poison to the brain. (positivehealth.com)
  • Thimerosal is so toxic that putting it on your skin is illegal. (mercuryfreebaby.org)
  • Yet, despite warnings in the published scientific literature that Thimerosal was toxic, and despite opposition to its use in every decade since, Thimerosal has remained in the drug supply. (mercuryfreebaby.org)
  • In fact, multiple studies have found no evidence exposure to thimerosal causes autism or other neurodevelopmental conditions. (wrongplanet.net)
  • Thimerosal is no longer used in vaccines given to children, with the exception of some flu shots, and yet autism diagnoses have continued to rise. (wrongplanet.net)
  • No there is absolutely no evidence that vaccines cause autism," Catherine Lord, a clinical psychologist and autism researcher at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, told us in an email. (wrongplanet.net)
  • The action engendered concern thiomersal could have been responsible for autism. (wikipedia.org)
  • The idea that thiomersal was a cause or trigger for autism is now considered disproven, as incidence rates for autism increased steadily even after thiomersal was removed from childhood vaccines. (wikipedia.org)
  • There is no accepted scientific evidence that exposure to thiomersal is a factor in causing autism. (wikipedia.org)
  • Despite this, starting in 2000, parents in the United States pursued legal compensation from a federal fund arguing that thiomersal caused autism in their children. (wikipedia.org)
  • Being a derivative of ethylmercury, it has been linked with autism as a possible risk factor based on the assumption that exposure to ethylmercury would have similar neurotoxic effects as another mercurial compound, methylmercury. (ijbcp.com)
  • those showing positive association between thimerosal exposure and autism have been recognised to be fraught with methodological flaws. (ijbcp.com)
  • This review presents various studies regarding the causal association between thimerosal containing vaccines and autism. (ijbcp.com)
  • Geier DA, Hooker BS, Kern JK, King PG, Sykes LK, Geier MR. A two-phase study evaluating the relationship between Thimerosal-containing vaccine administration and the risk for an autism spectrum disorder diagnosis in the United States. (ijbcp.com)
  • Schultz ST. Does thimerosal or other mercury exposure increase the risk for autism? (ijbcp.com)
  • De Stefano F. Vaccines and autism: evidence does not support a causal association. (ijbcp.com)
  • It is a critique of sorts, of a paper published in Pediatrics, in 2003, on "Thimerosal and the Occurrence of Autism: Negative Ecological Evidence from Danish Population-Based Data" which may be read (free, thanks to the AAP) here . (astaines.eu)
  • There has been an extensive controversy about the links between thiomersal exposure in infancy and childhood, and the development of childhood autism. (astaines.eu)
  • If you believe that thiomersal in vaccines caused any significant proportion of cases of autism, you should no longer believe this. (astaines.eu)
  • It has been studied specifically and several research studies showed that thimerosal does not cause autism. (verify.wiki)
  • For instance, a scientific review by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) found that all pieces of evidence pointed out to no causal relationship between thimerosal-containing vaccines and autism. (verify.wiki)
  • Since 2003, CDC funded or conducted 9 studies around the world, and no association between thimerosal-containing vaccines and autism was found, as well as no link between the MMR vaccine and autism in children. (verify.wiki)
  • In the case of Dr. Thompson's release of confidential documents to a Congressional subcommittee, the CDC intentionally concealed their evidence that African American boys under 36 months had a higher risk of autism after receiving the MMR vaccine . (greenmedinfo.com)
  • This article summarizes the scientific evidence available regarding an association between vaccines and autism. (immunizationinfo.org)
  • That study found consistent significantly increased rate ratios for diagnosed autism and ASD with increasing organic Hg exposure from Thimerosal-containing vaccines from birth to 7 months and birth to 13 months of age. (springer.com)
  • Subsequently, in 2013, a case-control assessment of organic Hg from Thimerosal-containing hepatitis B vaccination in infants who were diagnosed autism in the computerized medical records within the VSD database was undertaken [ 8 ]. (springer.com)
  • Subjects diagnosed with autism in comparison to controls were significantly more likely to have received increased organic Hg exposure from Thimerosal-containing hepatitis B vaccines within the first month of life, the first 2 months of life, and the first 6 months of life. (springer.com)
  • 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. (positivehealth.com)
  • Aluminum offers another plausible explanation as to why the rate of autism did not decline upon the removal of thimerosal from most vaccines. (informedchoicewa.org)
  • On the other hand, many well controlled studies have failed to find any such causal relation and there are others that have clearly demonstrated a much favourable kinetic profile of ethylmercury as compared to methylmercury. (ijbcp.com)
  • A lot is known about the toxicity of a related compound, methylmercury, which caused the terrible tragedy of Minanmata disease . (astaines.eu)
  • In 1999, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Public Health Service called for mercury to be removed from vaccines because it was found that the amount of mercury in vaccines given to infants exceeded the EPA reference dose or per day exposure threshold for methylmercury. (everlyreport.com)
  • Methylmercury vs. Ethylmercury. (everlyreport.com)
  • Methylmercury and ethylmercury are organic mercury compounds. (everlyreport.com)
  • The CDC claims that ethylmercury in vaccines is "cleared from the body more quickly than methylmercury, and is therefore less likely to cause any harm" (1). (everlyreport.com)
  • This refers to the amount of ethylmercury in the blood after it's injected via vaccine, based on the observation that the amount of ethylmercury in the blood drops more quickly than the same amount of methylmercury (9). (everlyreport.com)
  • found by comparing methylmercury to thimerosal that while blood levels of ethylmercury post-injection drop more rapidly than blood levels of methylmercury post-ingestion, the percentage of inorganic mercury deposited in the brain after exposure to thimerosal was nearly five times higher than the amount of inorganic mercury deposited after methylmercury exposure. (everlyreport.com)
  • Therefore, it is not acceptable to use the safety profile of ingested methylmercury as a substitute for the injection of ethylmercury. (everlyreport.com)
  • This article summarizes the differences between methylmercury and ethylmercury and the scientific studies on the alleged association between thimerosal and neurodevelopmental outcomes. (immunizationinfo.org)
  • Mercury can enter the body through inhalation, as elemental mercury (Hg 0 ), through dermal or eye contact, as ethylmercury, and by absorption through the gastrointestinal track, primarily as methylmercury (CH 3 Hg + ) through ingestion of contaminated fish [ 1 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Budzyn DM, Majewska R, Kiełtyka A. Early exposure to thimerosal-containing vaccines and children's cognitive development. (ijbcp.com)
  • It all started when a friend of mind sent me a copy of a letter from Congressman David Weldon, M.D. to the director of the CDC, Dr Julie L. Gerberding, in which he alludes to a study by a Doctor Thomas Verstraeten, then representing the CDC, on the connection between infant exposure to thimerosal-containing vaccines and neurodevelopmental injury. (vaccinationinformationnetwork.com)
  • The Eli Lilly Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) for Thimerosal acknowledges that exposure to Thimerosal in utero and in children can cause "mild to severe mental retardation and mild to severe gross motor impairment. (mercuryfreebaby.org)
  • After the animals died from exposure to Thimerosal, the decision was made to administer it to 22 patients suffering from bacterial meningitis during an epidemic in Indianapolis, Indiana in 1929. (mercuryfreebaby.org)
  • Thimerosal exposure in infants and developmental disorders: a prospective cohort study in the United Kingdom does not support a causal association. (ijbcp.com)
  • Despite the absence of data suggesting harm from quantities of ethylmercury contained in the vaccines, in 1999, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Public Health Service recommended the immediate removal of mercury from all vaccines given to young infants. (verify.wiki)
  • Articles by Dale Hattis, PhD, of Clarke University shall become central to evaluating thimerosal's neurotoxic effects in susceptible infants and toddlers injected with ethylmercury (eHg). (whale.to)
  • In 2008, an ecological birth cohort assessment of Thimerosal exposure in infants and neurodevelopment disorders within the computerized medical records of the Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD) database was undertaken [ 7 ]. (springer.com)
  • Congressman Weldon questions the CDC director as to why, following this meeting, Dr. Verstraeten published his results, almost four years later, in the journal Pediatrics to show just the opposite, that is, that there was no correlation to any neurodevelopmental problems related to thimerosal exposure in infants. (vaccinationinformationnetwork.com)
  • Despite decades of safe use, public campaigns prompted the CDC and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) to request vaccine makers to remove thiomersal from vaccines as quickly as possible on the precautionary principle. (wikipedia.org)
  • Title : Understanding thimerosal, mercury, and vaccine safety Corporate Authors(s) : Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.);American Academy of Pediatrics. (cdc.gov)
  • As part of this effort, in July 1999, the U.S. Public Health Service (US PHS) and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) issued a joint statement formally requesting that manufacturers eliminate or reduce the amount of thimerosal (a mercury-containing compound) in vaccines. (immunizationinfo.org)
  • Based on this realization that they were violating safety guidelines he says, this then "resulted in a joint statement of the Public Health Service (PHS) and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) in July of last year (1999), which stated that as a long term goal, it was desirable to remove mercury from vaccines because it was a potentially preventable source of exposure. (vaccinationinformationnetwork.com)
  • However, in July 1999, the Public Health Service agencies, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and vaccine manufacturers agreed that thimerosal should be reduced or eliminated in vaccines as a precautionary measure. (thezeropointlife.com)
  • After "realizing" the amount of mercury in the childhood vaccination schedule recommended by the CDC exceeded all national and global maximum safety limits, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the United States Public Health Service called for the immediate removal of Thimerosal from all vaccines on July 7, 1999. (mercuryfreebaby.org)
  • Poisson regression analysis was used to model the association between the prevalence of outcomes and organic Hg doses from Thimerosal-containing vaccines. (springer.com)
  • There is no evidence of harm caused by the low doses of thimerosal in vaccines, except for minor reactions like redness and swelling at the injection site. (thezeropointlife.com)
  • During the highly publicized phase-out period for mercury in 1999-2002, four doses of a new vaccine with high aluminum content wer e added to the CDC vaccination schedule. (informedchoicewa.org)
  • Most doses of these flu vaccines are Thimerosal-preserved. (mercuryfreebaby.org)
  • Some have accused thimerosal of causing developmental disorders in children, but scientific evidence doesn't support this. (factcheck.org)
  • There is enough convincing evidence linking thimerosal with developmental disorders and learning problems in individual children to warrant its removal from any childhood vaccine. (positivehealth.com)
  • As a researcher and concerned citizen, and as a co-author of a research paper linking thimerosal with neurodevelopmental problems in children (1), I believe that the Joint Statement offers conclusions and recommendations based upon scientific errors in the methodology used by several CDC study groups that recently explored HMO databases for evidence of neurotoxicity induced by physician-injected ethylmercury (3). (whale.to)
  • Kennedy, who's running for the Democratic nomination for president, wrote a story co-published in 2005 by Rolling Stone and Salon in which he incorrectly claimed that the preservative thimerosal - used to prevent contamination of vaccine vials - was linked to the "epidemic of childhood neurological disorders. (wrongplanet.net)
  • Under the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Modernization Act (FDAMA) of 1997, the FDA conducted a comprehensive review of the use of thiomersal in childhood vaccines. (wikipedia.org)
  • Ball LK, Ball R, Pratt RD. An assessment of thimerosal use in childhood vaccines. (ijbcp.com)
  • A 1999 report showed that during the 1990s, U.S. children were exposed to unsafe levels of ethylmercury via routine childhood vaccinations. (edgemagazine.net)
  • Between 1999 and 2001, thimerosal was removed or reduced to trace amounts in all childhood vaccines except for some flu vaccines. (verify.wiki)
  • [15] Currently, the only childhood vaccines that contain thimerosal are flu vaccines packaged in multi-dose vials. (verify.wiki)
  • Routine childhood vaccination is an important public health tool to reduce the morbidity and mortality associated with infectious diseases, but the present study provides new epidemiological evidence of a significant relationship between increasing organic Hg exposure from Thimerosal-containing vaccines and the subsequent risk of PDD diagnosis in males and females. (springer.com)
  • Lie #2 "Mercury was removed from all childhood vaccines in (pick any year between 1999 and the present). (mercuryfreebaby.org)
  • By 2003, the vaccine manufacturers had begun to react to the 1999 call by lowering the mercury content in many of the Thimerosal-preserved early childhood vaccines. (mercuryfreebaby.org)
  • Significantly, if you put the amount of mercury added to the immunization schedule as a result of the CDC-recommended seasonal and (in 2009) H1N1 flu shots** on one side of a scale, and the amount of mercury that was subtracted from that schedule by reformulating early childhood vaccines without Thimerosal on the other side, the total amount of mercury added far outweighs the amount of mercury subtracted. (mercuryfreebaby.org)
  • Currently, the actions taken by the vaccine manufacturers, the FDA and the CDC have increased the possible maximum childhood exposure to mercury from vaccines to twice the level that triggered the 1999 call to remove mercury from all vaccines as soon as possible! (mercuryfreebaby.org)
  • An adult dose contains 25 micrograms of ethylmercury, which is safe by EPA standards if one weighs 550 pounds. (edgemagazine.net)
  • Nonetheless, most seasonal and H1N1 flu shots for pregnant women and young children contain 25 micrograms of mercury in the form of Thimerosal. (mercuryfreebaby.org)
  • Thimerosal (or Thiomersal) is a trade name for an organomercurial compound (sodium ethyl-mercury (Hg) thiosalicylate) that is 49.55% Hg by weight, which rapidly decomposes in aqueous saline solutions into ethyl-Hg hydroxide and ethyl-Hg chloride. (educate-yourself.org)
  • Once injected into the body via intramuscular injection, it is rapidly broken down into thiosalicylate and ethylmercury (1). (everlyreport.com)
  • Thimerosal is initially metabolized into ethyl-Hg compounds and thiosalicylate and rapidly binds onto thiol groups found on many proteins in human blood [ 2 ]. (springer.com)
  • Thimerosal, an organic-mercury (Hg) compound containing 49.55% Hg by weight, is added to vaccines as a preservative permitting formulation of multi-dose vaccine vials. (ijbcp.com)
  • Thiomersal has been used as a preservative in multi-dose vaccine vials for many years, but, because of concerns about possible toxicity, is now largely phased out in the EU, and the USA. (astaines.eu)
  • Thimerosal is a mercury-based preservative that has been used for decades in the United States in multi-dose vials (vials containing more than one dose) of medicines and vaccines. (thezeropointlife.com)
  • 18 years (including 8,476 vaccinations in children aged 6-23 months) enrolled in one of five health care organizations within the Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD) during 1993-1999 ( 390 ). (cdc.gov)
  • GBS was associated with several hundred flu vaccinations in 1976, but there's been no evidence of an association since then, despite close monitoring. (factcheck.org)
  • Infant get mercury toxicity from vaccinations because of the mercury-containing compound thimerosal. (brainadvance.org)
  • Astoundingly, the total level of mercury exposure, if a child receives all the possible CDC-recommended vaccinations that are still Thimerosal preserved, from 6 months to 18 years of age, has actually increased. (mercuryfreebaby.org)
  • Form of the mercuric compound (e.g. organic vs. inorganic) and route of exposure (dermal, inhalation, ingestion, injection) dictates toxicity. (everlyreport.com)
  • With that declaration, and a subsequent one by Eli Lilly staff that Thimerosal has a low order of toxicity for man, even though it killed small animals, Thimerosal was introduced into the drug supply. (mercuryfreebaby.org)
  • Thimerosal is a poison, neurotoxin, cancer-causer, and can interrupt the immune system and the normal development of an unborn baby or a child. (mercuryfreebaby.org)
  • A hypothesis testing case-control study evaluated automated medical records in the Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD) for organic Hg exposure from Thimerosal in Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib)-containing vaccines administered at specific times within the first 15 months of life among subjects diagnosed with pervasive developmental disorder (PDD) ( n = 534) in comparison to controls. (springer.com)
  • Exposures to organic Hg from all Thimerosal-containing vaccines were calculated by birth cohort for specific exposure windows from birth to 7 months and birth to 13 months of age. (springer.com)
  • Thimerosal is converted to ethylmercury, an organic form that has a preference for nerve cells. (brainadvance.org)
  • Thiomersal is an antifungal preservative used in small amounts in some multi-dose vaccines (where the same vial is opened and used for multiple patients) to prevent contamination of the vaccine. (wikipedia.org)
  • One of the vaccine components was thimerosal - 50% ethylmercury, a mercury-based antibacterial compound that has been used effectively in multi-dose vaccine preparations for more than 50 years to prevent contamination of vaccines. (verify.wiki)
  • Conducted in 1999, this review found no evidence of harm from the use of thiomersal as a vaccine preservative, other than local hypersensitivity reactions. (wikipedia.org)
  • The science and politics surrounding Thimerosal was detailed last year in a book, Evidence Of Harm, by former New York Times contributor David Kirby, available in paperback March 1. (edgemagazine.net)
  • The FDA writes, "The scientific evidence collected over the past 15 years does not show any evidence of harm, including serious neurodevelopmental disorders, from use of thimerosal in vaccines. (thezeropointlife.com)
  • These facts are directed toward doctors and medical officials who have a hard time with reading comprehension and still insist there is no evidence of harm from vaccines containing thimerosal, which is 50 percent mercury by weight. (positivehealth.com)
  • Material Safety Data Sheets for Thimerosal report that the compound causes immune system problems, mental retardation and neurological damage. (edgemagazine.net)
  • The documents also proved the CDC has know for a long time that neurological tics, indicating brain disturbances, were associated with thimerosal-containing vaccines, such as the influenza vaccine. (greenmedinfo.com)
  • This evidence, as we shall see, was taken under oath during a three year Congressional investigation, which clearly shows that Federal health officials were complicit in covering up the associations between vaccines and neurological damage. (blogspot.com)
  • Wakefield's primary claim was that he had isolated evidence of vaccine-strain measles virus RNA in the intestines of autistic children, leading to a condition he termed autistic enterocolitis (a condition never recognised or adopted by the scientific community). (wikipedia.org)
  • It was done as a precaution to reduce all types of mercury exposure in children before studies were conducted that determined that thimerosal was not harmful. (verify.wiki)
  • Millions of children in this country have been injected with vaccinal ethylmercury. (whale.to)
  • The numbers of susceptible children likely to have developed neurologic impairments from thimerosal are significant (4). (whale.to)
  • He further explains that he is referring to children being exposed to thimerosal in vaccines. (vaccinationinformationnetwork.com)
  • Present generations of paediatricians are mercury doctors who cannot stand the light of medical reason or the basic science that clearly shows how dangerous shooting thimerosal into children can be. (positivehealth.com)
  • The authors looked back at 263 children aged 6 months to 18 years who had visited the Mayo Clinic between 1999 and 2006 with laboratory-confirmed influenza. (wanttoknow.info)
  • However, in April of 2002, the CDC began recommending that pregnant women and very young children get annual Thimerosal-preserved flu shots. (mercuryfreebaby.org)
  • The result was a 'shell game' which has caused widespread confusion in the public because of press reports declaring, "Since (select a year between 1999 and the present), mercury has been removed from all recommended vaccines for children except for some flu shots. (mercuryfreebaby.org)
  • Hence this review supports the exemption of thimerosal from regulation and also justifies its use in LICs for uninterrupted vaccination of the most vulnerable population. (ijbcp.com)
  • Thimerosal is a mercury compound found in some vaccines. (educate-yourself.org)
  • In this shocking letter Congressman Weldon referrers to Dr. Verstraeten's study which looked at the data from the Vaccine Safety Datalink and found a significant correlation between thimerosal exposure via vaccines and several neurodevelopmental disorders including tics, speech and language delays, and possibly to ADD. (vaccinationinformationnetwork.com)
  • Thimerosal: Clinical, epidemiologic and biochemical studies. (educate-yourself.org)
  • Furthermore, we are shocked that the CDC, FDA and HHS, with all of their resources, refuse to take into consideration the large body of clinical evidence that contradicts their biased vaccine policies. (blogspot.com)
  • While there is no evidence that any child has been harmed by the mercury content of a vaccine, some parents and health care providers still have questions: What is thimerosal? (immunizationinfo.org)
  • Mind you, there is enough evidence in the form of court convictions to know how corrupt the pharmaceutical and chemical corporations are. (sandrafinley.ca)
  • The CDC claims that thimerosal is safe, because it contains ethylmercury, a different form of mercury. (thezeropointlife.com)
  • There is also a concerning scarcity of data on toxicology and pharmacokinetics of these compounds. (educate-yourself.org)
  • The CDC and its affiliated corporations can and should act to correct the scientific errors in Davis et al and the thimerosal misinformation in IAC Express v171. (whale.to)
  • He notes that a group of European regulators and manufacturers met on April 1999 and noted the situation, but made no recommendations or changes. (vaccinationinformationnetwork.com)
  • Lie #3 "Thimerosal is well-tested, having been used for 70 years with no problems. (mercuryfreebaby.org)
  • As I mentioned the paper shows data up to 2000, with some indication that incidence is falling in 2000 compared with 1999. (astaines.eu)
  • The generally accepted biologically non-plausible linkage between Thimerosal exposure and subsequent diagnosis of febrile seizure ( n = 5886) was examined as a control outcome. (springer.com)
  • A few studies have examined relationships between mercury exposures and adverse immunological reactions in humans, but there is little evidence of mercury-associated autoimmunity in humans. (biomedcentral.com)