Once in the human body, mercury acts as a neurotoxin, interfering with the brain and nervous system.

Exposure to mercury can be particularly hazardous for pregnant women and small children. During the first several years of life, a child’s brain is still developing and rapidly absorbing nutrients. Prenatal and infant mercury exposure can cause mental retardation, cerebral palsy, deafness and blindness. Even in low doses, mercury may affect a child’s development, delaying walking and talking, shortening attention span and causing learning disabilities.

In adults, mercury poisoning can adversely affect fertility and blood pressure regulation and can cause memory loss, tremors, vision loss and numbness of the fingers and toes. A growing body of evidence suggests that exposure to mercury may also lead to heart disease. ( source )

Many health officials also believe the mercury in thimerosal administered to children as part of routine/required childhood vaccinations plays a large role in causing autism and the United States Environmental Protection Agency considers mercury toxic enough to mention it specifically in its Primary Drinking Water Standards.

Sources of Mercury in Our Lives

Although a naturally occuring element, it typically enters the environment as a waste product from industrial processes and poorly run gold mining operations.

The majority of mercury poisoning cases result from people eating fish containing large amounts of mercury and drinking water contaminated with mercury. We have not found evidence of acute mercury poisoning resulting from vaccinations containing thimerosal. Note that we specified ACUTE cases of mercury poisoning.

Other Possible Articles of Interest:

• MCL for Mercury in Drinking Water
• Information About Mercury in the Environment
• Testing for Mercury and Other Metals in Water
• Mercury Found in All Fish Tested in US Freshwater Streams
• Mercury Contamination in Fish
• H1N1 Flu Vaccine Will Contain Mercury

Some of the vaccine will be stored in multi-dose vials containing thimerosal, an antibacterial additive that contains mercury. But there will also be single-dose syringes without thimerosal, a substance that some assert is harmful to children. ( source )

Not sure what this means or why people have gotten upset about the use of compounds such as thimerosal in vaccines? Read on…

As it has been abundantly proven, mercury and its derivatives are responsible for autism in children and many other neurological diseases, such as the Gulf War Syndrome.
H1N1 Flu Vaccine Will Contain Mercury Mercury in its most common form -thimerosal- is put in almost all vaccines made available to the public, usually as a preservative. As it was recently unveiled by the Washington Post, many doses of the new H1N1 vaccine will be stored in multi dose vials which will contain thimerosal. ( source )

The decision to believe whether or not the presence of mercury in the form of thimerosal, or any other form, has caused as much harm as some experts claim rests solely with the individual… but with so much overwhelming evidence pointing guilty fingers in the direction of mercury exposure, one would have a hard time believing that mercury exposure had no ill efffects on the human body.

Therefore, we suggest people educate themselves and weigh the facts about thimerosal and mercury before making up their minds about the H1N1 vaccine. We ALSO (naturally) suggest people test their water for the presence of mercury since pretty much all ACUTE cases of mercury poisoning happen as a result of exposure to mercury in the environment.

Test Kit for Mercury in Water

Test Kit for Metals in Water