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Mercury Poisoning

Toxicity danger was known as early as April 1930

National Institute of Health (Search for info on Mercury Poisoning)
Contains many reports on toxic affects of Mercury.

National Center for Biotechnology Information (Search for info on Mercury Poisoning)
Many articles are included here indicating the affects of mercury poisoning. The NCBI was established in 1988 as a national resource for molecular biology information, NCBI creates public databases, conducts research in computational biology, develops software tools for analyzing genome data, and disseminates biomedical information - all for the better understanding of molecular processes affecting human health and disease.

Eli Lilly's alleged "cover up and and corruption" of medical & scientific litrature.
The Dallas-based law firm of Waters & Kraus announced today that it has received documents as a result of the discovery process in the case of Counter v. Eli Lilly & Company, et al, currently pending in Brazoria County, Texas that come from the archives of Eli Lilly & Company.

The documents clearly demonstrate that Lilly's thimerosal product, the mercury-based vaccine preservative implicated in a number of recent law suits as causing neurological injury to infants, was known as early as April 1930 to be dangerous.

They never revealed to the scientific community or the public the highly questionable nature of the original research."

While Eli Lilly made every effort to corrupt the medical and scientific literature, the process of arranging to publish the results of its questionable secret study, other researchers have provided Lilly with numerous articles since the 1930's indicating concerns about thimerosal and its potential hazard to humans who might be exposed or injected with the substance.

Mercury Poisoning and Heavy Metal Toxicity
A National Academy of Sciences study published in July, 2001 estimates that up to 60,000 children born in the USA each year may be affected by mercury toxicity, and recently (Mar 1, 2002) an environmental group had charged the FDA of failing to warn the public of the dangers of mercury contamination from eating tuna,which contain high levels of mercury.

Workshop questions the use of Mercury in health care
Article by Ratna Singh - Published in www.toxicslink.org , 02/07/2004
On June 30, Toxics link organized a workshop, at the India International Centre, to raise the issue of usage of mercury in the healthcare sector. The panelists included Dr M. Suba Rao, Additional Director, MoEF; Dr T.K. Joshi, Director of Centre for Occupational and Environmental Health; Dr Sudhir Joseph, Deputy Director of St. Stephen's Hospital; and Ravi Agarwal, Director of Toxics Link.

Mercury Poisoning - The Minamata Japan Tragedy
In 1907 the Chisso Corporation built a factory in the small fishing village of Minamata, Japan along the shore of Minamata Bay. Fish populations began to decline in 1925, by 1950 fish began to float to the surface, shellfish and other aquatic organisms began to perish. Cats were the first land animals to show signs of distress, in 1952 they began having convulsions, whirling in violent circles, slobbering, becoming disoriented and throwing themselves into the sea. By 1953 dogs, pigs, birds and other animals started exhibiting the same strange behavior. Virtually no cats to be found in Minamata, Japan as of 1958.

A little girl age five years and eleven months old; who had been very bright suddenly showed signs of brain damage, and started having the same symptoms as the Minamata cats in 1956; this is the first documented case of human mercury contamination. Soon after her diagnosis, many more children began to demonstrate symptoms of the strange disease; babies were born with it and eventually adults started to show the same symptoms.

The Chisso Corporation was finally linked as the source of the disease because of their dumping of mercury into Minamata Bay and its contributory waters. Chisso began dumping mercury into the waters beginning in the 1930's and continued to dump through out most of the 1960's. Chisso denied all allegations for as long as they possibly could. The poisoning became known as Minamata Disease, and its victims rallied together and took the Chisso Corporation to court to sue for damages. It wasn't until March 20, 1973 that the victims triumphed and won their case. As of 1992 the number of people officially diagnosed as having Minamata disease totaled 2,252 people; 1,043 were dead and another 12,127 people were waiting to be tested. As recently as March of 1997, the number of people still waiting to be tested was 1,968.

Efforts were made to restore the bay; in 1974 a three-mile long net was placed around the bay to contain contaminated fish. After 53 years of being considered deadly waters, in 1998 the bay was declared safe again. Chisso finally took responsibility and have made their final payments.

Also see Diedre Imus Environmental Center for Pediatric Oncology and click on Impact of Toxins or Hazard Glossary including the link to The Dangers of Mercury.