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underpants

(182,877 posts)
Tue Feb 3, 2015, 02:16 PM Feb 2015

Well here you go - Rush, Obama caused vaxx hysteria and Central Amer. immigrants brought into the US

People here might think in crazy for even listening to him but I guarantee that this will be all over Fox News (in some form) by tonight.

Rush read a Huff Post article from 2008 quoting Obama and Hillary saying that there were concerns about Mercury in the vaxx preservatives causing autism. He then read the quotes - both said that it needs to be further studied. His listeners heard what he told them in the lead up and that is all they will remember.

He alluded to the old RW talking point about how the child immigrants from Central America brought measles and other diseases with them. Then he flat out stated that they did.

This last point has been debunked both by the complete lack of any out break occurring or evidence that this outbreak is in any way linked to them. And. The following - the Central American kids have a higher percentage if vaccinations for measles than kids in the US. They also have a higher percentage of all vaccinations than kids in many US states including Texas.
http://www.texasobserver.org/disease-threat-immigrant-children-wildly-overstated/

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Well here you go - Rush, Obama caused vaxx hysteria and Central Amer. immigrants brought into the US (Original Post) underpants Feb 2015 OP
Yes there was enough concern to remove mercury (Thimerosal) from vaccines in 1992. gordianot Feb 2015 #1

gordianot

(15,243 posts)
1. Yes there was enough concern to remove mercury (Thimerosal) from vaccines in 1992.
Tue Feb 3, 2015, 02:33 PM
Feb 2015

The FDA even lists online the mercury content of any vaccines.

See link for the Science: http://www.fda.gov/BiologicsBloodVaccines/SafetyAvailability/VaccineSafety/UCM096228

Rush Limbaugh is and will always be an ignorant ass. May he bite a glass thermometer.

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