Jeff
and Donna believe they can attest first hand to the terrible effects of mercury
on the developing brain. They believe their son is a victim of vaccinations
and pre-natal shots Donna had, and by default they are also victims. Vaccinations, One Mothers Story on the Dangers: A Family Tragedy
My son is 18 years old, He has never spoken a word, He has no form of communication.
Mercury is a toxic metal that occurs naturally [and unnaturally] in the environment. The silvery-white inorganic form is most familiar because of its widespread use in fever thermometers. Although all forms of mercury are toxic to humans, organic forms generally are much more toxic than inorganic forms. The organic forms are of particular concern when they enter the food chain, since these are primarily neurotoxins that can damage the brain, nervous system, and other organs. The inorganic forms primarily affect the kidneys. The developing brain of a fetus or child is especially vulnerable to organic mercury exposure. (Costa et al., 2004).
Jeff
and Donna believe they can attest first hand to the terrible effects of mercury
on the developing brain. They believe their son is a victim of vaccinations
and pre-natal shots Donna had, and by default they are also victims.
You see, Donna happens to be RH negative. The RhoGAM shot is given in cases of Rh incompatibility, a baby's red blood cells have a substance called the Rh D factor, and the mother's blood cells do not. In medical terms, the baby is Rh positive and you are Rh negative. If some of the baby's red blood cells leak into your system, your body may produce antibodies to the Rh D factor (a condition called sensitization). These antibodies can cross the placenta and destroy the red blood cells in your unborn baby or in the next Rh-positive baby you have.
In the past, RH-neg. Mothers were not given the RhoGAM shot until after the baby was born, but now RH neg. mothers often receive the shot between the 16th to 20th week. Most RH shots contain thimerosal. Thimerosal contains mercury. Donna was injected with the RhoGAM shot when she was six months pregnant. After Kevin was born, he received the normal vaccines. Donna claims her son, Kevin, was poisoned. It was not an accident. Her own trusted Doctor did the deed unwittingly. Donna had her six-month-old baby's hair tested for mercury; the results showed 13.78 mcg. The only exposure to mercury was from Donna's RhoGAM and Kevin's vaccines.
The EPA limit for a 132 lb person for "ingesting" mercury is 6 mcg. As a point of reference, 200 micrograms of mercury would fit on the head of a pin. So, according to the EPA, dropping that pinhead of mercury into 23 gallons of water would make it unsafe for human consumption.
Mothers now have the option of demanding a mercury-free RhoGAM product. Such a product is available from Bayer Pharmaceuticals; the product is called BayRoh-D. The product has been available since 1996. The older Rhogam contained at least 35 mcg of mercury.
Still,
this option came too late for Donna and Kevin. Donna told us she found out
about mercury in the RohGAM and vaccines in 2003, "I had given up
looking for the "whys", then I found out Rhogam contained mercury,
and to add insult to injury they inject him [Kevin] over and over again with
more mercury via vaccines."
Dr. Mark A. Sircus Ac., OMD of International Medical Veritas Association said, "It is astonishing to see American authorities at the CDC adding flu vaccines that contain a whopping dose of 25 micrograms into the childhood vaccination schedule for children starting at six months of age. According to the FDA and the EPA, the maximum amount of mercury exposure that is safe and permissible is 0.1 micrograms per kilo per day. So a 6-month-old child weighing 7.0 kilos would be allowed only 0.7 micrograms. That means the CDC this year approved injections for children, exceeding the FDA's and EPA's safe limits ..."
Donna wrote to OBGYN's all across America letting them know what they were injecting into other pregnant women, and what the out come could be. She said, "Some had no idea Mercury was even in Rhogam, I had to send links from the FDA to show them. I think Doctors have the responsibility to know what they are injecting into pregnant women and children".
Donna has spent hundreds of hours researching and campaigning to get the word out about the possible effects of mercury in vaccines. "I am sad to know my son could have been healthy if he hadn't been injected with Mercury. I'm more angry at the doctors now, knowing they took an oath to "first do no harm" Yet they still Inject babies with mercury via the flu vaccine. There is no reason for this. Its criminal. And for any doctor to knowingly inject a pregnant woman with mercury while she is pregnant makes me so sick to my stomach!"
"My son is 18 years old, He has never spoken a word, He has no form of communication. He has progressive microcephaly, spastic quad cp, Lennox Gastaut (severe seizures) hyperkinesis, hypersalivation. His recent IEP evaluation shows his mental age of a 6 month old infant, His motor skills are higher functioning about 15 months old."
"Life
has been very limited on what we can do as a family. Its impossible to take
family vacations with Kevin. He doesn't enter stage two sleep, and needs to
be in the same routine. We have tried [to take him on vacations], but even
with heavy drugs to help him sleep he would be up all day and night. Not much
of a vacation!"
"My husband wanted to try and have another child after Kevin, I told him no. Not knowing what caused Kevin's condition scared me, I did not want to take the chance of having another disabled child. Now I am too old!"
Medical experts have found that like lead, even small levels of mercury exposure can affect the way kids learn, think, memorize and behave.
Our regulatory agencies, such as the FDA, routinely dismiss basic research showing the unique toxicity of mercury at very low concentrations and continue to allow the use of this material without testing. Certain organizations routinely use toxic mercury containing materials without experimental proof of their safety. They then argue that damage by mercury has not been "validly" proven as their defense and the FDA buys into this.
Common sense implies that safety should be proven before use of toxicants in medicine and dentistry, not after. Common sense implies that the mere presence of mercury demonstrates toxicity at some level. Nowhere was this lack of common sense more evident than in the exposure of infants to thimerosal without prior testing in the recent past vaccine program.
Donna tells us, "I think everyone has given up on the FDA and the CDC. " But some states have banned Mercury in vaccines for pregnant women and children.
Bush's revision of the Clean Air Act ( Clear Skies Initiative ) and withdrawing from the Kyoto agreement sends the signal that some mercury pollution is OK. In fact, U.S. Newswire indicated that 8% of U.S. Women of childbearing age currently have unsafe mercury levels – which puts over 300,000 children born each year at risk of mercury poisoning. This poisoning is occurring from the mercury that accumulates in waterways and rivers, building up first in fish and then working its way up the food chain to humans. In addition, mercury concerns have prompted some scientists to call for a nationwide ban on human consumption of certain fish and a warning from the Food and Drug Administration that people, particularly pregnant women, limit their fish intake.
But there is no warning, that I'm aware of about mercury in vaccines, at least I know my doctor didn't say anything to me. Bush’s plan would delay the initiation of mercury reductions for another seven years, postpone full implementation until 2018, and ultimately would reduce pollution only a fraction of what will be achieved by current law. Again, this does not take into account the mercury in vaccines.
Dr. Mark A. Sircus said, "We would all like to think medicine today is based on rock solid assumptions that stand the test of time. But since the 1930s, medical science began a process of self-deception when it began relying on drug trials and “studies” that were easily manipulated by conflicts of interests whose driving motive was the making of profit. Conflicts of interest may be very diverse in their character and effects but nowhere is the effect more nightmarish than in this story about mercury in vaccines."
"Having a child whose Mercury level was 13.78mcg for a 17 LB infant, I was outraged [at the Clean Air Act]! Mercury is very toxic, Bush knows more about mercury then any other president, He knows about mercury in the Vaccines," Donna said. "Someone even slipped in the Homeland Security Bill a provision that would protect pharmaceutical companies from Thimerosal lawsuits!"
If Thimerosal is "harmless" then why the provision?
The FDA questioned thimerosal safety several times and decided in 1982 that it was "not safe for ‘over-the-counter’ topical use, because of its potential for cell damage." The FDA never did anything to question its use in childhood vaccines. In June of 1998 the EPA and AHA entered into a voluntary partnership, a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), with the agreement to "virtually eliminate" all mercury-containing waste from hospitals by 2005.
Pharmaceutical companies continue to produce children's vaccines and other medicines containing mercury. (see boxed links)
Mercury has been known to be hazardous for literally hundreds of years, and its dangers have been well documented. Thousands of parents have reported biological and neurodevelopment changes in their children directly following administration of mercury-containing vaccines with a broad range of symptoms including sudden onset of shyness, GI distress, loss of motor skill function, allergies, the inability to speak, tremors and autonomic disturbances, all which mimic those associated with mercury poisoning.
For more than 60 years, the medical community simply trusted the assertion that thimerosal/merthiolate had a low potential toxicity if injected into humans. Based on unscientific and unethical studies done in the late 1920s, several generations of public health care officials, doctors and medical educators were duped into injecting the most toxic and lethal chemical known to man into infants.
Documents from the archives of Eli Lilly and Co., the original manufacturer of thimerosal, clearly demonstrates that the mercury-based vaccine preservative, implicated in a number of recent lawsuits as causing neurological injury to infants, was known as early as April 1930 to be dangerous.
In its apparent eagerness to promote and market the product, in September 1930, Eli Lilly secretly sponsored a "human toxicity" study on patients already known to be dying of meningococcal meningitis. Andrew Waters of the Dallas-based law firm of Waters & Kraus stated that, "Lilly then cited this study repeatedly for decades as proof that thimerosal was of low toxicity and harmless to humans.
The
tests were conducted in 1929 by a young researcher named K.C. Smithburn who
injected 22 human subjects who were already dying with a 1 percent solution
and then pronounced that all the patients were reported “without ill effect.”
We understand however, that all the patients died.
" I try to describe my feelings to friends without a handicapped child," says Donna, "That it's like having a very sick child with a 104 fever, you worry all the time. And this worry is 24/7 everyday for years. It hurts very deeply knowing my child will never know what it means to play ball. He may see a sunset, But he has no idea what it is. I was told years ago that policemen have the highest divorce rate, then comes parents with disabled children. The stress on a marriage is very strong. "
There is no ethical explanation for current and former American administrations that have either tried or succeeded in providing protection to pharmaceutical companies from lawsuits for damages done to children from the use of their products.
Donna and her family continue to try to spread the word on the dangers of mercury in medicines.
For Kevin, his brother, Donna and Jeff the ability to have a normal family life was destroyed. We may never know for sure if the RhoGAM Donna had while pregnant and the childhood vaccines Kevin was injected with, were the cause. One thing is certain, they do believe it was.
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