Vaccine Contents

Source: Concerned Parents for Vaccine Safety.

Some of the vaccines indicating Thimerosal (mercury) have now had the mercury removed or decreased, or so they say.  But also old stocks are still being used they were not recalled.  And many of them have had mercury replaced with 2-PE http://66.70.140.217/a/phenoxyethanol.html

Common vaccines and their production details:

BIAVAX

Rubella and mumps virus vaccine live.  Merck & Company, Inc., 1-800-672-6372.  Produced using neomycin, sorbitol, and 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, and 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,  and 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,* and 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, and 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, and 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, and 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, and 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, and 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, and 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, and 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, and 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),* and phenol red.  Medium:  fetal
rhesus monkey lung cells.

RECOMBIVAX

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

VARIVAX

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

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* Warning:  Thimerosal is a chemical compound that contains 49.6 percent
mercury as a preservative.  Mercury is one of the most dangerous toxins
known to scientists.  This is 100 times the exposure that the Environmental
Protection Agency's Poison Control Center guidelines consider safe for the
average-sized infant, as mercury is known to cause neurotoxicity and brain
damage that mirrors the symptoms of autism.