In a Facebook update, a friend recently wrote that aborted fetal parts are used in vaccinations.  Appalled and angry that wrong information is being strewn about the town, I decided to check out the hype of vaccinations, and discovered quite a brew of ingredients that a responsible and conscientious person would not know without a little bit of research.

What I found is astoundingly disturbing, at best.

Millions of doses of vaccinations are administered to children in our nation each year.  To ensure that vaccines are potent, “sterile, and safe” requires chemical additives, which are added to inactivate a virus or bacteria and stabilize the vaccine, which preserves the vaccine and prevents it from losing its potency over time.  The Center for Disease Control claims that the amount of chemical additives in vaccines is very small, and that only trace amounts of thimerosal, which is mercury, are in vaccines.

The CDC lists these common ingredients in almost all vaccines:

Aluminum gels or salts of aluminum which are added as adjuvants to help the vaccine stimulate a better response to the vaccine. Adjuvants help promote an earlier, more potent response, and more persistent immune response to the vaccine.

The Vaccine Education Center at Philadelphia’s Children Hospital admits that even a small quantity of aluminum in food, water, or vaccines that is not eliminated by the kidneys begins to accumulate in the body, settling in the bones, some in the lungs and some in the brain.  By the time children become adults, they will have accumulated between 50 and 100 milligrams of aluminum, and yet they stick by the standard that aluminum in vaccines is just not harmful enough to allow a person to be perturbed by the idea.

Dr. Robert Sears, author of The Vaccine Book, quotes the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) who published a policy statement in 1996, “Aluminum Toxicity in Infants and Children,” which stated:

1. Aluminum can cause neurological harm.
2. A study from 30 years ago showed that human adults increase their urine excretion of aluminum when exposed to higher levels of the metal, which suggests that adults can clear out excess aluminum.
3. Adults taking aluminum-containing antacids don’t build up high levels of aluminum in their bodies.
4. Reports of infants with healthy kidneys show elevated blood levels of aluminum from taking antacids.
5. People with kidney disease who build up bloodstream levels of aluminum greater than 100 mcg per liter are at risk of toxicity.
6. The toxic threshold of aluminum in the bloodstream may be lower than 100 mcg per liter.
7. The buildup of aluminum in tissues has been seen even in patients with healthy kidneys who receive IV solutions containing aluminum over extended periods.

Whether the FDA is right or not in that the small amount of aluminum won’t cause too much harm, we still know that aluminum = bad, so why shoot up with it?

• Antibiotics which are added to some vaccines to prevent the growth of germs (bacteria) during production and storage of the vaccine.

• Egg protein is found in influenza and yellow fever vaccines, which are prepared using chicken eggs. Ordinarily, persons who are able to eat eggs or egg products safely can receive these vaccines.

• Formaldehyde is used to inactivate bacterial products for toxoid vaccines, (these are vaccines that use an inactive bacterial toxin to produce immunity). It is also used to kill unwanted viruses and bacteria that might contaminate the vaccine during production.  The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) states that formaldehyde is “a colorless, pungent-smelling gas; an important hazardous air pollutant. High concentrations may trigger attacks in people with asthma.”  The National Cancer Institute states that “formaldehyde is commonly used as an industrial fungicide, germicide, and disinfectant, and as a preservative in mortuaries and medical laboratories” and that it has been classified as a carcinogen (cancer-causing substance).  Research shows that exposure to formaldehyde can cause cancer of the nasal sinuses, nasopharynx, brain, and possibly leukemia.

• Monosodium glutamate (MSG) are used as stabilizers in a few vaccines to help the vaccine remain unchanged when the vaccine is exposed to heat, light, acidity, or humidity.  MSG is most commonly obtained via fermentation of carbohydrates, using a bacterial or yeast species from genera such as Microbacterium.  Many groups believe MSG is extremely harmful, but thus far the FDA has said that in minimal amounts found in food, it has little to no side effects.  A little research shows that thousands of people are wary by MSG, and typical websites such as www.truthinlabeling.org dumps a laundry list of common MSG side effects: obesity, irritable bowl syndrome, depression, frequent urination, swelling of the vagina, joint pain, fast heart rate (tachycardia) . . .  The Natural Health Information Center also reports MSG to be a group of chemicals known as ‘excitotoxins” that interfere with brain chemistry and are implicated in neurological diseases, such as brain cancer, Multiple Sclerosis, Fibromyalgia, and hyperactivity (ADHD), to name a few.  MSG, they claim, can overexcite brain cells to the point of cell death.

• Thimerosal is a mercury-containing preservative that is added to vials of vaccine that contain more than one dose to prevent contamination and growth of potentially harmful bacteria.

According to Natural News, companies offer multi-dose units of vaccinations which effectively lower the cost of vaccinations — while it lowers the cost, it also means that preservatives must be added to kill contaminants that may get into the vaccine while the lid is off the container — preservatives such as thimersal, a fancy name for mercury.  Thimerosal’s main use is as an antiseptic and antifungal agent, preventing terrible bacterial infections such as Staphlococcus, which, in one case in a 1928 incident killed 12 children inoculated with a diptheria vaccine that lacked the mercury preservative.

The Department of Defense classifies mercury as a hazardous material that could cause death if swallowed, inhaled or absorbed through the skin. Studies indicate that mercury tends to accumulate in the brains of primates and other animals after they are injected with vaccines. Mercury poisoning has been linked to cardiovascular disease, autism, seizures, mental retardation, hyperactivity, dyslexia and many other nervous system conditions. That’s why the FDA rigorously limits exposure to mercury in foods and drugs. Some common sources of mercury include dental amalgam fillings, various vaccines and certain fish contaminated by polluted ocean waters.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) admits that there is a “theoretical potential for neurotoxicity” of Thimerosal and that there had previously been an increase of thimerosal containing vaccines that had been added to the infant immunization schedule, which is why, in recent years, “Thimerosal has been removed from or reduced to trace amounts in all vaccines routinely recommended for children 6 years of age and younger, with the exception of inactivated influenza vaccine.”

No wonder a wave of angry moms are standing up and saying Wait Just One Minute to having their baby given multiple vaccinations all at once.  We have blindly obliged the vaccination profession too long, and believed the CDC’s soothing remarks that mercury levels are too low to cause noticable harm, that aluminum is mostly peed out anyway and that you get more aluminum from soy proteins, or that mercury is more common in fish, so what’s the big deal?

Cancer, autism, ADHD, Down’s Syndrome, and other adverse issues are on the rise, and yet we have no one point of reference to gain our “AHA, this is what is causing the uprising of neurological effects.”  Rather, we see an increase in healthcare problems and perhaps can coorelate that to adverse toxic overloading in our environment.  From the cream we apply to keep our faces supple to the chemicals put in our sheets to keep them flame retardant, all these toxins must be taken into effect together.

Dr. Blaylock, a neurosurgeon, recently wrote a report entitled “Vaccinations: The Hidden Dangers”  where he states that modern science tends to only look for one central cause of a problem rather than explore synergic toxicity of many agents (two toxins acting on the body together are more dangerous when working in combined efforts).  This tunnel-vision approach is by far the worst approach to a true scientific exploration of our world, and is a narrow view that must be discarded in the Age of Chemicals.

So should we rush out to boycott all vaccinations, including the Swine Flu vaccine?  Certainly not. If nothing else, history has shown us that we must find a way to deter pandemics, such as the Bubonic Plague or the 1918 Spanish Flu.  The Spanish Flu spread to nearly every part of the world, targeting healthy young adults, killing 50 to 100 million people.  As my Microbiology prof once said, perhaps it is a sacrifice we must make, that a few will be laid on the altar to save the masses.

Perhaps there is an alternative to aluminum, MSG, mercury, and the like that will soon be discovered.  Whatever the case is, people need to become educated on what is contained in vaccines and know what is being shot into their systems before yielding to the Soothsayers of our era.  There are ways to limit adverse effects, such as delaying an infant’s vaccinations or giving the common child vaccinations over a longer time period rather than all at once so the toxins don’t all hit the body’s system at once.  Do some research before undergoing vaccination, and also take a look at the ingredients in the vaccine at the CDC’s website: http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vac-gen/additives.htm

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