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Originally Posted by Rudeboyelvis
Unless you are talking about vaccines that DON'T contain mercury-based Thimerosal, Aluminum and Formaldehyde (which would be virtually NONE of them as the ALL do), then yes. Toxins.
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This sentence reflects a lot of scientific ignorance. Let's shed some light, shall we?
Here's a start: there's ethylmercury, and there's methylmercury. One accumulates in the body, and one does not. One is in thimerosol and one is not. Guess which one? There was never any danger with thimerosol; it was taken out as a precaution, which turned out to be unfounded, which is why it's still in some vaccines, like the flu vaccine. Know what actually can kill you? The flu. You ingest more mercury (the dangerous kind) from tuna fish or from breaking a fluorescent light bulb.
Aluminum is used as an adjuvant to improve the vaccine's efficacy. It's also present in a lot of other things. An infant gets more aluminum from breast milk than he does from vaccines (4mg vs 10mg, higher for formula fed babies, and much higher for soy-based formula). And if you've ever taken Maalox, you've ingested 200 mg of aluminum in a single dose.
Our own bodies produce formaldehyde when we digest citrus. It's essential to forming DNA and amino acids. A 6 year old child naturally has more formaldehyde in his blood than in all of the childhood vaccines combined. Hell, a single APPLE has more formaldehyde than a child would ever get in a doctor's visit from vaccines.
And here is where scientific ignorance becomes really clear. Toxicity is about dose, not substance. Formaldehyde is harmless, nay, NECESSARY in certain levels, dangerous at high levels (like for people who work in construction or smokers).
When it comes to vaccines, the only "toxin" is the actual disease the vaccine is protecting the child against. That's why there's aluminum in some vaccines- it reduces the amount of the actual toxin (the virus) necessary to spark our amazing immune system's reaction.
So no. None of those things you cited are toxins in vaccines.