Some Say 'No' to H1N1 Vaccine for Kids

(CBS)  The United State is scrambling to prepare for a likely resurgence of the H1N1 (or swine flu) virus this fall. Some 159 million Americans are being urged to get the vaccine when it's ready - among them 78 million children.

That has parents worried - not just about the virus, but also about giving their kids yet another vaccine, as CBS News medical correspondent Dr. Jon LaPook reports.

Kori Buro is giving her daughters the usual childhood immunizations. But if a vaccine against the new form of H1N1 becomes available, her girls will not be in line.

"I don't want to have that kind of vaccination in my child yet until I know it's safe - 100 percent safe," Buro said.

A backlash against vaccines has picked up steam in recent years. A vocal minority fears vaccines can cause autism, despite consensus among experts that they don't. Now warnings are cropping up on the Web that the new H1N1 vaccine could be rushed to market without enough proof that it's safe.

"Are parents going to be given complete, truthful information about swine flu vaccine risks and have the right to say "yes" or "no" before their children are lined up and vaccination in the school setting?" Barbara Loe Fisher of the National Vaccine Information Center asked in a video on YouTube.

The concerns include possibly using chemical additives - or "adjuvants" - to boost the effectiveness of the vaccine. They have never been used in flu vaccines in the U.S., but have safely been used in others such as tetanus.

Critics also worry that some forms of the vaccine will contain thimerosol, a mercury-containing preservative.

"Thimerosol has never been associated in any valid scientific way with any adverse affect to the fetus or to young people," said Dr. William Schaffner of the Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

The government says a thimerosol-free vaccine will be available. But moms like Kori Buro still aren't sold.

"I don't feel just because the government is telling me to get this flu shot for her, or my youngest that I should go and do that," Buro said, indicating one of her children.

But, "You would be heart-broken if you did not vaccinate your child and that child got sick with influenza and found that your child was in the hospital close to death," Schaffner said.

The challenge for health officials - convincing the public to heed their advice, instead of a mother's intuition.

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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that almost everyone ? including pregnant women ? get the injection, despite written warnings from the vaccine manufacturers.

Some say the real danger is not the flu rather it is from an overload of dangerous mercury levels. ?Mercury causes tremendous damage to the brain,? said Paul King, scientific adviser for the Coalition for Mercury-Free Drugs. Mercury is among the most toxic heavy metals and is known to poison the central nervous system, liver, gastrointestinal tract and other systems in the body.

About 80% of all flu shots distributed in the United States contain a mercury-based preservative called thimerosal. Thimerosal consists of 49.6% ethyl mercury, an anti-bacterial, anti-fungal that allows manufacturers to sell the vaccine in large, multi-dose containers without fear of contamination. However, a typical 0.5 milliliter flu shot contains 25 micrograms ? or a whopping 50,000 parts per billion ? of mercury. What does this mean? To put it into perspective the EPA classifies a liquid with 200 parts per billion of mercury as hazardous waste and the maximum limit for drinking water contamination is set at 2 parts per billion.

Using the standards set for methyl mercury consumption ? the kind that?s in fish ? an average 130-pound person getting the flu shot would exceed the daily limit by more than four times. A 22-pound baby would get more than 25 times the amount of mercury considered safe. Pushed by the CDC as well as the pharmaceutical manufacturers, doctors are recommending that many babies and children get two flu shots this season.

One would conclude that the enormous profits generated create a blind eye from the dangers of pushing people into getting inoculated with such dangerous levels of toxins. Yet it is apparent that the industry manufacturers are all too aware of these dangers. A material safety data sheet from Eli Lilly and Co., which no longer makes a flu vaccine, says effects of exposure to thimerosal may include ?fetal changes, decreased offspring survival and lung tissue changes. . . . Exposure in utero and in children may cause mild to severe mental retardation and mild to severe motor coordination impairment.? Maybe this is why the pharmaceutical lobbyist were insistent in successfully getting legislation passed that will safeguard them and deem them not liable in the event of lawsuits due to complications of flu vaccinations.

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[thekos]

@legacyabq
i agree except people ARE dying so...why would you not curb the risk?

[someonefrumsumwhere]

what would y'all do if the government were to make the swine flu vaccine mandatory?
with punishments like, imprisonment and quarantine?
what would you do?

[confusedmommy]

Has this vaccine been used in other countries before? Also, out of all the poor children that have died from the H1N1 flu, were any of them perfectly healthy to begin with, or did they all have an existing illness such as asthma?

[brettuthius]

I think that most vaccine shots are just fine to receive for kids and adults. Yes, there may me chances of coming down with an illness but the defense against the major virus it well worth it. Many people are asking if the H1N1 shot is safe for kids like this post examplifies;
http://www.brighthub.com/science/medical/forum/t/46882.aspx

but I think people need to stop worrying and take the advice of health experts in order to prevent the spread of the virus which is much like other ones we find every flu season.

[avandemark]

Just so you all know, the US has rejected the use of adjuvants in their vaccines, which is causing controversy between us and other countries. See below article.

http://emssolutionsinc.wordpress.com/2009/09/23/h1n1-swine-flu-vaccine-adjuvants-the-moral-dilemma/

BTW - all vaccines provided to infants, children and pregnant women produced after 1999 are thimersol free, although it is still used in vaccines given to adults.

I plan to get the shot along with the rest of my family, however this is an individual decision that each person should be able to make for themself.

[1jfk23]

Vaccination shots do cause AUTISM!!! And if you have a child with autism it is a life long disability that will never go away. So, it is everyone's personal choice what they decide to do for their child.
It is a very hard decision to make and doctors and nurses need to RESPECT the parents decision!!!

[1jb37]

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[NurseTricia]

The government can not force you to take the vaccine for H1N1 virus if you choose not to. I as a registered nurse I have seen kids die from the flu and it is not a pretty sight by all means. Everyone suffers when that happens. The CDC are working hard on making the vaccine safe. It would be in your best interest to protect your family and you from getting both flu. Don't forget there still is the regular seasonal flu that will be floating around as well. You do not die from the flu you die from the complications that can happen when you get the flu such as pneumonia. Does anyone want to risk the life of a child because of there own ignorance? I hope not.
TRICIA RN

[wyodutch]

the United States Government would never do anything to endanger We, the People.... Just look at Agent Orange and Gulf War Syndrome.
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[RobinNemeth]

'The challenge for health officials-convincing the public to heed their advice.'

Lol, yeah that's going to be quite a challenge, given the fact that more and more of the public has gotten wise to the lies they've been telling the last decades. They're still on about how autism is up even though thimerosal's been removed, when it HASN'T been removed. It is now in flu shots which are now routinely advised for pregnant women babies and children.

Autism is vaccine damage. When health officials learned what had happened but then kept on doing it, they became complicit in what is nothing less than genocide, and that genocide continues to this day, and more ane more children are being lost to the tune of hundreds of thousands per year. To genocide.

http://wideopenwest.com/~r_nemeth/vaccine_flyer.htm