most common adjuvants
Adjuvants are agents or drugs that have few or no antigenic effects or properties but may have the potential to increase the efficacy or potency of vaccines or other drugs when given at the same time (see Chapter 9). Some of the most common adjuvants used in vaccine preparations are aluminum salts and monophosphoryl lipid (MPL)/QS21 cocktails. The response to potential pandemic flu vaccines has been shown to be much improved by the addition of MF59 (Nicholson et al., 2001; Stephenson et al., 2003; Atmar et al., 2006; Bresson et al., 2006; Baldo et al., 2007).
There are many reasons for this but one of the most dangerous vaccine ingredients appears to the vaccine adjuvants. Vaccine adjuvants are chemical substances which are supposed to enhance the immune response to the vaccine. There are several types of adjuvants. Some of the most common adjuvants include aluminium hydroxide, aluminium phosphate and calcium phosphate. Veterinarian Patricia Jordan, states that the World Health Organization named aluminum hydroxide, a component of most of the currently used veterinary vaccines, a grade 3 out of 4 carcinogen, with 4 being the most carcinogenic.