Your mercury/tuna/vaccine question

[Guest guest]

" She asks, " How can EPA caution pregnant women to avoid tuna that

contains approximately 17 mcg of mercury, but remain silent on the fact that

some infants were exposed to 237.5 mcg of mercury from their vaccines? "

Redwood went on to say, "

Safe Minds: EPA Children's Health Report, Altered by Bush Admin. Omits Top

Vax  Mercury Source

      [Expanded coverage of story reported here yesterday.  From

U.S.Newswire.]

http://boston.com/dailynews/056/wash/_Safe_Minds_EPA_Children_s_Hea:.shtml

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      Sources say the Children's Health Report released yesterday by the EPA

is actually a revised second draft. Parents upset by the report's nine-month

delay by the White House are now fuming over the apparently watered-down

" official " version and wonder what was altered and why. One of the obvious

irregularities is the report's failure to mention thimerosal, a mercury

based preservative developed by Eli Lilly decades ago and the subject of

heated debate for its role in the current epidemic of learning disabilities

and autism.

      In July 2000, the National Academy of Sciences published an exhaustive

review on the toxic effects of mercury that identified thimerosal as a

source of mercury exposure in the U.S. But the new EPA report, referred to

as the benchmark for government agencies to address the hazards of mercury,

is dead silent on the issue. Parents are questioning how such a purportedly

comprehensive report that clearly acknowledges concerns about mercury damage

to the neurological development of fetuses, infants and children, can fail

to mention the largest source of exposure to these vulnerable groups.

      According to Lyn Redwood, RN, the numbers speak for themselves.

Redwood is President of SAFE MINDs and parent of a child who received 125

times his EPA allowable exposure to mercury from thimerosal containing

vaccines. She asks, " How can EPA caution pregnant women to avoid tuna that

contains approximately 17 mcg of mercury, but remain silent on the fact that

some infants were exposed to 237.5 mcg of mercury from their vaccines? "

Redwood went on to say, " Many children suffering from neurological problems

have been found to have mercury body burdens 500 times that of normal

children, when their only known exposure was from vaccines. These children

exhibit symptoms of mercury toxicity, yet our Federal agencies have turned a

deaf ear to our dilemma. Continued Congressional investigation of the

thimerosal connection is urgently needed. " Sources say it was the mercury

portion of the report that caused the most dispute and subsequent delay, and

that the OMB, headed up by former Eli Lilly executive Mitch s, and the

OSTP made " numerous changes " to the already-edited second draft of the

report. Just this month Congress repealed a provision quietly slipped into

the Homeland Security Bill that granted legal protection to Lilly and

vaccine-makers from thimerosal litigation. Late last year, the Department of

Justice attempted to seal all documents related to thimerosal-autism claims

in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims. After ensuing controversy, the DOJ

withdrew the motion.

      " It does not take long for one to connect the dots between the delay

of the EPA report, the White House, and Eli Lilly, " says Lori McIlwain,

another parent of a child injured by mercury and co-founder of MOMA. " This

is just another shameless tactic to suppress evidence to benefit large

political supporters. " Parents say this is not the first time that a

government report has been watered down to downplay risks. According to

internal documents received from CDC, a February 2000 investigation into

thimerosal exposure in infants was found to be associated with ADD/ADHD,

speech and language delays, and adverse neurological outcomes in general.

This analysis was also subject to much scrutiny, altered to reduce the

significance of the findings, and never published by the agency.

      Parents are demanding the original EPA report be released immediately

and that money be allocated for unbiased investigations into thimerosal and

adverse neurological outcomes.

      To learn more about the evidence supporting a connection between

mercury and autism, visit <A

HREF= " http://www.momsonamissionforautism.org " >http://www.momsonamissionforau

tism.org</A>,

<A HREF= " http://www.safeminds.org " >http://www.safeminds.org</A>, <A

HREF= " http://www.altcorp.com " >http://www.altcorp.com</A>, and

<A

HREF= " http://www.autismautoimmunityproject.org " >http://www.autismautoimmunit

yproject.org</A>.

http://www.usnewswire.com

Jo

A " Mom on a Mission for Autism "

<A HREF= " www.momsonamissionforautism.org " >www.momsonamissionforautism.org</A>

SC Chapter of TAAP

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HREF= " http://www.autismautoimmunityproject.org " >www.autismautoimmunityprojec

t.org</A>

Autism One

<A HREF= " http://www.autismone.org " >www.autismone.org</A>

But this is what the LORD says: " Yes, captives will be taken from warriors,

and plunder retrieved from the fierce; I will contend with those who contend

with you, and your children I will save. "

(Isaiah 49:25, NIV)