A brief description of the toxicology of thimerosal:
Thiomersal is very toxic by inhalation, ingestion, and in contact with skin (EC hazard symbol T+), with a danger of cumulative effects. It is also very toxic to aquatic organisms and may cause long-term adverse effects in aquatic environments (EC hazard symbol N).[9] In the body, it is metabolized or degraded to ethylmercury (C2H5Hg+) and thiosalicylate.[3]
Few studies of the toxicity of thiomersal in humans have been performed. Cases have been reported of severe poisoning by accidental exposure or attempted suicide, with some fatalities.[10] Animal experiments suggest that thiomersal rapidly dissociates to release ethylmercury after injection; that the disposition patterns of mercury are similar to those after exposure to equivalent doses of ethylmercury chloride; and that the central nervous system and the kidneys are targets, with lack of motor coordination being a common sign. Similar signs and symptoms have been observed in accidental human poisonings.(1)
Ethylmercury is one of the metabolites of thiomersal, which is used as a preservative in some vaccines. Thiomersal is the ethylmercury-releasing compound sodium ethylmercuric thiosalicylate, C9H9HgNaO2S, which is made from the combination of ethyl mercuric chloride, thiosalicylic acid, sodium hydroxide and ethanol.(2)
Ethyl mercuric chloride: Historic use in preservation
For the preservation of anthropological and biological specimens during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, objects were dipped in or were painted with a "mercuric solution". Objects in drawers were protected by scattering crystalline mercuric chloride over them.[4] It finds minor use in tanning, and wood was preserved by kyanizing (soaking in mercuric chloride).[5] Mercuric chloride was one of the three chemicals used for railroad tie wood treatment between 1830 and 1856 in Europe and the United States. Limited railroad ties were treated in the United States until there were concerns over lumber shortages in the 1890s.[6] The process was generally abandoned because mercuric chloride was water soluble and not effective for the long term, as well as poisonous. Furthermore, alternative treatment processes, such as copper sulfate, zinc chloride, and ultimately creosote; were found to be less toxic. Limited kyanizing was used for some railroad ties in the 1890s and early 1900s.[7](3)
Sodium Hydroxide: Paper making
Main article: paper making
Sodium hydroxide was also widely used in making paper. Along with sodium sulfide, NaOH is a key component of the white liquor solution used to separate lignin from cellulose fibers in the Kraft process. It also plays a key role in several later stages of the process of bleaching the brown pulp resulting from the pulping process. These stages include oxygen delignification, oxidative extraction, and simple extraction, all of which require a strong alkaline environment with a pH > 10.5 at the end of the stages.
Tissue digestion
In a similar fashion, sodium hydroxide is used to digest tissues, such as in a process that was used with farm animals at one time. This process involves the placing of a carcass into a sealed chamber, which then puts the carcass in a mixture of sodium hydroxide and water, which breaks chemical bonds keeping the body intact. This eventually turns the body into a coffee-like[10][11] liquid, and the only solid that remains are bone hulls, which could be crushed between one's fingertips.[12] Sodium hydroxide is frequently used in the process of decomposing roadkill dumped in landfills by animal disposal contractors.[11] Sodium hydroxide has also been used by criminals to dispose of their victims' bodies.[13](4) (Imagine what this does to the brain, heart, lungs, intestines, liver, etc...)
(1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiomersal
(2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethylmercury
(3) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury(II)_chloride
(4) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_hydroxide
Links to autism testimonies and other informative stuff on the subject:
http://www.healing-arts.org/children/vaccines/vaccines-dpt.htm
http://www.ageofautism.com/teresa-conrick/page/2/
http://mercury-freedrugs.org/docs/StudyMissesLinkBetweenThimerosalNeurodevelopmentalDisorders.pdf
For a link to your individual state's school admission requirements on vaccines, go here: http://www.immunizationinfo.org/vaccines/state-requirements. After selecting your state, cross check each of the vaccines for thimerasol.
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