http://www.babycenter.com/204_mercur...stu_5227645.bc
Your thoughts?
ETA -- I am not necessarily looking at keeping this thread directed towards the "Autism question" specifically; I'm interested in the study in general.
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| Wed, Jan 30, 2008 (HealthDay News) — The latest chapter in the debate over whether childhood vaccines can cause autism was written Wednesday with release of a study that showed the controversial mercury-containing preservative thimerosal is rapidly excreted from babies' bodies and can't reach toxic levels. |
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| Pichichero's team tracked 216 infants from [...] Argentina, where thimerosal is still routinely used in vaccines.[...] The infants in the study were put into three age groups and their blood-mercury levels were tested both before and after vaccinations were given to newborns, and at their 2- and 6-month checkups. Pichichero's group found that for all three age groups, the half-life of ethyl mercury in the blood — the time it takes for the body to get rid of half the mercury, and then another half, and so on — was 3.7 days. That's significantly less than the half-life of methyl mercury, the kind found in fish, at 44 days. "Until recently, that longer half-life was assumed to be the rule for both types of mercury. Now it's obvious that ethyl mercury's short half-life prevents toxic build-up from occurring. It's just gone too fast," Pichichero said. |
ETA -- I am not necessarily looking at keeping this thread directed towards the "Autism question" specifically; I'm interested in the study in general.
