Are vaccination the cause or is it environmental issues?

Quoted from http://www.nvic.org/Downloads/49-Doses-PosterB.aspx

“An epidemic of chronic disease and disability is plaguing America. Our children are the most highly vaccinated children in the world and they are among the most chronically ill and disabled. Today, the Centers for Disease Control admits that 1 child in 6 in America is developmentally delayed. During the past quarter century, the number of children with learning disabilities, ADHD, asthma and diabetes has more than tripled. During the past quarter century, the number of doses of vaccines that pediatricians give babies and children under age 6 has more than doubled. More than twice as many children have chronic brain and immune system dysfunction today than did in the 1970’s when half as many vaccines were given to children.

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Today, the CDC and AAP direct doctors to give infants a dose of hepatitis B vaccine at 12 hours of age in the newborn nursery. Unborn infants are exposed to an additional dose of vaccine in the womb of their pregnant mothers, who are vaccinated for influenza. A two month old baby can receive as many as 8 vaccines on a single day. At age 15 to 18 months, a child can receive as many as 12 vaccines on a single day. Before and after birth to age six, children born today in the U.S. are given 49 doses of 14 vaccines.”

 

My thoughts…

While pollution, city environments, etc may also be a cause it is also possible vaccination are the leading contributor to this. It seems to me we either have the worst environment (I would think places like China would be much worse based on how much they had to do to make it suitable to hold the Olympics there) that is causing these issues OR it is the vaccinations that we are giving that is messing with the bodies to do as nature intended such as extract oxygen from air, learn, process sugar and insulin properly, etc.

Just the thought of giving my child that many vaccinations (49) just seems crazy to me by the time they are SIX. Consider in by the time a baby is six they will have lived 72 months and had 49 does of 14 vaccines. That just seems like a bad idea to consistently be putting toxins that are in vaccinations into my child.

Are vaccinations really mercury free? Why should I care?

The short answer according to no, not all vaccinations are mercury free, but for every type of virus listed there is a vaccination that available that does not have mercury in it  and not also not have any trace amounts of mercury. The good news is that the type of mercury in the vaccinations is believed to be more easily eliminated from the body even so and is much less in some cases than it was decades ago. The question is are those “trace” amounts safe or not. My analysis says no it is not safe, but either is the environment that we all live in with pollution, and fish with mercury in them.

Quoted from http://www.nvic.org/faqs.aspx

“Even though most of the vaccines routinely administered to infants in the United States no longer contain more than trace amounts of ethyl mercury in the form of Thimerosal, the entire vaccine supply is not Thimerosal-free. The most notable exception to this is the seasonal influenza (flu) vaccine. Most, but not all, influenza vaccine still contains Thimerosal. Notably, many vaccines used in third world countries are mercury containing and exceed safety guidelines established in the United States…

Information on vaccines that contain significant amounts of Thimerosal can also be found on the Food and Drug Administration's website and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's Institute for Vaccine Safety website…

Depending on the vaccines administered, at six months of age, infants today born to mothers who received flu vaccine during pregnancy could receive up to 71 mcg of ethyl mercury compared to 187.5 mcg prior to efforts to decrease the amount of thimerosal in infant vaccines. Additionally, the new CDC guidelines recommend that all children from 2 to 5 years of age receive an annual influenza vaccine. As a result, the total amount of thimerosal given to children under 5 years of age is almost what it was prior to 2000.

There are other sources of mercury exposure in infants. Specifically, it should be recognized that influenza vaccine recommended for pregnant women and some rhogam preparations contain ethyl mercury in the form of thimerosal. Total mercury burden include other sources including dental amalgams (silver fillings), food especially some types of fish, and air pollution from coal-fired power plants and wildfires.

Concerns regarding mercury in vaccines were addressed in a letter published by the Journal Pediatrics on March 13, 2008. As noted in the letter, parents and pregnant women may want to consider the following data and make an informed decision.

• 0.5 parts per billion (ppb) mercury = Kills human neuroblastoma cells (Parran et al., Toxicol Sci 2005; 86: 132-140).
• 2 ppb mercury = U.S. EPA limit for drinking water.
• 20 ppb mercury = Neurite membrane structure destroyed (Leong et al., Neuroreport 2001; 12: 733-37).
• 200 ppb mercury = level in liquid the EPA classifies as hazardous waste.
• 25,000 ppb mercury = Concentration of mercury in the Hepatitis B vaccine, administered at birth in the U.S., from 1990-2001.
• 50,000 ppb Mercury = Concentration of mercury in multi-dose DTaP and Haemophilus B vaccine vials, administered 4 times each in the 1990's to children at 2, 4, 6, 12 and 18 months of age.
• 50,000 ppb Mercury = Current "preservative" level mercury in multi-dose flu (94% of supply), meningococcal and tetanus (7 and older) vaccines. This can be confirmed by simply analyzing the multi- dose vials.

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According to http://www.fda.gov/BiologicsBloodVaccines/SafetyAvailability/VaccineSafety/UCM096228#t2 not all vaccinations are mercury free.

“Thimerosal is a mercury-containing organic compound (an organomercurial). Since the 1930s, it has been widely used as a preservative in a number of biological and drug products, including many vaccines…

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)…

Humans are exposed to methylmercury primarily from the consumption of seafood (Mahaffey et al. 1997). Methylmercury is a neurotoxin…

Lacking definitive data on the comparative toxicities of ethyl- versus methylmercury, FDA considered ethyl- and methyl-mercury as equivalent in its risk evaluation.

Magos concluded that ethylmercury, the mercury derivative found in thimerosal, is less neurotoxic than methylmercury, the mercury derivative for which the various guidelines are based…

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. 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…

At the time of this review in 1999, the maximum cumulative exposure to mercury from vaccines in the recommended childhood immunization schedule was within acceptable limits for the methylmercury exposure guidelines set by FDA, ATSDR, and WHO. However, depending on the vaccine formulations used and the weight of the infant, some infants could have been exposed to cumulative levels of mercury during the first six months of life that exceeded EPA recommended guidelines for safe intake of methylmercury.

As a precautionary measure, the Public Health Service (including the FDA, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) and the American Academy of Pediatrics issued two Joint Statements, urging vaccine manufacturers to reduce or eliminate thimerosal in vaccines as soon as possible (CDC 1999) and (CDC 2000). The U.S. Public Health Service agencies have collaborated with various investigators to initiate further studies to better understand any possible health effects from exposure to thimerosal in vaccines.

At present, all routinely recommended vaccines for U.S. infants are available only as thimerosal-free formulations or contain only trace amounts of thimerosal (≤1 than micrograms mercury per dose), with the exception of inactivated influenza vaccine. Inactivated influenza vaccine for pediatric use is available in a thimerosal-preservative containing formulation and in formulations that contain either no thimerosal or only a trace of thimerosal, but the latter is in more limited supply

Blood levels of mercury did not exceed safety guidelines for methyl mercury for all infants in these studies…

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). A preservative-free version of the inactivated influenza vaccine (contains trace amounts of thimerosal) is available in limited supply at this time for use in infants, children and pregnant women. Some vaccines such as Td, which is indicated for older children (≥ 7 years of age) and adults, are also now available in formulations that are free of thimerosal or contain only trace amounts. Vaccines with trace amounts of thimerosal contain 1 microgram or less of mercury per dose.

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For a list of vaccinations and their mercury levels by manufacturer, see table 1 for vaccination recommended for under age 6, and table 2 for an expanded list.

I’m not sure how to compare the ppm and ppb to the concentrations tables. It seems that even the trace amounts are not really safe.

After thinking back to my high school Chemistry class I figured out that I can figure out ppb.

Vaccine	Trade Name	Manufacturer	Mercury (μg)	Dose (mL)	ppb	Thimerosal Concentration
1990's Dtap	?	?	25	0.5	50000	0.00500000%
Dtap	Tripedia	Sanafi Pasteur, Inc.	0.3	0.5	600	0.00012000%
DT	N/A	Sanafi Pasteur, Inc.	0.3	0.5	600	0.00012000%
DT	N/A	Sanafi Pasteur, Inc.	25	0.5	50000	0.01000000%
Td	N/A	MassBiologics	0.3	0.5	600	0.00012000%
Td	Decavac	Sanafi Pasteur, Inc.	0.3	0.5	600	0.00012000%
TT	N/A	Sanafi Pasteur, Inc.	25	0.5	50000	0.01000000%
Influenza	Afluria	CSL Limited	24.5	0.5	49000	0.00980000%	Multidose package only
Influenza	Fluzone	Sanafi Pasteur, Inc.	25	0.5	50000	0.01000000%	Multidose package only
Influenza	Fluvirin	Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics Ltd.	25	0.5	50000	0.01000000%
Influenza	FluLaval	ID Biomedical Corp of Quebec	25	0.5	50000	0.01000000%
Meningococcal	Menomune A, C, AC and A/C/Y/W-135	Sanafi Pasteur, Inc.	25	0.5	50000	0.01000000%	Multidose package only

So, by comparing the results found by nvic.org that say 2ppb is EPA water safety and 200 ppb is Hazard Waste level there isn’t a vaccine on my table that is safe according to those standards. Some people might say that we already have that much in our bodies. According to the EPA this is not the case, and in fact, the average person has .0058 which is orders of magnitude less than these vaccines have. Also, that same page from the EPA says that anything above .0001 of daily exposure will have adverse effects. Again, these number are WAY over that. Am I missing something. How are they considering these “trace” amounts and how can they consider them safe and if so by what standards is the FDA calling these “safe”.

After comparing the two source above, I concluded that trace is by no means a safe amount of mercury. However, if you pay attention to the manufacturer and trade name for a particular type of vaccination and also if it is a single or multi-dose package then you have non-mercury options available. See the tables noted above for a list of safe vaccinations and look at the ones that have 0 micro-grams/mL of mercury.

The bottom line is, pay attention to what vaccine your doctor is using and know exactly the details. I would recommend asking for the details BEFORE you are scheduled to get the vaccination.