Vaccines
Aluminum is a neurotoxin, yet infants and young children are repeatedly injected with aluminum adjuvants from multiple vaccines during critical periods of brain development. Numerous studies provide evidence that aluminum adversely affects important biological functions and cause neurodevelopmental and autoimmune disorders. It is impossible to predetermine which vaccinated babies will succumb to aluminum poisoning.
From 1999 through 2002, several vaccines containing mercury were phased out of the childhood immunization schedule. Manufacturing of childhood vaccines with thimerosal ceased in 2001, but those that were not past their expiration date remained on the market for sale until January 2003.1 They were replaced with low-mercury or “thimerosal-free” vaccines.
In the years that followed, Autism (read more) rates continued to rise, prompting health authorities to assert that autism is not linked to mercury in vaccines and that vaccination policies are safe and appropriate.2-4 (If mercury in vaccines contributed to autism, then rates should have dropped after mercury was removed.)
In addition to these questionable actions during this highly publicized “phase-out” of mercury, four doses of a new vaccine with high aluminum content were added to the childhood immunization schedule in February 2000 (for pneumococcus) and two doses of another aluminum-containing vaccine (for hepatitis A) were added in 2005.5,6 These changes to the vaccine schedule resulted in a substantial increase of aluminum containing vaccine doses—from 10 to 16 injections—that babies are still mandated to receive by 18 months of age.
Prior to the mercury phase-out (pre-2000), babies received 3,925 micrograms (mcg) of aluminum in their first year-and-a half of life. After pneumococcal and hepatitis A vaccines were added to the immunization schedule, babies began receiving 4,925 mcg of aluminum during the same age period—a 25% increase.7,8
In 2011, CDC recommended that pregnant women receive a pertussis vaccine (Tdap), which also contains aluminum.9 Studies show that aluminum crosses the placenta and accumulates in fetal tissue.10 Thus, millions of babies in utero, infants, and young children were injected with, and continue to receive, unnaturally high doses of neurotoxic aluminum—long after unsuspecting parents were led to believe that vaccines were purified and made safe.
In a 1997 study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, scientists assessed 182 infants who received intravenous injections of nutritional formula that contained differing quantities of aluminum.11 They calculated that infants who received aluminum at greater than 4 to 5 mcg/ kg/day would lose 1 point per day on the Bayley Mental Development Index (p = 0.03). Babies who score low on this test are at risk for subsequent developmental and educational problems.
This study contributed to FDA’s decision to set limits on aluminum content in parenteral drug products and require warning labels on the package inserts—safety measures that were never required with aluminum-containing vaccines. In the Code of Federal Regulations, Title 21, published in the Federal Register, aluminum toxicity levels are revealed:
WARNING: This product contains aluminum that may be toxic…. Research indicates that patients with impaired kidney function, including premature neonates, who receive [injections] of aluminum at greater than 4 to 5 mcg per kilogram of body weight per day, accumulate aluminum at levels associated with central nervous system and bone toxicity. Tissue loading may occur at even lower rates.12
This means that for a 6-pound baby, 11–14 micrograms (mcg) of injected aluminum would be considered toxic. However, the hepatitis B vaccine given at birth contains 250 mcg of aluminum—more than 20 times the indicated safety threshold. By two months of age, when babies typically weigh around 12 pounds, they receive a total of 1,225 mcg of aluminum from CDC-recommended vaccines—over 50 times the presumed safe level.
In addition, babies are not screened for renal function prior to vaccination, making it impossible to determine in advance which infants may be at higher risk for aluminum toxicity. As a result, parents are essentially expected to play Russian roulette with their children. Read more on Autism (click here).
