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Thimerosal: Facts or rumours?

Summary

Fact

  • Mercury is bad for you
  • Methyl mercury is very bad for you
  • Many studies confirm that methyl mercury poisons you and is particularly dangerous for fetus and baby brains
  • Methyl mercury is cumulative - not excreted
  • All standards for mercury in the environment and for eating are based on experiments with methyl mercury
  • These standards are set with a 10 fold safety margin
  • Thimerosal contains no methyl mercury
  • Thimerosal contains a radical of mercury as ethyl mercury
  • Metabolism of methyl mercury and ethyl mercury are completely different
  • Methyl not excreted, ethyl excreted
  • Methyl half life 40-60 days, ethyl 6-8 days
  • Ethyl from vaccines just exceeds one environmental safety standard set for ingestion of methyl mercury
  • No study has shown evidence of danger from thiomersal in vaccines
  • 60 years of using it have not shown problem

Thimerosal does NOT cause...

  • Brain damage
  • Autism
  • It can cause skin rashes when used as an antiseptic

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Placed on the Communication Initiative site January 15 2003
Last Updated January 15 2003


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Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 2009-01-27 20:37.

Ethyl mercury has been studied for over 70 years since it's inception and has ALWAYS proven harmful. Yes, there are studies showing there is a danger in thimerosal from vaccines. Where are you looking? Both from our country and many other countries.

Just because we have used it for 60 years, does not mean it has done no damage...what kind of science is that? Autism rates that eclipse any other disease is running rampant, and it mirrors mercury poisioning.

Ethylmercury may be excreted, but it also accumulates more in the kidney's, liver and brain than methylmercury And it crosses the blood brain barrier. Just look at the MSDS sheet for Thimerosal if you are a parent searching for answers and you decide.

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Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 1999-11-30 00:00.

Very useful stuff.

John Davies, DrPH

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Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 1999-11-30 00:00.

A few more facts and figures would had increase usefulness.

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Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 2005-07-10 01:24.

Dr. Clements has completely misrepresented the FACTS about Thiomersal. Perhaps he and the readers of this bulletin should visit http://www.nomercury.org/science.htm

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