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An announcement was made today by the law firm of Waters & Kraus, the firm that filed the first known lawsuit alleging that a mercury preservative in children's vaccines caused neurological damage to an infant ultimately diagnosed with autism.
Waters & Kraus is leading a consortium of ten firms in as many states that are actively prosecuting cases of this nature (firms listed below).
Andy Waters, the lead attorney in the cases, announced that his firm is now in possession of a previously unreleased confidential report authored by Centers for Disease Control scientists which studied autism as a potential neurological injury caused by mercury in children's vaccines.
A different version of the report was made public and has been cited by the recent Institute of Medicine study as inconclusive on the issue of whether the mercury-based vaccine preservative known as thimerosal has contributed to cause a nationwide epidemic of regressive autism and other neurological disorders in small children.
The confidential version of the study, however, clearly demonstrated that an exposure to more than 62.5 micrograms of mercury within the first three months of life significantly increased a child's risk of developing autism. Specifically, the study found a 2.48 times increased risk of autism - that is to say, children with the exposure were more than twice as likely to develop autism as children not exposed.
In the United States, courts of law have generally held that a relative increased risk of 2.0 or higher is sufficient to substantiate that a given exposure causes disease. As but one example, in the case of Cook v. United States, 545 F.Supp. 306, at 308 (Northern District - California 1982) the Court stated that, "in a vaccine case, a relative risk greater than 2.0 establishes that there is a greater than 50% chance that the injury was caused by the vaccine."
Waters indicated that, in many of the cases his firm has evaluated, including the case filed in a Texas state court on behalf of the Counter family, the affected child received more than 62.5 micrograms of mercury through pediatric vaccines in the first three months of life.
The confidential report, which was obtained by the SAFEMINDS support and advocacy group, states:
"As for the exposure evaluated at 3 months of age, we found increasing risks of 'neurological developmental disorders' with increasing cumulative exposure to thimerosal ... within the group of 'developmental disorders'... for the sub-group called 'specific delays,' and within this subgroup for the specific disorder 'developmental speech disorder,' and for 'autism,' 'stuttering' and 'attention deficit disorder.'"
Waters called the report's contents and the fact that it was kept from the public as "shocking, but unfortunately not surprising, given the political influence of pharmaceutical companies and the tremendous liability they face if they are forced to compensate thousands of families for the costs of care that these children require."
Waters added that "no amount of money can give these children back the potential that they were born with, and no amount of money will comfort the parents that watched helplessly as their children literally just slipped away."
The purpose of the lawsuits his firm is currently prosecuting, said Waters, is "to bring to the surface the truth on this issue, a truth that government agencies seem unwilling to admit, perhaps for fear that parents will stop vaccinating their children, and to force the companies that profited from this disastrous mistake to shoulder the responsibility that so many families now bear on their own, often without even the aid of health insurance benefits."
DR. MERCOLA'S COMMENT:
If you know someone who may have suffered a vaccine injury, please have them place a call to either Melissa Miles at (214)357-6244 for media inquiries, or Victoria Gibson at (800)226-9880 for client inquiries. They may also call the firms listed below for more information about class action lawsuits against the vaccine manufacturers.
It seems that one of the most effective strategies for ending this nightmare of autism caused by mercury and vaccines will be through legal actions. The drug companies need to be held responsible for selling products that may be causing damage.
The vaccine litigation wars are just beginning in the US. Numerous contaminated vaccine suits against manufacturers are already in progress in the UK.
If you are not yet aware of the connection between autism, mercury and vaccines, please read Dr. O'Shea's excellent review below.
By age two, American children have received 237 micrograms of mercury through vaccines alone, which far exceeds current EPA "safe" levels of .1 mcg/kg. per day. That's one-tenth of a microgram, not one microgram.
Not all vaccines have mercury. It is put in as a preservative in the multi-use vials. So if, for whatever reason, you chose to give you child an immunization, please ask the doctor for the SINGLE use vial.
I would suggest watching him or the nurse actually drawing it up out of the vial and then actually asking for the vial to confirm that it is the single dose vial.
It is this mercury, and other vaccine side effects, that have contributed to the enormous rise in autism that has been experienced, not only in the US, but all over the world.
Day of birth: hepatitis B-12 mcg mercury:
30 x safe level
At 4 months: DTaP and HiB on same day - 50 mcg mercury:
60 x safe level
At 6 months: Hep B, Polio - 62.5 mcg mercury:
78 x safe level
At 15 months the child receives another 50 mcg:
41 x safe level
Mercury detox and saunas
Mercury detox using an Far infrared thermal system. Mercury detox using these saunas is not only uniquely helpful in mercury detox, but also in removing fat-stored toxins from the body.
In one study performed by American researchers, the sweat of people using a conventional sauna was found to be 95 to 97% water while the sweat of those using an Far infrared thermal system was 80 to 85% water with the non-water portion principally cholesterol, fat-soluble toxins, toxic heavy metals (such as mercury and aluminum), sulfuric acid, sodium, ammonia and uric acid. This unusually high concentration of heavy metals and other fat-soluble toxins is not found in the sweat from normal exercise. Mercury is the most toxic non-radioactive element on earth.
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