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The evidence is now overwhelming that mercury injected into pregnant women and small infants has caused a huge epidemic of autism in this county.  There are many sources of mercury in our environment, including breathing exhaust from coal burning power plants, ingesting fish, and leaking from mercury amalgam dental fillings, and the dangers of mercury have been recognized by our government for many years.  However, in the late 1980's and early 1990"s there were some changes that dramatically effected the amounts of mercury that fetuses and babies were exposed to.  In the late 1980's we added 3 Hib vaccinations (all containing mercury) to the childhood vaccination schedule, and in the early 90's we added 3 hepatitis B vaccinations (also containing mercury), including one within hours of birth.  Additionally, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists changed the recommendations with regard to Rhogam.  Prior to that time, Rhogam was given to an Rh- mother after the baby was delivered to protect the next pregnancy.  Now it was decided to add a Rhogam shot at 28 weeks of gestation, and whenever amnio was performed, and maybe even when the pregnant woman experienced spotting or trauma, etc.  Prior to this time, babies did receive some thimerosal from DPT shots and the other environmental exposures referred to, but the additions of Hep B, Hib and Rhogam amounted to manyfold higher rates of exposure for babies in the United States.

The result of all of this added exposure was that children were receiving hundreds of times the recommended safe doses of mercury.  For most children, they were able to excrete these large doses of mercury with no obvious sequelae.  But for some children, they could not get rid of the mercury, and this poison invaded their brains and other body organs, producing symptoms that look like autism.  In fact, these cihldren were mercury poisoned, and this fact was first recognized by some dedicated people from Safe Minds who published an article comparing the symptoms of autism with the symptoms of mercury poisoning. (Bernard, et. al, "Autism - A Novel Form of Mercury Poisoning")

While our government has slowly removed mercury from childhood vaccines, they still encourage children to receive flu vaccines that still contain thimerosal, and they are recommending flu vaccine with mercury for pregnant women.  It is incredible that their are warnings telling pregnant women not to each fish for fear of mercury exposure, and yet our government is suggesting that pregnant women have mercury injected directly into their bodies. Amazing!  Perhaps they just don't want the rates of autism to fall too sharply.  In Washington, D.C., they say that the cover-up is always worse than the crime, and the thimerosal story is no exception.  Even Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has weighed in on the subject.  (Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., "Deadly Immunity") And more recently,in another article, Mr. Kennedy has gone even farther. (Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., "Time For CDC to Come Clean")  For a wonderful book on this whole subject, it is recommended that you read David Kirby's book, Evidence of Harm.

The evidence is pretty compelling.  From studying the hair of babies who developed autism after vaccines, and comparing that with the hair of children who did not develop autism, it is obvious that the normal children were able to excrete the mercury, whereas the autistic children were not.  (Holmes, et al, "Reduced Levels of Mercury in First Baby Haircuts of Autistic Children) Thanks to the work of Jill James, Richard Deth and others, the genetic predispositions and problems that some children have in excreting mercury is becoming better understood.  (James, "Metabolic Biomarkers" ) (James, "Thimerosal Neurotoxicity...")  Additional evidence has come from a mouse model demonstrating thimerosal neurotoxicity. (Hornig, et al, "Neurotoxic effects of postnatal thimerosal...")

The evidence that thimerosal is neurotoxic is indiputable, and it is something that was known long before we started adding more thimerosal to our childhood vaccines.  Recent studies have shown that thimerosal crosses the blood brain barrier very easily, and, once there, it changes form so that it is very difficult to get it out of the brain.

The rate of autism is 4 to 1, males over females, and if one looks at the more severe autistics, the disparity is even greater.  This coincides with the evidence of Dr. Boyd Hailey that testosterone enhances the effects of mercury, while estrogen is actually somewhat protective.  Again, this fits with what we are observing and makes sense.

The real proof comes in the individual cases, where parents are horrified to discover that when a challenge test is performed, their autistic children dump large amounts of mercury.  Many children also improve when mercury is removed through chelation. 

For those in the government who are denying this relationship, the data is already available that will prove undoubtedly what role the mercury has played.  In California, as the mercury has been removed from vaccines, the rates of autism are starting to go down.  The government today is hiding the data that is available in the Vaccine Safety Datalink database (VSD), and the reason is clear.  They already know the answer.  Rates are going down. 

Epidemiological proof has been published in the peer-reviewed medical literature (Click here to see links to these articles.), but since it is published by Dr. Mark Geier and his son, David, the government chooses to use "McCarthy-like" tactics to refute the obvious.  Shamefully, our government has supported studies in some countries in Europe where the amounts of thimerosal given to the children never came anywhere close to the amounts our children received.  The studies are flawed, irrelevant, and yet used to disprove a relationship. 

Over 4,000 claims have now been filed in the NVICP, but the really shameful fact is that Congress has chosen to ignore the hundreds of thousands of children who are too late to file in the program (where the statute of limitations is only 3 years, and where there is no tolling for minority and no discovery provision). 

The CDC has estimated that 1 in 166 children have autism, and that 1 in 6 have some form of neurodevelopmental delay.  These figures, while probably underestimates, are shocking and demonstrate that we have a problem on our hands that is going to cost this country trillions of dollars.  Meanwhile, they answer from the CDC is that they don't what caused this epidemic, but they know it wasn't the vaccines.  And Congress -- well, they just bury their heads in the sand, coming up for photo ops and campaign contributions.

As always, when our government fails us, it is left to the dreaded trial lawyers to remedy the problem, and we fully intend to do our job!