Mercury and Autism

Lisa Fine Goldstein, EdWeek.org, January 22, 2003
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In a study that adds to the debate over the origins of autism, researchers have concluded that infants who received vaccines containing a mercury-based preservative did not have unsafe mercury levels in their blood.
 
The study addresses the concern of parents who believe that mercury caused autism in their children. Vaccinations are given around age 2, which is also when the symptoms of autism often first appear. But the study of 61 infants—published Nov. 30 in the British medical journal The Lancet—found that they naturally rid themselves of the mercury faster than previously thought.
 

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