KMSP-TV Investigative Report:
Mercury in Vaccines

Wednesday, Nov. 10 at 9 p.m.
Fox Channel 9 News

Reporter Tom Lyden speaks with a dozen Twin Cities parents whose children have mercury-induced autism.

And Lyden interviews a Bloomington doctor who treats children who have mercury poisoning. Many believe the mercury came from from Thimerosal, a vaccine sterilizer that is 49.6% mercury.

During the 1990s children received 100 to 150 times the EPA's "safe" level of mercury via increased routine childhood vaccinations. Meanwhile from 1992-2002 autism levels in Minnesota increased more than 1000%.

In 2000, about 50 CDC members met at the Simpsonwood resort in Georgia to decide how to deal with statistics from their Vaccine Safety Datalink that showed children given vaccines with mercury had a much higher chance of developing autism, ADHD, tics, and other neurological disorders. But the CDC's only damage control was for itself.

Though now the CDC and IOM insist Thimerosal is "safe," the controversy will not go away as long as mercury remains in vaccines. Currently the flu shot contains 25 micrograms  of ethyl mercury, as do some other vaccines.

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