November 2018- Sometimes you will hear there are vaccines without mercury that are better for you (as if they contained all natural ingredients). You still may want to learn more before getting a vaccine. For example, the supposedly no-mercury flu vaccine (Flucelvax) may have mercury, and it does have a number of other questionable ingredients.
Comments below address these falsely advertised, supposedly safer/better vaccines.
Sample Comment- Flucelvax is cell based and a quadrivalent, it does not contain thimerosal/preservatives.
Actually, it depends on what size (amount) of vaccine your pharmacist or doctor purchases. Some quantities DO contain mercury. You need to read the actual insert that comes with the vaccine to find that hidden fact.
Some like to claim that it is only "trace amounts" because that sounds more reasonable, when in fact...
QUOTE- "The term “trace amounts” means less than 1 microgram (mcg). Thimerosal-containing flu shots contain what in biochemical terms is actually a massive dose of mercury: 25 mcg. … the Environmental Protection Agency’s maximum exposure limits for methyl mercury is .1 microgram per 1 kilogram of bodyweight, which means a baby would have to weigh 550 pounds to safely absorb 25 micrograms of mercury." Source
OTHER INGREDIENTS
Then there are a number of questionable ingredients that can make me squirm. Example- dog kidney cells, a cancer causing agent and serum from bovine (cow) fetus blood collected at slaughterhouses.
Flucelvax ingredients include- (medium for growth)- "cells from normal female adult Cocker Spaniel (harvested in 1958 by SH Madin and NB Darby), EMEM(EBSS) (Eagle's Minimum Essential Medium with Earle's Balanced Salt Solution), glutamine, non essential amino acids, foetal bovine serum"...
AND... B-propiolactone, cetyltrimethylammonium bromide, phosphate buffered saline...
AND... (additional ingredients) MDCK cell protein, protein other than HA, MDCK cell DNA, polysorbate 80, cetyltrimethylammonium bromide, B-propiolactone".
To help explain... B-propiolactone is anticipated to be a human carcinogen.
AND... About cetyltrimethylammonium bromide- animal testing has shown ingestion of less than 150 g of the agent can lead to adverse health effects or possibly death by CTAB causing chemical burns throughout the esophagus and gastrointestinal tract that can be followed by nausea and vomiting.
AND... MDCK is actually Madin-Darby Canine Kidney Epithelial Cells- Dog's kidney cells, protein and dog kidney DNA.
If anyone would like to know what is in a vaccine you can check out the ingredients here....
BASIC RULE TO FOLLOW
IF YOU WON'T EAT IT, DON'T INJECT IT.