August, 2008, Gov. Bill Ritter, Jr. appointed SMART Foundation Co-Founder and Vail resident Stephen D. Fretz to the Colorado Autism Commission, in accordance with law S.B. 163, which established the 24 member commission to examine current services in Colorado, and formulate a 10-year plan to address the needs of the growing number of Coloradoans with autism by October 1, 2009. PRESS RELEASE

The following excerpt is from an article in the Shafer Autism Report last week: Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), which is overseeing the development of a H1N1 vaccine, said there would be three forms of the vaccine available. "There are 10-dose vials which have Thimerosal. The other is single-dose vials that don't need Thimerosal, and the other is pre-loaded syringes which don't have Thimerosal."

Speaking on a web cast on pregnancy and swine flu, hosted last month by the US department of health and human sciences, he said: "There are doses that will have Thimerosal and there are doses that don't have Thimerosal. We are preferentially directing the non-Thimerosal doses to children (age six and under) and to pregnant women." Click here for more information about Thimerosal

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