Guest guest Posted February 8, 2006 Report Share Posted February 8, 2006 Aluminum is not a preservative. It's a little trick the vaccine makers use to get the vaccine approved. The aluminum compounds are adjuvants, which are basically toxic substances that attract the immune system to the injection site. This way there's a greater likelihood that once attracted to the aluminum compound the immune system will also recognize the vaccine antigen as foreign and develop antibodies to it also. Whether or not the vaccine actually protects against the disease has no bearing on whether it will be approved. As long as the body creates antibodies to the vaccine antigen, that's all that's needed for the vaccine to be approved. Aluminum and the other poisons they use as adjuvants are a way of ensuring that the body creates those antibodies and hence the vaccine gets approved and hence, Ka-Ching!!!!! for the vaccine makers, but havoc for some recipients. Disgusting, isn't it. And by the way, some vaccine makers still use thimerosal as a sterilization substance in the manufacturing process. Then they take it out somehow (do you believe them?) and can claim it's thimerosal free because they don't add it as a preservative to the final product. Re: Preservatives still in Hepatitis A Vaccine here in CA... > Thimerisol was taken out - but was replaced with other preservatives like Aluminum... from what I understand only live virus, single dose vaccines contain no preservatives. > > - near LAX > > rjmann30 wrote: > <snip>told, " No, they've taken all the preservatives out of vaccines years ago " however, I insisted we check the label and discovered it contained aluminum as aluminum hydroxide and 2-phenoxyethanol as a preservative in a phosphate-buffered saline solution. As well as > Neomycin sulfate, an aminoglycoside antibiotic. I didn't vaccinate my daughter today and am distressed that this continues to happen. Can anyone with information on these substances and/or knowledge on what is still going on with vaccines currently in circulation please comment. Your advise or insight is appreciated. Sincerely, Jill > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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