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• n  a light-colored crystalline powder (trade name Merthiolate) used as a surgical antiseptic

• The thimerosal provision, though, has triggered a new layer of furor.
• While the amount of the additive, called thimerosal, in a single vaccine poses no threat, it's remotely possible that the accumulated mercury in multiple inoculations might cause .
• Another friend's doctor, meanwhile, informed her that all childrens' flu shots contain thimerosal.

• sodium ethylmercurithiosalicylate
• Merthiolate

News & Articles

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• Will mercury be removed from vaccines?
  Phased out of childhood immunizations in the US, thimerosal has become a subject of heated debate around the globe        
  June 30, 2013 - Salon.com

Quotes

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• Paul Offit in News1130
  During the next few years, thimerosal will probably be removed from influenza vaccines, and the court cases will probably settle down,Offit writes. "But the thimerosal controversy should stand as a cautionary tale of how not to communicate...
• Dan Burton in OpEdNews
  We all know and accept that mercury is a neurotoxin, and yet the FDA has failed to recall the 50 vaccines that contain Thimerosal,Burton wrote.
• Boyd Haley in YourHub.com
  You couldn't even construct a study that shows thimerosal is safe,says Haley, who heads the chemistry department at the University of Kentucky. "It's just too darn toxic. If you inject thimerosal into an animal, its brain will sicken. If...