Mercury in Vaccines

Until now, I never truly understood the reason for using mercury and the problems involved with it until reading this article. Thimerosal has been used as a preservative in vaccines since the 1920’s in order to kill any germs that enter the virus before reuse. What they did not discover until recently is that this mercury-based substances can cause detrimental side effects, including mercury poisoning, neurological damage, and death. What shocks me about this article is that other countries were banning thimerosal from their vaccines thirty years ago because studies showed that patients were later receiving brain damage, but we only recently started removing it and the influenza vaccine STILL has traces of thimerosal in it. While it cannot be proven that the mercury-based substance causes autism, there is a scary parallel; the number of reports of autism has increased along with the number of thimerosal-included vaccinations that are administered. I do not know if I agree with these finding though. Almost all products are mercury-free now so there should be a decrease in autism cases, but the opposite is being seen. My hypothesis, however, is that this steady increase in the number of autistic children may be linked to the diagnosis process. The autism spectrum used to be very specific and now it is getting more general; there are both severe and mild cases which would not be considered autism years ago. While it is true that thimerosal and mercury can cause nervous system disorders, it is still inconclusive if it also causes autism.

Sources: //www.naturalnews.com/011764.html