| 11. | Currently there is no accepted scientific evidence that exposure to thiomersal is a factor in causing autism.
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| 12. | Ethylmercury is one of the metabolites of thiomersal, which is used as a preservative in some vaccines.
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| 13. | Thiomersal is the ethylmercury-releasing compound sodium ethylmercuric thiosalicylate, C 9 H 9 HgNaO 2 S.
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| 14. | Outside of the United States, worries about thiomersal had not gained any significant traction as of 2009.
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| 15. | The pharmaceutical corporation Eli Lilly and Company gave thiomersal the trade name "'Merthiolate " '.
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| 16. | US courts have ruled against multiple representative test cases involving thiomersal, suggesting the majority are unlikely to succeed.
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| 17. | And then, of course, there's the ever-popular Thiomersal-in-vaccines controversy.
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| 18. | Also, four rarely used treatments for pit viper, coral snake, and black widow venom still contain thiomersal.
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| 19. | These reviews determined that no significant evidence exists to establish thiomersal as the cause of autism or other neurodevelopmental disorders.
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| 20. | There were seven well-constructed studies, which attempted to correlate autism to thiomersal in vaccines and were unsuccessful.
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