PhD Scientist and Biochemist Reveals
Hidden CDC Documents Showing Thimerosal In Vaccines Increase Neurologic
Disorders
Feb 23, 2014 by DAVE MIHALOVIC
The CDC has been shunning the correlations between thimerosal and neurological
disorders for a very long time. Although the FDA gave a two year deadline to
remove the mercury based preservative from vaccines after the neurotoxin was
banned in 1999, it still remains to this day in 60
percent of flu vaccines. A vaccine industry watchdog has now obtained
CDC documents that show statistically significant risks of autism associated
with the vaccine preservative, something the CDC denies even when confronted
with their own data.
For nearly ten years, Brian Hooker has been requesting
documents that are kept under tight wraps by the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC). His more than 100 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests
have resulted in copious evidence that the vaccine preservativeThimerosal, which
is still used in the flu shot that is administered to pregnant women and
infants, can cause autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders.
Dr. Hooker, a PhD scientist, worked with two members of
Congress to craft the letter to the CDC that recently resulted in his obtaining
long-awaited data from the CDC, the significance of which is historic. According
to Hooker, the data on over 400,000 infants born between 1991 and 1997, which
was analyzed by CDC epidemiologist Thomas Verstraeten, MD, “proves unequivocally
that in 2000, CDC officials were informed internally of the very high risk of
autism, non-organic sleep disorder and speech disorder associated with
Thimerosal exposure.”
Factually, thimerosal is a mercury-containing compound that is a known human
carcinogen, mutagen, teratogen and immune-system disruptor at levels below 1
part-per-million, and a compound to which some humans can have an anaphylactic
shock reaction. It is also a recognized reproductive and fetal toxin with no
established toxicologically safe level of exposure for humans.
In November, 1997, the U.S. Congress passed the Food and Drug Administration
Modernization Act, requiring the study of mercury content in FDA-approved
products. The review disclosed the hitherto-unrecognized levels of ethylmercury
in vaccines.
In July 1999, public-health officials announced that thimerosal would be
phased out of vaccines. The CDC, American Academy of Pediatrics, and FDA
insisted that the measure was purely precautionary. They requested of all
vaccine manufacturers to eliminate mercury from vaccines.
The requests were denied by vaccine manufacturers and
continued every year thereafter.
The FDA does not require ingredients that comprise less than 1 percent of a
product to be divulged on the label, so a
lot more products may have thimerosal and consumers will never know.
Elevated Risk of Autism
When the results of the Verstraeten study were first
reported outside the CDC in 2005, there was no evidence that anyone but Dr.
Verstraeten within the CDC had known of the very high 7.6-fold elevated relative
risk of autism from exposure to Thimerosal during infancy. But now, clear
evidence exists. A newly-acquired abstract from
1999 titled, “Increased risk of developmental neurologic impairment after high
exposure to Thimerosal containing vaccine in first month of life” required the
approval of top CDC officials prior to its presentation at the Epidemic
Intelligence Service (EIS) conference. Thimerosal, which is 50% mercury by
weight, was used in most childhood vaccines and in the RhoGAM shot for pregnant
women prior to the early 2000s.
The CDC maintains there is “no relationship between
Thimerosal-containing vaccines and autism rates in children,” even though the
data from the CDC’s own Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD) database shows a very high
risk. There are a number of public records to back this up, including this Congressional
Record from May 1, 2003. The CDC’s refusal to acknowledge thimerosal’s
risks is exemplified by a leaked statement from Dr. Marie McCormick, chair of
the CDC/NIH-sponsored Immunization Safety Review at IOM. Regarding vaccination,
she said in 2001, “...we are not ever going to come down that it [autism] is a
true side effect...” Also of note, the former director of the CDC, which
purchases $4 billion worth of vaccines annually, is now president of Merck’s
vaccine division.
Toxic Effects of Thimerosal No Longer Disputed by Scientific Study
Thimerosal-Derived Ethylmercury in vaccines is now well established
as a mitochondrial toxin in human brain cells.
There are dozens
of scientific inquiries and studies on the adverse effects of thimerosal,
including gastrointestinal abnormalities and immune system irregularities.
Thimerosal, is metabolized (converted) into the toxic and “harmful”
methylmercury. And then in turn, the harmful methylmercury is metabolized
(converted) into the most harmful, long-term-toxic, “inorganic” mercury that is
retained in bodily tissue.
“Inorganic” mercury is the end product of mercury metabolism. Methylmercury
subject groups confirm that the metabolic pathway for mercury in the human and
animal body consists in the reduction/conversion of the harmful methylmercury
into a more harmful “inorganic” mercury which is tissue-bound, and
long-term-toxic. Hence, both the originating substance (methylmercury) and its
conversion/reduction, inorganic mercury are found.
Based on published
findings by Dr. Paul King, the metabolic pathway for organic mercury
involves the conversion of Ethylmercury (Thimerosal) into “methylmercury” and
then the further reduction of “methylmercury” into inorganic mercury.
Congress Must Act
Dr. Hooker’s fervent hope for the future: “We must ensure
that this and other evidence of CDC malfeasance are presented to Congress and
the public as quickly as possible. Time is of the essence. Children’s futures
are at stake.” A divide within the autism community has led to some activists
demanding that compensation to those with vaccine-injury claims be the top
priority before Congress. Dr. Hooker maintains that prevention, “protecting our
most precious resource -- children’s minds,” must come first. “Our elected
officials must be informed about government corruption that keeps doctors and
patients in the dark about vaccine risks.”
Referring to an organization that has seen its share of
controversy this past year, Dr. Hooker remarked, “It is unfortunate that
SafeMinds issued a press release on my information, is accepting credit for my
work and has not supported a worldwide ban on Thimerosal.”
Brian Hooker, PhD, PE, has 15 years experience in the field
of bioengineering and is an associate professor at Simpson University where he
specializes in biology and chemistry. His over 50 science and engineering papers
have been published in internationally recognized, peer-reviewed journals. Dr.
Hooker has a son, aged 16, who developed normally but then regressed into autism
after receiving Thimerosal-containing vaccines.
Sources:
prweb.com
preventdisease.com
ashotoftruth.org