Study Injected Monkeys with Mercury Containing Vaccines, Found That Some Mercury Stayed in the Brain

52  2015-07-05 by lucycohen

Thimerosal and Animal Brains: New Data for Assessing Human Ethylmercury Risk

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1280369/

Brain concentrations of total mercury were approximately 3–4 times lower in the thimerosal group than in the methylmercury group, and total mercury cleared more rapidly in the thimerosal group (with a half-life of 24.2 days versus 59.5 days). However, the proportion of inorganic mercury in the brain was much higher in the thimerosal group (21–86% of total mercury) compared to the methylmercury group (6–10%). Brain concentrations of inorganic mercury were approximately twice as high in the thimerosal group compared to the methylmercury group. Inorganic mercury remains in the brain much longer than organic mercury, with an estimated half-life of more than a year.

5 comments

12  lucycohen 2015-07-05

The pro-vaxx will tell you that the Mercury in vaccines is completely safe, that it does not stay in the body, however this study proves their $cience incorrect

9  X_Irradiance 2015-07-05

It's amazing how vacco-proponents are so cognitively dissonant that they'll actually talk about ethyl mercury as if it's pretty safe. When I was an organic chemist, the idea of even being in the same room as an organo-mercury compound was regarded as quite frightening.

We've all heard the story of the researcher who died from a drop of methylmercury getting on her latex glove.

5  crazyevilmuffin 2015-07-05

That researcher, Karen Wetterhahn, actually died from dimethylmercury, but methyl mercury is certainly a dangerous chemical in it's own right, just to a far lesser degree than dimethylmercury.

2  X_Irradiance 2015-07-05

Thanks for the link, I always wondered as to her real identity.

2  Mylon 2015-07-05

Rather than banning vaccines all together, this should be a great opportunity to improve the availability of mercury-free alternatives.