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Doctors Link Child Vaccines to Autism

  1. February 5, 2004
  2. Source: The Province

Autism linked to preservative in common childhood vaccines

A preservative once common in immunization shots – and that was used this year in flu vaccines – is now linked to autism. Researchers are so concerned they rushed the study on to the Internet today

OTTAWA – Scientists have found what they believe could be a “smoking gun” linking vaccines to autism and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder in children.

In a study that was rushed to print online today – two months ahead of its scheduled publication in the journal Molecular Psychiatry – U.S. researchers have discovered an apparent link between thimerosal, a controversial mercury-based preservative and an increased risk of neurological disorders such as autism and ADHD.

While most vaccines distributed in Canada have been thimerosal-free since the late 1990s, the preservative was used in the annual flu shot that doctors recommended this year for even healthy children.

The study could account for the rising rates of autism since the early 1980s, when more thimerosal-containing shots were added to a child’s vaccine schedule, says investigator Dr. Richard Deth, a professor of pharmacology at Northeastern University in Boston.

A recent review of vaccine-related “adverse events” in the U.S. found a “significant correlation” between shots containing thimerosal and autism, the researchers report.

The new study is “the first to offer an explanation for possible causes of two increasingly common childhood neurological disorders,” the medical journal said in a statement.

Deth thinks there may be a link, and he believes thimerosal may play a role for the one out of 200 children who will experience some kind of development disorder.

“I don’t want to impair the pubic health importance of vaccine programs. It’s not the vaccines that are the problem – it’s the additives that are the problems.

“Some would consider [thimerosal] a smoking gun,” Deth said.

“I think it is.”

WHAT IS THIMEROSAL?

Thimerosal had been used to prevent the growth of bacteria or fungi in multi-dose units of vaccines for diseases such as hepatitis and diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough) and tetanus, or DPT. Ontario, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and P.E.I have not used childhood vaccines containing thimerosal since the early 1960s, when the provinces switched to a DPT vaccine that was combined with the killed polio vaccine. (Thimerosal couldn’t be used with the combined shot because it destroyed the efficacy of the polio vaccine.)

All other provinces, including B.C., began to move to thimerosal-free vaccines starting in 1997. As of March 2001, all vaccines for routine immunization of children in Canada have been available without thimerosal.

But the annual flu shot – which Canadian doctors this year began pushing on even healthy children over six months of age – contains the preservative. And thimerosal is still found in larger, multi-dose vaccines shipped to Third World countries.

"Mercury is good for you!"

Now I've seen it all

This is how insanely corrupt the United States has become.

The pharmaceutical industry that has handicapped countless children with mercury-based vaccines is able to buy a study that says a known neuro-toxin is good for the brains of infants and small children and improves their behavior!

First, "behavior" is not quantifiable and is completely subjective. There's no science here. Just corruption of science on an inconceivable scale.

Second, mercury is a poison, a neuro-toxin that destroys the functioning of the central nervous system. There is no conceivable justification for it to be mainlined into the bloodstream of anyone for any reason ever.

You may want to watch this twice so you can be sure you really heard what you thought you heard.

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