Let me repeat what I said on a previous post. I think people are confusing the issue. It is not the “vaccine” that is being hyped as the cause of autism. It is the preservative in the cocktail of vaccines administered. The preservative is thimerosol, an organomercury compound. Thimerosol is not used with the single vaccines we requested. We did not wish to expose our children to high mercury in a vaccine cocktail so elected to pay extra to get the individual vaccine doses separately that do not contain thimerosol.

Looking at this Johns Hopkins Table, you can see Thimerosol is common in many vaccines including the annual flue shots and tetanus boosters usually in the range of 25 micrograms / milliliter. Considering the vaccine is about 5 milliliters, you would receive about 125 micrograms in a single dose.

vaccinesafety.edu

I’m no doctor but work as a Chemical Engineer. If you compare this dosage against the OSHA Permissible Exposure Limit for airborne (respirable) organomercury at 0.01 milligrams/cubic meter time weighted average and the ceiling of 0.04 milligrams/cubic meter, this puts you in the ball park to exceed the OSHA PEL. Although, one it is still comparing apples to oranges when comparing a respirable TWA to a injected concentration. I would think both would have similar effects upon the central nervous system.

I am not convinced one way or the other. My wife and I discussed it and asked for single doses for our children that do not contain thimerosol as a preservative simply to reduce the overall risk posed to our children and to eliminate an unknown variable from our children’s lives while still gaining the protection of the vaccine.

My point is, there is an alternative to many of the vaccines for the nervous nellies out there to excludes thimerosol.