Why do doctors put mercury in vaccines?!


Question: Why do doctors put mercury in vaccines?
I'm sure not ALL vaccines contain mercury, I was told that vaccines contain mercury though.
But if mercury is such a dangerous and toxic substance, why put it in a vaccine?!

Answers:

It's used as a preservative. It was removed from the required childhood vaccines a decade ago to placate parental concerns. However, it's important to note that there was no scientific concern over it's safety.

Additionally, the type of mercury matters. Thimerosal (preservative found in some vaccines) contains ethyl mercury and not methyl mercury. The pharmacokinetic profile of ethyl mercury is substantially different from that of methyl mercury. It does not bio-accumulate or rapidly cross the blood brain barrier like methyl mercury. The half-life of ethyl mercury is very short compared to methyl mercury. Ethyl mercury is rapidly excreted via the gut unlike methyl mercury that accumulates in the body. It is entirely safe at the concentrations used. You'll never find any valid evidence showing otherwise.

The antivaxxers don't like thimerosal because the cumulative amount of mercury that existed in the infant immunisation schedule potentially exceeded the recommended threshold for methyl mercury. However, as I pointed out, thiomersal is not methyl mercury.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16973…



First of all, doctors do not make vaccines, vaccine manufactures do.

Vaccines do NOT contain mercury, that was a hoax/rumour/scam. There are a lot of scam sites on the Internet claiming that vaccines contain all sorts of toxins and poisons and ask you to buy their unregulated "natural" product that "cures everything".

Very old SCAM!

A long time ago, some injectables contained ethyl mercury, this is a molecule, NOT the mercury atom (which is toxic to the human body). Ethyl mercury is inert to the body and excreted.

It was used as a preservative, to prevent bacteria growth in injectables.

Vaccines and other injectables today do NOT contain mercury or ethyl mercury, they typically contain alcohol and other enzyme-based preservatives.

There are NO preservative-free vaccines that are multi-does, as any multi-dose vial stored over time can produce bacteria growth without preservatives.

I have a degree and worked in health care.



You're thinking of the preservative thimerosal, which contains a small amount of ethylmercury. Ethylmercury is far less toxic than methylmercury, and in such a small dose it is not dangerous. Thimerosal was actually removed from almost all vaccines several years ago due to concerns that mercury caused autism (this theory turned out to be false - after thimerosal was removed, autism rates did not decline). Now thimerosal is only found in flu shots, but I believe you can request a shot without thimerosal.



Ethyl-mercury was phased out of childhood vaccines as a precaution, over ten years ago. It is not the same compound as the commonly thought of methyl-mercury; it is far less toxic, and is in safe amounts. Flu vaccines still use it, though you can get a thimerosal free version. It is a preservative that stops bacterial growth.



this is untrue. vaccines contain egg mixture (hence the reason for disclosure of allergies to any substance in the vaccine). Even inhaling trace amounts of Hg can slow brain development. oh and vaccines are made in factories and come pre-packaged thereafter, so no Doctor or anyone can tamper with it.



Well the guy above me is wrong vacines had mercury for preservation but not really anymore unless your getting vaccinated with a used heroin needle then who knows whats in it




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