Over the years, as the number of vaccines babies are subjected to has shot up, so has the amount of mercury injected into them, and so has the rate of autism. Finally in 1999 (a mere 17 years after the US Food & Drug Agency (FDA) singled out thimerosal as especially neurotoxic and required its removal from cosmetics), the American Academy of Pedriatrics (AAP) woke up and did the math, and were (discreetly, quietly) horrified at what they found:
There was 25 �g of mercury in each dose of most DTP vaccines as well as some Hib, influenza, meningococcal, pneumococcal, and rabies vaccines. In addition, there was 12.5 �g of mercury in each dose of the hepatitis B vaccine. Based on the Center for Disease Control's childhood immunisation schedule, a typically vaccinated child born in the 1990s would be injected with 12.5 �g of mercury at birth, followed by 62.5 �g at 2 months, 50 �g at 4 months, another 62.5 �g at 6 months, and a final 50 �g at 15 months.
There are no published studies on the effect of injecting mercury into infants (so why do they do it?). However, US government guidelines for adults state a maximum safe dose of between 0.1 and 0.4 �g/kg/day. Extrapolating to infant weights, the amount of mercury injected into children 6 months old or younger exceeds all guidelines for all infants. The AAP report calculated the 2 month dose for an average weight infant to be over 30 times the recommended daily maximum exposure.
In fact the exposure of young children to mercury poisoning is even worse than this:
- Injected mercury is more harmful than ingested mercury
- Mercury, which primarily affects the central nervous system, is most toxic to the developing brain
- Mercury is more likely to enter the infant brain because the blood-brain barrier has not fully closed
- Infants under 6 months are unable to excrete mercury, due to their inability to produce bile, the main excretion route for organic mercury
- The longer organic mercury remains in neurons, the more it is converted to its inorganic irreversibly-bound form, with even greater neurotoxicity.
Following the AAP report, the FDA "encouraged" (but did not mandate) the removal of thimerosal from all vaccines. Mindful of likely impending lawsuits, the drug companies rushed to comply, with Merck developing and receiving approval for a thimerosal-free vaccine in a truly impressive 2 months (see guys, you can do it if you try!). However, existing stocks were not recalled, and are still out there damaging children, so it'll be still longer before this poison finally works its way out of our system.
