Mike Gordon on sun 3 dec 06
Pam,
Are you saying that any vacination children or adults receive contains
mercury??
Mike Gordon
dewitt on sun 3 dec 06
Thimerosal, which contains mercury, is used as a preservative in some
vaccines. It's use has been significantly reduced over the past 10
yrs or so. There is much debate as to whether it presents a
significant risk, but it has been removed from most, if not all,
vaccines given to small children. It had been suggested that
thimerosal in vaccines is related to autism, but research has shown
that not to be the case - though not all agree with the research..
The link below provides information on thimerosal and a table of which
vaccines contain it. Note that in the vaccines which contain only
trace amounts of thimerosol, it is used as a preservative early in the
manufacturing process, not as a preservative for the final product.
The amount of thimerosol in these vaccines is therefore very, very
small.
http://www.fda.gov/CBER/vaccine/thimerosal.htm
deg
On 12/3/06, Mike Gordon wrote:
> Pam,
> Are you saying that any vacination children or adults receive contains
> mercury??
> Mike Gordon
>
> ______________________________________________________________________________
> Send postings to clayart@lsv.ceramics.org
>
> You may look at the archives for the list or change your subscription
> settings from http://www.ceramics.org/clayart/
>
> Moderator of the list is Mel Jacobson who may be reached at melpots@pclink.com.
>
claystevslat on mon 4 dec 06
Mike --
There are lots of vaccinations available that do not include
any mercury. The mercury is used (in the form of thiomerosal,
aka merthiolate) as an anti-bacterial in multi-dose containers
of vaccine so that bacteria won't grow in it between the first
time a needle extracts vaccine from a vial and the last time.
So .... if you get a single-dose container, it won't have
mercury in it. Also, some vaccines never did need the anti-
bacterial (like the nasal spray flu vaccine).
We do know that mercury is nasty stuff. We do know that it
pervades the environment. And so naturally there is a tendency
for people to avoid it at all costs, especially when it touches
the most sensitive emotional issues -- like our kids' health.
As it happens, though, there's virtually no evidence that there's
a connection between immunizations and vaccinations -- with or
without thiomerosal -- and Alzheimers, autism, etc.
The apparent correlation between the reported rates of autism
and widespread mercury use was based on chronology -- autism became
much more widely diagnosed following the near-universality of DPT
innoculations in the '80's. This, in its turn, led to some
extremely interesting situations -- parents refusing DPT for their
kids, public schools refusing to admit the kids as students, and
some private schools, with medically well-served kids, ended with
lots of students who weren't getting the DPT. Their rates of
diagnosed autism were as high as those in the nearby community,
though other environmental conditions were basically the same.
Autism remains a mystery. It's still wise to avoid mercury whenever
possible. Your probability of injury or death from mercury is still
statistically miniscule, and there's an excellent article in this
week's TIME magazine on why we don't accurately evaluate risks. I
don't agree with all of it, but it starts to scratch the surface of
this interesting subject ...
Steve Slatin
--- In clayart@yahoogroups.com, Mike Gordon wrote:
>
> Pam,
> Are you saying that any vacination children or adults receive
contains
> mercury??
> Mike Gordon
Eric Suchman on mon 4 dec 06
I can certainly see how this thread is ceramics related.
Eric in Oceanside
On Dec 3, 2006, at 9:58 PM, claystevslat wrote:
> Mike --
>
> There are lots of vaccinations available that do not include
> any mercury. The mercury is used (in the form of thiomerosal,
> aka merthiolate) as an anti-bacterial in multi-dose containers
> of vaccine so that bacteria won't grow in it between the first
> time a needle extracts vaccine from a vial and the last time.
>
> So .... if you get a single-dose container, it won't have
> mercury in it. Also, some vaccines never did need the anti-
> bacterial (like the nasal spray flu vaccine).
>
> We do know that mercury is nasty stuff. We do know that it
> pervades the environment. And so naturally there is a tendency
> for people to avoid it at all costs, especially when it touches
> the most sensitive emotional issues -- like our kids' health.
>
> As it happens, though, there's virtually no evidence that there's
> a connection between immunizations and vaccinations -- with or
> without thiomerosal -- and Alzheimers, autism, etc.
>
> The apparent correlation between the reported rates of autism
> and widespread mercury use was based on chronology -- autism became
> much more widely diagnosed following the near-universality of DPT
> innoculations in the '80's. This, in its turn, led to some
> extremely interesting situations -- parents refusing DPT for their
> kids, public schools refusing to admit the kids as students, and
> some private schools, with medically well-served kids, ended with
> lots of students who weren't getting the DPT. Their rates of
> diagnosed autism were as high as those in the nearby community,
> though other environmental conditions were basically the same.
>
> Autism remains a mystery. It's still wise to avoid mercury whenever
> possible. Your probability of injury or death from mercury is still
> statistically miniscule, and there's an excellent article in this
> week's TIME magazine on why we don't accurately evaluate risks. I
> don't agree with all of it, but it starts to scratch the surface of
> this interesting subject ...
>
> Steve Slatin
>
>
>
> --- In clayart@yahoogroups.com, Mike Gordon wrote:
>>
>> Pam,
>> Are you saying that any vacination children or adults receive
> contains
>> mercury??
>> Mike Gordon
>
> ______________________________________________________________________
> ________
> Send postings to clayart@lsv.ceramics.org
>
> You may look at the archives for the list or change your subscription
> settings from http://www.ceramics.org/clayart/
>
> Moderator of the list is Mel Jacobson who may be reached at
> melpots@pclink.com.
| |
|
