1. 1991 Thimerosal Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) (PDF)
   http://www.nationalautismassociation.org/pdf/ThimerosalMSDS.pdf
   This product contains a chemical known to the state of California to cause birth defects or other reproductive harm. Effects: Thimerosal contains mercury. Mercury poisoning can occur. Early signs of mercury poisoning in adults are nervous system effects including narrowing of visual field and numbness of extremities. Exposure to mercury in utero and in children can cause mild to severe mental retardation and mild to severe motor coordination impairment.
    
2. 2003 Thimerosal Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) (PDF)
   http://www.setonresourcecenter.com/MSDS/EMD/Docs/wcd00026/wcd026b4.pdf
   Danger! Poison! May be fatal if inhaled, absorbed through skin or swallowed.  Contains material which may cause damage to the following organs: kidneys, respiratory tract, skin, eyes, central nervous system. Warning: This product contains a chemical known to the state of California to cause birth defects or other reproductive harm. Section 7 Handling. Do not ingest. Avoid breathing dust.. Avoid contact. Section 8 Exposure Controls. Personal Protection: Splash goggles, Full suit, Dust Respirator, Boots, Gloves, a self-contained breathing apparatus. Section 11 Toxicology Information: Acute Oral Toxicity. Extremely hazardous in case of skin contact (permeator). May be fatal if absorbed. Extremely hazardous in case of inhalation. May be fatal if inhaled. Extremely hazardous in case of ingestion. May be fatal if swallowed. Danger of cumulative effects.
    
3. CDC Autism A.L.A.R.M.: January 2004 (PDF)
   http://www.medicalhomeinfo.org/screening/Autism downloads/AutismAlarm.pdf
   CDC January 2004: Autism Spectrum Disorders 1 in 166; Behavioral/Developmental Disorders 1 in 6
    
4. John Hopkins: Thimerosal Content in some US Vaccines
   http://www.vaccinesafety.edu/thi-table-Oct04.pdf
   October 2004: DTaP, Tetanus, Influenza still contain Thimerosal.  A concentration of 1:10,000 is equivalent to a 0.01% concentration. Thimerosal is approximately 50% mercury (Hg) by weight.  A 1:10,000 (0.01%) concentration contains 25 micrograms of Hg per 0.5 mL.  Note that 25 mcg. of mercury is considered "safe" for an approximately 550 lb. adult using EPA guidelines for ingestion.  (Under 1991 - 2002 US vaccination schedule, infants received 187.5 mcg by age 6 months, injected).
    
5. CDC Childhood and Adolescent Immunization Schedule (PDF)
   http://www.cdc.gov/nip/recs/child-schedule-jul-dec-rev.pdf
   CDC Recommended Childhood & Adolescent Immunization Schedule US July - Dec. 2004
    
6. 2003 EPA Reference Dose for Methyl-Mercury
   http://www.epa.gov/EPA-MEETINGS/2000/October/Day-30/m27781.htm
   Methyl mercury is a highly toxic substance; there are a number of adverse health effects associated with methyl mercury exposure. Most extensive are the data for neurotoxicity, particularly in developing organisms. Therefore the brain is considered to be the most sensitive target organ for which there are data suitable for derivation of an RfD...The National Research Council's major finding is that the results of the Faroe Islands study provide a scientifically credible basis on which to base EPA's RfD.  The RfD derived in this assessment is 0.1 ug / kg per day. This is the same as the RfD derived by EPA in 1995 based on an earlier study.   
    
7. Affidavit: Thimerosal Containing Vaccines and Neurodevelopment
   Outcomes: Boyd Haley, Ph.D.
   http://www.nationalautismassociation.org/library/BoydHaleyAFFIDAVITThimerosal9-03.pdf
   or http://64.41.99.118/vran/vaccines/mercury/mer_haley.htm
   Mercury is a known neurotoxin and its mechanism of neurotoxicity has been studied in our laboratory for the past 10 years.  In human brain homogenates we had earlier observed that mercuric ion rapidly inhibited tubulin viability at low micromolar levels mimicking the situation in Alzheimer's diseased brain... It is my hypothesis that thimerosal releases ethyl mercury which most certainly interferes with neurite growth and neuronal development in infants. This supports the concept that thimerosal in biological solutions injected into the human body could cause a number of systemic problems identified as disease states. Both ethyl mercury and Hg2+ are very neuro toxic compounds. However, ethyl mercury is more rapidly partitioned into the hydrophobic (fatty) tissues of the central nervous system and is a more potent neuro toxin than Hg2+ based on this "partitioning factor". It is this partitioning factor that makes organic mercurials such as dimethyl mercury so neuro toxically lethal (this is the compound that caused the death of a Dartmouth University chemistry professor after she was exposed to a drop or two on her gloved hand).
    
8. Assessment of the impact of thimerosal on childhood neurodevelopmental disorders.
   Pediatric Rehabilitation 2003; 6: 97-102. Dr. Geier and Geier
   http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/tandf/tped/2003/00000006/00000002/art00005;jsessionid=26ol3tsb6jq8j.henrietta
   The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether mercury from thimerosal in childhood vaccines contributed to neurodevelopmental disorders. The dosage of mercury children received in comparison to the FDA's maximum permissible dose for the oral ingestion of methyl mercury was determined. The dose-response curves showed increases in odds ratios of neurodevelopmental disorders from both the CDC Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) and US Department of Education data closely linearly correlated with increasing doses of mercury from thimerosal-containing childhood vaccines and that for overall odds ratios statistical significance was achieved.
    
9. Thimerosal in Childhood Vaccines, Neurodevelopment Disorders, and Heart Disease in the U.S.: Dr. Geier & Geier (PDF)  
   http://www.jpands.org/vol8no1/geier.pdf
   Similar to previous study. The dosage of mercury children received in comparison to the FDA and EPA's maximum permissible dose for the oral ingestion of methyl mercury was also determined. This also shows incidence of neurodevelopmental disorders and heart disease following thimerosal-containing vs. thimerosal-free vaccines. Direct correlation (see charts) between autism and mercury dose; between speech disorders and mercury dose; and between heart arrest and mercury dose. The relative risk of each disorder correlated with increasing doses of mercury dose of Thimerosal in childhood vaccines.
    
10. Autism: A Unique Form of Mercury Poisoning: Bernard, et al
    http://www.vaccinationnews.com/DailyNews/July2001/AutismUniqueMercPoison.htm
    or http://www.whale.to/a/pdf/Bernard%20et%20al%202001.pdf
    Autism is a syndrome characterized by impairments in social relatedness, language and communication, a need for routine and sameness, abnormal movements, and sensory dysfunction. Mercury (Hg) is a toxic metal that can exist as a pure element or in a variety of inorganic and organic forms and can cause immune, sensory, neurological, motor, and behavioral dysfunctions similar to traits defining or associated with autism. A review of medical literature indicates that the characteristics of autism and of mercury poisoning (HgP) are strikingly similar. Traits defining or associated with both disorders are summarized in Table A immediately following the Table of Contents and are discussed and cited in the body of this document. The parallels between the two diseases are so thorough as to suggest, based on total Hg injected into U.S. children, that many cases of autism are a form of mercury poisoning.
     

11. Summary Comparison of Characteristics of Autism & Mercury Poisoning
    http://www.nationalautismassociation.org/library/autism-hgpoisoning.pdf
     

12. A Case-Control Study of Mercury Burden in Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorders:
    Jeff Bradstreet, M.D. et al (PDF) 
    http://www.jpands.org/vol8no3/geier.pdf
    Purpose of study to evaluate concentrations of mercury in urine following a 3-Day treatment with an oral chelating agent. Overall urinary mercury concentrations were significantly higher in 221 children with Autism Spectrum Disorders than in 18 normal controls. Regardless of the mechanism by which children with Autism Spectrum Disorders have high urinary mercury concentrations after chelation, the DMSA treatment described in this study might be useful to diagnose their present burden of mercury. The authors conclude DMSA appears to be an effective and safe chelating agent for treatment of pediatric overexposure to metallic mercury.
     
13. Environmental Working Group Report, 13 December 2004
    http://www.ewg.org/reports/autism/execsumm.php
    Scientists have identified a signature metabolic impairment or "biomarker" in autistic children that strongly suggests that these children would be susceptible to the harmful effects of mercury and other toxic chemical exposures (James 2004a). Autistic children showed a significant impairment in every one of five measurements of the body's ability to maintain a healthy glutathione defense. These new findings significantly strengthen the possibility that mercury could cause or contribute to autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders by identifying a metabolic imbalance common to nearly all autistic children that would make these children poorly equipped to mount a defense against a number of neurotoxic compounds, including mercury.
     
14. Iatrogenic Death and Disease via Acute and Chronic Mercury Poisoning: International Medical Veritas Association (PDF)
    http://www.toxicteeth.org/Mercury-poisoning-2004.pdf
    According to Dr. David Kessler, former head of FDA, "Only about 1% of serious events (adverse drug reactions) are reported to FDA." [iv] The general rule of thumb is between 10% [v] to 20%. The production of disease by the prescriptions of physicians is what is usually meant by Iatrogenic. Given the CDC A.L.A.R.M. numbers, that means that out of 4 million born in US each year, 24,000 will be devastated with autism, and perhaps as many as 600,000 with mild to severe learning disorders, caused in part or whole by neurological destruction of brain cells that mercury is proven to precipitate. According to Dr. Mark Geier, who has studied the CDC's own data, "Kids who received 100 mcg of thimerosal were over ten times more likely to have autism than the kids who received no mercury containing vaccines. Dr. Mark Geier and his son David Geier calculated the over neurodevelopmental damage that can be sourced to mercury toxicity to be approximately 2,402,505 cases [xiv]. Mercury is a cumulative poison, and used with other toxic substances in medicine, like aluminum, antibiotics, and formaldehyde, create lethal and semi-lethal cocktails that damage human life. ..One of the greatest mistakes made y modern medical science is the practice of injecting thimerosal into newborns and infant toddlers. ..Doctors compound the problem with the practice of injecting as many as nine vaccines into a child during a single office visit. Dr. Andrew Wakefield asks why it's still in infant vaccines when, "Mercury was taken out of animal vaccines 20 years ago because it was too toxic."  Professor John Oxford of Queen Mary's School of Medicine and Dentistry states: From Alzheimer's disease to a devastating lineup of other neurological disorders including Parkinson's, ALS, MS, autism and AD - mercury is known to be a potent neurotoxin that either is the prime cause of such disorders or certainly is seen to exacerbate them [xxix]. If there is "any doubt whatsoever" about the safety of mercury in vaccines then it should be removed.
     
15. Neurotoxic effects of postnatal thimerosal are mouse strain dependent:Hornig, M., et al Molecular Psychiatry 2004; 1-13.
    http://autismcoach.com/Thimerosal Study.htm 
    or http://www.nationalautismassociation.org/pdf/hornig.pdf
    A published study showing genetically susceptible mice will develop autistic symptoms when exposed to thimerosal.
     
16. Researchers Present Evidence of How Mercury Effects Brain Neurons:
    Univ. of Calgary Faculty of Medicine
    http://www.fp.ucalgary.ca/unicomm/news/March_01/mercury.htm
    A University of Calgary Faculty of Medicine research team has found that exposure to mercury causes degeneration of brain neurons in animals. The scientific findings are being published in a cover story in the April edition of the British journal NeuroReport. The researchers’ academic paper is supported by a time-lapse video recorded from a microscope camera showing how neurons degenerate when they are exposed to mercury. 
     

17. Buttar, Vice Chair American Board of Clinical Metal Toxicology: Congressional Subcommittee IHMAF Testimony, May 6. 04 (PDF)
    http://www.autismone.org/presentations/ButtarIHMAFtestimony.pdf
    The association of mercury to chronic diseases is well documented in didactic scientific literature. Search for association between mercury and cardiovascular disease revealed 358 scientific papers exemplifying the relationship. Association between mercury and cancer revealed 643 scientific papers exemplifying the relationship. Association between mercury and neurodegenerative diseases revealed 1445 scientific papers exemplifying the relationship. Mercury has clearly been shown to cause a denudation of the neurofibrils resulting in direct damage to neuronal cells.
     

18. Conflicts of Interest in Vaccine Policy Making Majority Staff Report Committee on Government Reform
    http://www.whale.to/v/staff.html
    In August 1999, the Committee on Government Reform initiated an investigation into Federal vaccine policy. Over the last six months, this investigation has focused on possible conflicts of interest on the part of Federal policy-makers. Committee staff has conducted an extensive review of financial disclosure forms and related documents, and interviewed key officials from the Department of Health and Human Services, including the FDA and the CDC. This staff report focuses on two influential advisory committees utilized by Federal regulators to provide expert advice on vaccine policy: 1. The FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC); and 2. The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunizations Practices (ACIP). The VRBPAC advises the FDA on the licensing of new vaccines, while the ACIP advises the CDC on guidelines to be issued to doctors and the states for the appropriate use of vaccines. Members of the advisory committees are required to disclose any financial conflicts of interest and recuse themselves from participating in decisions in which they have an interest. The Committee’s investigation has determined that conflict of interest rules employed by the FDA and the CDC have been weak, enforcement has been lax, and committee members with substantial ties to pharmaceutical companies have been given waivers to participate in committee proceedings.
     

19. Rep. Weldon M.D.(R-FL) at AutismOne, May 2004 (PDF)
    http://www.autismone.org/presentations/Weldon Dave, Congressman, MD.pdf
    Rep. Weldon, the only physician in the US House continues to question whether neurological problems were caused in some children by the high level of mercury contained in many vaccines in the 1990's. Rep Weldon outlines the flaws in May 2004 IOM report - about which he says he has never seen a report so badly miss the mark in his ten years of service in US Congress. The greatest outrage, he says is that it calls for a halt to further research (about a possible link between vaccines and neurodevelopmental disorders). Weldon  takes a detailed look at the five studies the IOM used as basis for their decisions, including serious conflicts of interest by the principal authors of all five studies. Three studies were of children within the Danish population that are genetically homogenous, and had significantly lower thimerosal exposures. All three Danish studies had authors that worked for Staten Serum Institute, the government owned vaccine manufacturer. Only 1 study of US children did NOT compate those with no mercury to those with exposures. Study five is unpublished, so public can't evaluate, plus again looks at a population of children (UK) outside the US, receiving lower levels of Thimerosal. Children in UK were exposed to 75 mcg Thimerosal by 4 months. This represents about one-half of what children in US would have been exposed to by this age, plus children in US got another 50 mcg two months later, at age 6 months for a total exposure in the first 6 months of life nearly 2 1/2 times what children received in the UK. Rep. Weldon continues with information they should include and studies needed.
     
20. Thimerosal Induces DNA & Cellular Damage: David Baskin, et al (PDF)
    http://www.nationalautismassociation.org/library/BaskinThimerosalStudy6-03.pdf
    Thimerosal contains 49.6% mercury by weight and releases ethyl mercury as a metabolite. In the body ethyl mercury can be converted to inorganic mercury, which then preferentially accumulates in kidneys and brain (Blair, et al 1975). In this study we demonstrate that Thimerosal in micromolar concentrations rapidly decreases cellular viability, induces DNA breaks and membrane damage. Nueronal cell cultures demonstrated higher sensitivity to Thimerosal than fibroblasts.
     
21. Autism, Vaccines, and Immune Reactions: Dr. Vijendra K. Singh
    http://vacinfo.org/vijendra_singh.htm
    To examine vaccines as risk factors in autism, we conducted a study of serology (antibody levels) to three vaccines: MMR, DPT and DT (diphtheria-tetanus). Through our experimental research [8], we found that the level of MMR antibodies was significantly higher in autistic children as compared to normal children or other disease children [Fig. 2]. Furthermore, we characterized that this abnormal MMR serology was due to antibodies to measles subunit but not the mumps or rubella subunit of the trivalent vaccine MMR [8]. These findings led me to speculate that the measles subunit of the MMR vaccine might trigger an autoimmune reaction in a significant number of autistic children [7-9]. Vaccines are well known to cause numerous adverse reactions in humans and no matter how rare they might be it is time to pay a closer attention to them. We need new policies simply because the existing policies are not in line with our modern knowledge of human immunology, virology, and genomics. At this juncture, I would also like to recommend a new policy of “Testing immunity before vaccination or immunization” that should help identify immunocompromised children who otherwise might react adversely to vaccines. The cost should not deter us from implementing this policy especially when the lives of hundreds and thousands of children and their families are concerned.
     
22. E.P.A. Raises Estimate of Babies Affected by Mercury Exposure: The New York Times, February 10, 2004, by Jennifer Lee
    http://www.toxicteeth.org/relatedPress_NYT_Feb_04.cfm
    More than one child in six born in the United States could be at risk for developmental disorders because of mercury exposure in the mother's womb, according to revised estimates released last week by Environmental Protection Agency scientists. The agency doubled its estimate, equivalent to 630,000 of the 4 million babies born each year, because recent research has shown that mercury tends to concentrate in the blood in the umbilical cord of pregnant women.
     
23. Aventis Influenza Virus Vaccine: Fluzone 2004-2005 Formula
    http://www.vaccineshoppe.com/US_PDF/Fluzone_2004.2005_4991.4992.pdf
    A concentration of 1:10,000 is equivalent to a 0.01% concentration. Thimerosal is approximately 50% mercury (Hg) by weight.  A 1:10,000 concentration contains 25 micrograms of Hg per 0.5 mL.   i.e.  1:10,000 = .01% = 25 mcg. of Hg per 0.5 mL   Fluzone: The Fluzone vaccine package insert states: “Fluzone vaccine is supplied in a 0.5 mL prefilled syringe and 5 mL vial of vaccine, both of which contain the preservative thimerosal [(mercury derivative), (25 mcg mercury per dose)]. " Children 6-to-35-months old actually are supposed to receive half the dose, if the healthcare practitioner reads the instructions, or 12.5 mcg. of mercury in the injection. However, there is a pediatric .25 mL prefilled syringe with a trace amount.  Note that 12.5 mcg. of mercury is considered "safe" for an approximately 275 lb. adult using EPA guidelines for ingestion – and "safe" for an approximately 366 lb. adult for injection. (Injection is 1/3 more lethal than injection since absorbsion is much slower with ingestion. The 2004-5 influenza vaccine is scheduled for infants to receive twice during year one, (at 6 months & 7 months) then once per year thereafter. The 2004-5 influenza vaccine provides 25 mcg. of Thimerosal for pregnant moms, older children, seniors and all others regardless of weight and using EPA mercury guidelines is considered "safe" for an approximately 550 lb adult to ingest, 733 lb adult via injection.
     
24. Ingredients in Vaccines: Mercola
    http://www.mercola.com/2001/mar/7/vaccine_ingredients.htm
    Include Mercury, Thimerosal (49.6% mercury), Formaldehyde, Aluminum, Anti-freeze, Phenol (coal tar derivative), MSG, Latex, Gelatin, Animal DNA, often cultured on Aborted Fetal Cells, etc.
     

    

   
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