Study finds no evidence aluminum salts in vaccines are tied to higher risk of asthma, other childhood diseases

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It is a short article well worth your time if interested.



Study finds no evidence aluminum salts in vaccines are tied to higher risk of asthma, other childhood diseases
Aluminum increases some shots’ effectiveness and should be seen as safe, researchers say

https://www.statnews.com/2025/07/14/aluminum-in-vaccines-large-danish-study-finds-no-link-to-autism-asthma-allergies/?twclid=2-co2t6t8zu0s1i9q6ho21hi9d


By Helen Branswell July 14, 2025



When anti-vaccine activists and others argue that the immunizations used to protect children from infectious diseases are risky, they often point to aluminum salts, a product added to many childhood vaccines to increase their effectiveness.

A new large study from Denmark directly counters those claims. After mining the vaccination and medical records of more than 1.2 million children over a 24-year period, researchers could see no evidence that exposure to aluminum in vaccines led to a statistically significant increase in a child’s risk of developing any of a wide variety of conditions that can be diagnosed in childhood, including asthma and autism.


None of the 50 conditions the group looked at — broadly categorized as relating to autoimmune diseases, allergy, and neurodevelopmental disorders — occurred at statistically higher levels than would be expected, ruling out moderate or substantially increased risk from exposure to aluminum in vaccines, a finding senior author Anders Hviid described as “quite striking.”

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“We should not be concerned about aluminum used as an adjuvant in childhood vaccines. I think that’s the core message.”

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“This is a rigorous and well-designed study that should put to rest any lingering doubts about the potential risks to children from cumulative aluminum exposure in vaccines,” said Belongia, who was a senior research scientist at the Marshfield Clinic Research Institute in Wisconsin before his recent retirement..................................................






More scientific evidence emerges that vaccines aren’t linked to chronic conditions like asthma and autism.

Will RFK Jr. keep his promise to follow the science?

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[tanyev]

1. Prediction: He will follow the science--as long as it supports what he already believes.

[Igel]

2. "We" have a decent handle on allergies.

Some are genetic, but most are due to underused immune systems early one.

I liked one study that compared Amish and Hutterites. Both have traditionally been agrarian, fairly self-segregating, groups.

Amish kids, it had been noted, have a very low incidence of allergies. They're exposed to barns, farm animals and evidence of wild animals, plants and dirt, from an early age. Hutterites don't put their kids into serious farm work until they're about at puberty, and their incidence allergies is fairly normal for American society. Yes, they make much of their own things, but Hutterites are also less anti-tech. But both groups tend to avoid a lot of the things that RFK Jr. rails against 24/7/365.

Another, early in this line of investigation, looked at a Finnish town and the Russian town on the other side of the border. They had radically different lifestyles. The Finns were very European--nice, neat clean apartments, lots of appliance, easy access to cleaning methods. Children played on well-kept playgrounds, lots of inside time. The Russian side was under-developed, their playgrounds were woods or undeveloped village land and kids were told to either do chores, often outside, or just go out and play. Hygiene and household cleanliness was much less middle-class Finnish. The Finnish kids had far higher rates of asthma and allergies than the Russian kids (which, if it was healthy diet, you'd expect to be flipped ... Oh, wait, preservatives and artificial colors! I jest).

Autism is a punchlist from a set of symptoms, and like "cancer" is very much not a single disease. (Even if some nifty lab animal studies with playing with brain chemistry seems to help across the board, there are likely still lots of causes.)