If you were to ask the FDA or the CDC which studies they use to \ndetermine the safety and recommendation of injectable aluminum, they \nwould refer you to the only study done by an FDA scientist. \u201cUpdated \nAluminum Pharmacokinetics Following Infant Exposures Through Diet and \nVaccination,\u201d by Dr. Robert J. Mitkus was published October 2011 in the \njournal Vaccine<\/em>. While the title may sound impressive, this \nstudy was heavily flawed. Mitkus tested infused intravenously (rather \nthan injected) aluminum citrate (rather than aluminum hydroxide) into \nadults (rather than infants). As J.B. Handley, co-founder of Generation \nRescue, wrote, \u201cDr. Mitkus\u2019 study is somewhere between a professional \ndisgrace and a fraudulent disaster. In no other drug on the planet \n(except for vaccines) would safety standards ever be determined without \nusing the actual product (aluminum hydroxide) administered the proper \nway (intramuscular injection) into the proper patient population \n(infants).\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n This should give us all pause. How is it possible that aluminum has \nbeen used in vaccines for more than seventy years, yet the FDA has never\n conducted a single legitimate toxicity study proving the safety of \ninjectable aluminum in human beings? To be fair, the FDA does receive \nstudies from outside sources. However, those sources are pharmaceutical \ncompanies who manufacture and profit from the sale of vaccines, and \npermitting them to provide the FDA with their own scientific findings is\n allowing the fox to guard the hen house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In 2014, the global vaccine market was worth over thirty-two billion \ndollars. According to Technavio, one of the leading technology research \ncompanies in the world, the vaccine market will be worth sixty-one \nbillion dollars a year by 2020. With over two hundred seventy new \n\u201ctherapeutic\u201d and \u201cpreventable\u201d vaccines in the pipeline, companies are \nin a race to get their vaccines approved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In addition to the FDA not doing its own studies, this governmental \nregulatory agency recklessly allows pharmaceutical companies to use \nanother vaccine, an aluminum adjuvant or a combination of both as their \n\u201cplacebo.\u201d This is beyond sloppy science. As a result, there is no \ncredible vaccine safety or efficacy science used by the FDA or CDC when \nthey make their vaccine recommendations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Furthermore, for years pharmaceutical companies and public health \nauthorities have been well aware of the dangers associated with vaccine \nadjuvants and preservatives. However, they have chosen to withhold, hide\n and deny this information, gravely and inexcusably endangering the \npublic. Lucija Tomljenovic, PhD, a pioneer in vaccine safety research at\n the University of British Columbia, has published extensively on \naluminum adjuvants and vaccine adverse reactions.1,2<\/sup> In 2011,\n Tomljenovic provided evidence suggesting that health authorities and \nvaccine manufacturers made (as summarized by the reporter) \u201ccontinuous \nefforts to withhold critical data on severe adverse reactions and \ncontraindication to vaccinations to both parents and health \npractitioners in order to reach overall vaccination rates, which they \ndeemed were necessary for \u2018herd immunity.\u2019\u201d3<\/sup> (Herd immunity \nis a theory that has never been scientifically tested, and the numbers \nbelieved needed to be vaccinated to achieve herd protection are a \nguesstimate, rather than based on science.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n THE THIMEROSAL EXAMPLE<\/strong> Perhaps the most shocking recommendation is the influenza vaccine, as\n the vast majority of these vaccines contain 25 micrograms (mcg) of \nthimerosal per dose. Unsuspecting parents who take their children to be \nvaccinated according to schedule will most likely submit their children \nto nineteen doses of mercury-containing influenza vaccines between six \nmonths and eighteen years of age. In other words, today\u2019s children \nreceive nearly as much mercury as prior to 2001 and they receive 25 \npercent more aluminum. Although the FDA and CDC vehemently deny a \ncorrelation, could this be why one in two children in the U.S. is \nchronically ill, one in six suffers from a neurodevelopmental disorder \nand one in thirty-six is autistic?<\/p>\n\n\n\n ALUMINUM AND MERCURY: SYNERGISTIC TOXICITY<\/strong> THE PRO-ALUMINUM ARGUMENT<\/strong> THE VACCINE SCHEDULE<\/strong> The FDA, however, does not require labels on vaccines warning about \nthe dangers of aluminum toxicity. Do the math, and you\u2019ll find that a \ntwelve-pound baby at two months of age could potentially receive 1,225 \nmcg of aluminum at their well-baby visit if the commonly used, \nhighest-aluminum brands of vaccines are administered along with the \nhepatitis B vaccine. As Neil Z. Miller demonstrates in his paper titled:\n \u201cAluminum in Childhood Vaccines Is Unsafe,\u201d published November 4, 2016 \nin the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons<\/em>, using the \nFDA\u2019s own figures, 11-14 mcg of injected aluminum would be toxic to a \nsix-pound baby with impaired kidney function, yet infants are routinely \ngiven 250 mcg of aluminum within twelve hours of birth via the hepatitis\n B vaccine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Miller also makes the point that \u201cbabies are not the only age group \nexposed to high levels of aluminum in vaccines.\u201d For example, the HPV \nvaccine (indicated for the prevention of cervical and anal cancers and \ngenital warts associated with some strains of human papillomavirus) is \nrecommended for use in both males and females, nine through twenty-six \nyears of age. According to package inserts, each 0.5-mL dose of Gardasil\n 9 (HPV vaccine) contains approximately 500 mcg of aluminum and two to \nthree doses are recommended over a six- to twelve-month period based on \nage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It\u2019s important to know that Gardasil was fast-tracked through the \nFDA. Safety trials did not include a true placebo as \u201ccontrol groups\u201d \nwere also injected with aluminum and pharmaceutical researchers masked a\n cascade of adverse reactions. To date, there have been over fifty-five \nthousand adverse reactions reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event \nReporting System (VAERS), including four hundred six deaths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n THE SCIENCE<\/strong> Joining the ranks with Dr. Shaw, many additional independent \nscientists have made groundbreaking discoveries regarding aluminum \nadjuvants and potential injury. Some of the most prominent in the field \ninclude Dr. Shaw\u2019s colleague, Dr. Lucija Tomljenovic, PhD, of the \nUniversity of British Columbia; Dr. Christopher Exley of Keele \nUniversity; Drs. Romain Gherardi and Guillemette Cr\u00e9peaux of Universit\u00e9 \nParis-Est Cr\u00e9teil; and Dr. Yehuda Shoenfeld of Tel Aviv University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Because of their work, we now know that aluminum adjuvants may result\n in autoimmunity, long-term brain inflammation and associated \nneurological complications. We also know that aluminum exposures are \nconnected to autoimmune diseases such as lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, \nmultiple sclerosis, Gulf War syndrome, type 1 diabetes, macrophagic \nmyofasciitis and chronic fatigue syndrome, as well as a spectrum of \nneurological disorders such as Alzheimer\u2019s, ALS and autism spectrum \ndisorders (ASDs).<\/p>\n\n\n\n GOOD WORKS BY CMSRI<\/strong> One of these studies used fluorescence microscopy, which revealed \nextremely high levels of aluminum in the brains of twelve familial \nAlzheimer\u2019s disease (AD) victims. \u201cAluminum in Brain Tissue in Familial \nAlzheimer\u2019s Disease,\u201d published December 9, 2016 in the Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and Biology<\/em>,\n not only confirmed the presence of aluminum in familial AD brain \ntissue, it also gave rise to two other important conclusions. First, \nbased on their admittedly \u201cstriking\u201d results, the authors suggest that \ngenetic predisposition to AD may be accompanied by \u201ca higher propensity \nto accumulate and retain aluminum in the brain.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Second and equally important, the authors report that high aluminum \nconcentrations are \u201chighly likely\u201d to contribute not only to early onset\n and aggressive progress of familial AD but to \u201call forms of AD under \ncertain conditions.\u201d (Alzheimer\u2019s disease is expected to affect one in \ntwo Americans by 2050.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n The November 2017 issue of the Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and Biology<\/em>\n published another study by Dr. Exley and team titled: \u201cAluminum in \nBrain Tissue in Autism.\u201d Researchers examined the brains of five \ndeceased individuals who were diagnosed with ASD and found them to \ncontain among the highest levels of the toxic metal aluminum ever \nrecorded. In fact, they had up to ten times more aluminum in their \nbrains than healthy adults.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Clearly, many recent studies outline concerns over the use of \naluminum adjuvants in vaccines. As Handley states, \u201cversus ten years \nago, scientists now know that aluminum adjuvant can 1) impair brain \ndevelopment, 2) remain in the brain much longer than thought, 3) is \nbrought into the brain by macrophages that grab the aluminum from the \nvaccine injection site and recirculate it, 4) may actually be worse when\n injected in small doses (as happens in vaccination), and 4) there\u2019s \nremarkably high levels of aluminum in the brains of people diagnosed \nwith autism.\u201d Add Dr. Exley\u2019s findings on aluminum and Alzheimer\u2019s, and \nthe public should be very concerned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A GLIMMER OF HOPE<\/strong> CONCLUSION<\/strong> I will go so far as to say, and I know Hayes would agree, it is no \nlonger acceptable for anyone within the medical community who \nadministers vaccines to overlook the serious safety concerns that recent\n studies raise. While findings of peer-reviewed, published studies \nreceive little coverage in the mainstream media, leading scientists and \nresearch institutes worldwide are recognizing the implications and \nindictments of aluminum and aluminum adjuvants. It is time for health \nprofessionals to do the same and to cease giving vaccines until they are\n proven safe. After all, isn\u2019t \u201cfirst do no harm\u201d one of the most valued\n guiding principles of medical care?<\/p>\n\n\n\n As for the FDA, they need to start requiring the same rigorous \npre-licensing safety testing for vaccines that they require for other \ndrugs. Likewise, it is not acceptable for the CDC to recommend \naluminum-containing vaccines (or any vaccines for that matter, as no \nvaccines have ever gone through proper safety studies and all have \npotentially devastating side effects). I believe the actions of these \ntwo agencies are nothing less than criminal, and I would be thrilled to \nsee more people stand up like Hayes, who is not afraid to speak the \ntruth, and like Dwoskin, who strives to find unbiased answers though \nscientific research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Aluminum may be praised for its vital use in the aerospace industry \nand for its contributions to the transportation and building industries \nworldwide; however, it does not have any business being in our vaccines.\n Additionally, aluminum does not belong in our household products, food \n(including baby formula), food packaging, cosmetics and skincare \nproducts including sunscreen, deodorants and prescription and \nover-the-counter medicines. Aluminum may be a \u201cnatural\u201d substance found \nin the earth\u2019s crust, air, soil and water, but it does not have any \nbiological function in any living organism, and it presents a danger to \nall living creatures, including human beings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As Hayes so poignantly said in her WAPF talk, \u201cTogether, we must \nprotect the health of our children, people of all ages, and the future \nof our country.\u201d We must all be arbitrators of the truth. We must be our\n own health advocates. We must do our homework and learn the facts about\n aluminum and all vaccines. After all, our lives and those of our \nchildren depend upon it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n REFERENCES<\/strong>
\nA great example of this type of deception is the story of mercury \n(thimerosal) in vaccines. As parents became more hesitant and vocal \nduring the late 1990s, the CDC began a highly publicized campaign \nannouncing that they were \u201cphasing out\u201d mercury from U.S. childhood \nvaccines. By 2001, they declared that the manufacturing of \nthimerosal-containing vaccines had ceased. In reality, some of these \nvaccines were changed to \u201clow-mercury.\u201d Because childhood vaccines were \ndeemed \u201cessentially\u201d mercury-free at this point, health officials were \nquick to assert that autism was not linked to mercury as autism rates \ncontinued to increase. What they didn\u2019t tell the public was that during \nthe so-called phase-out period, the CDC began recommending \nmercury-containing influenza vaccines to pregnant women. They also added\n four doses of the pneumococcal vaccine (PCV), which has a high aluminum\n content, to the childhood immunization schedule in 2000, and two doses \nof the aluminum-containing hepatitis A vaccine in 2005 (Table 1). These \nincreases led to a 25 percent increased uptake of aluminum for babies by\n 2005. Additionally, in 2001, the CDC began recommending pregnant women \nreceive the aluminum-containing pertussis vaccine (Tdap), despite the \nfact that studies show that aluminum crosses the placenta and \naccumulates in fetal tissue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/novax.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Spring2018Vacc1.jpg\")
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\nBecause of work done by Dr. Boyd Haley, former professor of medicinal \nchemistry and chairman of the chemistry department at the University of \nKentucky, we know that the combination of mercury and aluminum causes \nsynergistic toxicity. In 2005, Dr. Haley published a study in which he \ninvestigated combining aluminum hydroxide and thimerosal. \u201cMercury \nToxicity: Genetic Susceptibility and Synergistic Effects\u201d describes Dr. \nHaley\u2019s findings: Cultured neurons showed a 10 percent cell death six \nhours after they were exposed to mercury and aluminum separately, as \ncompared to a whopping 60 percent death rate when exposed in \ncombination. This clearly demonstrated the synergistic toxicity of \naluminum and mercury.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nAdding insult to injury, prior to the dangerously misleading 2011 Mitkus\n study, the FDA admitted they allowed the use of aluminum adjuvants in \nvaccines simply because they \u201cassumed\u201d they were safe. The most \nprominent pro-vaccine, pro-aluminum safety argument you will hear \ninvolves the amount of toxic materials in vaccines. According to its \nwebsite, the FDA claims the amount of aluminum present in vaccines is \nlow, therefore not harmful. They defend the use of aluminum in vaccines,\n stating that it is one of the most common metals found in nature and we\n get much more aluminum exposure from our air, food and water than we do\n from vaccines. Therefore, the amount of aluminum in vaccines is not \ndangerous. This reasoning however, is far from scientific, because the \naluminum found naturally in the earth\u2019s crust is tightly bound to other \nelements, making it inert and not bioavailable. The different routes of \nentry are not interchangeable for assessing toxic impacts. Inhaling and \ningesting aluminum are not the same as injecting it. Aluminum injected \nvia vaccination bypasses the protective barriers of the gastrointestinal\n tract and mucous membranes, entering directly into the muscle where it \ncan enter the bloodstream and lymph, thus redistributing and \naccumulating in the bones, lungs and brain. It is absurd to assume that \ninjected aluminum is safe because it is introduced in lesser quantity \nthan say, ingested aluminum, 99.7 percent of which is not absorbed by \nthe body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nThe lack of FDA safety standards is particularly disturbing if you \nconsider that the majority of early childhood vaccines, which are given \nat birth and mandated for school in every state, contain aluminum \nadjuvants. If parents follow the current, out-of-control CDC-recommended\n vaccine schedule, their children will receive seventy doses of sixteen \ndifferent vaccines by age eighteen, while injecting a potential 4,925 \nmcg of accumulated aluminum by age eighteen months alone (Table 2). \nBecause the FDA has only studied IV solutions and injectable medications\n containing aluminum (not vaccines), they cannot possibly be a reliable \nsource to determine safe levels of aluminum in vaccines. This said, the \nFDA does set limits on aluminum content in parenteral drug products \n(again, not vaccines) and requires labels on package inserts that state:\n \u201cWARNING: This product contains aluminum that may be toxic. Aluminum \nmay reach toxic levels with prolonged parenteral administration if \nkidney function is impaired. Premature neonates are particularly at risk\n because their kidneys are immature, and they require large amounts of \ncalcium and phosphate solutions, which contain aluminum.\u201d The FDA also \nstates, \u201cResearch indicates that patients with impaired kidney function,\n including premature neonates, who receive injections greater than 4 to 5\n mcg per kilogram of body weight per day, accumulate at levels \nassociated with central nervous system and bone toxicity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/novax.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Spring2018Vacc2.jpg\")
\nWhen my producing partners and I set out to reveal the truth about \naluminum in our documentary about vaccines, The Greater Good, we visited\n world-renowned aluminum expert Dr. Christopher Shaw at the University \nof British Columbia. As the first to test the biological impact of \naluminum adjuvants in 2007, Dr. Shaw and fellow researchers took the \nsame aluminum hydroxide used in vaccines and injected it into the \nmuscles of mice to see what would happen when they tried to mimic the \nvaccine schedule. What they found was rapid behavioral symptoms, \nincluding not only behavioral deficits of motor function, but cognitive \ndeficits as well. Later when they sacrificed the animals and looked into\n their brains and spinal cords, they found massive damage to motor \nneurons. As Dr. Shaw explained, they \u201cmay be creating conditions for \nParkinson\u2019s and Alzheimer\u2019s disease, maybe not immediately, but ten, \ntwenty, thirty years down the road.\u201d When we as filmmakers asked the FDA\n for a response to Dr. Shaw\u2019s study, they said they did \u201cnot believe \nthis particular paper brings to light the need for additional research \nthat is not already underway.\u201d My question to the FDA today would be, \n\u201cwhere is that research now that a decade has gone by?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nPerhaps the best library of peer-reviewed, published studies on aluminum\n can be found at Children\u2019s Medical Safety Research Institute (CMSRI) at\n cmsri.org. In fact, CMSRI, founded by Claire Dwoskin, not only has a \ncomprehensive website featuring the most important studies, they are \ndedicated to funding independent research in hopes of providing answers \nto our growing, worldwide epidemic of chronic disease and disability. \nRecently, two very important aluminum studies were made possible by \nCMSRI. Funding from Dwoskin\u2019s organization provided Dr. Christopher \nExley, researcher and professor at Keele University, and his co-workers \nthe means to examine the effects of aluminum in deceased Alzheimer\u2019s and\n autism patients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nIt\u2019s worth mentioning here that research points to a way of helping \nthose burdened with a heavy load of aluminum. Several studies have shown\n the essential nutrient silica may effectively detoxify and help excrete\n aluminum. \u201cSilicon-Rich Mineral Water as a Non-Invasive Test of the \n\u2018Aluminum Hypothesis\u2019 in Alzheimer\u2019s Disease,\u201d by Dr. Exley was \npublished in the Journal of Alzheimer\u2019s Disease<\/em>, 2013. Taurine \nand curcumin have also been shown to reduce aluminum neurotoxicity as \nevidenced in a study titled \u201cTherapeutic Affect of Taurine Against \nAluminum-Induced Impairment on Learning, Memory and Brain \nNeurotransmitters in Rats,\u201d published February 4, 2014 in the journal Neurological Sciences<\/em>.\n Vitamin E and selenium have also been found to be protective against \noxidative stress and injury stimulated by excessive intake of aluminum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nBecause scientific evidence published in recent years shows that \nvaccines have great potential for causing brain and immune system \ninjury, the only responsible actions are what Hayes called for in her \nWAPF presentation\u2014a complete moratorium on vaccines, the repeal the 1986\n National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (which protects vaccine \nmanufacturers from all product liability lawsuits) and the overturning \nof the 1905 Jacobson vs. MA decision, which is often cited as \njustification for vaccine mandates, even though the 1947 Nuremburg Code \nshould have made that decision null and void. Mandates for children are \nparticularly disturbing as studies show children are at far greater risk\n from aluminum adjuvants because of the combination of rapid growth, an \nincomplete blood-brain barrier and limited ability to eliminate toxins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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