UN proposes to ban Thimerosal in vaccines

waltky · Dec 17, 2012

Doctors object to UN proposal to ban Thimerosal in vaccines...

U.S. doctors fight U.N. ban on preservative in vaccines
Monday, December 17, 2012 - In a move likely to stoke an already raging debate over the safety of the vaccines routinely given to children, Americas largest organization for pediatricians is strongly objecting to a proposal by the United Nations to ban a mercury-containing preservative from the worlds vaccine supply.

Thimerosal has not been found to be harmful, and removal of thimerosal-containing vaccines would needlessly jeopardize the lives and health of millions of children in underdeveloped countries, said commentaries in Mondays issue of Pediatrics, the journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). Thus, the AAP has endorsed the recommendation of a panel of specialists at the World Health Organization (WHO), who say thimerosal should be excluded from a ban on mercury-containing products and processes. Thimerosal, which has been used in vaccines since the 1930s to prevent bacteria and other pathogens from growing in multidose vials of vaccines, is implicated in the ban because it contains ethyl mercury.

The bans on mercury products, such as thermometers, and processes is being developed at meetings organized by the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP). The goal is to create a binding global treaty in which countries agree to end mercury pollution and toxic mercury exposures to humans and the environment. Groups such as the Coalition for Mercury-Free Drugs have presented studies to the UNEP showing that there is serious danger in using mercury in vaccines and mercury-silver amalgam in dental fillings. The UNEP is correct in its plans to phase down use of thimerosal, Eric Uram, executive director of the Coalition for SafeMinds, which is dedicated to eradicating autism and other health disorders induced by mercury and other man-made toxicants.

Only a treaty like this will pressure the vaccine industry to pursue alternatives to thimerosal, said Mr. Uram, who has attended numerous UNEP sessions and plans to attend the next one in January. In their commentaries released Monday, AAP specialists said blocking the use of thimerosal would put millions of children at risk for diseases. About 84 million children are inoculated with thimerosal-containing vaccines because some countries lack refrigeration or cant afford the more costly single-dose vaccines, wrote Katherine King and colleagues. Banning thimerosal would amount to banning such multidose vaccines, which protect children from tetanus, diphtheria, whooping cough and hepatitis B and save 1.4 million lives a year, they wrote.

Fifteen years of research has failed to yield any evidence of significant harm, including serious neurodevelopmental disorders, such as autism, from use of thimerosal in vaccines, wrote Dr. Walter Orenstein, associate director of the Emory Vaccine Center at Emory University in Georgia. All mercury is not the same, just like all alcohol is not the same, Dr. Orenstein told The Washington Times. For example, methyl alcohol, used in antifreeze, is toxic you wouldnt want to take a drink of that, he said. But ethyl alcohol, or ethanol, is the alcohol in beer and wine. The category of mercury that is toxic is methyl mercury, which is not in vaccines, he said. Vaccine-safety advocates, however, argue that autism was virtually unknown as a malady before 1930, but had a rate of 1 in 88 U.S. children as of 2000.

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Richard Powell · Jan 4, 2013

I have heart about this medicine and vaccination system. The set of information has displayed it consequence in which UN government has impose ban on this vaccine but it has not declared any alternative for treatment of this disease

fiddlerdave · Jan 12, 2013

Fifteen years of research has failed to yield any evidence of significant harm, including serious neurodevelopmental disorders, such as autism, from use of thimerosal in vaccines,......The category of mercury that is toxic is methyl mercury, which is not in vaccines, he said.
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Further, there has not even been suggested a METHOD of harm to come from the form of mercury in vaccines. And in a country where there is genral indifference to the buildup of the dangerous form of mercury in food and environment from pollution, the hysteria over thimerosol is absurd.

Vaccine-safety advocates, however, argue that autism was virtually unknown as a malady before 1930, but had a rate of 1 in 88 U.S. children as of 2000.
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The basic cause of this change is obvious - prior to 1930, the general public AND doctors in the USA were very often the equivalent of the "Savage Nation" theory of child development problems - "Who cares? Beat them often enough and they will behave!"

There were several kids in my poor neighborhood who were very likely autistic, but in those days, no one would even question a kid dropping out of school in the 6th grade, or even the 3rd grade if they went at all, and being put to some kind of repetitive labor (of which there was plenty) and with enough punishment, would do it every day the rest of their life.

If they couldn't handle that, they were simply labeled "crazy" and locked up for a short and brutal life in an institution of horrors.

waltky · Mar 27, 2013

Synthetic vaccine doesn't rely on using live infectious virus...

Synchrotron yields 'safer' vaccine
27 March 2013 - Producing vaccines against viral threats is a potentially hazardous business and that's why manufacturers have to operate strict controls to ensure that no pathogens escape.

British scientists have developed a new method to create an entirely synthetic vaccine which doesn't rely on using live infectious virus, meaning it is much safer. What's more the prototype vaccine they have created, for the animal disease foot-and-mouth, has been engineered to make it more stable. That means it can be kept out of the fridge for many hours before returning to the cold chain - overcoming one of the major hurdles in administering vaccines in the developing world.

The research, published in the journal PLOS pathogens, was a collaboration between scientists at Oxford and Reading Universities, the Pirbright Institute, and the UK's national synchrotron facility, the Diamond Light Source near Oxford. Diamond is a particle accelerator which sends electrons round a giant magnetic ring at near light speeds. The electrons emit energy in the form of intense X-rays which are channelled along "beamlines" - into laboratories where they are used to analyse structures in extraordinary detail.

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Synchrotrons have been used before to analyse viruses at the atomic level, but the technology has advanced considerably to enable scientists to create a stable synthetic vaccine. "What we have achieved here is close to the holy grail of foot-and-mouth vaccines. Unlike traditional vaccines, there is no chance that the empty shell vaccine could revert to an infectious form," said Dave Stuart, Life Sciences Director at Diamond, and MRC Professor of Structural Biology at the University of Oxford. "This work will have a broad and enduring impact on vaccine development, and the technology should be transferable to other viruses from the same family, such as poliovirus and hand-foot-and-mouth disease, a human virus which is currently endemic in South-East Asia."

These human disease threats, like foot-and-mouth, are all picornaviruses. Viruses are inherently unstable and fragile, but picornaviruses can be studied using X-ray crystallography. This enables the protein shell of the virus to be analysed at the atomic level - something a billion times smaller than a pinhead.

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waltky · Sep 18, 2014

Measles vaccine program goes awry...

U.N. Stops Syria Vaccine Campaign After 15 Children Die
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The United Nations says it has stopped a vaccination campaign in northern Syria after at least 15 young children died. The World Health Organization, part of the UN, says its investigating. Its not at all clear that the vaccines killed the children, WHO says, but its worth checking. The deaths of the children all of whom were less than two years of age occurred in districts where a measles immunization campaign had been under way, the U.N. childrens organization UNICEF and WHO said in a joint statement.[/i]

Establishing the precise cause of the childrens deaths is vital, the statement added. U.N. workers have been vaccinating children in Syria, especially refugee children, since a measles outbreak started in early 2013. Thousands of children have been infected with the highly contaguous virus. "For as long as the facts remain unclear, the suspension of the immunization campaign in both Idlib and Deir Ezzour provinces is a wise step," WHO and the UN said. "However, it is vital that immunization efforts against measles a disease which is a leading killer of children worldwide resume in Syria as soon as possible. Measles is a particular threat to children who have been displaced from their homes and communities, and who are living in camps or other insanitary conditions.

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