My conversation with the CDC on vaccines

[emma1325]

Here's how the conversation went:

A man's voice:



him: "Hello and thank you for calling the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention! How may I help you?"


me: "Well, I had a question about formaldehyde."


him: "Uh-huh?"


me: "With all the talk about Formaldehyde levels in FEMA campers recently, I wanted to call and ask if there has ever been studies conducted proving the safety of injectable formaldehyde."


him: "Injectable?"


me: "Yes, as in the formaldehyde in vaccines."


him: "So you want to know if vaccines have formaldehyde..."


me: "No, I know they contain formaldehyde. What I want to know is if it's been proven safe for use in vaccines."


him: "Oh...well let me see..." (click, click, click)


him: "Well it says here that...(reading from the CDC's website)...it is used to inactivate bacterial products...and that it is used to kill unwanted viruses and bacteria that might be found in cultures used to produce vaccines."


me: "Well, I found that on the CDC's website myself. I know why it is put there, but what I want to know is has it been proven safe through any studies..."


him: "Let me look again..." (click, click, click...) "You know why it's there, don't you?"


me: "Well, yes, you just read me..."


him: (cuts me off): "it's to make the vaccines safer."


me: "oh?"


him: "It INACTIVATES viruses." (click, click, click...) "It isn't the same formaldehyde as you're thinking...it's not what is in the FEMA campers."


(I'm speechless...because I'm pretty sure that's completely false)


him: "Ok, I'm going to go ahead and transfer you to someone else who may be able to help you more. Hold for one minute, please."


(a few minutes pass)


a woman's voice:


her: "hello, I understand you have a question about formaldehyde?"


me: "Yes, I've been looking on the internet and I can't seem to find any studies that show formaldehyde use in vaccines is safe."


her: (in a cheery and somewhat boastful tone) "well, I have the CDC database here...let me see..." (click, click, click)


her: "formaldehye is used to inactivate bacterial products..." (she reads the entire paragraph off of the CDC's website)


me: "Well, what I'm looking for is if you can tell me if there have ever been any studies conducted which prove that formaldehyde in vaccines is safe, short and long-term."


her: (in a slightly irritated tone) "well it's used to make the vaccines safer for children. It inactivates the virus."

me: "but are there any studies that you can direct me to confirming the safety?"

her: "just a moment..." (click, click, click...) (a few minutes pass)

her: "I'm not finding a specific study."


me: "Ok...(I feel a little shocked because I had figured she'd at least pull SOMETHING up for me.)

me: "so is the formaldehyde removed before it's injected?"


her: "I'm not sure I understand your question."


me: "Is it added to inactivate the virus, and then removed before being shipped to pediatrician's offices?"


her: "No."


me: "So vaccines actually still contain formaldehyde when injected into children?"


her: "It has to remain there to continue to do it's job of keeping the vaccine safer."


me: "And you can't find a study confirming the safety of formaldehyde in vaccines?"


her: "No. But that doesn't mean it isn't safe."


me: "Could there have been studies conducted but they're just not in the CDC's database?"


her: "I can only tell you what I can find, and I can't find it."


me: "Ok, well thank you for your time."


her: "You're welcome and thanks for calling the CDC."

[reeseccup]

Lovely, thanks for making that call and sharing it.

[runes]

wow.

don't know whether to , , or .

they say formaldehyde makes the vaccines 'safer'; yet provide absolutely zero information about it?

nice.

and par for the course. just goes to show that they don't know what the f they're doing.

thanks for taking the time to call and post your conversation!

[TanyaS]

Formaldehyde may not be a huge concern, but you gotta love how they just don't know whether it's safe or not.

[rmzbm]

: Wow...thanks for sharing! Put a chuckle in MY day! LOL...

[Kimmiepie]

Wow, I never even though of calling the CDC. Great idea mama.

Now, who wants to call and ask about aluminum?? :

[emma1325]

Originally Posted by Kimmiepie

Wow, I never even though of calling the CDC. Great idea mama.

Now, who wants to call and ask about aluminum?? :

(I stole the idea from jenny mccarthy!)

Here's the number:

1-800-232-4636

[apelilae]

WOW How amazing and very alarming. Thanks for making the call and for sharing.

[Angela512]

Apparently, Formaldehyde is only dangerous when taken orally (like allowing your child to drink some from a glass)...but if it's injected, it's completely and totally safe and the side effects/medical problems that normally happen from formaldehyde no longer happen. That's simply because the blood dilutes the concentration of the formaldehyde and the liver cleanses it out as opposed to having it absorbed by the stomach.

Yeah, yeah, that's it.

Thanks for the call. Totally makes me feel like the CDC really does know what they're talking about. I should call and ask them why they allow so much aluminum in the vaxes.

ETA: I didn't see your post above. I'll call about the aluminum. heh

[Gitti]

What a great post. Thanks for calling. Everyone ought to call every day with some question. Maybe they'll actually start looking at the stuff they are injecting into our kids.

[momofmine]

Yes! Let's all call! I've wondered about that before! I think they just don't want to think about it. No one wants to question it because the whole system will break down if they do, or so they think. So they just keep doing what they've been doing, even if they have no clue!

[emma1325]

Originally Posted by momofmine

Yes! Let's all call! I've wondered about that before! I think they just don't want to think about it. No one wants to question it because the whole system will break down if they do, or so they think. So they just keep doing what they've been doing, even if they have no clue!

Wouldn't that be great if we all called...and posted our conversations here so that we could compare?

I'll have to admit, and I'm not sure why exactly, but my hands were shaking as I held the phone. Conspiracy theories kept popping up in my brain and I kept imagining them tracing my number... Like they would do that to every concerned parent who called!

[CanidFL]

I have also heard that formeldehyde in the vaccines is not the same as in the trailers. I read it's produced naturally in the body and it's similar to this. Someone had posted a while back about it but I didn't really understand it.

Anywho...that conversation is scary! I thought they would at least have something to prove it's safe like the countless studies they have on mercury (even if they don't prove anything).

[N8'sMom]

Originally Posted by emma1325

"It isn't the same formaldehyde as you're thinking...it's not what is in the FEMA campers."

Ok.....so there's more than one type of formaldehyde???????

My uncle's wife's father was a mortician and he worked with that stuff.
He didn't touch it bare handed, always used gloves and was always
really careful. He died from cancer. We think that breathing that stuff
in was what caused it. I just can't believe they think that stuff is
safe to inject into a child's body?!???!!!!??

[Deborah]

I think it is actually a different kind of formaldehyde.

But it is so funny that they read stuff to people off of their own web-site.

I'm looking forward to hearing from the people who do the aluminum calls tomorrow!

[amyjeans]

Sounds like- "Hey, don't ask me...I just work here."
And I didn't know there was more than one type of formaldehyde!
what an interesting conversation!

[Gitti]

From what I've read we have formaldehyde in our bodies naturally. I'm just not sure that we are in need of more. Especially not at the weight of 10-15 lbs.

[Kimmiepie]

We should have one person call about aluminum, another about fetal cells, etc. Just have them going crazy.

[kristin1924]

Kimmiepie you had me cracking up about "who's gonna call now about aluminum??" Hahahaha. But seriously, we all should call every other day to drive them nuts. I hope someone calls about the aborted fetal cells.

[oscarsmomma]

forms of formaldehyde?

What are the different forms of formaldehyde? When I google it I can't find anything...thanks!