[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 20 (Thursday, February 16, 2006)]
[House]
[Pages H357-H358]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  KEEPING MERCURY OUT OF VACCINATIONS

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a previous order of the House, the 
gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Burton) is recognized for 5 minutes.
  Mr. BURTON of Indiana. Mr. Speaker, over the past couple of weeks in 
the newspapers and on television and on the radios across this country 
people have been warned not to eat too much tuna and other seafood 
because of the mercury content in the fish. They said that women who 
are pregnant and women and men who are eating a lot of these seafood 
products could have neurological problems created because they are 
eating so much seafood with mercury in them.
  I think that it is good that they are telling the American people 
that. But

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at the same time that that is going on, our health agencies are 
allowing mercury to be put into almost every vaccine an adult gets and 
many of the vaccines that children get.
  Since the late 1920s and early 1930s, there has been a product called 
Thimerosal put into many of the vaccines, in fact, most of the vaccines 
that people get today. Thimerosal is 50 percent ethyl mercury, and 
mercury is toxic to the neurological system of the human being. Yet we 
have talked about this for 4, 5, 6 years now, and we cannot get the 
mercury out of the vaccines. It is being used as a preservative.
  The interesting thing about it is that it has never been tested. You 
might say it was tested back in 1929, because they said they tested it 
on 27 people that had meningitis. All of them died from meningitis, but 
none of them died from the mercury they were being injected with. But 
they died anyhow from the meningitis. There wasn't enough time to find 
out about the neurological problems that might ensue because they were 
having mercury injected into their bodies.
  Our children today, before they go to the first grade, get between 25 
and 30 shots. Most of those shots used to contain mercury. Now there 
are only about three or four that contain mercury. Nevertheless, it has 
caused severe neurological problems in children.
  We have gone from where 1 in 10,000 children were found to be 
autistic to one in 166. It is an absolute epidemic. We have also seen a 
tremendous increase in people that have Alzheimer's and other 
neurological diseases. Yet we continue to allow our health agencies to 
allow the pharmaceutical industry to put mercury into the vaccines 
going into every single human being into this country, and in 
particular our military personnel overseas.
  Now we are hearing about the bird flu, Mr. Speaker, and we are going 
to spend billions of dollars preparing this country for a possible bird 
flu epidemic. That means they are going to create vaccines, and those 
vaccines, in all probability, will have mercury in them, which means 
that every single person that is vaccinated with the bird flu vaccine 
will probably be getting Thimerosal in them, which is 50 percent ethyl 
mercury.
  It does cause severe neurological problems when it is given over a 
long period of time. Your brain accumulates this mercury. It doesn't 
chelate out of the body in a very efficient way. So if you get 10 
shots, that mercury stays and keeps building up, and it gets worse and 
worse as time goes by. The health agencies know this is a problem, and 
yet we continue to allow mercury to be put into these vaccines.
  So today, since the people of this country are being warned about not 
eating too much fish that contains mercury like tuna and so forth, I 
think it is high time that the health agencies of this country get the 
mercury out of all vaccines that are being injected into children and 
adults in this country because of the danger to their neurological 
system. It is extremely important.
  It can be done. This Thimerosal is supposedly a preservative. If we 
go to single shot vials, which don't cost much more than the multi-shot 
vials being used, you can take the mercury out of them because you 
don't need that preservative in there, you don't need that kind of 
purifying agent, if you will, in that vaccine.
  It is extremely important, Mr. Speaker, that we get mercury out of 
all vaccines. Right now, with the warnings being given to people not to 
eat too much fish with mercury in them, it is high time our health 
agencies get mercury out of all vaccines.

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