Groundbreaking Primate Study Links Mercury Vaccine Preservative to Brain Injury

[HysteryDiagnosis]

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Groundbreaking Primate Study Links Mercury Vaccine Preservative to Brain Injury

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Same preservative used in H1N1 Shots Puts Children at Risk for Brainstem Injury

NIXA, Mo., Oct. 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new study in the leading scientific journal NeuroToxicology lends further credence to parents and scientists concerned about an increasingly aggressive childhood vaccine schedule and toxic vaccine components. A team led by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh found that infant macaque monkeys receiving a single Hepatitis B vaccine containing the mercury-based preservative thimerosal underwent significant delays in developing critical reflexes controlled by the brainstem. The infant macaques that did not receive vaccines developed normally.

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Government vaccine guidelines were expanded in 1991 to include a Hepatitis B vaccine for infants within the first few days of life, even though the disease is primarily transmitted sexually or spread through the use of dirty needles. The introduction of the shot was part of a greatly accelerated vaccine schedule that coincides with the drastic increase in autism, which now affects one in 100 American children. Thimerosal was removed from U.S. Hepatitis B vaccines in 2000 but was not recalled from the market and was administered for approximately two more years. It still remains in other vaccines including all multi-dose shots for both the seasonal flu and H1N1.

Current government recommendations for seasonal flu and H1N1 call for pregnant women to receive both vaccines, and children as young as six months to receive as many as four separate flu shots. "This also doesn't take into account that nursing infants may be exposed to additional mercury through breastmilk should both mother and baby be vaccinated," says National Autism Association (NAA) board chair Lori McIlwain. "This study's outcome confirms that such an over-the-top toxic vaccine schedule is an assault on the developing brains of our children."

[HysteryDiagnosis]

1. Furthermore....

Not to mention that within 24 hours of receiving fillings, pregnant sheep have passed Hg to their embryos... and you know rhesus monkeys don't get fillings.... nor do they have the toxic load many human mothers have that gets passed on to their newborns, lead, pcb's etc. Some are genetically better able to handle these insults, others not so much.

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/groundbreaking-primate-study-links-mercury-vaccine-preservative-to-brain-injury-63157992.html
Specifically, the study found:

* Thirteen newborn rhesus macaques were given a Hepatitis B vaccine containing a standardized dose of thimerosal adjusted for their weight, four received a saline placebo, and three were not given any shots.
* Vaccinated animals experienced a significant delay in the acquisition of three survival reflexes compared to unvaccinated animals. Root, snout, and suck reflexes, critical to animal survival in the wild, were delayed in the vaccinated macaques.
* These reflexes are controlled by the brainstem, a vital part of the brain that regulates automatic functions such as breathing, heart rate, and intestinal activity.
* Neonatal responses in unvaccinated control animals were not delayed.
* The delay in acquisition of three of the four survival reflexes was not contingent on birth weight or gestational age.

For years, parents of children with autism have lobbied government health agencies to conduct research comparing the health of vaccinated children to that of unvaccinated children, and to remove thimerosal from all vaccines. Neither request has been met.

"This study underscores the lack of appropriate government action to ensure the safety of vaccines. Had our government agencies conducted the most basic research on the implications to children's health from the vaccines they rigorously promote, they could have spared thousands of children the neurological injuries they endure today," said Ms. McIlwain. "It's shameful."

[kimmerspixelated]

3. Yes, it is SHAMEFUL!

EDUCATE- DON't VACCINATE!

[HysteryDiagnosis]

4. You had better rethink that... vaccines would have saved millions

of native americans.

[truedelphi]

5. You are right. Big difference between flu vaccine

And with smallpox vaccine.

One has a set group of viral antigens, while the flu vaccine cannot guarantee that what it holds will be the same antigens as the pandemic flu that develops later (if at all.)

[Chemisse]

6. Which vaccines still have the thimerosal in them?

Just the flu ones? I was under the impression that it had been removed from the routine childhood shots (although the older vaccines were left out to be finished off).

Are they still giving that hepatitis vaccine to newborns or did that get discontinued?

[tavalon]

8. Unfortunately, we are still giving the hepB to newborns but

it doesn't have thimerosal any more.

[Chemisse]

11. Ahh, thanks.

It's a shame the vaccines - which have saved so many lives over the decades - have been exploited and tarnished to such a degree that people are questioning them all.

[kimmerspixelated]

2. Thanks for posting this!

It just makes common sense. Mercury is listed as a poison, and has no place in any person's or animal's body-PERIOD!

It's hard for me to understand why thinking folks would knowingly inject themselves or their children with KNOWN TOXIC CHEMICALS out of fear that they MIGHT catch something that a little common sense like hand washing and immune system buildup and SUNSHINE(Vit D) might prevent or cure!

But Big Pharma has brainwashed many.

[1776Forever]

7. Thank you for posting this! I have immune issues & in 2003 I became very ill after a flu shot.

I went back to my Dr. and ask him what was in the shot and he said, "Why are you allergic to something?". I told him I had almost died in 1996 from eating grouper that had mercury in it from the deep sea pollutants around St. Augustine, FL and his face turned a funny color. He ran out of the room and came back in and said "Why didn't you tell me that before?" I said, "I did" and when he checked his records there it was. He then told me that the shot contained the mercury base preservative thimerosal. I have tried since then to find a "live" vaccine but have not been able to find one. I have a strange pressure on the top of my head since that time that never left. I had an MRI but they never found anything to pinpoint it. This is a very serious thing for those that have thyroid issues.

[mzmolly]

9. To my understanding the Flumist H1N1 will not have mercury.

I'm sorry about your experience. Of course many here would suggest your response was merely "coincidental".

[tavalon]

21. You are correct, however the flu mist

is not an okay vaccination for those of us who have lung problems, immunity problems or work with compromised populations (wow, I win the frickin' trifecta).

[mzmolly]

25. Yes, that's too bad.

:(

[1776Forever]

24. I am too old for flumist - but thank you for mentioning it for others.

I know my body and what I can tolerate. Others may have a different outcome. So be it.

[mzmolly]

10. K

and R :kick:

[HysteryDiagnosis]

12. I read this book some 13 years ago when I was looking for answers

to problems past present and future....

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Toxic Metal Syndrome: How Metal Poisonings Can Affect Your Brain (Dr. Morton Walker Health Book)

This book is a valuable resource for laypersons and health care professionals. It would be nice if the authors would update the edition with newer material, but for those interested in Alzheimer's Disease, behavioral disorders, learning disabilities, and Parkinson's Disease, the content presented is well worth paying attention to. Industrial, cosmetic, environmental, and food source pollutants and chemicals play an increasing role in the development of chronic illness. While the authors pay particular attention to neurological aspects of the human brain, there is discussion of how seemingly harmless, everyday heavy metal exposures add up systemically - affecting cellular regeneration, deposits in organ tissues, and muscular skeletal damage. This book can open an important dialogue for physicians and their patients.

[trotsky]

13. LMFAO

Isn't this the same "study" completely debunked and smacked down over a year ago?

http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2008/05/some_monkey_business_in_autism_research.php

What first leaps to mind in looking at the study is that there are 13 monkeys in the "vaccine" group and only three in the control group. No explanation is given for why there are such unequal numbers. Similarly, there is no mention of how the monkeys were assigned to one group or the other (randomization, anyone?), whether the experimenters were blinded to experimental group and which shots were vaccine or placebo, whether the monkeys were weight- and age-matched, or any of a number of other controls that careful researchers would do. Right off the bat, from the small numbers (particularly with only three monkeys in the control group), I can say that the study almost certainly doesn't have the statistical power to find much of anything with confidence. Let's put it this way. I do experiments with mouse tumor models, and if I put such a large mismatch in terms of the number of controls relative to the experimental group, I would be highly unlikely to get results I could have any confidence in.

...

Indeed, just for yucks, to look at a simplistic "yes-no" question of whether a monkey exhibited a particular trait or not, I ran a Fisher's Exact Probability test for a control group of 3 in which zero exhibit the trait and the experimental group of 13, modeling varying numbers of monkeys exhibiting the trait. To achieve statistical significance at the p=0.05 level, 10/13 of the vaccinated monkeys, or 77%, would have to exhibit a given trait if it assumed that zero out of the three controls exhibit that trait. That's a huge number, and that's for a trait that is a noncontinuous variable with two possible values; i.e., a "yes-no" question, as in "yes, the monkey exhibits that behavior" or "no, the monkey does not exhibit that behavior." If we start looking at traits that rely on measurements of a behavior over time, in other words a continuous variable, then a control group of three is totally inadequate; even a relatively small variance would make it virtually impossible to achieve statistical significance.

Keep dreaming, anti-vaxers, because you still don't have any science on your side.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

14. Why is anti mercury translated into anti vaxers? You seem to be

a tad confused.

[trotsky]

15. It's right in your subject line.

Talk about confused. :crazy:

[HysteryDiagnosis]

16. Show me.

[trotsky]

17. If you can't even see your own OP subject line, I'm afraid I can't help you.

Good luck with those windmills.

[tavalon]

22. Actually, you have poor reading comprehension

I'm not an anti-vaxxer as you seem to like to liberally through out but I have known of the connection between mercury and brain damage for a long time. I also know the different ways methyl mercury and ethyl mercury are processed and absorbed in the body. Do you even know why I would bring up the distinction? If you don't, then STFU and stop acting like you know more about the subject than you do.

[trotsky]

23. Uh, what?

I wasn't even talking to you. You'll have to find another whipping post.

[tavalon]

26. So you don't know the phenomenon of being in a cocktail party

People overhear your conversation and they chime in.

Way to answer my question, too.

[trotsky]

27. Let's see.

You start by saying "I'm not an anti-vaxxer." I never said you were. I also know the difference between ethyl and methyl mercury compounds. I also know why the distinction is important. Congrats, welcome to the club! So you were saying...?

[Yehonala]

18. I wonder about Ritalin

I wonder about the long term effects of all the Ritalin and mood adjusters that adolescents have been drugged on. Too many parents are shoving so many freaking drugs on their kids it's disgraceful and there aren't enough studies telling people the precise effects of these drugs long term.

[trotsky]

19. Ritalin, like most ADHD drugs, is a stimulant.

It's not a "mood adjuster."

and there aren't enough studies telling people the precise effects of these drugs long term

Ritalin has been in use for nearly 50 years.

[mzmolly]

20. Well let us hope "Orac" doesn't come along with a refutation for our entertainment

anytime soon. Apparently some haven't read his/her http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/about.php">disclaimer and assert that the egotistical rants that come from "it" are "scientific evidence."

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