The following is a description of the various chemical compounds added to vaccines for stability and other marketing purposes that have nothing to do with children's health. The information compiled by Dawn Winkler of Concerned Parents for Vaccine Safety, was obtained from the 1997 Physician's Desk Reference. It is a representative, not a comprehensive, list of the various types of vaccines. For several entries, there is direct contact numbers. At the end of the chart is the contact information for Concerned Parents for Vaccine Safety.

Who Are The Manufactures of These Vaccines ?

BIAVAX

Rubella and mumps virus vaccine live. Merck & Company, Inc., 1-800-672-6372. Produced using neomycin, sorbitol, hydrolyzed gelatin.

Medium: human diploid cells (originating from human aborted fetal tissue)

DPT

Diphtheria and tetanus toxoids acellular pertussis vaccine adsorbed. SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals, 1-800-366-8900, extension 5231. Produced using aluminum phosphate, formaldehyde, ammonium sulfate, washed sheep red blood cells, glycerol, sodium chloride, thimerosol)*. Medium: porcine (pig) pancreatic hydrolysate of casein.

FLUSHIELD

Influenza Virus Vaccine, Trivalent, Types A & B. Wyeth-Ayerst, 1-800-934-5556. Produced using gentamicin sulfate, formaldehyde, po!ysorbate 80, tri(n)butylphosphate, (thimerosol)*. Medium: chick embryos.

FLU VIRIN

Influenza Virus Vaccine. Medeva Pharmaceuticals, 1 -888-MEDEVA (716- 274-5300). Produced using embroyonic fluid (chicken egg), neomycin, polymyxin, (thimerosol)*, betapropiolactone. Medium: embryonic fluid (chicken egg).

HAVRIX

Hepatitis A. SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals, 1-800-366-8900, extension 5231. Produced using formalin, aluminum hydroxide, phenoxyethanol (antifreeze), polysorbate 20, residual MRC5 proteins (from medium). Medium: human diploid cells (originating from human aborted fetal tissue).

IM0 VAX

Rabies Vaccine Adsorbed. Connaught Laboratories, 1-800-822-2463. Produced using human albumin, neomycin sulfate, phenol red indicator. Medium: human diploid cells (originating from human aborted fetal tissue).

IPOL

Inactivated Polio Vaccine. Connaught Laboratories, 1-800-822-2463. Produced using three types of polio virus, formaldehyde, phenoxyethanol (anti-freeze), neomycin, streptomycin, polymyxin B. Medium: VERO cells, a continuous line of monkey kidney cells.

MERUVAX II

Rubella Virus Vaccine Live. Merck & Company, 1-800-672-6372. Produced using neomycin, sorbitol, hydrolyzed gelatin. Medium: human diploid cells (originating from human aborted fetal tissue).

M-R VAX

Measles and Rubella Virus Vaccine Live. Merck & Company, 1-800-672-6372. Produced using neomycin, sorbitol, hydrolyzed gelatin. Mediums: M & M - chick embryo. Rubella-human diploid cells (originating from human aborted fetal tissue).

MMR

Measles Mumps Rubella Live Virus Vaccination. Merck & Company, 1-800-672-6372. Produced using sorbitol, neomycin, hydrolyzed gelatin.

Mediums: M & M - chick embryo. Rubella-human diploid cells (originating from human aborted fetal tissue).

MUMPSVAX

Mumps Virus Vaccine Live. Merck & Company, 1-800-672-6372. Produced using neomycin, sorbitol, hydrolyzed gelatin.

Medium: human diploid cells (originating from human aborted fetal tissue).

ORIMUNE

Poliovirus Vaccine Live Oral Trivalent. Lederle Laboratories, 1-800-934-5556. Produced using three types of attenuated polioviruses, streptomycin, neomycin, calf serum, sorbitol. Medium: monkey kidney cell culture.

Rabies Vaccine Adsorbed

SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals, 1-800-366-8900, extension 5231. Produced using betapropiolactone, aluminum phosphate, sodium ethylmercurithiosalicyate (thimerosol)*, phenol red. Medium: fetal rhesus monkey lung cells.

RECOMBIVAX

Hepatitis B Vaccine Recombinant. Merck & Company, 1-800-672-6372. Produced using (thimerosol)*, aluminum hydroxide. Medium: yeast (residual < 1 percent yeast protein)

VARIVAX

Varicella Virus Vaccine Live. Merck & Company, 1-800-672-6372. Produced using sucrose, phosphate, glutamate, processed gelatin. Medium: human diploid cells (originating from human aborted fetal tissue).

*Note: This chemical compound, thimerosal contains 49.6 percent mercury as a preservative, which is one of the most dangerous toxins known to scientists.

Warning: This is 100 times the exposure that the Environmental Protection Agency's Poison Control Center's guidelines consider safe for the average-sized infant, as mercury is known to cause neurotoxicity and brain damage that mirrors the symptoms of autism.

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You Decide!!

IMMUNIZATION WAIVERS:

Many active duty, Guard and Reservists (officers and enlisted) have made it known they plan to refuse the Anthrax and possibly other vaccinations. This must be a personal choice, we encourage you to investigate whatever decision you make. There are those who have already declined the shots. They went to the Judge Advocate's office and utilized the "religious and moral objection" route. This will automatically make you ineligible for world-wide status.

Perhaps there is no more stronger statement that we could make than to have a half a million of our military which can serve only in CONUS.

I am not encouraging you to disobey a direct order. however, the Pentagon has lied to us for the last six and a half years, why are we to believe they are telling the truth now. Read the information that exists on Anthrax with regard to safety and efficacy and then make an informed decision yourself.