DO VACCINES OVERLOAD THE IMMUNE SYSTEM?
Vaccines contain few antigens compared with the barrage of germs an infant encounters in the cleanest of homes.5 A fact sheet from the Vaccine Education Center at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia puts it succinctly: In fact, babies are capable of responding to millions of different viruses and bacteria because they have billions of immunologic cells circulating in their bodies. Therefore, the vaccines given in the first two years of life are literally a raindrop in the ocean of what an infant’s immune system successfully encounters in the environment every day. DOES THE MERCURY IN THIMEROSAL (A VACCINE PRESERVATIVE) CAUSE BRAIN DAMAGE? Excessive mercury exposure can lead to brain and kidney damage. Because the unborn fetus is particularly susceptible, three federal agencies have developed guidelines, which leave a margin for safety, regarding how much methyl mercury a fetus could be exposed to with out suffering any known health effect. Because each guideline was developed using
