Eli Lilly and company is the main developer In 1929 it was registered under its trade name Merthiolate and sold as a huge antibacterial, antifungal product to many stores and markets for pharmaceutical needs. Thimerosal which is a compound substance is used as preservation in vaccines for a long time. A vaccine containing thimerosal has “50 micrograms of thimerosal per 0.5 mL dose.” Say the FDA of U.S food and Drug administration. And this preservation prevents the invasion if bacteria and blocks any contamination. However it contains 49.6% mercury by weight. Mercury comes in three unique forms; Elemental found in thermometer and tooth fillings. Inorganic found mostly in batteries and disinfectants. Organic which is methylmercury grown of fish, it is also used in pesticides, fungicides; last but not least it’s in insecticides. Mercury poisoning is entered into your immune system three different ways inhalation, injection and skin absorbsion. Mercury is used in vaccines for its disinfecting powers; mercury is also in other products as well. The mercury toxicity usually effects the gastrointestinal neurologic, and the renal organ …show more content…
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“Eli Lilly-sponsored doctors, who injected it into 22 patients with meningitis. The human experiments failed to prove that thimerosal was nontoxic. Nonetheless researchers H.M. Powell and W.A. Jamieson (Lilly 's employee) published a study in September 1931 in the American Journal of Hygiene that stated thimerosal had a “low order of toxicity” for humans, without mentioning that the human subjects were ill and subsequently died”(In These