- LONDON (ANI) -- A new study
has found that children who received vaccine shots containing a preservative
called thimerosal, which is almost 50 per cent mercury, were more than
twice at the risk to develop autism than those who did not.
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- Mercury, which is known to be neurotoxic, is being phased
out in America and Europe after scientists in the United States found its
amount in vaccines exceeded federal safety limits.
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- The study showed an increased relative risk of autism
of 2.48 for children who have received 75 micrograms of mercury, the amount
in the British schedule, according to a report in The Telegraph.
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- The new research by Dr Mark Geier, a physician with a
PhD in genetics, and David Geier, a graduate student at the National Institutes
of Health, who are both consultants in genetics based in Bethesada, Maryland,
has been published in the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons.
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- The incidence of neurodevelopmental disorders and heart
disease following the administration of Diphtheria, Tetanus and Pertussis
(DTP) vaccines containing mercury compared with non-mercury vaccines was
based on nationwide data in the United States.
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- The researchers claim they have produced "the first
epidemiological evidence showing a direct association between thimerosal-containing
childhood vaccines and neurodevelopmental disorders".
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- According to reports, the preservative, which is called
thiomersal in Britain, is used in some vaccines to prevent bacterial infection.
Mercury is not present in the triple measles, mumps and rubella vaccine
(MMR).
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- In the United States there has been an increase in the
number of vaccines containing mercury given to children since the 1980s.
There has also been a dramatic increase in the number of children diagnosed
with autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders such as attention deficit
disorder.
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- Several researchers have claimed this rise in autism
is linked to mercury-containing vaccines.
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