The Search for an Alternative to Aluminium Based Vaccines

Vaccines are one of the most unknown topics for people. They inject their body with chemicals without regard to what is going into their body and how it is affecting it. I, also, am guilty of doing this. To remove my ignorance and inform others, I am going to research more on this topic. By writing this paper, I am hoping to shed more light on this unfamiliar concept.

Countless deem that the definite reason for autism is not the dead or live virus found in vaccines but the derivatives’ within them. “Exposure to thimerosal, a mercury-containing preservative that is used in vaccines and immunoglobulin preparations, has been hypothesized to be associated with increased risk of autism spectrum disorder (ASD)” (Price, et al., 2010). This continues to remain merely speculation. The Centers for Disease Control research analysis’ do not corroborate toxicity of these preservatives. Mercury produces verified detrimental effects on children when absorbed in the gastrointestinal tract. Vaccinations are not absorbed in the GI tract and are instead absorbed in the muscles or subcutaneous tissues, depending on the route of injection.

There is no doubt that the number of vaccines recommended by health care professionals and government agencies has increased rapidly since 1980. Furthermore, vaccines have also changed in how they are made, which is unknown or poorly understood by the general public. While reviewing the literature, this was shown in the article, “Vaccines and Autism: A Tale of Shifting Hypotheses”, by Gerber & Offit (2009), where they discuss how vaccines have changed overtime. The authors state that today a single vaccine use uses less than 200 bacterial and viral proteins or polysaccharides compared to over 3000 immunological components used in 1980. In addition, the amount of protein chemistry and recombinant DNA has also increased. This helps cut back on vaccine-related reactions, because the vaccine only resembles a microbe and doesn’t function on one.

There are ingredients such as thimerosal, formaldehyde, and aluminum, which can be harmful in large doses, but they are not used in harmful quantities in vaccines. According to Heyworth, “Children are exposed to more aluminum in breast milk and infant formula than they are exposed to in vaccines.” (Heyworth, 2014) The FDA regulates and also requires 10 or more years of testing before they can get licensed. The Centers of Disease Control and the Federal Drug Administration make sure that the vaccinations are safe before a release to the public.

In recent years, the number of parents who are refusing vaccinations on their children has increased. Because of this, once extinct diseases are now making a comeback (Marquez and White, 2013). Newer vaccines have tested to be effective in the 90-100 percentile range in preventing these once lethal diseases (Marquez and White, 2013). Some of the known and documented reactions to vaccinations can include redness and swelling near the injection site, headaches, vomiting, and in very rare cases encephalitis (Marquez and White, 2013). In the past, the main concern over vaccines was that mercury was included in the dosage (Marquez and White, 2013). In recent years, this part of the vaccine has been removed due to health concerns. Long term research has proved that there are no long lasting adverse effects of receiving vaccinations as a child (Marquez and White,

Joseph Albietz explicates what vaccination is and how “vaccine is safe” for people to be able to use it without having to overwhelm with startled facts about the linkages between the 2009 H1N1 epidemic and autism. John E. Calfee enlarges Albietz information by providing proof of scientific findings. The findings that Calfee provided for us was how some scientists “failed to replicate Wakefield's results and in fact had ruled out any connection between autism and any vaccine, including the MMR vaccine.” (Calfee) Karin Decoster and Richard M. Eckersley both contradict what Albietz and Calfee have to say. Decoster asserts the false interpretation of how the government is promoting flu when “no one wants the vaccination so they have to push it and advertise it.” (Decoster) Eckersley relates the vaccination leading to drug abuse in a broader environment such as having disadvantages of acquiring the vaccination shot. I approve both Albietz and Calfee because they provided with many findings and researched that makes it credible to the reader. I think that vaccination itself cures many infectious diseases, but does not relate to affecting the people and their child with Autism or any other brain development issues.

Over the past many years, vaccines have been produced to save lives from diseases and illnesses, like polio, cholera, and measles. Now, that the global drug epidemic increases and claims more and more lives, they are now on the hunt to find a vaccine that could one day treat drug addiction.

MD Paul Offit says, “Children are exposed to more bacteria, viruses, toxins, and other harmful substances in one day of normal activities than are in vaccines ("What Goes Into a Vaccine?").” One of the main questionable substances was a mercury preservative substance called Thimerosal. This substance was only introduced in small amounts at a time, not enough to build up and create problems. The ingredients in vaccines are in such small doses that the odds of them causing harm are very low.

If you were to question any public health professional as to what the greatest biomedical achievement of the last century was, they would likely struggle to find a more influential achievement than the development of vaccines. The struggling breaths of whooping cough, the horrendous birth defects caused by rubella, and the clunky braces used by children paralyzed by polio, all are only thought of as occurrences of the past by many Americans. Many find it hard to believe that less than a century ago; the infant mortality rate was a massive 20 percent (Alexandra, Markel, 2005). Fortunately, many of these devastating diseases have been eradicated because of the development and widespread use of vaccines. The history of vaccines is, however, very complex. The growth widespread use of vaccines requires a balance of scientific ingenuity and social acceptance. Vaccines historically have, and continue to, cause strong scientific, social, and cultural reactions.

With this being said, however, there are a few potential risks involved in vaccinations. In the Frontline documentary The Vaccine War, Dr. Anthony Fauci states, “What is the risk of injecting something into someone’s arm? The risk is that a certain proportion of people will get swelling and a little bit of pain, lasting from an hour to a day” (Frontline). He goes on to talk about the small risks of allergic reactions to the chemicals incorporated into the vaccines. These are real risks, and should not be understated., as these allergic reactions can be potentially serious. The problem occurs,

Scientists have found that vaccines containing traces of mercury have been linked to the development of. Formaldehyde, a carcinogen, can be found in flu shots, and can lead to cardiac impairment, depression and death. Vaccines can contain an antibacterial that can cause shock, kidney damage, cardiac and kidney failure, and even death (ProCon 2). Are you really comfortable increasing the chances of your child being ailed with any of these afflictions?

Ingredients such as thimerosal, formaldehyde, and aluminum can be harmful when used in large doses, which in the case of vaccines they are not. Our kids are exposed in a regular day’s activity to more harmful bacteria than the harm coming from vaccines. And the aluminum that some may argue is contained in some of these vaccines is in fact also an ingredient in breast milk and infant

The reality is that adverse reactions to vaccines are extremely rare. The most common side effect of vaccines, anaphylaxis (a severe allergic reaction), occurs in one per several hundred thousand to one per million vaccinations (Dohenny). The fear that vaccines cause serious health problems in otherwise healthy children is a holdover from Wakefield’s false reporting and other conspiracy theorist groups. In recent years, the dangers of the mercury-containing organic compound Thimerosal have been called into question. It has been used as a preservative in many vaccines, but the Food and Drug Administration says that Thimerosal is harmless in the small doses used. Regardless of the lack of evidence showing its harmfulness, almost all vaccines are now Thimerosal

Vaccines are made from harmful chemicals such as aluminum, formaldehyde, and several other dangerous chemicals. Scientist say these chemicals are fine if they are used in small amounts. These same scientists do not know how much is too much because several hundred kids and adults get sick from

Are the ingredients in vaccines safe for your child? Shane Ellison states that they are not, saying “Formaldehyde is just one of the many chemicals found in vaccines. And according to the FDA ‘excessive exposure to formaldehyde may cause cancer,’” [22]. Other ingredients in vaccines that tend to put people off are [15] mercury, an element that is poisonous to the nervous system and can be toxic at levels above 0.32 microgram a day for newborn babies, and aluminum which in excess can cause neurological harm. Some vaccines also contain chicken egg protein which, for children who are allergic to egg can be potentially harmful. Such chemicals can be cause for concern for parents but are not as dangerous as they first appear.