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Originally Posted by Fitz
Pregnant women are advised to avoid tuna.
Vaccine manufacturers have a duty to provide a safe product. If there is any risk involved, it should be up to each individual whether the risk is acceptable. The link between thimerosal and autism has not been proven but neither has the genetic cause that the pharmaceutical interests like to promote.
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The vaccine manufacturers have done so, this vaccine was developed in conjunction with the WHO and has been tested in over 50,000 people. The worldwide response has been quite impressive when you consider the timeline has been - in medical/scientific terms - tight.
Vaccination is not enforced, it is fully an individual's choice.
However, the more people that 'opt out', the greater the risk for niche populations to exist for the virus to infect, thus forming and sustaining outbreaks.
Thimerosal isn't added as a 'cop-out' or due to some malicious, self-serving intent, it is required to preserve the vaccine.
Point about the tuna being most people, children included, will readily eat tune salad, tuna sandwhiches without even giving it a second thought. As an apex predator, the tuna will have accumulated mercury from the bottom of the food chain up to its prey and finally residing within the tuna's tissue.
A controlled amount is used in a vaccine and
then it becomes an issue.