Precaution could cost more lives: Why a UN ban on thimerosal in vaccines would be a big mistake

(Before It's News)

At Double X Science: 

Several articles published in Pediatrics today discuss an issue that could affect the protection of children everywhere from vaccine-preventable diseases. The posts center on a controversy that keeps coming up related to vaccines – the use of thimerosal in them.
All three Pediatrics articles deal with the same thing: an international treaty drafted by the United Nation Environmental Program’s Global Mercury Partnership to reduce mercury pollution and environmental mercury exposure across the world. Great! This is an important and valuable initiative – except for one part. As part of the treaty, the UN wants to ban the use of thimerosal, a mercury-containing preservative, used in vaccines. Not so good. The short version for why? This proposed ban threatens millions of children’s lives across the world, including children in the U.S. and in other developed countries. I’ll get to the long version in a moment…

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