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• Talk of treaty ban on mercury concerns scientists

  Fri Oct 21, 2011
  • Were thimerosal developed today it never would have passed FDA safety standards.

• Talk of treaty ban on mercury concerns scientists

  Fri Oct 21, 2011
  • In summary, the 1931 Powell & Jamieson study of 22 dying patients was the -only- data on the safety of thimerosal ever submitted to the FDA.

• Talk of treaty ban on mercury concerns scientists

  Fri Oct 21, 2011
  • In their clinical trial, Powel and Jameson concluded that thimerosal was safe for use in humans. Upon closer inspection, however, essential data was not disclosed.

• Talk of treaty ban on mercury concerns scientists

  Fri Oct 21, 2011
  • What is Thimerosal?

• Talk of treaty ban on mercury concerns scientists

  Fri Oct 21, 2011
  • Let's put it another way, Burbacher (2005) demonstrated that... ****Primates exposed to injected ethylmercury from vaccines, as opposed to equal doses of ingested methylmercury, end up with twice as much Hg++ deposited in the brain. Read the study for yourself.

• Talk of treaty ban on mercury concerns scientists

  Fri Oct 21, 2011
  • While Burbacher (2005) demonstrated that methyl mercury clears from the blood faster than ethyl mercury, that does not allow you to assume that the Hg is leaving the body! Much of the Hg is being deposited into tissue, including the brain, as Burbacher 2005 demonstates.

• Talk of treaty ban on mercury concerns scientists

  Fri Oct 21, 2011
  • Whatever, 1. Are you attempting to claim that ethyl mercury is -not- a hazardous neurodevelopmental toxicant? 2. Ethyl mercury is not "less toxic" than methyl mercury. This is an extremely outdated belief. Burbacher (2005) demonstrated this is false. More anon.

• Talk of treaty ban on mercury concerns scientists

  Fri Oct 21, 2011
  • Two different species of mercury. Two very different routes of exposure. Thimerosal containing flu vaccines (TCVs) are on the market (and comprise the majority of the flu supply in the US) are are approved and recommended for injection into 6 month + old infants and pregnant women.

• Talk of treaty ban on mercury concerns scientists

  Fri Oct 21, 2011
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• Talk of treaty ban on mercury concerns scientists

  Fri Oct 21, 2011
  • Whatever, Yes, “dose makes the poison.” That is a fundamental tenant of medical toxicology. It is also a favorite quote of Thimerosal defenders. Yes, of course dose makes the poison. And that is just THE point.