Would you be surprised to learn that vaccine makers are among their corporate donors? And that their...

Would you be surprised to learn that vaccine makers are among their corporate donors? And that their recommendations influence the FDA?

In 1999, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), together with the US Public Health Service, jointly recommended that thimerosal, a vaccine preservative that contains mercury, should be removed from vaccines. In response,the FDA removed thimerosal, or limited it to trace amounts, in all vaccines except flu shots. Now the AAP has reversed itself and says it wants the mercury left in.

In January, the UN Environmental Program will be working on a global treaty to reduce health hazards by banning certain products and processes that release mercury into the environment, and thimerosal in vaccines is one of those products under discussion.

Read more here: http://www.anh-usa.org/ama-wants-to-keep-mercury-in-vaccines/