Lords debate mercury

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Lords debate mercury

FRASER NELSON

 
THE House of Lords is to debate the use of mercury in vaccines, breaking the political silence which has surrounded the toxic substance since it was introduced to British medicine in 1939.

Lord Hodgson, a Tory peer, is planning to have Lord Hunt of Kings Heath, one of Alan Milburn’s health ministers, explain why Britain has not joined the United States in switching to the new generation of preservative-free child vaccines.

The debate will seek to establish whether mercury vaccines were waved into Britain by civil servants unaware that they had been removed from the US child vaccines amid evidence of their links to autism.

Lord Hodgson has laid down questions on the use of thimerosal, a mercury-containing preservative used in the DTwP vaccine, which is given three times to babies aged eight, 12 and 16 weeks old. "My view is that, if other countries have been taking mercury out of vaccines, then why aren’t we?" he said. "There must be a good reason. I would like to know what it is."

His motion is to "call attention to the impact of Attention Deficit Disorder" - one of the child neurological conditions linked to thimerosal in the US.

The debate is due to be held late February or early March. A motion has also been laid down in Holyrood.


 

 

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