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Vaccines & Autism, Heart Disease ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Study: Childhood Vaccines Exceed Federal Guidelines for
Mercury & Link with Neurological Disorders & Heart Disease in
Children Complete Ban Could Prevent Autism, Speech
Disorders For
Immediate Release: Media Contact: Kathryn
Serkes
202.333.3855 Washington - A new study of mercury in childhood vaccines
demonstrates that the doses are in excess of the Federal Safety Guidelines, and
shows alarming evidence for a link between these excessive doses of mercury from
thimerosal-containing vaccines and neurodevelopment disorders such as autism and
speech disorders, as well as heart disease Those are the findings of the study published in the
current issue of the peer-reviewed Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons
(JP&S), authored by Mark Geier, M.D., Ph.D, President of The Genetic Centers
of America, and David Geier. The
authors also conclude that the The
authors point to exploding rates of autism since introduction of thimerosal in
vaccines. In less than 20 years,
the rate increased by more than 800 percent, from one in about 2,500 children in
the mid-1980s to one in about 300 children in 1996. “Many in the scientific community have, initially, been
highly skeptical that thimerosal, an ethylmercury preservative in childhood
vaccines, could be associated with neurodevelopment disorders,” write the
Geiers.
BACKGROUND: In
2001, the This
study now confirms that, showing that there was a 2 to 6-fold increased
incidence of neurodevelopment disorders following an additional 75-100 microgram
dosage of mercury from thimerosal-containing vaccines compared to thimerosal-free
vaccines.
METHODOLOGY: The
study consists of two parts. In the
first, the authors evaluated the doses of mercury that children received from
thimerosal-containing vaccines, as part of routine
Secondly, in order to analyze the effects of thimerosal
in vaccine recipients, they analyzed the incidence rates of neurodevelopment
disorders and heart disease reported following thimerosal-containing vaccines in
comparison to thimerosal-free vaccines.
The data used was from the government’s Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting
System (VAERS). Vaccines compared
were Diptheria-Tetanus-whole-cell-Pertussis and
Diptheria-Tetanus-acellur-Pertussis. Also, the authors analyzed data from the US Department of
Education on the number of children of various ages in US schools who were
reported with various types of disabilities in comparison to the mercury dose
that children received from thimerosal in their childhood
vaccines. CONCLUSION: “In
light of voluminous literature supporting the biologic mechanisms for
mercury-induced adverse reactions, the presence of amounts of mercury in
thimerosal-containing childhood vaccines exceeding Federal Safety Guidelines for
the oral ingestion of mercury, and previous epidemiological studies showing
adverse reactions to such vaccines, a causal relationship between
thimerosal-containing childhood vaccines and neurodevelopment disorders and
heart disease appears to be confirmed,”
write the authors. The AAPS, a
professional non-partisan association, was established in 1943 to protect the
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