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To: Win Smith who wrote (117)	12/9/2002 12:24:55 PM
From: Win Smith	of 603

Study Suggests Mercury in Vaccine Was Not Harmful nytimes.com small but groundbreaking study of infants who received vaccines containing a mercury-based preservative has found that the levels of mercury in their blood were well within federal safety limits. The study, reported on Saturday in the British medical journal The Lancet, also found that infants excrete the mercury much faster than expected, suggesting that it does not build up from one vaccination to the next. The preservative, thimerosal, is no longer used in American vaccines for infants under 6 months old, but the issue is important to parents of children who did receive thimerosal-containing vaccines as infants and are now autistic. Thousands of those parents have filed damage claims or lawsuits against thimerosal's maker, Eli Lilly & Company, although a clause protecting Lilly from such suits was mysteriously slipped into the domestic security bill signed into law by President Bush on Nov. 25. . . .

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