That's interesting. Does anyone have to hand the data showing how much mercury is in the flu vaccines compared to how much we ingest, or is normally in our body, anyway? If not, I'll have a go at finding out, if I can. My understanding is that the minute amounts of mercury in those vaccines that contain it are trivial compared to the amount we all normally get from elsewhere, but I don't know offhand the figures for flu vaccines in particular.
As a point of interest, the results of 3 separate studies on vaccination of women with the normal seasonal flu vaccine (this isn't the current swine flu vaccine) suggest that it is safer for the woman and the baby if the woman has the vaccine during her pregnancy.
There is a discussion of this here, though I saw the report in a few places recently:
It is important to note, as noted on the article I link, that these are (or were at the time the article was written) not yet published results, but have been presented at a conference. This means the research has not yet been peer-reviewed, and we don't know the quality of journal they will be published in eventually, assuming they get published at all (which doesn't make the results wrong, just indicates that they are work-in-progress - it does make a difference which journal things end up being published in, as one can in general have more confidence in studies published in the very highest ranking journals).
I don't think I had a flu shot last year when I was pregnant. Certainly if I am ever pregnant again I will do some research (I'll look for the published versions of those studies, for starters) and consider getting a shot, if it really is safer for me and for the unborn baby to do so.
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