Intro:
OVER 120 nations have agreed to have legally binding measures to control
the pollution by mercury, a neurotoxin. Formal negotiations for the treaty will
begin in 2010.
The agreement, reached at the 25th session of the Governing Council of
the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) in the Kenyan
capital, Nairobi, is a change from previous years, when major powers, including
the US, China and India, sought voluntary reductions. On February 18, they
agreed to consider the binding treaty.
Some countries, including
A consensus was reached after the US supported the call to ban mercury
use worldwide. Changing its stand, the new
“This came as a surprise,” said Pastore.
“Several non-profits said they were floored during the
The treaty would mandate signatory countries to follow measures to phase
out the toxic pollutant.
An Inter-governmental Negotiating Committee will begin formal
negotiations on the treaty in 2010, which will be wrapped up by 2013. The
committee will devise modalities for phasing out mercury in terms of addressing
the anthropogenic sources of the chemical, capacity building and technical and
financial assistance to countries.
On behalf of developing countries,
Widely used in chemical production and small-scale mining, mercury is
also known to affect the cardio-vascular system. It persists in the environment
once released and can travel long distances. Thus even countries which release
little or no mercury and areas far away from industrial activities are at the
risk of being contaminated. The
Reference: Adapted from: http://www.downtoearth.org.in/full6.asp?foldername=20090315&filename=news&sec_id=4&sid=3
More on Vaccine
and Autism link
African-American
Autism and Vaccines*
By: Robert
F. Kennedy, Jr.
By concealing
the link between vaccines and autism in African-American boys, the CDC had once
again violated that public trust.
Last August, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention senior
scientist, Dr. William Thompson, invoked federal whistleblower status and
confessed that the CDC has known since 2001 that Black boys exposed to the MMR
vaccine have a disproportionate risk of autism.
Thompson, a
17-year CDC veteran is the author of some of the leading studies cited by the
CDC to exculpate vaccines from the autism epidemic. Thompson, who still works
at the CDC, released the raw data sets that he says his bosses at the CDC
ordered him to conceal. Those data show that Black boys who received the MMR
vaccine before 3 years of age, as the CDC recommends, were 3.36 times more
likely to receive an autism diagnosis than those who received the vaccine after
3 years of age. This effect was not observed in other race
categories. Nevertheless, when the CDC scientists published their results
in the journal Pediatrics in 2004, they omitted the damaging data, fraudulently
declaring there was no risk of autism from the MMR vaccination. In August 2014,
Thompson issued a press release through his attorney stating,
I regret
that my co-authors and I omitted statistically significant information in our
2004 article published in the journal Pediatrics. The omitted data suggested
that African-American males who received the MMR vaccine before age 36 months
were at increased risk for autism.”
The buried
data were disturbing, but hardly surprising. The most reliable studies in the
scientific literature indicate that African-Americans are more susceptible to
vaccine injury and may also have increased susceptibility to neurological
disorders such as autism.
A 2010
nationwide study of the CDC’s Autism and Developmental Disability
Monitoring Network found autism incidence about 25 percent higher in
African-Americans than Caucasians. A 2014 study published in Pediatrics showed
higher rates of all categories of autism among African-Americans in Los Angeles
County compared with Caucasians, with the incidence of severe autism elevated
by 263 percent among foreign-born Blacks and 152 percent for U.S.-born Blacks
as compared with U.S.-born whites.
A 2010 study
in the Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health showed that Blacks were
at significantly greater risk for regressing into autism after receiving
the thimerosal-containing Hepatitis B vaccination series as
infants. When analyzed further, the data showed that Black boys receiving the Hep B series were 53 percent more likely to have autism
than those Black boys not receiving any HepB shot.
On the basis
of all the population data and the CDC’s most recent autism incidence
estimates, at least 100,000 African-American male children could have been
spared debilitating neurological injury if the CDC scientists had told the
truth when the increased risk was first known to them in 2001.
Thompson has
requested to testify before Congress about corruption at CDC and has handed
over to Congress thousands of pages of documents showing widespread fraud in
CDC’s vaccine division.
It’s
not the first time the CDC has concealed vaccine risks from African-Americans.
Less than 10 years ago, in June 1996, African-Americans in Los Angeles learned
that the CDC had been conducting vaccine experiments in their communities.
Beginning in 1989, the CDC conducted an experiment on nearly 1500 Black and
Hispanic infants using an unlicensed measles vaccine without disclosing to
parents that the drug was a high-potency experimental vaccine designed to
overwhelm the baby’s maternal immune system. The CDC only halted its
secret experiment in 1991, when companion clinical trials conducted in Africa
and Haiti showed an increased death rate and severe immune-system disorder
among female infants who received the vaccine. Those children died within
two years after the vaccination.
Source * Down to Earth org, VOL 17 ,NO 20
Thursday, March 05, 2009
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Topics:
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request to the CDC
Ebola Virus GM Bioweapon
Invented by CDC*
Courts Confirm MMR Vaccine
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Post-Ebola Syndrome or Fluoroquinolone Poisoning?*
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