Mercury and autism? | Autism PDD

The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) is a national vaccine safety surveillance program co-sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

http://www.hrsa.gov/osp/vicp/

National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP)

• Fact Sheet
• RESEÑA INFORMATIVA En Español
• Vaccine Injury Table list of vaccines and associated injuries covered under the program
• How to File a VICP Claim
• Frequently Asked Questions
• VICP Strategic Plan
• VICP Monthly Statistics Report
• Advisory Commission on Childhood Vaccines (ACCV)

• Childhood Immunization Information for Consumers (National Library of Medicine MEDLINEPlus)
• National Immunization Program (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
• Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (Food and Drug Administration)

FROM..... http://www.hrsa.gov/osp/vicp/fact_sheet.htm

Filing a Claim

An individual claiming a vaccine-related injury or death files a petition for compensation with the Court, and is often represented by an attorney (which is not a requirement). The Secretary of HHS is named as the Respondent. As of February 1, 1991, the time has expired for filing claims for injuries resulting from vaccines administered prior to October 1, 1988. Any claims filed for that time period are subject to dismissal by the Court. For injuries or deaths resulting from a vaccine administered on or after October 1, 1988, the following restrictions apply:

a. In the case of an injury, the claim must be filed within 36 months after the first symptoms appeared. The effects of the injury must have lasted at least 6 months after the vaccine administration, or the injury must have resulted in inpatient hospitalization and surgical intervention.
b. In the case of a death, the claim must be filed within 24 months of the death, and within 48 months after the onset of the vaccine-related injury from which the death occurred.

An HHS physician reviews each petition to determine whether it meets the medical criteria for compensation. This recommendation is provided to the Court through a Respondent's report filed by the DOJ. The HHS position is presented by an attorney from the DOJ in hearings before a "special master" who makes the decision for compensation under the VICP. A special master is an attorney appointed by the judges of the Court. Decisions may be appealed to the Court, then to the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, and eventually to the U.S. Supreme Court.

If a case is found eligible for compensation, the amount of the award is usually negotiated between the DOJ and the petitioner's attorneys. If the attorneys can't agree, the case is scheduled for a hearing for the special master to determine the amount of compensation. Compensable claims, and even most claims found to be non-compensable, are awarded reimbursement for attorney's fees and costs. A petitioner may file a claim in civil court against the vaccine company and/or the vaccine administrator only after first filing a claim under the VICP, and then rejecting the decision of the Court.

Unfortunately petitions don't go far in Washington D.C.  Politics is controlled by special interest groups and lobbyists.  And to get the real powerful firms to represent your cause takes alot of money.  Look no farther than the tobacco industry or the oil industry.  They have the powerful lobbyists and special interest groups in their back pocket.  And I know there are some families out there, maybe not on this board, that have the money to employ these groups to push the cause of no mercury in vaccines.  There should also be a push to take all mercury out of over the counter meds too.

Tammy

The video of the show at msnbc is just amazing.  And with the Kennedy's involved, the drug companies better watch out.

I wonder if the government will still try to limit our right to sue to three years now?  After all it seems like the evidence is pretty strong that they covered up all the facts for years.  And the Bush Administration did try to limit the time you had to sue to three years after your child was diagnosed.

tammy

Ahhhhh but maybe the mercury calculator can help?

NATIONAL VACCINE INFORMATION CENTER ANNOUNCES

                     “THE MERCURY CALCULATOR”
  
     Do you have a child who you suspect is vaccine injured because of exposure to the mercury preservative Thimerosal in vaccines? Are you taking your child in for routine vaccinations and want to know how much mercury he or she will be injected with? Are you thinking about getting a vaccine yourself and wonder about the mercury content?  Now you can check it out with The Mercury Calculator on the National Vaccine Information Center’s award winning website, www.NVIC.org

 
      NVIC’s Mercury Calculator is quick and easy to use. Vaccines in use today as well as those sold in the past, listed by vaccine type and manufacturer’s name. Users just enter a weight and click on the vaccines which were/are to be given. The total mercury load is automatically calculated to reveal how many times it is over the allowable Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) “safe” limits for mercury exposure.
 
   For example, in 1980, a 10 pound two month old infant given the CDC and AAP recommended whole cell DPT could have gotten 55 times the EPA limit for daily mercury exposure, while a 25 pound two year old given DPT could have been subjected to 22 times the EPA limit for daily mercury exposure.
 
  In 1995, a 10 pound two month old infant who got the CDC and AAP recommended DPT and HIB vaccines could have been 110 times over the EPA limit and an 18 pound six month old given the recommended DPT, HIB, and Hep B vaccines could have been 76 times over the EPA limit, depending upon the manufacturers of the vaccines.
 
  Ten years later, in 2005, a 10 pound two month old baby who receives the recommended DTaP, HIB, IPV, and pneumococcal vaccines may or may not be at all over the EPA limit for single mercury exposure, depending upon the manufacturers, while an 18 pound six month old who got these vaccines as well as a dose of flu vaccine, could be 31 times over the EPA limit.
 
   An 125 pound teenager or adult who gets a recommended flu and meningococcal vaccination, could be 4-8 times over the EPA limit for a single mercury exposure, depending upon the manufacturers. A teen or adult who got a mercury-containing flu vaccine would have to weigh 551 pounds to be under the EPA limit for a single mercury exposure.
 
    Mercury is a known neuro-toxin that has been proven to cause brain damage in the developing fetus as well as to children and adults exposed to it. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has developed guidelines for limiting mercury exposures to humans from many different sources, including air and water pollution; contaminated foods, such as tuna; as well as in products sold over-the-counter, such as contact lens solution. In 1999, the EPA and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) directed the vaccine manufacturers to remove mercury from childhood vaccines.
 
   Since 1999, vaccine manufacturers have been reducing the amount of mercury preservatives in killed bacterial vaccines (live virus vaccines such as MMR and chicken pox do not contain thimerosal) and some now only contain trace amounts, depending upon the vaccine manufacturer, type of vaccine and whether the vaccine is being packaged in multi-dose or single-dose vials. Single-dose vials of killed bacterial vaccines usually only contain trace amounts of mercury.
 
   The mercury-based preservative, Thimerosal, has been used in killed bacterial vaccines since the 1930’s without adequate testing for toxicity. In the past two decades, as the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) have added many more vaccines containing Thimerosal to the routine vaccination schedule for all children and states have mandated these vaccines, children have been exposed to much higher levels of mercury through vaccination. During this same time period, childhood developmental disabilities have dramatically increased to the point where today the CDC estimates 1 in 6 American children is developmentally delayed with a diagnosis of autism, learning disabilities, attention problems or other learning or behavioral problems. The CDC estimates that 1 in 166 American children has been diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. Clinical and scientific evidence is now emerging which is linking mercury-containing vaccines to the regressive type of autism in some children.
    The National Vaccine Information Center is a non-profit, educational organization founded by parents of vaccine injured children in 1982. NVIC is dedicated to the prevention of vaccine injuries and deaths through public education and defending the right of all citizens to make informed, voluntary vaccination decisions. Accessing The Mercury Calculator at NVIC’s website, www.NVIC.org, will also provide users with the opportunity to report a vaccine reaction to NVIC’s Vaccine Reaction Registry and receive assistance about how to report a vaccine reaction to the federal Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS).

Thanks Michelle for that calculator,

It is actually going to come in handy for THIS BABY on the way.  If you noticed on the list of the manufacturer's of the vaccines....they have also included the brand names that DO NOT include mercury.  I am going to write all these brand names down and except nothing less for this baby when it is time to immunize.  Thanks again,

Karrie

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8243264/

Okay that link is from Scarborough country show on msnbc.  I was reading the transcript and Joe Scarborough says his son has a mild form of autism called asperger.  I didn't know that before.  Wow!!  The one night I don't watch it he has something interesting to say.  Go figure.

Tammy

Here are the news articles that I found that are very recent about all of this:

http://www.pressbox.co.uk/detailed/30233.html

http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=6517

Karrie

Glad you posted it Karrie.  Lol, I didn't want to because I didn't find them.  So you get the great credit in finding them, which you do deserve

Tammy