  A few years back, when queries by urlLink other countries forced our own CDC to finally take possible dangers of thimerozal into consideration, Public Health policy dictated the preservative, which contained urlLink far more mercury than considered safe, and had been implicated in urlLink brain damage similar to or causing autism , be urlLink phased out of vaccine production. This offered a simple, non-extreme solution for parents worried about vaccines: request vaccines that are thimerozal free. The problem is that this preservative is present in other drugs aside from the traditional suite of childhood vaccines. In my own pregnancies, I required injections of antibodies so that my RH Negative blood would not attack my child's blood. These shots traditionally contain thimerozal and I was unable to find out if the hospital had phased out the harmful preservative. Some OTC nasal sprays also have thimerozal as their active preservative. This week the CDC changed their usual stance on urlLink flu vaccines for children from recommending physicians offer it to recommending urlLink physicians advise parents to get it .
This shot contains thimerozal. The rates of the famously severe complications are very low, but statistically speaking, some children will develop autism-like brain damage from this season's flu shots. The Today Show was the most recent to put this word out, but what every news report neglects to say is that the research on which this decision was based said young children take the flu harder, urlLink but are no worse for the wear as there is no mearsurable rise in mortality.
Like many other branches of government, including the defense department, the CDC has been augmented lately with advisory panels and boards on which corporate tycoons that stand to benefit from CDC policy are allowed to sit. This "stakeholder policy" has further corrupted the government and guaranteed the public voice will continue to be stamped out.
Here is exactly why I detest calls for lawsuit reform. Clearly, a devastating class-action lawsuit is the _only_ event that will convince the CDC to outlaw themerozal. Here in Texas, a proposition just passed that limited medical damages in law suits to $250,000 from doctors and $750,000 from insurance agencies. If your child became autistic before the age of five, would the $250,000 you might be able to win in a suit against a physician pay for the medical bills raising a brain damaged child would incur? $250,000 wouldn't even pay for raising a healthy child. Corporations, insurance companies, and legistators combined created a system whereby the only weapon an individual has against the system is a lawsuit.
The law is written so that businesses and corporations are treated as an individual and given the same rights accordingly. Only, the law now gives them all the rights of an individual and additional special interest rights. An individual's wealth and assets would be considered in a jury decision, but for these entities, special limitations are written into the system. So the only weapon a parent might have had to fight the system and stop this reckless behavior has been shackled. 
