Autism rates have increased by over 1,000 percent over the last two decades. The culprits for this startling outbreak are vaccines. Until recently, many common childhood vaccines included the mercury-based preservative thimerosal. This compound was developed in the 1930's and became widely used in whooping cough vaccines in the 1940's. During this same decade, the first cases of autism were recorded. Considering the fact that mercury is a well-known neurotoxin, this result should hardly be considered surprising.
Studies have shown a distinct correlation between vaccines and autism, specifically a study at the University of Calgary showed that mercury ions alter the cell membranes of babies' neurons. Also, children who began showing signs of autism fared better after going through a detoxification program. Even the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) has acknowledged that mercury is a highly toxic chemical.
Although most common infant and child vaccines no longer contain thimerosal, it is still used in flu shots for both children and adults. However, some doctors still use vaccines containing thimerosal, so it is important to ask for immunizations that are thimerosol-free.
For more reading, please see
Vaccines Cause Autism: Supporting Evidence
It is commonly known that methyl-mercury, often found in fish, is extremely harmful to the human body. High doses of methyl-mercury given to young children has been linked to developmental delays and neurological impairment. Since methyl-mercury is so dangerous, the word mercury has been programmed to instill fear, so as soon as people hear that a preservative containing mercury is in vaccines, all critical thought is lost to fear. However no methyl-mercury is found within vaccines, only ethyl-mercury. These two compounds are metabolized very differently and ethylmercury does not bioaccumulate* and is not harmful. Ethylmercury is simply a preservative that keeps the vaccine from becoming contaminated. So thimerosal or ethyl-mercury is not harmful to the human body in the slightest
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