(NaturalNews) Despite recommendations made by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in 1999 that Thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative, be removed from vaccines, the toxic chemical is still added to the majority of flu vaccines administered to women, children, and the elderly, according to the Coalition for Mercury-Free Drugs (CoMeD), a Maryland-based non-profit organization. And according to three recent studies, the symptoms of mercury poisoning are nearly identical to those of autism symptoms, which strongly suggests that mercury in vaccines is responsible for causing autism.
Mercury is already a known neurotoxin that causes cancer (carcinogen), damages DNA (mutagen), alters proper embryonic development (teratogen), and disrupts the immune system. It is exactly the type of harmful chemical that you would never want to put in your body, and yet it is still added in the form of Thimerosal to millions of flu vaccines administered to the public.
"We have scientific studies clearly demonstrating that mercury causes neurological damage, and we have a cost-effective alternate that has already been used to replace Thimerosal as the preservative in vaccines," said Dr. Paul G. King, PhD, science advisor to CoMeD.
One such study published in the December 2010 issue of the journal
Folia Neuropathologica explains that the mercury used in vaccines appears to directly cause neurodevelopmental disorders like autism (
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21225508). Another study published in the journal
Middle East Current Psychiatry states that "[m]ercury poisoning and
autism have nearly identical symptoms" (
http://journals.lww.com/mecpsychiatry/Fulltext/2011/01000/Study_of_so...).
And a study recently published in the
Journal of Immunotoxicology directly states that "[n]ot only is every major symptom of autism documented in cases of
mercury poisoning but also biological abnormalities in autism are very similar to side effects of mercury poisoning itself" (
http://informahealthcare.com/doi/abs/10.3109/1547691X.2010.545086).
It remains unclear why the toxic preservative is still used in vaccines -- especially when there are safer alternatives available -- and why mainstream science continues to deny the obvious and scientifically-verifiable link between mercury and autism. The issue is not even one of opposition to vaccinations as much as it is one of opposition to neurotoxic poisons like Thimerosal that continue to deliberately be added to them.
Sources for this story include:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/researchers-urge-the-removal-...
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