Mercury exposure of vaccinated infants

Opening Statement Dan Burton (R-IN), Chairman Government Reform Committee - “Mercury in Medicine – Are We Taking Unnecessary Risks?”

The FDA recently acknowledged that in the first six months of life children get more mercury than is considered safe by the EPA.  The truth is that sometimes kids go to their doctor’s office and get four or five vaccines at the same time.  My grandson received vaccines for nine different diseases in one day.  He may have been exposed to 62.5 micrograms of mercury in one day through his vaccines.  According to his weight, the maximum safe level of mercury he should be exposed to in one day is 1.51 micrograms.  This is forty-one times the amount at which harm can be caused. 

Autism: a unique form of mercury poisoning

According to the FDA and the American Academy of Pediatricians, fully vaccinated children now receive, within their first two years, Hg levels that exceed safety limits established by the FDA and other supervisory agencies.

For these children, the exposure route is childhood vaccines, most of which contain thimerosal, a preservative which is 49.6% ethylmercury by weight. The amount of mercury a typical child under two years receives from vaccinations equates to 237.5 micrograms, or 3.53 x 1017 molecules (353,000,000,000,000,000 molecules). Most such vaccinal Hg may not be excreted and instead migrates to the brain.

Emerging scandal in vaccines

Under the current CDC schedule, most infants receive a total of 15 doses of mercury-containing vaccines by the time they are six months old, many given simultaneously. The fact that the FDA has prohibited the use of thimerosal for most products, but continues to allow its use for vaccines, sounds like political corruption in the vaccine approval process.

Autism and mercury: coincidence or cause and effect?

In June 1999, the Food and Drug Administration discovered that “Infants who receive thimerosal containing vaccine at several visits may be exposed to more mercury than recommended by Federal guidelines for total mercury exposure.” Thimerosal, a preservative used in some vaccines to prevent contamination, is 49.6% mercury by weight. Infants who are being vaccinated using multi-dose vials with thimerosal can receive 62.5 micrograms of mercury per visit. For an average sized child this represents an exposure approximately 100 times the 0.1 micrograms per kilogram of daily exposure considered safe by the Environmental Protection Agency. The manufactures safety data sheet for thimerosal states, “Highly toxic…Danger of cumulative effects…Avoid prolonged or repeated exposure… and the Chemical, physical, and toxicological properties have not been thoroughly investigated.”

Thimerosal - Harmless Vaccine Preservative Or Just Another Toxic Organic Mercury Compound?

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“Garbage science,” brick walls, crossword puzzles, and mercury by Bernard Rimland, Ph.D.

Not until the parents who presented their work at the NIEHS conference began to look into the matter, about a year ago, did the incredible facts begin to emerge: some children were being given 100 or more times as much mercury in a single day as the Environmental Protection Agency considers the maximum allowable amount for a single day’s exposure to mercury!

Testimony to the House Government Reform Committee by Stephanie Cave, M.D.

During the 1990's infants received 12.5 mcg of mercury at birth followed by 12.5 mcg at one month, 50 mcg at 2 months, 50 mcg at 4 months, 62.5 mcg at 6 months, 50 mcg at 15 to 18 months.  The total of 237.5 mcg for a child, who at best weights 10 kg, far exceeds the safety limits if you consider bolus doses.  In establishing normal safety levels, if there is indeed such a thing for a metal as toxic as mercury, bolus injections were not considered.  If the nurse giving the injection did not shake the vial according to directions before drawing out the vaccine dose, there is a chance that the child receiving the last dose could get as much as 10 times the usual amount in one dose.

The Commercialization of Childhood Vaccination: A Doctor's Opinion

Mercury has been used in vaccines as a cheap preservative. However, mainly as a result of astute parental investigations, it was found that the current vaccine program was exposing infants to over 200 micrograms of organic mercury by age 2 years, an amount that exceeds EPA safety levels.

Autism ‘linked to mercury vaccine’

In America, researchers found some infants who are being vaccinated using multidose vials with thiomersal can receive 62.5 micrograms of mercury per visit. This is 100 times more than the intake considered safe for the average six-month-old by the US Environmental Protection Agency.  In June 1999 the FDA discovered that: “Infants who receive thiomersal-containing vaccine at several visits may have been exposed to more mercury than recommended by Federal guidelines.” The following month the European Agency for the Evaluation of Medicinal Products (EMEA) issued a statement saying: “Cumulative exposure to ethylmercury [found in thiomersal] . . . could lead to a potential cause for concern.”