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    Open Access Review Article Article ID: OJBS-1-105

    Environmental Toxicants and Infant Mortality in the USA

    David Kennedy, Stephanie Seneff, Robert M Davidson*, John W Oller Jr., Boyd E Haley and Roger D Masters

    Despite enjoying a high standard of living, the United States ranks 46th among nations reporting infant survival rates to the World Health Organization. Among factors that increase infant mortality are  environmental toxicants. Toxic metals such as mercury, aluminum, and lead interact synergistically with fluoride compounds to produce metal fluoride complexes (e.g., AlF3 and AlF4−). Such toxicants act as biophosphate mimetics disrupting biological signaling processes governing development, immune defenses, and ordinary maintenance systems. Sources for the metals include mother’s mercury amalgams, mercury and aluminum in injected medicines, and lead contaminated drinking water. All of them are made even more toxic by fluorides as evidenced recently by water contamination in Flint, Michigan. Fluorides interact with other toxins increasing their harmful impact. Among the interactants are glyphosate and phosphate containing fertilizers that end up in the food and water because of their widespread use in agriculture. The negative synergy for neonates in the U.S. is increased by the hepatitis B injection containing both mercury and aluminum, and infant formula contaminated with aluminum and the glyphosate in genetically modified soy milk reconstituted with water containing fluoride, aluminum, lead, and other toxic substances. The harmful interactions of such chemicals are associated with rising infant mortality in the U.S. We propose, therefore, a modest but urgent policy change: under TSCA §5, silicofluoride addition to public water supplies should be suspended.

    Keywords: Aluminum; Fluorosilicic acid; Glyphosate; Hepatitis-B vaccine; Infant mortality; Lead; mercury; Phosphate fertilizers; Silicofluoride; Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS); Sudden unexpected infant death syndrome (SUID); Synergy; Toxicant; Vaccines

    Published on: Nov 24, 2016 Pages: 36-61

    Full Text PDF Full Text HTML DOI: 10.17352/ojbs.000005
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