On Sept 25, 2009, the Los Angeles Times published an article by Melissa Healy. The article can be read online (1) and summarizes a survey of parents.

She wrote, "In a poll of 1,678 U.S. parents conducted by the University of Michigan's C.S. Mott Children's Hospital, 40% said they would get their children immunized against the H1N1 virus -- even as 54% indicated they would get their kids vaccinated against regular seasonal flu."

Thimerosal is not mentioned in the article despite the facts (i) that many and perhaps most "flu" influenza and H1N1 vaccines will contain thimerosal, and (ii) that, among male infants, vaccinal thimerosal injections are associated with a tripled rate of autism and with a nine-times increase in the need for special education services (2-3). Thimerosal injected by physicians and nurses is more harmful than the CDC, FDA, AMA, and AAP would have us believe.

Here is my letter to the LATimes reporter:

Dear Ms. Healy,

Your article is appreciated. Please consider an additional point summarized in a recently published, peer-reviewed abstract (2). The point is, vaccines that contain thimerosal have been found to cause neurologic damage consistent with autism (2). This finding clarifies a more general analysis wherein the researchers found that boys who had received thimerosal-containing vaccines were 9 times more likely to be receiving special-education services (3).

Contact information for the researchers who published those two studies is included hereinbelow (4-5).

There seems to be a story here. Why are the FDA, CDC, and others recommending vaccinations containing thimerosal while ignoring findings of adverse effects associated with thimerosal injected during vaccinations?

Teresa Binstock
Researcher in Developmental & Behavioral Neuroanatomy
P.O. Box 1788
Estes Park CO 80517

References:

1. Most parents won't have kids get H1N1 flu shots, study finds
A national survey suggests parents are confused about the risks of the virus and its vaccine.
By Melissa Healy
September 25, 2009
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-sci-parents-flu25-2009sep25,0,579663.story

2. Hepatitis B vaccination of male neonates and autism
Annals of Epidemiology
September 2009: 651–680 p. 659

CM Gallagher, MS Goodman, Graduate Program in Public Health,
Stony Brook University Medical Center, Stony Brook, NY

PURPOSE: Universal newborn immunization with hepatitis
B vaccine was recommended in 1991; however, safety
findings are mixed. The Vaccine Safety Datalink Workgroup
reported no association between hepatitis B vaccination
at birth and febrile episodes or neurological adverse
events. Other studies found positive associations between
hepatitis B vaccination and ear infection, pharyngitis, and
chronic arthritis; as well as receipt of early intervention/
special education services (EIS); in probability samples of
U.S. children. Children with autistic spectrum disorder
(ASD) comprise a growing caseload for EIS. We evaluated
the association between hepatitis B vaccination of male
neonates and parental report of ASD.

METHODS: This cross-sectional study used U.S. probability
samples obtained from National Health Interview Survey
1997–2002 datasets. Logistic regression modeling was used to
estimate the effect of neonatal hepatitis B vaccination on
ASD risk among boys age 3–17 years with shot records, adjusted
for race, maternal education, and two-parent household.

RESULTS: Boys who received the hepatitis B vaccine during
the first month of life had 2.94 greater odds for ASD (nZ31
of 7,486; OR Z 2.94; p Z 0.03; 95% CI Z
1.10, 7.90)
compared to later- or unvaccinated boys. Non-Hispanic white
boys were 61% less likely to have ASD (ORZ0.39; pZ0.04;
95% CIZ0.16, 0.94) relative to non-white boys.

CONCLUSION: Findings suggest that U.S. male neonates
vaccinated with hepatitis B vaccine had a 3-fold greater risk
of ASD; risk was greatest for non-white boys.


3. Hepatitis B triple series vaccine and developmental disability in US children aged 1-9 years
Gallagher C, Goodman M.
Toxicol Environ Chem 2008 90(5):997-1008.
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http://fourteenstudies.org/pdf/hep_b.pdf

4. Carolyn Michele Gallagher
Stony Brook...
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5. Melody Goodman
Stony Brook...
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