Why is Mercury More Dangerous in Children?
Fetuses, infants and small children are more sensitive to mercury because their brains are still developing. Vaccines with mercury have been considered to contribute to autism, learning disabilities, Alzheimer s Disease, and other neurological conditions, and an FDA review conducted in 1998 determined that, at the time, children who received the full complement of childhood vaccines were potentially exposed to levels of mercury that were sometimes 30 to 50 times the acceptable levels established by the EPA. The number of children that have been affected by autism had made a drastic jump from 1 in 2,000 in 1970 to 1 in 250 in 2000, and the number of children diagnosed with learning disabilities is now 1 in 5.
