Thimerosal and Mercury in Vaccines: A Speaker’s Concerns

Show them the thimerosal vial, which we keep in a metal container because we're a little afraid of it, and it's a very fine powder.

This is, this is thimerosal, which is labeled very toxic.

Has cumulative effects, can cause damage to the kidneys, to the respiratory system, skin, to the, uh, nervous system.

Specifically warns on here that it can cause reproductive and developmental toxicity, meaning that it can cause things like autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders.

This is immensely toxic stuff. And it's in vaccines.

And this is what's in the vaccine. It's important to, to realize we're talking about a whole range of products.

Vaccines are a big one 'cause, of course, you're directly injecting it.

For example, this is tetanus vaccine. This one expires, it's a little outdated now, in two thousand seven.

And here's the thimerosal. One to ten thousand is a preservative.

Perhaps the, the biggest one in the US at least that's expo-- uh, for exposure to mercury is the influenza vaccine.

Influenza vaccine is now recommended for all pregnant women, all infants, all children on a yearly basis you're supposed to get the shot.

Do you have last year's influenza one? Understand that thimerosal is not added at the end.

It's not like, well, that factory next year can make thimerosal free.

Thimerosal, you either have to have a thimerosal-free factory or you have to not have one. They add thimerosal at each step because the factory's not clean and not sterile. So you either have to have an expensive sterile factory where you don't need thimerosal, or you have to have one that produces thimerosal.

It's gonna need thimerosal or something the whole time.

It needs to be sterile. This is, uh, the influenza vaccine from Aventis Pasteur, their FluZone.

Thimerosal, twenty-five micrograms of mercury per dose.

I'd like to point out that a lot of people didn't know, and, and I'm one of them.

I've given two thousand RhoGAM shots. I've been in vaccines for thirty-five years.

I didn't know that RhoGAM had thimerosal in it, so I think a lot of the doctors were unaware. They weren't aware that even the word thimerosal meant mercury.