A study that will be published in the February issue of the
journal Pediatrics has been released early because of the
controversy surrounding the TV series premiering Thursday, which
features a lawyer who argues in court that a flu vaccine made a
child autistic. Apparently, mercury from vaccines seems to
disappear rapidly from the blood, returning to pre-vaccination
levels in one month, according to this study, which was done in
Argentina. The findings bolster the argument that the mercury-
based vaccine preservative thimerosal doesn’t cause autism in
children, Thimerosal, which has been eliminated from routine
U.S. vaccines, breaks down as ethyl mercury in the body. It is
still used in other countries, including Argentina. Scientists
assumed the health risks from ethyl mercury were similar to
methyl mercury from eating fish. And in 1999, the federal
government and vaccine manufacturers agreed that thimerosal
should be reduced or eliminated in vaccines to lower exposure to
mercury from all sources. The decisio