Dangers of Exposure to Thimerosal Mercury

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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) guidelines for safe exposure level to mercury are one-tenth of a microgram (mcg) per kilogram of body weight. Children received about 237 mcg of Thimerosal by two years old with the first 200 mcg administered before six months old. Thimerosal is an ethylmercury preservative (about 49.6 percent mercury by weight) used in vaccines to add shelf life to the vaccine. Thimerosal is about 50 times more toxic due to it being injected, there is no blood–brain barrier in infants, mercury clings to brain cells and nerves, and infants do not create bile therefore the mercury cannot be excreted. PDD-NOS are the largest group and are characterized by four other different disorders. The four disorders include Rett syndrome; Childhood disintegrative disorder (CDD); atypical autism, Asperger’s syndrome; and Autism. Asperger’s syndrome is an autism spectrum disorder characterized by little social interaction, restricted patterns of behavior and interests. Asperger’s syndrome is different from autism by its preservation of language and cognitive development. Autism or Autism Spectrum Disorder is a neurodevelopmental disorder diagnosed between birth and 36 months that affects information processing in the brain by altering how nerve cells and their synapses connect and organize. Children receiving regular immunizations often received doses 50 times higher than the safety guidelines for the greatest consumption of mercury leading to Persuasive Developmental Disorder-Not Otherwise Specified (PDD-NOS), Asperger's syndrome, and Autism.

Autism was first identified in the 1930’s by an Austrian psychiatrist and physician after the introduction of Thimerosal to vaccines. The prevalence of autism before 1...

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