New vaccine preservative proves harmful
Food Consumer
By Ben Wasserman
The new preservatives used to replace methylmercury in vaccines may actually be more dangerous than mercury, straight.com reported March 23, citing a new research paper that is under peer review.
Methylmercury in vaccines is known to be toxic to the nervous system even though vaccine makers vehemently deny mercury in vaccines has any alleged association with autism.
The magnitude of the toxicity of at least one new preservative used currently in vaccines are surprisingly high, although it is expected that any preservative should be toxic at a certain level
Canadian scientists along with their US colleagues just completed a study and found that aluminum hydroxide used in vaccines was linked with symptoms associated with Parkinson's, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease), and Alzheimer's, according to straight.com.
Aluminum compounds have been known to many to harm the nervous system while aluminum hydroxide has been used in patients to stimulate immune response. But this seems to be the first study that addresses the toxicity of an aluminum compound in vaccines.
The vaccine makers use aluminum hydroxide not only as a preservative, but also as a stimulator that the vaccine makers hope can boost the efficacy of their vaccines. Aluminum hydroxide is present at least in hepatitis A and B, and the Pentacel cocktail, which vaccinates against diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, polio, and a type of meningitis, straight.com cited the study paper.
The thing that triggered the researchers to perform the study is the Gulf syndrome. According to Chris Shaw, a Vancouver neuroscientist, the soldiers during the first Gulf War were vaccinated with an aluminum-hydroxide-loaded anthrax vaccine. It turned out that the Gulf Syndrome stroke both those who were deployed in the Gulf and those who were not at a similar rate.
To test the effects of aluminum hydroxide in the anthrax vaccine, Shaw and his four-member team from University of British-Columbia and Louisiana State University injected mice with the anthrax vaccine developed for the first Gulf War soldiers and watched what would happen.
After the 20-week study of mice, the scientists found statistically significant increases in anxiety (38 percent), memory deficits (41 times more errors), and an allergic skin reaction (20 percent). Tissue samples from the sacrificed mice showed neurological cells were dying. Inside the brains, in the part that control movement, 35 percent of cells were destroying themselves.
"No one in my lab wants to get vaccinated," Shaw was quote as saying said. "This totally creeped us out. We weren't out there to poke holes in vaccines. But all of a sudden, oh my God we've got neuron death!"
By Ben Wasserman
The new preservatives used to replace methylmercury in vaccines may actually be more dangerous than mercury, straight.com reported March 23, citing a new research paper that is under peer review.
Methylmercury in vaccines is known to be toxic to the nervous system even though vaccine makers vehemently deny mercury in vaccines has any alleged association with autism.
The magnitude of the toxicity of at least one new preservative used currently in vaccines are surprisingly high, although it is expected that any preservative should be toxic at a certain level
Canadian scientists along with their US colleagues just completed a study and found that aluminum hydroxide used in vaccines was linked with symptoms associated with Parkinson's, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease), and Alzheimer's, according to straight.com.
Aluminum compounds have been known to many to harm the nervous system while aluminum hydroxide has been used in patients to stimulate immune response. But this seems to be the first study that addresses the toxicity of an aluminum compound in vaccines.
The vaccine makers use aluminum hydroxide not only as a preservative, but also as a stimulator that the vaccine makers hope can boost the efficacy of their vaccines. Aluminum hydroxide is present at least in hepatitis A and B, and the Pentacel cocktail, which vaccinates against diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, polio, and a type of meningitis, straight.com cited the study paper.
The thing that triggered the researchers to perform the study is the Gulf syndrome. According to Chris Shaw, a Vancouver neuroscientist, the soldiers during the first Gulf War were vaccinated with an aluminum-hydroxide-loaded anthrax vaccine. It turned out that the Gulf Syndrome stroke both those who were deployed in the Gulf and those who were not at a similar rate.
To test the effects of aluminum hydroxide in the anthrax vaccine, Shaw and his four-member team from University of British-Columbia and Louisiana State University injected mice with the anthrax vaccine developed for the first Gulf War soldiers and watched what would happen.
After the 20-week study of mice, the scientists found statistically significant increases in anxiety (38 percent), memory deficits (41 times more errors), and an allergic skin reaction (20 percent). Tissue samples from the sacrificed mice showed neurological cells were dying. Inside the brains, in the part that control movement, 35 percent of cells were destroying themselves.
"No one in my lab wants to get vaccinated," Shaw was quote as saying said. "This totally creeped us out. We weren't out there to poke holes in vaccines. But all of a sudden, oh my God we've got neuron death!"
