Brod: Err on the side of caution: Get mercury out of vaccines

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Brod: Err on the side of caution: Get mercury out of vaccines

Brod

April 30, 2005 BROD0430

One side of an important debate was printed in the April 19 Star Tribune

article, " Parents lobby against mercury. " Contrary to what was presented,

the bills in the Legislature to eliminate mercury in vaccines are about

creating further confidence and public trust in our immunization program by

assuring parents that the vaccines mandated for their children and

available to family members are as safe as possible.

The Star Tribune article discussed an Institute of Medicine report that

concluded there is no evidence of harm from mercury in vaccines. However,

the story failed to mention a key acknowledgment by the IOM: " the committee

cannot rule out, based on the epidemiological evidence, the possibility

that vaccines contribute to autism in some small subset or very unusual

circumstance. "

It is precisely this " small subset " of people that has been the focus of

important biological studies that raise concern about mercury.

Dr. Mady Hornig of Columbia University found that giving mercury

(thimerosal) to mice in the proportion given to infants in vaccines

resulted in some strains of mice developing significant neurological

symptoms. Dr. Jill of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

found that autistic children have a severe deficiency in glutathione, the

body's most important detoxifier of heavy metals such as mercury.

Dr. Bradstreet, founder of the International Child Development

Resource Center, tested autistic children with a substance that bonds with

heavy metals and pulls them out of the body through the urine. He found

that autistic children excrete six times as much mercury as healthy children.

These studies help us to understand that a " small subset " of people are

more vulnerable to mercury because they can not detoxify it well. Some

parents of autistic children are seeing great improvement in their children

from treatment that helps them detoxify mercury.

An epidemiological study published by Dr. Mark Geier and Geier this

month used the federal VAERS database (Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting

System) and the CDC Vaccine Safety Datalink Database to compare children

who had received mercury-free vaccines with children who had received

vaccines containing mercury. They found higher incidences of

neurodevelopmental disorders of all kinds in the children exposed to

mercury in vaccines.

Rates of autism in our country started climbing in the early 1990s, after

several mercury-containing vaccines were added to the immunization

schedule. However, rates are now beginning to drop in some areas. In

California, four out of the last five quarters noted a drop in new

diagnoses of autism. Given scientists' hypothesis that the autism epidemic

could be related to mercury in vaccines, this drop was predicted because

many vaccines have had mercury completely or partially removed.

Proponents of removing mercury from vaccines are willing to participate in

this scientific debate. However, while the scientists debate, our kids

cannot wait. Through legislation, Minnesota would be making a public policy

statement that, as much as possible, we should use vaccines without

mercury. That is the common-sense approach.

Brod, R-New Prague, is a state representative.

http://www.startribune.com/stories/1519/5377453.html

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