would you let the Dr. give you baby a vaccines that has Mercury in it?? even when 1 out of 100 develops autism

Question

Autism is at epidemic levels! 1 out of every 100 develops it.. because the Govt. mandated vaccines given to your child have Mercury inside of them.. don't believe me check it out for yourself.. bush is going to veto a bill that would stop this practice soon.. Im just curious what new parents feel about this practice and people have yet to have kids, does this make them think twice about having a child..

Answer 1

To the first person who answered, go check this out if you think thimerosal is only in the flu shot.
http://www.informedchoice.info/cocktail.html

I don't believe thimerosal is the only culprit, I believe it's a combination of the crap they put in the vaccines, and environmental toxins, mostly what we use every day in our own homes without even realizing it. My son is autistic, and he has never received a single vaccine, and never will. You're a little misinformed, though. While the govnt. mandates these vaccines, every state in the US (don't know about other countries, I was assuming you're from the US? Sorry if I'm wrong!) allows for at least one type of exemption from getting them. I wouldn't go so far as to not have a child, just find a way to refuse the shots in the first place. But, as my son proves, vaccines are not the only cause of autism. Bottom line is, any time you have a child you take the chance of them having something wrong, and there are worse things to have than autism. I'd much rather my child be the way he is than to have cancer and die, or have Down Syndrome and have less of a chance of functioning on his own someday. Yes, I am angry that they try to force the vaccines on us. But it's up to the parents to educate themselves, use common sense on the necessity, effectiveness, and safety of anything that is pushed on our kids.

Answer 2

They just completed several major studies on the subject, and it seems for now that mercury is not the problem. There is new evidence however that the age of the MAN as well as the age of the woman have an affect on rates of Autism. Good Luck and get vaccinated

Answer 3

They stopped using Thimerisol, the mercury based preservative, in 2001. The last of the older batches that still had it expired in Jan of 2003. Yet the rate still keeps climbing.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Anv3Ej3c0uWeORcTuSlj.8Tty6IX?qid=20070224203507AAneU6u&show=7#profile-info-XaVCCG3Naa http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AsiwGnJOZJcu4FUNmNbFEtjty6IX?qid=20070218230910AAm8ryn&show=7#profile-info-HWRCqhYoaa

So--

Not only do you not have to worry about vaccinations (except for the flu shots) because they DON"T contain thimerisol, but...

Thimerisol was not responsible for the rise in autism. If it was, we would be experiencing a major drop!

AND...

Your stats are grossly exagerated! The last I heard was 1 out of 150. And 75% of those have symptoms from birth on. Only 25% have the regressive form where a child develops symptoms just before the 2nd birthday.

Also, at least half of the cases of autism today are of the mild variety that wouldn't have been diagnosed 20 years ago. I suspect at least one of my uncles would have been diagnosed with Aspergers if they were kids today!
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AqR2aep4IiI_zl2U.7Ay2CTty6IX?qid=20070209150055AAwBAy2&show=7#profile-info-mDzRpxtQaa
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Answer 4

Please educate yourself - you sound foolish. There has NEVER been a credible scientific study that has found a link between autism and vaccines. NONE. I can't put that any more clearly. You take second hand information that is not even reliable and try to whip up some sort of hysteria over it. Do you even know why?

Answer 5

That is not an issue. Mercury is not in children vaccines except for flu vaccines. "Today, with the exception of some Influenza (flu) vaccines, none of the vaccines used in the U.S. to protect preschool children against 12 infectious diseases contain thimerosal as a preservative."

Answer 6

There is no scientifically proven link to mercury and autism.

The U.S. stopped using mercuy in childhood vaccines years ago.

The rate of autism in no where near that high.

The risk of not being vaccinated is high.
Get your child the shots.

Answer 7

i refuse to allowe my children, when i have them lol, to have shots with mercury in them. my brother has high-funcitoning autism due to these shots, so no i would never think about having my children take shots with mercury in them

Answer 8

The notion that "vaccines cause autism" is an urban legend.

Only anti-vaccination activists, conspiracy theorists, and purveyors of "alternative" medicine (a.k.a. quackery) assert the belief that vaccines -- either those which contained the thimerosal preservative that was phased out of most childhood vaccines by 2002, or the always was thimerosal-free MMR -- cause autism.

Immunization Safety Review, Institute of Medicine:

"The committee met three times a year from 2001 - 2004. The topic of each meeting was a specific vaccine-safety question. For each vaccine-safety question, the committee read and discussed the relevant epidemiologic evidence for or against a causal relationship, as well as any case reports, and clinical evidence. The committee also heard presentations from the authors of key papers, as well as ongoing, unpublished research."

The executive summaries of each of the committee's eight reports, in PDF format, are available on the IOM page (reference below). Here is an excerpt from the most recent one available, May 2004, Immunization Safety Review: Vaccines and Autism (page 7)

"Studies examining the association between MMR and autism, including nine controlled observational studies (DeStefano et al., 2004; DeWilde et al., 2001; Farrington et al., 2001; Fombonne and Chakrabarti, 2001; Madsen et al., 2002; Makela et al., 2002; Takahashi et al., 2003; Taylor et al., 1999, 2002), three ecological studies (Dales et al., 2001; Gillberg and Heijbel, 1998; Kaye et al., 2001), and two studies based on passive reporting system in Finland (Patja et al., 2000; Peltola et al., 1998), consistently showed evidence of no association be-tween the MMR vaccine and autism. Two studies reported findings of a positive association between MMR and autism. The first was an ecological study (Geier and Geier, 2004a) that reported a potential positive correlation between the number of doses of measles-containing vaccine and the cases of autism reported to the special education system in the 1980s. The second was a study of passive reporting data by the same authors (Geier and Geier, 2003c) that reported a positive correlation between autism reports in the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) and estimated administered doses of MMR. However, these two studies are characterized by serious methodological flaws and their analytic methods were nontransparent, making their results uninterpretable, and therefore noncontributory with respect to causality (see text for full discussion). The case series study by Wakefield and colleagues (Wakefield et al., 1998), which originally raised the hypothesis linking MMR and autism, is uninformative with respect to causality. Based on this body of evidence, the committee concludes that the evidence favors rejection of a causal relationship between MMR vaccine and autism. This conclusion is consistent with the finding in the committee’s previous report on MMR and autism (IOM, 2001a)."

The FDA's report on Thimerosal in Vaccines contains numerous references, some linked, some not. The FDA also has a well-referenced and detailed FAQ on thimerosal.

The American Academy of Pediatrics, "Study Fails to Show a Connection Between Thimerosal and Autism" demonstrates the numerous flaws in one study that claimed to show a correlation between thimerosal and autism.

"No scientific data link thimerosal used as a preservative in vaccines with any pediatric neurologic disorder, including autism. Despite this, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, American Academy of Pediatrics, National Institutes of Health, and US Public Health Service have continued to investigate this issue to put theoretic concerns about this mercury-containing compound to rest. Thimerosal continues to be used widely as a vaccine preservative in many other parts of the world where economics and sanitation concerns mandate an effective means to safeguard vaccines from contamination when stored in bulk in multidose vials. Any scientific article that can prove a thimerosal link to significant adverse events in children must be published in respected and widely read journals because of the great general interest today in vaccine safety. These journals can be expected to apply the highest standards of critical peer review to the results of any research that purports the existence of these associations and claims of causality."

Quackwatch has an excellent series of well-referenced articles (some linked some not) on "Misconceptions about Immunization."

"Misconception #11 Thimerosal Causes Autism: Chelation Therapy Can Cure It" notes that "there are several reasons why concerns about the use of thimerosal in vaccines are misguided."

" * The amounts of mercury involved were very small.

* No link between mercury and autism has been proven. If the thimerosal in vaccines caused mercury poisoning, the symptoms would affect all parts of the nervous system.

* Autistic children do not have the movement disorders and peripheral nerve damage that that are characteristic of mercury poisoning.

* There is no scientific evidence or logical reason to believe that autism has a toxic cause."

The National Network for Immunization Information, an affiliation of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Nurses Association, the American Academy of Family Physicians, the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the University of Texas Medical Branch, the Society for Adolescent medicine and the American Medical Association has several articles (9 total) on mercury in vaccines, as well as a page on Vaccine Misinformation.

"Elimination of Methylmercury and Ethylmercury from the Body"
This study shows that the mercury contained in some vaccines is handled very differently by the body than mercury found in foods such as fish or the mercury from industrial accidents.

"Thimerosal Exposure and Developmental Disorders"
This large prospective study from the UK shows no evidence of any harmful effect of thimerosal-containing vaccines on neurologic or psychological development.

"Thimerosal and Brain Development"
Did children exposed to differing amounts of thimerosal develop at the right ages? This study suggests that thimerosal-containing vaccines do not cause autism or significant speech or language disorders.

Answer 9

Nope. I get no shots for my children.