Cry of the Heart
The Medical Terror of Vaccinations

Standing up for both sides of the argument about the toxic nerve poison mercury added as a preservative to vaccines, Dr. Neal Halsey, of Johns Hopkins University Institute for Vaccine Safety said pointedly, “We can say there is no evidence of harm, but the truth is no one has looked.” In what was perhaps the best kept secret of the 20th century a highly toxic mercury-based preservative thimerosal has been widely used as a preservative in vaccines and is now present in more than 30 childhood vaccines. Manufacturers had used thimerosal, which contains ethyl-mercury, as a preservative in multi-dose vials of vaccine. The vials allow needles to be inserted repeatedly and the vaccine drawn out. The vials are cheaper than packaging doses of vaccine separately, without thimerosal.

Mercury has been known to be hazardous for literally hundreds of years, and its dangers have been well documented. Thousands of parents have reported biological and neurodevelopment changes in their children directly following administration of mercury-containing vaccines with a broad range of symptoms, including sudden onset of shyness, GI distress, loss of motor skill function, allergies, the inability to speak, tremors and autonomic disturbances, mimic those associated with mercury poisoning. The danger that thimerosal presents is that it contains 49.5 percent ethyl mercury by weight. Mercury has long been the source of many serious health problems and is especially toxic to the rapidly developing fetal and infant brain. Dr. Boyd Haley, Chairman of the Chemistry Department at the University of Kentucky said, “Thimerosal is one of the most toxic compounds I know of, I can't think of anything that I know of is more lethal." And yet even though the FDA questioned Thimerosals safety several times and decided for example in 1982 that it was "not safe for 'over-the-counter' topical use, because of its potential for cell damage," it never did anything to question its use in childhood vaccines. One can only wonder at this lapse in responsibility and at the legitimacy of Dr. Neal Halsey’s statement “We can say there is no evidence of harm.” Perhaps he and many others in the official medical establishment are waiting for an experiment to be conducted where perfectly healthy newborns are intentionally injected with high doses of mercury to see if a poison like thimerosal is really a poison. In reality such an experiment has been done though no one wants to admit the truth of such a dark secret. Billions of us have already received our shots and to push the point Halsey voted in 1990 to dramatically increase the amount of Thimerosal exposure to babies by adding two new vaccines to the roster of mandatory immunizations children must have before enrolling in school. The combination of the Hepatitis B vaccine and the HiB vaccine more than doubled the amount of mercury injected into children’s veins so now what was hidden has finally come out. Medical officials in the United States pushed mercury exposure through the roof and now we can finally decide as a civilization whether it’s a good idea or not to inject the most dangerous poison on earth, beside uranium and plutonium, directly into newborns.

One thing should be clear, no physician or nurse in their right mind who administers vaccinations would be willing to voluntarily submit to an injection of thimerosal adjusted for his/her weight equivalent to what our newborns routinely receive. "If you take a ten-pound baby in, and it gets four shots on that one day, which has become a common practice - that's equivalent to giving a 100-pound person forty shots in one day," said mercury expert Dr. Boyd Haley. Yet one father of a child who displayed autistic tendencies cried out that not only had is son received the MMR vaccine, but he received a total of 9 vaccines in one day. He had DPaT, MMR, HepB-HiB combo and oral polio. Perhaps it would be fair to the world if the officials at the FDA, CDC, the AMA, WHO, and the APA all volunteered for such an experiment and allowed themselves to be injected with the same levels of thimerosal adjusted for his/her weight equivalent to what they themselves recommended our newborns routinely receive. There should be no problem for after all “there is no evidence of harm!”

The Center for Disease Control (CDC) in the United States admits that the nervous system is very sensitive to all forms of mercury and that exposure to high levels of metallic, inorganic, or organic mercury can permanently damage the brain, kidneys, and developing fetus. Effects on brain functioning may include irritability, tremors, and changes in vision or hearing, attention, language, and memory problems. They also admit that the effects of short-term exposure to high levels of metallic mercury vapors may include lung damage, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, increases in blood pressure or heart rate, skin rashes, and eye irritation. They did admit that researchers in one study did find statistically significant associations between thimerosal and several neurodevelopmental disorders, including language delays, speech delays, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), unspecified developmental delays, stammering, sleep disorders, emotional disorders, and tics. Yet the CDC will not admit any correlation between the use of thimerosal in vaccines and the complaints of thousands of desperate parents. In enormous contrast, the US General Accounting Office said in 1999 "[a] vaccine can have severe side effects, including death or disabling conditions requiring lifetime medical care." If you are getting the feeling that you are reading about one of the greatest tragedies ever inflicted on humankind, you are correct. And the day will come, when before a world court, all the evidence will be heard and final judgment will be handed down.

It is really up to chemists to show that thimerosal is toxic to brain proteins and that is exactly what Dr. Mark Lovell and Dr. Boyd E. Haley, did. They studied the extent of neurotoxicity of pure thimerosal and of vaccines with and without thimerosal present. The experiments were done as follows: Neurons were grown in culture for 24 hours. Then pure thimerosal or vaccines were added to test cultures. The death of neurons was observed for the next 24 hours and compared to the death of neurons in the absence of toxicant. “The results showed that the vaccines with thimerosal present were much more toxic than thimerosal-free vaccines. Pure thimerosal was toxic at the low nanomolar level--an extremely low concentration, about 10,000 times less than the thimerosal concentration found in most vaccines. These results leave little doubt about thimerosal being the toxic agent in the vaccines. In these studies with human brain samples the exposure to mercury dramatically reduced the viability of a major brain protein called tubulin, but had little if any effect on another major protein, actin. Both tubulin and actin are critically important for the growth of dendrites or maintenance of axon structures of neurons. Exposing neurons to mercury rapidly results in the stripping of tubulin from the axon structure, leaving bare neurofibrils that form the tangles that are the diagnostic hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease. Thimerosal, like mercury, also rapidly reduces the viability of tubulin; in addition, however, it abolishes the viability of actin. This likely represents a major difference in the mechanism of mercury versus organic-mercury (more neurotoxic) toxicity. However, both mercury and organic-mercury inhibit tubulin viability and would work in concert to damage neurons of the central nervous system. This research was presented in the spring of 2001 to the Institute of Medicine Immunization Safety Review Committee, which concluded its analysis by stating that thimerosal involvement in autism was a plausible hypothesis.

What the US General Accounting office is admitting here is a truth worse perhaps than the savagery of the Aztecs who dragged the captives up the steps of their pyramids to be slaughtered like pigs. We are dragging ‘our own’ children to doctors offices and clinics, kicking and screaming ‘please no Mommy,’ if they are old enough, screaming all the same even if newborn after their skin is penetrated by a needle containing a lurid liquid, plunging it directly into their bloodstream, brain and immune system. No more compassionate than the Aztec temple priests, the Gods of medical science in their white coats plunge the needle in without even knowing what is in the liquid vial. Yes this is correct, most doctors and nurses are not aware of the components of vaccines and have abandoned their professional responsibilities to find out. Even with the lives of infants at stake they have blindly accepted the goodness of vaccines even though they contain the most toxic nerve poisons known to man. True to the tradition of medicine as religion, not as a science, professionals routinely give up rational process and investigation and accept blindly what they are told in medical school.

*Special Note: I acknowledge that this paragraph employs strong images that will not sit well with pediatricians and many other doctors who ‘think’ they are doing good and who have been ignorant of the real story behind vaccinations. And I debated with myself whether to soften it down, but when you read many of the stories in this book about actual parents and their children and what they have gone through, and when you read about the continued arrogance of doctors and health officials, I hope you will be able to understand why I left it in. Including thimerosal and other nerve toxins, that you will be introduced to in this chapter, represents the worst crime against humanity ever committed in the author’s view. There is no changing the horror perpetrated nor the arrogance and circle round the wagons psychology on the part of the medical community when confronted with desperate parents looking for answers to their childrens’ sudden deaths.

It is astounding that even if a normal and healthy child goes home and dies within twenty-four hours the medical powers that be will scratch their heads and pronounce on the death certificate, “this child died of unknown causes.” (SIDS) Or worse, the child’s parents, already destroyed and choked in a sea of agony and grief that no human should know, are questioned by police and accused of murder. This flies in the face of the fact that according to the Department of Health and Human Services, an estimated 60,000 DPT shots annually are reported as having been followed by convulsions, shock, collapse, temperatures of 105 degrees, and/or high pitched screaming. What could be worth subjecting our children to such a thing? Are we risking our children’s lives for a concept? For a concept of medicine that might not even be true?

Yet the CDC insists that no harmful effects have been reported from thimerosal at doses used in vaccines, except for minor reactions like ‘redness and swelling at the injection site.’ It is known that a review conducted by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) concluded that the use of thimerosal as a preservative in vaccines might result in the intake of mercury during the first 6 months of life that exceeds the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). But the CDC continues to flatly state, “There is no evidence that any vaccine or vaccine additive increases the risk of developing autism or any other behavior disorder.” The question must be raised if they truly believe this is why, in July 1999, did the Public Health Service (PHS) agencies, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), and vaccine manufacturers agreed that thimerosal should be reduced or eliminated in vaccines ‘for the US market only’ as a precautionary measure. Could it be that they have finally found out what Eli Lilly and Company have known since 1947 when they were told the obvious about their product thimerosal, that “it may be dangerous to inject a serum containing merthiolate into a patient sensitive to merthiolate." In 1948 Lilly received the following report, "Merthiolate is such a commonly used preservative for biologicals, plasma, cartilage, etc., that it would seem important to determine whether harm would result following its subcutaneous or intravenous injection in skin sensitive individuals." And then in 1950 the New York Academy of Science article, Mercurials as Antiseptics, was known to have reached Lilly’s offices. This stated clearly that, "It (merthiolate) is toxic when injected parenterally and therefore cannot be used in chemotherapy." When so much was at stake when it comes to what we subject newborn babies and young children to, how is it that it took until the very end of the 20th century for this subject to come out into the light of day?

Denials of facts and reality in reports by federal agencies are unfortunately all too common and thus it is very difficult now to trust federal agencies in the United States. For example, just recently the Bush administration was accused of actively burying research that indicates that global warming may be a threat to human health or the environment. It was reported in the NY Times in June of 2003 that the White House Council on Environmental Quality and the Office of Management and Budget hammered the E.P.A. into modifying a long section of a new report that highlighted the risks posed by rising global temperatures. The section was reduced to a noncommittal paragraph that deleted any mention that the 1990's were the warmest decade in the last thousand years in the Northern Hemisphere. Gone was a judgment by the National Research Council about the likely human contributions to global warming. Gone was the introductory statement that "Climate change has global consequences for human health and the environment." This is a shameful and dangerous case of censorship that is common in many important areas of public concern and safety and is highly evident in regards to the story of vaccinations and the actual effects it is having on our children’s lives.

In March of 2001, the law firm of Waters & Kraus, of Dallas, Texas, filed the first known civil case alleging that the mercury-based preservative thimerosal has caused mercury poisoning in many children. Thimerosal has been used as an additive to biologics and vaccines since the end of the 1930's but incredibly it was only in 1999 that the truth emerged that most vaccines are laced with mercury and other toxic substances to increase shelf life. Pharmaceutical companies add drugs, antibiotics, and toxic disinfectants to vaccines, substances like: neomycin, streptomycin, sodium chloride, sodium hydroxide, aluminum hydroxide, sorbitol, hydrolyzed gelatin, formaldehyde, as well as thimerosal which is fifty percent mercury by weight. Now finally we are being told that vaccines without thimerosal are available in the United States but the World Health Organization says that is not an option for developing countries, due to practical constraint and high cost. But since thimerosal is not the only hazardous substance added to vaccines we are not being assured of anything if that one component is removed. Below is a list of the deadly compounds found in vaccines:

ALUMINUM: a neuro-toxin which has been associated w/ Alzheimers, dis-ease, dementia and seizures; aluminum is carcinogenic in laboratory mice and added to vaccines to "promote antibody response." Injections of Aluminum into animals produce behavioral, neuropathological and neurochemical changes that partially model Alzheimers. Aluminum is known to have the ability to produce neurotoxicity by many mechanisms. Neurotoxic effects of aluminum were recognized more than 100 years ago, but have only recently been studied in detail. So we have to ask ourselves what about aluminum INJECTED into the body not as a vaccine preservative but as a vaccine adjuvant? The mechanisms of aluminum neurotoxicity are presently unclear but evidence has emerged suggesting that aluminum accumulation in the brain can alter neuronal signal transduction pathways associated with glutamate receptors. Aluminum is widely used as an adjuvant in human vaccines, and children can often receive up to 3.75 mg of parenteral aluminum during the first six months of life. What is this neuro-friendly chemical doing in something given to little children?

THIMEROSAL: a sodium salt derived from the deadly poison mercury and used as a disinfectant and preservative; thimerosal has been linked to brain and kidney damage as well as immune and neurological dis-orders; it is a component of vaccines for DPT, tetanus, hepatitius B and Hib.

FORMALDEHYDE: a major component of embalming fluid, which of course is pumped into dead people; a known cancer-causing chemical, this toxic substance is used to "inactivate" viruses and detoxify bacterial toxins; formaldehyde has also shown to be injurious to the liver and to trigger gene mutations.

CARBOLIC ACID (PHENOL): believed to cause gender mutation; a deadly poison used as a disinfectant, dye;

ANTI (AGAINST) BIOTICS (LIFE): Neomycin, Streptomycin and a variety of other drugs - to which increasing numbers of the population are demonstrating serious allergies and to which increasing numbers of microbes are developing genetically-transmitted tolerance;

ACETONE: used in fingernail polish remover and as a solvent;

ALUM: used as a preservative;

GLYCERIN: a tri-atomic alcohol extracted from natural fats which are putrefied and decomposed; toxic effects damage the kidneys, liver, lungs and "pronounced local tissue damage, gastrointestinal damage and death.”

TOXIC CHEMICALS & DRUGS: trace elements of other chemicals such as sodium hydroxide, sorbitol, hydrolyzed gelatin, benzethonium chloride, methylparaben; some of which are known or suspected of causing cancer.

Formaldehyde (used in embalming), thimerosal (nearly 50 percent mercury), aluminum phosphate (toxic and carcinogenic), antibiotics, phenols (corrosive to skin and toxic), aluminum salts (corrosive to tissue and neuro-toxic), methanol (toxic), isopropyl (toxic), 2- pheoxyethanol (toxic), live viruses and a host of unknown components considered off-limits as trade secrets are all a part of what is injected into the veins of newborn infants. Aluminum and formaldehyde are ‘extremely’ toxic and most chemists, biologists and medical people would confirm that microscopic doses of these substances could lead to cancer, neurological damage, and death. Formaldehyde is not approved for human consumption by the FDA yet small amounts of formaldehyde are approved by the FDA for use in manufacturing several vaccines, including vaccines against anthrax, diphtheria, hepatitis A, influenza, Japanese encephalitis, and tetanus. Formaldehyde has been used in vaccine manufacturing since the 1960s, if not earlier. Literally billions of people around the world have been given tetanus toxoid processed with formaldehyde (as anthrax vaccine is). Anthrax vaccine, for example, which does not contain thimerosal, is formulated to contain 1.2 mg/mL aluminum, added as aluminum hydroxide in 0.85% sodium chloride. The product is formulated to contain 25 mg/mL benzethonium chloride and 100 mg/mL formaldehyde, added as preservatives. Anthrax vaccine contains aluminum hydroxide, as do FDA-licensed diphtheria, Haemophilus influenzae type b, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, Lyme disease, pertussis, and tetanus vaccines. Benzethonium chloride is also used as a preservative in the anthrax vaccine. It is also a common component in other injectable and nasal medications (such as thrombin, ketamine, orphenadrine [Norflex], and butorphanol [Stadol]). Benzethonium chloride is sometimes also called Phemerol.

In 1972 the British Medical Journal reports skin burns resulting from the chemical interaction of thimerosal and aluminum. They informed the Elli Lilly & Company that, "Mercury is known to act as a catalyst and to cause aluminum to oxidize rapidly, with the production of heat. Thimerosal is being used in vaccines that also contain aluminum and no one has even begun to speculate on the complex chemical interactions that can take place once the vaccine fluid containing a mix of highly toxic chemicals is injected into young children or adults. Many vaccines contain aluminum ions that have neurotoxic properties, and aluminum is considered a factor in Alzheimer’s disease etiology. Experiments have been done at a research laboratory at the University of Kentucky by Dr. Boyd E. Haley and J. Curtis Pendergrass, Ph.D. to determine if aluminum would increase the toxicity of very low levels of thimerosal. The results were unequivocal: The presence of aluminum dramatically increased the rate of neuronal death caused by thimerosal. Therefore, the aluminum and thimerosal combination found in vaccines produces a toxic mixture that cannot be compared to situations where thimerosal alone was the toxic exposure.

Dr. Haley gives us a basic chemistry lesson when he says, “The enhanced toxicity of thimerosal created by the addition of aluminum represents a problem with all forms of mercury toxicity. Synergism of toxic metals is well known. A slightly toxic solution of lead, mixed with a slightly toxic solution of mercury, results in a very toxic mixture. This is similar to the enhanced adverse reactivity to thimerosal found in optomological solutions, when subjects were prescribed to take the antibiotic tetracycline. For some reason, tetracycline increased the ocular toxic reaction to thimerosal. We have done some experiments to determine if certain antibiotics could also increase thimerosal-induced neuronal death in the neuron culture system. Our preliminary results indicate that this is the case, especially with tetracycline and ampicillin.” The potential for interference between the components in vaccines has never been properly addressed. Vaccine manufacturers themselves are aware of this interference. Douglas, a spokes person for Merck spoke about the, "unpredicted immune interference and incompatibilities on mixing of different components, demonstrating again the inadequacy of our understanding of how vaccines work and the empiric nature of the science."

Yet amazingly no one in officialdom is challenging the way vaccines are made and what damaging effect they are having on target populations. The dangers of vaccination are real; the only case the medical establishment can make is that adverse reactions are ‘rare.’ One only has to look at the white slips that come with each and every vaccine to discover what the vaccine companies recognize as the risks and dangers of giving one’s child each vaccination. The below is a list compiled from three vaccines, warnings from the manufacturers of the vaccines themselves. Vaccines are supposed to be perfectly safe but any of the below can happen to your child according to the pharmaceutical companies who make the vaccines. What they will not and cannot answer is why these reactions occur in a frequency that would scare any parent to death.

A severe constitutional reaction may occasionally follow an injection of Triple Antigen, Hepititus B and MMR vaccines: persistent screaming with or without vomiting, shock and collapse have been known to occur. malaise; vomiting; convulsions, encephalopathy, oedema, dyspnoea, chest discomfort, bronchial spasm, or palpitation have been reported within the first few hours after vaccination. An apparent hypersensitivity syndrome of delayed onset has been reported days to weeks after vaccination, including arthritis and dermatological reactions such as erythema multiforme, ecchymoses and erythema nodosum,reactions in joints, sweating, achiness, sensation of warmth, lightheadedness, chills, flushing, diminished appetite. Rhinitis, influenza, cough, Vertigo/dizziness, paraesthesia, Pruritus, rash (nonspecified), angioedema, urticária, Arthralgia including monoarticular, myalgia, back pain, neck pain, shoulder pain, neck stiffness, Insomnia/disturbed sleep, Neurological disorders such as myelitis, including transverse myelitis; acute radiculoneuropathy and Herpes zoster, Visual disturbances, sore throat, headache, dizziness, fever, rash, nausea, diarrhoea; afebrile convulsions or siezures; ataxia; nerve deafness; thrombocytopenia and purpura; allergic reactions, anaphylaxis and anaphylactoid reactions.

E. Stephen Edwards, MD, President, American Academy of Pediatrics says to you on the AAP’s website that he and “pediatricians are your partners in the important job of keeping your child healthy...and we take that partnership very seriously. That’s why we encourage you to have your child immunized against deadly, preventable diseases.” On their site you will also read, “An early CDC study suggested a possible ‘weak’ connection between the amount of thimerosal given and certain neurodevelopmental disorders, such as ADHD, speech and language delays, and tics.” And he finishes with “There is a lot of misinformation on the Internet about vaccines, so I commend you for finding your way to this reliable web site. We’re proud to provide you with the information you’ll need to make an educated decision about immunization.” What he does not want you to know is that in the February 27, 1998, issue of The Lancet, Dr. Andrew Wakefield and 13 of his colleagues reported on a new syndrome involving inflammatory bowel disease and autism in children. Eight out of 12 normal children who developed severe intestinal disorders soon after an MMR vaccination also became autistic. Previously, five of those eight children had reacted adversely to vaccinations. The team of British scientists, who had inadvertently stumbled upon the connection while studying Crohn’s disease and other inflammatory bowel dysfunction in children, true to form in the modern world of medicine, emphasized that they had not ‘proved’ a cause-and-effect relationship. They called for more studies to investigate whether persistent viral infection, either from natural disease or live virus vaccines, can lead to central nervous system damage in some children. It is routine for people like Edwards to discount studies like this saying that children’s health problems are “coincidental” and not caused by vaccination. Bernard Rimland PhD said in response, “It is ludicrous to claim that the link between many causes of autism and vaccination is just coincidental.” One can only wonder what will happen the day that “proof” is provided, the day when the blind can see that mercury is a poison that should not be injected to babies on the first or any day of their lives.

Documents from the archives of Eli Lilly & Company, the manufacture of thimerosal, clearly demonstrate that the mercury-based vaccine preservative implicated in a number of recent law suits as causing neurological injury to infants, was known as early as April 1930 to be dangerous. In its apparent eagerness to promote and market the product, in September, 1930, Eli Lilly secretly sponsored a "human toxicity" study on patients already known to be dying of meningococcal meningitis. Andrew Waters, of The Dallas-based law firm of Waters & Kraus stated that, "Lilly then cited this study repeatedly for decades as proof that thimerosal was of low toxicity and harmless to humans. They never revealed to the scientific community or the public the highly questionable nature of the original research." The tests were conducted in 1929 by a young researcher named K.C. Smithburn who injected 22 human subjects that were already dying with a one-percent solution and then pronounced that all the patients were reported ‘without ill effect.’ That they all died was never mentioned. "It's apparent that Lilly didn't want to do the study themselves because it's apparent that there were enormous ethical problems with injecting people - even people dying of meningitis - with mercury," Waters said. "What Smithburn did was wrong, because he agreed to do the study for Lilly, and not only did he agree to do it, but he agreed to give them results that he knew were flawed.” There simply are no images or words, no analogies that can be used to describe what Eli Lilly and Company, and then other pharmaceutical companies perpetuated in their zeal to make a profit.

For people living outside of the United States, be advised that Dr. Edwards is not recommending that you and your babies be given the same benefit of the doubt as Americans are being given. They make it very clear that mercury is being taken out of American vaccines, not yours. They say on their site, “Even though there’s no evidence that thimerosal in vaccines is dangerous, the Public Health Service and the American Academy of Pediatrics believe the effort to remove mercury-based preservatives from vaccines was a good decision. By taking thimerosal out of vaccines, we are lessening the amount of mercury a child will be exposed to early in life.” The World Health Organization (WHO) acknowledges the US recommendations to avoid thimerosal-containing hepatitis B vaccine for certain newborns, including the screening of pregnant mothers for the blood marker of the liver infection. But WHO underlines this is not an option for developing countries due to practical constraints and the high cost.

The American Academy of Pediatrics also says, “When vaccines containing thimerosal have been administered in the recommended doses, allergic type reactions (hives, shock) have been noted on rare occasions. No other harmful effects have been reported.” Yet on the same site they stick their foot in their mouths when they say, “An early CDC study suggested a possible ‘weak’ connection between the amount of thimerosal given and certain neurodevelopmental disorders, such as ADHD, speech and language delays, and tics.” Does this engender trust in their basic integrity? It’s almost unbelievable that such an organization would publicly contradict itself.

If you have doubts about the mercury story know that the EPA limit is 0.1 micrograms of mercury per kilogram body weight per day. It doesn't take a genius to do the calculations when on their day of birth children are given the hepatitis B vaccine, which is 12.5 micrograms of mercury in vaccinations in every country in the world except the United States where there is still some confusion about what the vaccine manufactures have and have not done with their current batch of vaccines. The average newborn weighs between 6 and 7 pounds, so they would be allowed 0.3 micrograms of mercury but in this one shot they are getting 12.5 micrograms. That's 39 times more than allowed by law in the United States.

Representative Frank Pallone Jr., from New Jersey, instigated the entire investigation into mercury vaccines in 1997 when he attached an amendment to an F.D.A. bill requiring the agency to inventory all mercury contained in licensed drugs and vaccines. The job of adding up the amount of mercury in vaccines and assessing its risk fell to Robert Ball, an F.D.A. scientist, and two F.D.A. pediatricians, Leslie Ball and R. Douglas Pratt. The F.D.A. team's conclusions were frightening and began a process which led Dr. Neal Halsey, chairman of the American Academy of Pediatrics committee on infectious diseases to finally recommend the ‘voluntary’ withdraw from vaccines distributed in the United States. Vaccines added in the last 25 years had tripled the dose of mercury that infants got in their first few months of life meaning that as many as 30 million American children may have been exposed to mercury in excess of Environmental Protection Agency guidelines -- levels of mercury that, in theory, could have killed enough brain cells to scramble thinking or hex behavior.

According to toxicologists, because of the inherent pharmokinetics of mercury and its long half-life in the body, the effect of a large injected dose cannot be calculated as though it were ingested in small amounts over a longer period of time and yet this is exactly what people at the FDA and CDC are counting on to decrease the alarm. The ‘experts’ averaging of the daily dose of mercury exposure from vaccines over a six-month period and implying that this “average dose” is not likely to be very toxic is shocking coming from educated professionals and is absolutely unacceptable. Such averaging is not the true representation of the situation. Some infants are given three thimerosal vaccinations in one setting and the instantaneous exposure is much more relevant to evaluating possible neurological damage than calculating an average exposure over a long period of time. “Averaging exposures is as irrelevant to this issue as claiming that someone who just chugged a jug of whiskey could not be drunk (alcohol toxic), because it was his only exposure to alcohol in six months, and the alcohol exposure would calculate on the daily average over this time period to be too low to cause intoxication. The question with regard to thimerosal and vaccinations should be, ‘Was there any time that the thimerosal level surpassed the ability of the infant’s body to protect itself from ethyl-mercury exposure?” explains our chemist Boyd E. Haley, PhD.

The story is horrible when you consider that children are getting multiple vaccinations at 2 months. And the picture darkens further when we realize that the US federal limits apply to oral ingestion of mercury, not mercury injected directly into the blood stream with a hypodermic needle. The implications of such injections are much worse than implied by the limits for oral doses. Obviously no experiments have been done on children that would measure what levels of needle injection would be safe. All logic would imply that anything above zero levels of nerve chemicals would be unsafe.

According to Mark Geier, M.D., Ph.D "The 2003 Physicians' Desk Reference [PDR] still shows childhood vaccines in the United States containing thimerosal, including diphtheria, tetanus and acellular pertussis. DTaP, manufactured by Aventis Pasteur, contains 25[mu]g [25 micrograms] of mercury, Hemophilus influenzae b (Hib) vaccine manufactured by Wyeth contains 25[mu]g of mercury and pediatric Hepatitis B vaccine, manufactured by Merck, contains 12.5[mu]g of mercury." Though it was reported by Kelly O’Meara, who is an investigative reporter for Insight Magazine, that Len Lavenda, a spokesman for Avenus Pasteur, denied the continued use of mercury, despite the continued use in the white package slips still shipped with the vaccines, parents around the world can be assured that their children are still getting the above amounts in their vaccination shots.

Dr. Geier said, “It is possible that children in the U.S. in 2003 may be exposed to levels of mercury from thimerosal contained in childhood vaccines that are at higher levels than at any time in the past. Possible total childhood mercury in 2003 is more than 300[mu]g." For US citizens these numbers are in doubt, for the rest of the world they are not!

"The mercury has left its mark in the brains and immune systems of these children.... The body gets rid of mercury by secreting bile, but an infant does not produce bile at this age. In the hepatitis B vaccine alone, we are giving 12.5 mcg at birth, 12.5 mcg at a month, 50 mcg at two months, 50 mcg at four months, and 62.5 mcg at 6 months, and if you do your math, we're giving a load of mercury to these children before they can make bile and can get rid of it," explains Cave.

In June 2003, the World Health Organization changed the level of mercury consumption considered safe from 3.6 to 1.5 micrograms per kilogram of body weight per day. (A microgram is 0.000000035 of an ounce, and a kilogram is 2.2 pounds.)

In his opening statement to the House Committee on Government Reform's hearing on mercury and medicine on June 18, 2000, Congressman Daniel Burton (R-Indiana) stated, “the truth is that sometimes kids go to their doctor's office and get four or five vaccines at the same time. My grandson received vaccines for nine different diseases in one day. He might have been exposed to 62.5 micrograms of mercury in one day through his vaccines. According to his weight, the maximum safe level of mercury that he should be exposed to in one day is 1.51 micrograms. This is 41 times the amount at which harm can be caused." Burton's grandson, who was healthy before he received the shots, now suffers from autism.

The majority of ‘normal’ children seem to have an ability to defend themselves against potentially toxic exposures and may demonstrate little negative effect despite exposures that were relatively large. By contrast, children who later are diagnosed as autistic experienced seem to be completely incapable of excreting mercury through hair. In the August 2003 issue of The International Journal of Toxicology you will find a study by Amy S. Holmes, Mark F. Blaxill and Dr. Boyd E. Haley that will show that autistic children do not handle mercury like normal children as witnessed by the difference in the mercury levels in their BIRTH hair. The low levels of mercury in the hair of autistic infants support a hypothesis that these infants were retaining mercury in tissue at a higher rate than control infants. The lack of mercury in the hair of autistics may be due to a decrease in blood-mercury levels feeding the hair follicles. This decrease is likely caused by the retention of the mercury inside the cells where it most likely causes its major biological damage. These researchers found that with autistic children their birth hair mercury levels are exceptionally low, even if the mother had extensive amalgam fillings or mothers who had mercury laden vaccine injections during pregnancy. This is because ‘potential’ autistics are not excreting mercury; rather they are retaining it in their bodies where it causes damage. This study also noted that the mercury level in the birth hair decreases on average with increasing severity of autism. Other physicians have reported that autistic children have much higher heavy metal (mercury) body burdens than do normal children on a mercury challenge test.

The obvious logical conclusion is that the addition of multiple post-natal exposures to mercury in childhood vaccines would have more severe consequences in infants whose detoxification capacity is reduced or who may be closer to a dangerous threshold exposure. It must be noted that most autistic children are not born autistic. It is something that develops at varying ages but certainly in very early years of life. This most current research is indicating that certain children are just more sensitive to mercury because they have a reduced capacity to eliminate it. They are just more sensitive to the most toxic and deadly chemical compound known to man. Everyone knows that children and people in general show a wide range of reactions and sensitivities and this can explain why one child will die from the ‘routine’ vaccination schedule, why another will contract autism, another diabetes, another asthma, and others will show nothing but a little redness around the skin at the injection site. One hundred years ago, children received 1 vaccine (the smallpox vaccine). Forty years ago, children received 5 vaccines routinely (diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, polio, and smallpox vaccines) and as many as 8 shots by 2 years of age. Children now receive 52 vaccines, in the form of 15 shots, by the time they are 1 year of age, if they receive all the recommend shots, including the Prevnar pediatric pneumonia shot. The people most responsible for this is the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) who recently published an interim report to physicians on thimerosal in vaccines. In the report, the AAP and Public Health Service agreed that the use of thimerosal-containing vaccines should be reduced or eliminated, stating that any potential risk was of concern. While this report discussed much of the uncertainty regarding the potential effect of mercury exposure in vaccines, it clearly stated that there was no evidence of harm having occurred from such exposure. How is it possible that such well-educated people can come to this conclusion and state it publicly when the toxic effects of toxic substance like mercury and formaldehyde are so well known?

Formaldehyde Symptoms: Eye; nasal; throat and pulmonary irritation; acidosis; acute sense of smell; alters tissue proteins; anaemia; antibodies formation; apathy; blindness; blood in urine; blurred vision; body aches; bronchial spasms; bronchitis; burns nasal and throat; cardiac impairment; palpitations and arrhythmias; central nervous system depression; changes in higher cognitive functions; chemical sensitivity; chest pains and tightness; chronic vaginitis; colds; coma; conjunctivitis; constipation; convulsions; corneal erosion; cough; death; destruction of red blood cells; depression; dermatitis; diarrhoea; difficulty concentrating; disorientation; dizziness; ear aches; eczema; emotional upsets; ethmoid polyps; fatigue; fecula bleeding; foetal asphyxiation (and they don’t know what could cause SIDS?); flu-like or cold like illness; frequent urination with pain; gastritis; gastrointestinal inflammation; headaches; haemolytic anaemia; haemolytic haematuria; hoarseness; hyperactive airway disease; hyperactivity; hypomenstrual syndrome; immune system sensitiser; impaired (short) attention span; impaired capacity to attain attention; inability or difficulty swallowing; inability to recall words and names; inconsistent IQ profiles; inflammatory diseases of the reproductive organs; intestinal pain; intrinsic asthma; irritability; jaundice; joint pain; aches and swelling; kidney pain; laryngeal spasm; loss of memory; loss of sense of smell; loss of taste; malaise; menstrual and testicular pain; menstrual irregularities; metallic taste; muscle spasms and cramps; nasal congestions; crusting and mucosae inflammation; nausea; nosebleeds; numbness and tingling of the forearms and finger tips; pale, clammy skin; partial laryngeal paralysis; pneumonia; post nasal drip; pulmonary oedema; reduced body temperature; retarded speech pattern; ringing or tingling in the ear; schizophrenic-type symptoms; sensitivity to sound; shock; short term memory loss; shortness of breath; skin lesions; sneezing; sore throat; spacey feeling; speaking difficulty; sterility; swollen glands; tearing; thirst; tracheitis; tracheobronchitis; vertigo; vomiting blood; vomiting; wheezing. References; C. Wilson; Chronic Exposure and Human Health (1993), McFarland & Company taken from Our Toxic Times Feb 1997 pgs 18 & 19.

Mercury: "Symptoms of exposure to this class of compounds includes aphthous, stomatitis, catarrhal gingivitis, nausea, liquid stools, pain, liver disorder, injury to the cardiovascular system and hematopoietic system, deafness and ataxia. Exposure may be fatal. Headache, paresthesia of the tongue, lips, fingers and toes, other non-specific dysfunctions, metallic taste, slight gastrointestinal disturbances, excessive flatus and diarrhea may occur. Acute poisoning may cause gastrointestinal irritation and renal failure. Early signs of severe poisoning include fine tremors of extended hands, loss of side vision, slight loss of coordination in the eyes, speech, writing and gait, inability to stand or carry out voluntary movements, occasional muscle atrophy and flexure contractures, generalized myoclonic movements, difficulty understanding ordinary speech, irritability and bad temper progressing to mania, stupor, coma, mental retardation in children, skin irritation, blisters and dermatitis. Other symptoms include chorea, athetosis, tremors, convulsions, pain and numbness in the extremities, nephritis, salivation, loosening of the teeth, blue line on the gums, anxiety, mental depression, insomnia, hallucinations and central nervous system effects. Exposure may also cause irritation of the eyes, mucous membranes and upper respiratory tract." Reference: National Institute for Health

In the late nineteen nineties a researcher named Dr. Thomas Verstraten worked at the CDC on a study of 76,659 children to determine if thimerosal might be causing neurological problems like autism. A February 2000 draft of Verstraeten's study, obtained by United Press International, appears to show that thimerosal might cause brain problems. That draft cited "increasing risks of neurological developmental disorders with increasing cumulative exposure to thimerosal. We can state that this analysis does not rule out that receipt of thimerosal-containing vaccine in children under 3 months of age may be related to an increased risk of neurologic developmental disorders," the study said.

To discuss the findings in Dr. Verstraeten's study, the CDC convened a meeting at the Simpsonwood Retreat Center in Norcross, Ga., on June 7-8, 2000. The agency invited vaccine experts and representatives of four vaccine manufacturers. After discussing that study, Dr. David Johnson, a Michigan state public health officer advising the CDC on vaccines, said that the findings were troubling, according to a transcript. "My gut feeling? It worries me enough," said Johnson. "I do not want my grandson to get a thimerosal-containing vaccine until we know better what is going on." Later in the same conversation, CDC officials agreed to keep the study private. In October 2001, the Institute of Medicine panel that heard from Verstraeten found that it is "biologically plausible" that thimerosal causes autism, but that, "current scientific evidence neither proves nor disproves a link."

The latest research (as yet unpublished) under Professor Haley, Chairman of Chemistry at Kentucky University has revealed the startling fact that thimerosal is also light sensitive. Exposure for just 2_ minutes of daylight resulted in dissociation to ethyl mercury and a 5-fold increase in toxicity. There should be no doubt in anyone’s mind that mercury is toxic and even administered in homeopathic doses, in trace amounts, delivered directly into the blood, is dangerous to the point of being hideous. Yes it is cheap; it makes vaccines cheaper, but is that any excuse injecting newborn babies with it?

It’s bad enough that we eat or drink poison, God forbid we get bitten by a poisonous snake or spider, but imagine injecting newborn babies with it. And in their dreams of dreams many health officials dream of injecting every last baby that is born. Their strong preference is that not one escapes the fate. Poison them all seems to be a part of modern day medical wisdom.

The advice from the World Health Organization is this, “The risk from side effects of thimerosal is theoretical, uncertain and, at most, extremely small. The best advice to parents is to continue having their children vaccinated.” They also say, “Parents should be told as much as they want to know and are able to understand. The issues are very complex and most parents do not want to know all the science.” So if you trust organizations like this go ahead and inject a little poison into your child.

Pediatricians are poisoning newborn babies around the world with mercury, foreign viruses and other chemical preservatives. Doing it blindly but in great faith to medical boards and public health officials, and in so doing are perpetuating the largest and most terrible terrorist program in history. It will be many years before most of them will realize this, enough years to make another killing fields international in scope. According to the World Health Organization “Most vaccines could be made thimerosal-free quite quickly, but they would not contain a preservative. It is not safe to use multi-dose vials of certain vaccines without some form of preservative. One solution would be to use single-dose vials, but this solution is very expensive and not always technically possible. If a new preservative were to be used, the product would have to be re-licensed, taking a long time. Equally if thimerosal was removed from a vaccine, it would have to be re-licensed as well.” So their recommendation is to continue to kill babies, continue the onslaught of poison, pump it into those precious beings, continue to effect havoc in families who have to deal with the incredible pain of autism and other learning disorders, allergies, asthma, diabetes and a host of other ‘milder’ toxic side effects. "We support the continued use of current vaccines that protect the lives of millions of children each year," says Dr Scholtz, WHO's Executive Director of Health Technology and Pharmaceuticals. So what if a few thousand die. There is no proof that mercury and aluminum and formaldehyde injected directly into the bodies of babies is dangerous or harmful. No proof that the most dangerous substances known to mankind are dangerous?

Belying the recommendations of WHO are the words of Dr Neal Halsey himself, who heads the Hopkins Institute for Vaccine Safety, which he was a founder of in 1997. ''My first reaction was simply disbelief, which was the reaction of almost everybody involved in vaccines,'' Halsey says. ''In most vaccine containers, thimerosal is listed as a mercury derivative, a hundredth of a percent. And what I believed, and what everybody else believed, was that it was truly a trace, a biologically insignificant amount. My honest belief is that if the labels had had the mercury content in micrograms, this would have been uncovered years ago. But the fact is, no one did the calculation. My first concern was that it would harm the credibility of the immunization program,'' he says. ''But gradually it came home to me that maybe there was some real risk to the children.'' Mercury was turning out to be like lead, which had been studied extensively in the homes of the Baltimore poor during Halsey's tenure at Hopkins. ''As they got more sophisticated at testing for lead, the safe level marched down and down, and they continued to find subtle neurological impairment,'' Halsey says. ''And that's almost exactly what happened with mercury.''

Dr. Neal Halsey, whose life has been dedicated to promoting vaccination, completed a decade of service on the influential committees that decide which inoculations will be jabbed into the arms and thighs and buttocks of eight million American children each year. At the urging of Halsey and others, the number of vaccines mandated for children under 2 in the 90's soared to 20, from 8. Kids were healthier for it, according to him. Yet despite all he has said, and despite the fact that he led the effort to have mercury removed from vaccines for American distribution, he still sits on the fence when he says, ''I don't believe the evidence is convincing now that there has definitely been harm done by thimerosal.'' But to keep the vaccine program on a steady keel, Halsey says, the public-health authorities simply must follow through with the studies and face the consequences without flinching. If there is damage, he says, ''there should be some kind of compensation, though I don't know how.'' He pauses, and sighs. ''I empathize with families of children with these disorders. How are you going to put dollar values on that?''

Other components in vaccines that are not normally toxic inside the vaccine vial are the foreign proteins which are supposed to act as allergens, but there is a clear and present danger injected these proteins directly into the body bypassing the digestive system. In the absence of gastro-intestinal juices in the blood, these proteins can decompose (putrefy) yielding the extremely poisonous byproducts belonging to the group of ptomaines, creatins, xanthins, purines, indoles, skatols, phenols, leucomaines, uric acids, and indoxyl-sulphuric acids. The most acute reaction to this putrefying process may be anaphylactic shock, possibly leading to convulsions and even instantaneous death. And what about the rest of the composition, the bulk liquid that makes up the primary content of vaccines? Mineral oils, seemingly totally safe by comparison to mercury, aluminum and formaldehyde, are common components of vaccines and one would not expect them to induce the production of pathogenic auto-antibodies and an inflammatory immune response when injected into children. Mineral oils are used as adjuvants in vaccines - substances that enhance the immunogenicity of an antigen. But even here there is trouble injecting such benign substances directly into biological systems. It has been know for some time that some mineral oils can induce autoimmunity in the form of arthritis, and when tested on mice they do indeed produce animal models for arthritis suggesting of course that these oils could be inducing autoimmunity in susceptible people.

Researchers at the Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology at the University of Florida have now examined the oils' effect in another autoimmune disease - systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). SLE is a systemic autoimmune disease characterized by fever, weakness, arthritis, skin rashes, pleurisy and kidney dysfunction. These researchers injected mice with the most common adjuvants used in human and veterinary vaccines, incomplete Freund's adjuvant (IFA) and squalene, and tested to see whether SLE-specific antibodies were produced. They found that up to a quarter of the mice produced autoantibodies that are SLE-specific. So even the mineral oils used in the fabrication of vaccine fluids can be dangerous and the only way we can know the sum total effect of all these substances mixed up together and injected into children’s blood streams is to watch the reactions and complaints, deaths and deformities of health and spirit in the general population that are receiving these chemical formulas of doubtful design.

It is clear that the direct injection of complicated vaccine formulas into the blood can lead to many dangerous reactions that are not predictable and certainly not safe. The easiest legal and medical target though remains the mercury, and most of the lawsuits will attack the vaccine companies along that route. It is clear that the simple removal of mercury from the local markets in the United States will not guarantee the safety of vaccinations nor does it resolve the pharmaceutical industries liabilities nor the responsibilities of all the governments that have support them.

”It is hard to believe that after being so careful during my pregnancy that I was so easily persuaded to immunize my baby without knowingly educating myself to all that I should have. I should have found out about this nightmare with mercury and other toxic metals that are used to manufacture the vaccines. I didn’t. I trusted my pediatrician and the CDC who assured me of their absolute safety. I was persuaded to believe that I was doing the best thing I could do to protect my child. I was persuaded to inject my precious child and now she is autistic.”

Special Note: See the last chapter called Provoking our Anger for excerpts from the December 10th hearings between Dr. Karen Midthun, director of Office of Vaccine Research and Review at the FDA and Congressmen Dan Durton (R-IN) "Vaccines and the Autism Epidemic: Reviewing the Federal Government's Track Record and Charting a Course for the Future" 12/10/2002 House Committee of Government Reform, Washington, D.C.