Re: Key realities about autism, vaccines, vaccine-injury compensation, Thimerosal, and autism-related research----Gary S. Goldman, Ph.D & P.G. King PhD.

Fifth, with respect to the myth's claim, "by 2002 no new childhood vaccines

with Thimerosal were being sold in the U.S.," this is also false because, 
among other Thimerosal-containing vaccines that could be given to children

in 2002, the Thimerosal-preserved influenza vaccine, which, by its nature,

is a new vaccine every year, was effectively knowingly added to the 
recommended vaccination schedule for pregnant women as well as to the 
recommended childhood vaccination schedule in April of 200228 at a time
when 
all doses of the influenza vaccine approved for "healthy children aged
6-23 
months" were Thimerosal preserved.

Sixth, compounding the harm, in April of 2002, the CDC's recommendation
that 
the Thimerosal-preserved influenza vaccine be given to pregnant women who 
would be in their second and third trimesters of their pregnancies during 
the influenza season, thereby knowingly recommending the Thimerosal and 
mercury poisoning the developing child in utero when the risk of harm is 
even greater than it is postpartum and the results published in 197729 
clearly found that Thimerosal-preserved influ vaccines that were given to 
pregnant women significantly increased (with a hospital-standardized 
relative risk of 2.0 or higher) their children's risk of serious birth 
defects (cleft palate [RR = 7.1], microcephaly [RR = 2.3], and pyloric 
stenosis [RR = 2.0]).