Last night I attended a SAD 75 (a Maine school district) public meeting on the H1N1 response and school vaccine clinics. It was a strange experience for me, as I feel like I had stepped back in time to a day ten years ago when giving mercury to children was no big deal, perfectly safe, just like candy really.
I pointed out a number of problems with doing so, which I assumed were common knowledge, that proved at the very least that mercury containing vaccines were not desirable and I will list some of those here for those of you who watched the meeting on TV and wanted references to my points.
As I want every parent and individual to have the informed consent that I was not given in vaccinating my child, I will also list several other references.
I am compiling this tonight and will add as I go, so check back this weekend for the full list.
First, a reminder of what mercury does in the brain:
CDC's toxicology division, ATSDR, says that this is what mercury can do to children:
How does mercury affect children?
Very young children are more sensitive to mercury than adults. Mercury in the mother's body passes to the fetus and may accumulate there. It can also can pass to a nursing infant through breast milk. However, the benefits of breast feeding may be greater than the possible adverse effects of mercury in breast milk.
Mercury's harmful effects that may be passed from the mother to the fetus include brain damage, mental retardation, incoordination, blindness, seizures, and inability to speak. Children poisoned by mercury may develop problems of their nervous and digestive systems, and kidney damage.
And they have set up a new web site to warn children of the dangers of mercury complete with scary video:
CDC reports that approximately 100 children die of the flu every year.
It was reported by the panel that 40-50 children die of flu per year, and that the 86 that have died from H1N1 this far had vastly exceeded that number. I told the panel that my understanding was that the number was 100 per year, and that we had not yet exceeded that. I had gotten that number from this CDC video that was posted a year ago on their You Tube Channel (50 seconds in Dr. Jeanne Santoli states that about 100 children die of influenza every year).
I pointed out a number of problems with doing so, which I assumed were common knowledge, that proved at the very least that mercury containing vaccines were not desirable and I will list some of those here for those of you who watched the meeting on TV and wanted references to my points.
As I want every parent and individual to have the informed consent that I was not given in vaccinating my child, I will also list several other references.
I am compiling this tonight and will add as I go, so check back this weekend for the full list.
First, a reminder of what mercury does in the brain:
CDC's toxicology division, ATSDR, says that this is what mercury can do to children:
And they have set up a new web site to warn children of the dangers of mercury complete with scary video:
Don't Mess With Mercury
CDC reports that approximately 100 children die of the flu every year.
It was reported by the panel that 40-50 children die of flu per year, and that the 86 that have died from H1N1 this far had vastly exceeded that number. I told the panel that my understanding was that the number was 100 per year, and that we had not yet exceeded that. I had gotten that number from this CDC video that was posted a year ago on their You Tube Channel (50 seconds in Dr. Jeanne Santoli states that about 100 children die of influenza every year).
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