UNITED STATES BANS THE LAST REMAINING MERCURY-CONTAINING VACCINE IN USE, WILL NIGERIA CONTINUE TO LOAD THESE TOXIC PRODUCTS INTO THE BRAINS OF OUR BABIES?

The US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., on Tuesday July 22 2025, banned thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative, from all U.S. vaccines due to its potential neurotoxicity risks.  This is a bold move that the US had been scared to take for two decades, principally on concerns that this might jerk awake, developing countries who are the main recipients of mercury-laced vaccines produced for them by the developed nations. [Watch RFK’s announcement at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvzUjHFI9l0&t=4s]

For 10 years, LivingScience Foundation has been at the vanguard of the advocacy for the removal of the deadly neurotoxin, mercury, from vaccines administered to our babies in Nigeria.  Three years ago, we raised the matter very strongly at our annual National Conference on Environment and Health.  Unfortunately, the NAFDAC, rather than siding with Nigeria’s babies, took the matter as a personal attack on her, and went about beating around the bush, ignoring the issue at hand.  In truth, the matter predated the establishment of the NAFDAC, and with the strong global players involved, it is evident that the matter is beyond NAFDAC to resolve.  NAFDAC’s statement on mercury in vaccines, and our response can be found here (https://www.nafdac.gov.ng/press-release-by-director-general-nafdac-on-the-presence-of-mercury-in-vaccines-iin-nigeria/) and here (https://lsfnigeria.org/response_to_nafdac_s_statement).

Our case in Nigeria is far worse than the American situation, painstakingly catalogued and graphically described by the US Secretary for Health and Human Services. America had already banned, for nearly 25 years, the use of mercury as vaccine preservatives in all of their vaccines – except the flu vaccine.  And even then, for the flu vaccine, a mercury-free version is also made available for those who are informed on the subject and are willing to pay out of their pocket (rather than from their health insurance) for the product.  In Nigeria, on the other hand, not just our flu vaccine (all of it), but also vaccines administered directly to children are laced with mercury.  These include the Tetanus-Diphtera vaccine and the Hepatitis B vaccine.  The latter is administered to totally helpless babies at birth!

LivingScience wishes to seize the opportunity of this heart-warming development from the United States to appeal that Nigerians arise, and demand an end to this evil menace.  Those among us who have dined with the devil for too long on the matter to start retracing their steps at this time, can at least keep quiet if they are unable to own up to their past errors.  We should heed this passionate appeal from Robert F. Kennedy:

“Now that the US has removed mercury from all vaccines, we urge global health authorities to follow suit for the protection of children around the world. We urge the World Health Organization and GAVI to stop their programs of injecting mercury into more than 100 million black and brown babies in developing countries annually….”

There is no question about it, mercury robs people of their brain, severely degrading their quality of life, and their destiny.  Now with everything so clearly spelt out, will Nigerians rise to demand that our government stop pandering to Mr Bill Gates directives, and save our children, our future from this pervasive corruption?  Will NAFDAC this time do the right thing, and stop the hypocrisy of straining out gnats, by running after mercury-containing soaps and cosmetics, while swallowing camels, by allowing our babies to be injected with the same toxic substance?

LivingScience

4^th August, 2025