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Study finds no evidence aluminum salts in vaccines are tied to higher risk of asthma, other childhood diseases (www.statnews.com)

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[–] perestroika@slrpnk.net 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Nice to have confirmation.

For those who haven't heard, adjuvants can increase the efficiency of a vaccine - producing stronger immunity with less active ingredient.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immunologic_adjuvant

...and one of the fairly boring adjuvants is aluminum hydroxide. People ingest it if they have too much stomach acid. In a vaccine, its presence helps stabilize proteins in a solution (prevents them from precipitating out) and provokes the interest of the immune system, causing a local secretion of uric acid from tissue, which in turn attracts monocytes and dendrite cells.