' Myths and Facts Regarding Thimerosal Safety in Vaccines'

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Here is a 17 Oct 2005 Myth Buster's Reply

Hope it helps refresh " Group " memory.

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Dr. King

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>Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 20:40:47 -0000

>Subject: Myths and Facts Regarding Thimerosal Safety in Vaccines

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>My response to the AOL headlines today. I'm pissed! Feel free to

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>I'm forgetting. We need to distribute anyway possible.

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>Myth: Thimerosal, when used in vaccines, is added in trace amounts.

>Fact: Thimerosal is added at a concentration of 1:10000. This is

>equivalent to a concentration of 100,000 parts per billion (ppb).

>Since thimerosal is half mercury, this puts the concentration of

>mercury in the vaccine vial at 50,000 ppb. To put this inperspective,

>liquid waste that exceeds 200 ppb of mercury must be disposed of in a

>special hazardous waste landfill. Drinking water cannot exceed 2 ppb

>mercury. " Trace " would probably be the last word to use when

>describing the amount of mercury in vaccines.

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>Myth: Thimerosal is no longer present in vaccines. It was removed in

>1999.

>Fact: There is documented evidence that childhood vaccines, used in

>the U.S., contained the full amount of thimerosal well into 2003. This

>information is documented in the Physician Desk reference which lists

>all the ingredients of drugs used in the U.S. for each year. For a

>current list of vaccines which still contain thimerosal go to

>http://www.vaccinesafety.edu/thi-table.htm.

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>Myth: Ethylmercury, the type of mercury found in vaccines is less

>toxic than methylmercury.

>Fact: In a paper published in Environmental Health Perspective,August

>2005, it was shown that infant primates, exposed to injected

>ethylmercury, retain twice as much inorganic mercury in their brains

>than primates exposed to equal amounts of ingested methylmercury. Once

>organic mercury is converted to inorganic mercury in cells, it becomes

>trapped and degradation of brain cells accelerate.

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>Myth: There are vast volumes of studies which show thimerosal is safe.

>Fact: Again, this statement is the exact opposite of the truth. The

>only studies which suggest it is safe are epidemiological studies done

>by the producers, distributors and administrators of vaccines. The

>vast majority of this propaganda is published in Pediatrics which is

>owned by the American Academy of Pediatrics. These epdemiological

>studies are the same type of studies used by the tobacco industry to

>show that smoking does not cause lung cancer. If one wants to find the

>truth about thimerosal they should start by reading the Material

>Safety Data Sheet. You can then go to the medical search

>engine " Pubmed " and type in thimerosal. You will get references to

>1072 published papers. Except for the papers published in Pediatrics,

>all the other papers focus on the extreme toxicity of thimerosal.

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>Myth: A group of researchers at Rochester University published a paper

>which shows ethylmercury is quickly eliminated by children.

>Fact: This paper, throughout its body, refers to nmol/liter as parts

>per billion. A part per billion is a microgram/liter. A nmol/liter

>needs to be divided by 5 to convert it to a microgram/liter (ppb) of

>mercury. This paper, which was published in the Lancet, should be re-

>tracked. It's an embarrasment to creditable, peer reviewed science.

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