The Mercury Calculator

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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 give. 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).