Study on vaccines and autism retracted

[Zippyjuan]

Yes it is. It's simply called thimerosol, as the Feds readily admit. You can request mercury-free vaccines, though.

Maybe you should actually read the article you linked to.

Thimerosal has been removed from or reduced to trace amounts in all vaccines routinely recommended for children 6 years of age and younger, with the exception of inactivated influenza vaccine (see Table 1).

Yes, it is in some versions of the H1N1 vaccine but that is not one intended for children who are the ones who develop autism.

Additional information on it from the linked article:

Thimerosal in concentrations of 0.001% (1 part in 100,000) to 0.01% (1 part in 10,000) has been shown to be effective in clearing a broad spectrum of pathogens. A vaccine containing 0.01% thimerosal as a preservative contains 50 micrograms of thimerosal per 0.5 mL dose or approximately 25 micrograms of mercury per 0.5 mL dose.

Thimerosal, which is approximately 50% mercury by weight, has been one of the most widely used preservatives in vaccines. It is metabolized or degraded to ethylmercury and thiosalicylate. Ethylmercury is an organomercurial that should be distinguished from methylmercury, a related substance that has been the focus of considerable study (see "Guidelines on Exposure to Organomercurials" and "Thimerosal Toxicity", below).

While methylmercury can have toxicity issues, ethylmercury is more readily eleminated from the body. The half life of it in the body is about seven days (meaning half of it is gone from your body in just one week).

One final piece of data regarding thimerosal is worth noting. At the initial National Vaccine Advisory Committee-sponsored meeting on thimerosal in 1999, concerns were expressed that infants may lack the ability to eliminate mercury. More recent NIAID-supported studies at the University of Rochester and National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, MD examined levels of mercury in blood and other samples from infants who had received routine immunizations with thimerosal-containing vaccines. [Pichichero ME, et al. Lancet 360:1737-1741 (2002)] Blood levels of mercury did not exceed safety guidelines for methyl mercury for all infants in these studies. Further, mercury was cleared from the blood in infants exposed to thimerosal faster than would be predicted for methyl mercury; infants excreted significant amounts of mercury in stool after thimerosal exposure, thus removing mercury from their bodies. These results suggest that there are differences in the way that thimerosal and methyl mercury are distributed, metabolized, and excreted. Thimerosal appears to be removed from the blood and body more rapidly than methyl mercury.

 

[cradle2graveconservative]

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[heavenlyboy34]

if you people want to get shot up with this stuff, fine with me. Just don't make stupid laws requiring others to do so.

 

[dannno]

ITT people who don't know what they are talking about try to disprove science with hand-waving and pathos.

Ya, you know, maybe you're right.

Maybe stronger cannabis is "worse" for you, even though it requires ingesting less plant material to achieve the same medicinal effects.

Maybe cannabis does cause lung cancer, even though there have been several studies showing no correlation, and in some cases negative correlation. It's too bad these studies aren't used in the anti-marijuana propaganda. Let's also not consider the studies done that shows cannabis is an anti-cancer agent.

...

Ya, let's throw logic out of the window and just listen to a bunch of paid off scientists who's credibility comes from a bullshit establishment that I don't believe in..

YouTube - Kary Mullis: Celebrating the scientific experiment

 

[ScoutsHonor]

+1

 

[Danke]

Table salt is comprised of sodium and chlorine atoms: a metal that (for all intensive purposes)...

What about relaxed purposes?

 

[Zippyjuan]

Age of the parent- particularly the mother is a major factor in autism.
http://enews.earthlink.net/article/hea?guid=20100208/d2a2d118-e283-49b6-a2b6-2b5691c6d3a1

Autism risks detailed in children of older mothers
LINDSEY TANNER
From Associated Press
February 08, 2010 1:23 PM EST
A woman's chance of having a child with autism increase substantially as she ages, but the risk may be less for older dads than previously suggested, a new study analyzing more than 5 million births found.

"Although fathers' age can contribute risk, the risk is overwhelmed by maternal age," said University of California at Davis researcher Janie Shelton, the study's lead author.

Mothers older than 40 were about 50 percent more likely to have a child with autism than those in their 20s; the risk for fathers older than 40 was 36 percent higher than for men in their 20s.

Even at that, the study suggests the risk of a woman over 40 having an autistic child was still less than 4 in 1,000, one expert noted.

The new research suggests the father's age appears to make the most difference with young mothers. Among children whose mothers were younger than 25, autism was twice as common when fathers were older than 40 than when dads were in their 20s.

The findings contrast with recent research that suggested the father's age played a bigger role than the mother's. Researchers and other autism experts said the new study is more convincing, partly because it's larger. Older mothers are known to face increased risks for having children with genetic disorders, and genes are thought to play a role in autism.

The study was released Monday in the February issue of the journal Autism Research.

 

[Zippyjuan]

So injecting mercury into your body is Not injecting it? do explain...

Also the Hep B has a 100x more mercury in it thats recommended by the EPA. I dont see how this can not be harmful to those with a predispositioned genetic weakness.

As has been mentioned, there are two different kinds of mercury- ethylmercury and methylmercury. Different compounds which react differently in the body. Methyl is the toxic version and can accumulate in the body. Ethyl is the one used as a preservative in some adult vaccines and passes out of the body- studies have determined that half of it leaves the body in about seven days.

So does the hepatitis vaccine have 100 times the EPA recommended amount of mercury in it? Aside from the fact that it is not the sort of mercury the EPA is restricting, how much would that be? The EPA recommends you to consume no more that 0.1mg of methylmercury per kg of body weight per day (you can have that every day if you want). Let's take a 150 pound adult- convert that to 68kg. So this person would be allowed to consume 6.8 mg of methylmercury per day.

To achieve the 100 times this EPA limit, the injection for hepatitis B would need to have 680 mg of mercury in it. According to the FDA, Thimerosal is 50% ethylmercury by weight. http://www.fda.gov/biologicsbloodvaccines/safetyavailability/vaccinesafety/ucm096228 So that means you need 1,360 mg of thimerosal in your injection (more than one gram).


So let us try to see how much thimerisol is in the Hepatitis B vaccine. I found a chart here which lists thimerisol and mercury for many vaccines. Hmm. It says "NONE". That would be pretty short of the 1,360 mg. http://www.vaccinesafety.edu/thi-table.htm

Maybe it is wrong? Let me try another site. THey have five makers of the vaccine listed.
http://www.immunizationinfo.org/vaccineInfo/vaccine_detail.cfv?id=4

None of these formulations contain thimerosal preservative. For information on the thimerosal content in these vaccines, see the Food and Drug Administration at www.fda.gov/cber/vaccine/thimerosal.htm#t3
or Johns Hopkins University's Institute for Vaccine Safety at
www.vaccinesafety.edu/thi-table.htm

Seems they stopped using it about a decade ago already (1999).

If you want a comparison, those H1N1 vaccine variations which do use thimersol contained 25 mcg or .025mg so even if it were methyl mercury (which it isn't) you could have 2,720 vaccines a day. To get to your reported 100 times level? 272,000 shots.

 

[dannno]

Zippy, I'm fairly certain that you could make a correlation between the mother's age and the amount of vaccinations a child receives.

 

[Zippyjuan]

Perhaps you can share that data with us?

I would not expect much diffecence in vaccination rates based soley on the age of the parent. On income level that might be a possibliity. More income, better healthcare and more access to care including vaccines.

It would also be true that older moms would tend to have more money and education and thus be able know about and get a diagnosis of autism for their child. If you are uneducated or without health insurance, you will probably just deal with the behivior. But having an autistic child can also lower a family income if instead of both parents working- even part time- one may decide to quit and spend all their time with the child so this would show lower incomes for families with autism.