[SPAM?] The developing Indian Holocaust (was Re: Autism Speaks Research Awards- India)

[Guest guest]

Did you know Ghandi was autistic? I'll bet you didn't know that

snake charmers used autistic snakes.

> > >

> > > Thank god, the epidemic levels of autism in India have

nothing to

> > do with the introduction of thimerosal containing vaccines.

> > >

> > > Offit told me!!!!

> > >

> >

> > According to:

> >

> > http://www.downtoearth.org.in/full6.asp?

> > foldername=20060415 & filename=anal & sid=1 & page=1 & sec_id=7

> >

> > " The risk of mercury is even higher for the undernourished â? "

and

> > underweight â? " Indian children. At a who meet of the Global

> Advisory

> > Committee on Vaccine Safety in 2003, it was pointed out that

little

> > is known of susceptibility to thimerosal in infants who weigh

less

> > than 2.5 kg. Moreover, children are less equipped to handle the

> toxic

> > load because they do not produce sufficient levels of bile,

needed

> to

> > remove mercury from the body. "

> >

> > " However, many experts contend that ethyl mercury used in

vaccines

> is

> > not as toxic as methyl mercury, commonly blamed for maladies

such

> as

> > the Minamata disease. But there are others who dispute this

> argument. "

> >

> > " But what about alternatives to thimerosal? We do have

alternative

> > preservatives like 2-phenoxyethanol. Drug manufacturers around

the

> > world are also considering the use of other preservatives like

> > benzalkonium chloride and benzethonium chloride. But says

> Varaprasad

> > Reddy, ceo of Shantha Biotechnics, a Hyderabad-based

pharmaceutical

> > company, â?oWe have manufactured vaccines withot thimerosal.

Itâ?Ts

> not

> > difficult to produce them. But the who does not permit us to

supply

> > such vaccines to the unicef â? . "

> >

> > " There is another problem far graver than costs of alternative

> > preservatives. Many experts do not see the need to shift over

to

> > mercury-free vaccines. One of them Suresh Jadhav, executive

> director,

> > Serum Institute of India Ltd, Pune, asserts, â?oThere is no

proof

> of

> > the harm done by vaccines, only perceptions. Using mercury-

free,

> > single-dose vaccines is also not feasible as multi-dose

vaccines

> are

> > far cheaper,â? he adds. "

> >

> > " Indian Pharmacoepia (Indian Pharmacoepia â? " a document that

> contains

> > guidelines on drug constituents â? " makes it mandatory for

vaccines

> to

> > have mercury. "

> >

> > " Indian Pharmacoepia is quite categorical that even single-dose

> > vaccines contain thimerosal. Reddy agrees that this anomaly

should

> be

> > corrected, but is not sure that this would make much difference

> > considering the expenses involved in manufacturing single-dose

> > vaccines. "

> >

> > So it would appear that the US, the WHO and the Indian medical

> > establishemnt all support the use of TCVs. So we are not the

only

> > ones to blame. Unfathomable.

> >

> > -- Greg

> >

>