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Cuidado con el Mercurio: inclusive con los “usos aceptados”
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Taken care of with Mercury: including with? accepted uses?
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Taken care of with Mercury: including with? accepted uses?

In environmentalist matter and of public health much disinformation in specific subjects that exists not yet they are approached in the country. This it is our contribution for the beginning of a necessary discussion that it leads to integral solutions of the problems that we faced.

It is enough well-known as the contact with the skin and the ingestion of mercury causes affections to the human health; equal to the atmosphere, in special to the aquatic fauna. We want to need elements to inform into the dangers of the mining of mercury, their use and commercialization; including the alert sent by the use of organic derivatives of mercury like conservantes in pediátricas vaccines.

The humanity has been using mercury for 2000 years. It is a heavy metal that can be transferred great distances once it is exposed to the atmosphere, and when being based in aquatic means it is transformed into metilmercurio. This powerful neurotoxina contaminates fish and other animals. Soon in the humans when forming these part of its diet. It affects the nervous system, kidneys and liver. It causes mental upheavals and damages in the motor system, reproductive system, in the speech, the vision and the ear. Also it is possible its contamination by contact with the skin and gas inhalations, product of the use in industrial processes. There are reports of several parts of the world of communities seriously damaged by contamination with mercury, cases of death. In order to complete mercury it does not disappear of the atmosphere, remains where it is deposited, increasing the level of contamination with the passage of time.

At the moment 2500 tons to the year of mercury to the atmosphere are emitted. In the industrialized countries their control and substitution in the processes go ahead to studies for where it is possible. These restrictions, in addition to its low economic yield; it entails to that good part of the production finishes in the countries of the south. In countries nondeveloped, the south of the planet, more we are exposed to this contamination; we do not have norm that regulates the matter nor is control of their emissions to the atmosphere. In the poor countries the emissions are increased between 2.5 and 4.5% every year.

In 2003, the Program of Environment of United Nations PNUMA made? Global evaluation of Mercury? , concluding that? one is far from obtaining an international commitment that it confronts the contamination with mercury implementing measured obligatory that they stop the mining, use and commerce of mercury and destines excessive and the remainders to a safe and permanent storage. The European Union has a director to stop the consumption and commercialization in 2011. Environmentalist groups and social movements already conduct battles to include these agreements in world-wide the political agenda. We asked then: What we are making in Venezuela to approach is situation?

In Venezuela (as in other countries of the south) it is used like a fundamental element for the gold operation. Either denunciations have have done innumerable in this sense, in special on consequences mortal or highly injurious for settlers of zones of operation auriferous, because it has been verified to the fish like effective carriers of the contamination that mercury generates, which is added to the serious error that constitutes for the Venezuelan State, to continue causing the operation of gold in the Mountainous area and Forest of Imataca, River basins of the Paragua, the Caura. On the problematic one which these operations affect the river basin of the Caroní (one of most vital of the country by the presence of hydroelectric dams), the Ministry of the Atmosphere recently is delivering great attacks to put boundary to the mining operation there but even it is left pending task in this aspect.

But there is another aspect that must be of fast boarding by the authorities of public health in the country. The use of pediátricas vaccine used organic mercury derivatives like conservantes. In Europe and the United States, already have been reported cases of neurotoxicidad after the application of these prepared in infants, arising an exigency to review? benefits? and? consequences? of the systematic vaccinations, that we accustomed decades ago in most of the countries of the world.

There are reports that relate multiple and complex risks of the use in general of vaccines, and in individual the related ones to the mercury presence in them. The complexity of the adverse effects is not only with the nature of that bovine drug exceptional called in which we found antigens (bacteria, virus), conservantes (mercury), adjuvant (aluminum) and other substances. Also it is with the characteristics of the method, between which it honors the administration of vaccines combined (3, 4, 5, 6 or 7) to very early ages; increasing the concentration of mercury in the body of the children.

It indicates to Doctor Juan Manuel Marín, Spanish specialist in problems of the vaccination, that? to the Viral Triple vaccine a drug of high risk in relation to trombocitopenias is considered him (lowered of plaquetas) and also is related to autistas syndromes and intestinal inflammatory disease; to the vaccine against the ferina cough has been related it to sudden death of the suckling baby, with neurological and respiratory affections; antihepatitis B, with multiple sclerosis and other neurological affections; to the vaccine against difteria is related it to nefróticos syndromes.

We considered that one is due to inform on the possible adverse effects into these vaccines and their reach limited as far as the benefit that reports, so that the citizens decide their sanitary option with conscience. We reflected the recommendations done by a group of experts in Pharmaceutical Care Spain 2000, like conclusion to a valuation of the security of vaccines by its content in Timerosal like conservante, derivative of mercury:

- The timerosal is a potentially toxic conservante, specially during the first 6 months of life.

- He is recommendable to prevent the exhibition in the women embarrassed to the timerosal due to the fast development with the brain of the fetus, very susceptible to the toxicity.

- To always choose alternatives free of timerosal; when this is not possible, to select that presentation with smaller amount of timerosal present.

- To always vaccinate, since in spite of the toxicity of mercury widely it is demonstrated that the risk of not-vaccination of the children surpasses enormously to the theoretical risk of the exhibition to vaccines that contain timerosal.

It is a potential risk, ignored at the time of vaccinating of systematic way the population. Let us remember that to take and to have a healthy life we must take care of our surroundings. He is false to try to correct the damage of the poverty with superficial vaccines and cogoverning measures. Potable water, healthy foods, improvements in the conditions of life and less loaded vaccine boxes are what needs the country like policy public health. Also in vaccines there are economic interests that can be happening over the health of the Venezuelans.

To this we added a final commentary, already referred our dear city. In Mérida the mercuriales remainders product of their necessary use in odontológicos treatments generate another factor of risk. One does not count on a suitable system of disposition for remainders of clinics and odontológicos centers, that are contaminated with mercury product of the massive dental amalgam use. There are no special processes for the retirement, transport and final disposition of such dangerous remainders. Then what we are doing with these remainders?

It is necessary to use the ecological magnifying glass for the contamination with mercury, even to the accepted uses that become of him.

The data are taken from:

MARÍN, Juan Manuel. The risks of vaccines are multiple and complex? (2005). In: The Ecologist for Spain and Latin America. Nº 21

SAFE BEDMAR, Maria ET to. Evaluation of the security of vaccines by its content in timerosal? (2000) In: Pharmaceutical Care Spain; 2: 432-439

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By Pablo Kaplún (Alive Geography) and Julio Alexander Parra (Chair of La Paz ULA)

Text written in 2007, published in the regional press, and that by its present time and importance we reproduce again, by this route. Greetings friends and friends.

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