Aluminum Vaccine Adjuvants: Are they Safe?

New paper by Vancouver neuroscientist Chris Shaw, and Tomljenovic continues raising critical questions about the assumed safety of aluminum, which is in virtually all vaccines these days, and the demonstrated neurotoxic effects of aluminum, which are at least as bad, probably worse, than mercury (thimerosol):

ABSTRACT:Aluminum is an experimentally demonstrated neurotoxin and the most commonly used vaccine adjuvant. Despite almost 90 years of widespread use of aluminum adjuvants, medical science's understanding about their mechanisms of action is still remarkably poor. There is also a concerning scarcity of data on toxicology and pharmacokinetics of these compounds. In spite of this, the notion that aluminum in vaccines is safe appears to be widely accepted. Experimental research, however, clearly shows that aluminum adjuvants have a potential to induce serious immunological disorders in humans. In particular, aluminum in adjuvant form carries a risk for autoimmunity, long-term brain inflammation and associated neurological complications and may thus have profound and widespread adverse health consequences. In our opinion, the possibility that vaccine benefits may have been overrated and the risk of potential adverse effects underestimated, has not been rigorously evaluated in the medical and scientific community. We hope that the present paper will provide a framework for a much needed and long overdue assessment of this highly contentious medical issue.

In the paper this is also said:

"Another issue of concern is the lack of any toxicological evaluation about concomitant administration of aluminum with other known toxic compounds which are routine constituents of commercial vaccine preparations, e.g., formaldehyde, formalin, mercury, phenoxyethanol, phenol, sodium borate, polysorbate 80, glutaraldehyde "

Current Medicinal Chemistry pp.2630-2637 (8) Authors: L. Tomljenovic, C. A. Shaw

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