Why Infants Should Receive the Hepatitis B Vaccine at Birth
By Christine Vara
In honor of Hepatitis Awareness Month
Recently, there has been some interesting discussion in the media regarding the Hepatitis B vaccine. The CDC suggests that this vaccine be administered to infants soon after birth and before hospital discharge. Parents, who are often uninformed regarding the risks of contracting this disease or the chronic long-term effects of liver failure, cirrhosis, and liver cancer that come from being infected, may question why their infant needs to receive a vaccination at such a young age. As a parent to five children myself, I too wondered why it was so important to begin vaccinating my child before they had even left the hospital.
During the recent airing of the PBS Frontline piece entitled, “The Vaccine War,” one parent defended her anti-vaccine views by questioning why her newborn child would need a vaccine against a sexually transmitted disease. This comment, as well as many other misconceptions I have read and heard recently, explains the need for public education regarding the risks of the hepatitis B virus (HBV). Once parents understand the unique risks that this virus poses to their infant child, I hope they will vaccinate them at birth to protect their children from a disease that can have chronic effects later in life.
According to information provided by the Immunization Action Coalition and the CDC, an estimated 1.25 million people are chronically infected with the hepatitis B virus in the United States alone, resulting in an estimated 2,000-4,000 deaths each year. Surprisingly, 30%-40% of these chronic infections were acquired during childhood. This fact alone presents a compelling case for vaccinating infants – before they become infected.
Parents need to understand that the hepatitis B virus can be spread by infectious blood and body fluids, and not solely through sexual contact. As a parent myself, I can recall countless times that I have tended to children, both my own and others, who have suffered scrapes, cuts, nose bleeds and even bites from frustrated playmates. These are realistic opportunities for exposure since the CDC has stated that the virus remains viable and infectious in the environment for at least 7 days and can remain present in inanimate objects absent of visible blood. Since only 7 out of 10 infected adults show any signs or symptoms, and infected children under age 5 rarely show any symptoms at all, it is obvious how the infected population can easily, and unknowingly, be transmitting the disease to others.
One of the issues that Deborah Wexler, from the Immunization Action Coalition, addresses is that many of those who become infected with the hepatitis B virus contract the disease from their unknowingly infected mother at birth. Dr. Wexler explains, “There are so many parents and healthcare professionals who think this vaccine is wrongly given at birth for an STD that might be acquired later in life. But the most important reason for it is to prevent HBV infection early in life with the possible life-long complications of chronic disease in the form of liver failure and liver cancer that affect so many who are infected at birth. I wish this message were more broadly disseminated, but it is a difficult message to discuss due to its complexity, the need to explain how medical errors might occur and why testing isn’t infallible, or how exposures could occur in an infant.”
While OBGYNs suggest the mother be tested prior to delivery, there are many instances when this does not occur, or when it is possible that the mother contracts the disease in the period after testing, but before birth. Properly identifying infected mothers is complicated since there can be errors in test ordering, result interpretation or even test inaccuracy. Therefore, administering the first dose of the hepatitis B vaccine soon after birth minimizes the risk for infection from the mother or from other infected persons who may be living in the household. Additionally, the hepatitis B vaccine can actually help prevent infection in infants who are born from mothers with the virus in their blood. This serves as another important fact to support vaccinating your child according to the recommended schedule.
Studies also indicate that the long-term chronic health issues related to this virus, such as liver failure, cirrhosis, and liver cancer, are directly related to when a person is first infected. For example, 90% of infants who are infected will ultimately develop chronic symptoms later in life, however, when the illness is contracted at an older age, the chronic effects are less prominent. Only 30% of children age 1-5 who contract hepatitis B will go on to develop these chronic issues. Once again, these figures demonstrate the benefit of starting infants on the multi-dose vaccination series as soon as possible after birth in order to provide the greatest preventative effect on the population.
Perhaps you have other concerns or information to share regarding the hepatitis B virus. Feel free to comment here or respond with a question so that you can be part of the conversation.
I have an educational point I tell to all my parents: our blood supply is screened, but it is not perfect, and one can contract Hep B from a transfusion. I have a 9 mo old patient who was accidentally dropped by her mother while walking down the basement stairs. The child sustained a splenic laceration but luckily did not require surgery or intervention or TRANSFUSION. But if this child had been unvaccinated, there would have been a measurable risk of Hep B transmission if she received a transfusion. Hep B is not only an STD, life presents its own risks and patients need to be informed but smart consumers.
good point.
Ms. Vara’s article is very well-written and I am glad that someone is presenting an educated discussion about the importance of getting the hepatitis B birth dose. In honor of hepatitis awareness month Hep B Moms is hosting the “Hep B Stops with Me” photo contest. Moms can pledge to vaccinate their children and enter to win free baby clothing! Visit http://www.hepbmoms.org to enter.
Dr. Chao, Thank you for referring readers to the Hep B Moms website. I found the site to be a helpful resource, not just for moms, but for providers as well. Hopefully, through education, more and more people will see the importance of getting the Hepatitis B birth dose.
Ms. Vara, From your piece: “Only 30% of children age 1-5 who contract hepatitis B will go on to develop these chronic issues. ”
And: “Properly identifying infected mothers is complicated –”
From my exhaustive reading of Hep B, mortality may come about at age 45+ and much older, but most mortality is among alcoholics and drug addicts who can’t kick their addictions.
Also, the vase majority of Hep B cases clear themselves naturally, with no medicine intervention (clearly stated by CDC). And, it is also clear that treatment drugs may cause iatrogenic death.
France quickly dropped its Hep B vaccinations for kids after serious and/or lethal reactions were recorded in significant numbers. I know of no other country that advocates universal Hep B vaccinations – yet IF the mother is an active Hep B case then it is considered.
Testing a pregnant mother-to-be is very easy, and I disagree with your contorted rationale on this specific testing subject.
The potential and recorded tragic outcomes from the Hep B vaccine injected into such young, immature systems is real. And your article doesn’t address this at all .
When infants or very young children contract hepatitis B virus infection, the likelihood is great that they will become chronic carriers of this disease. 90% of infants who get infected with hepatitis B virus in the first year of life will become chronically infected with the disease, and 25% of those infants will die of liver failure or liver cancer starting as early as the second decade of life. This infection rarely goes away on its own when the youngest children are infected (unlike adults where ~95% eventually clear the virus). Infants who are infected are almost always infected for life.
This is a completely preventable disease and infants and young children can be protected by early vaccination with hepatitis B vaccine.
Contrary to what is written by Mr. Burd, there are more than 150 countries in the world that promote hepatitis B vaccination and most of them are at birth. Here is a quote from the WHO website:
Hepatitis B vaccine for infants was introduced nationwide in 177 countries (including in parts of India and the Sudan) by the end of 2008, up from 171 countries in 2007. Global hepatitis B vaccine coverage is estimated at 69% and is as high as 89% in the Western Pacific and 88% in the Americas. Coverage in the South-East Asia Region increased from 29% to 41%, over the same period.
Here is the link:
http://www.who.int/immunization/newsroom/GID_english.pdf
Hundreds of errors have been documented in medical settings with respect to hepatitis B testing. Here’s a summary article about some of these documented cases:
http://www.immunize.org/catg.d/p2062.pdf
The tragic outcomes of babies becoming chronically infected and dying of later in life of chronic hepatitis B complications is well documented. I have not heard of or read a single case in the medical literature of babies dying from being administered hepatitis B vaccine.
Hepatitis B vaccine is safe and effective with more than a billion doses already having been administered throughout the world. No one should be hesitant to be protected or to protect their children from this potentially deadly disease. If you would like to read case reports of children and adults who have suffered the consequences of chronic hepatitis B infection, read Unprotected People Reports on our website at http://www.immunize.org/reports/hepatitisb.asp
Deborah L. Wexler, MD
Executive Director
Immunization Action Coalition
I don’t see in the article how an infant or child contracts Hepatitis B other than blood or saliva?
Toilet seats? Sharing food?
How are childern getting Hepatitis B?
You have not convinced me that an infant needs this shot unless the mother is infected.
Libby, read my post at the top — the first response to this article.
An infant’s immune system is not ready to handle this sort of attack. Have you researched the ingredients in the Hep B shot? OMG nasty horrible stuff. There is also a SIDS connection due to swelling in the brain from the shot. Only babies w/infected mothers should be considered for this vaccine. Even my child’s Pedi said it was smart when we skipped this vaccine for our kids.
My son has chronic Hep B. He got it at birth from his birth mother. There are thousands of other young children like him in daycares, at playgrounds and playgroups, running and playing and falling and bleeding and knocking into other children, your children. That’s what kids do. That is how your children can be exposed to Hep B. It’s here in your community, at your daycare, sitting next to your child. We are not required to tell you our son’s health status. Don’t assume you live in a bubble.
Well said, David Burd!
Infants are not in a risk group for Hepititis B, let alone a two day old newborn. Perhaps, it should be considered if you are delivering in a crack house.
There is no way you can convince me that injecting these toxins is safe.
It is as reckless to give only one-sided information as it is to take that information and not educate yourself as a parent and make decisions on blind-faith.
Our society is asleep at the wheel on the vaccine issue – we need to wake up, educate ourselves for the future of our children.
Kim, here is a lovely story about a daughter by her father.
Agreed! There are too many vaccinations forced upon us and our children and many are given even if there is no chance of the individual getting the disease, for example the eye ointment given to infants to prevent a reaction to gonorrhea. Why on earth do I have to subject my child to an ointment that can cause blindness when there is absolutely no way he can contract the illness??!! I am pregnant with my first child so I have been researching all of these mandatory shots and I am appalled! The information that I have found makes me not trust doctors. I second guess everything they say now.
For another side of the story, see:
http://www.ageofautism.com/2009/10/hepatitis-b-vaccine-an-unmitigated-disaster-.html
Why did you comment on an old thread instead of the current one, http://shotofprevention.com/2012/02/27/why-hepatitis-b-vaccine-is-not-a-lifestyle-vaccine ?
And if Mr. Belkin wishes to make an issue of his daughter’s very tragic death, he should be willing to release the medical records:
Which follows later in the article:
Anyway, it always comes down to data. The plural of anecdote is not data, especially if you cannot even keep the details of the anecdote straight. Which probably explains why Twyla decided to post this anecdote on an article written well over year ago.
Lately when I have tried to post comments they have disappeared. I started at the current article on the hep B vaccine, which linked to this one. I posted a comment and lo & behold it appeared.
There’s a lot more to the article I linked to besides Michael Belkin’s story.
The plural of anecdotes is something which should be taken seriously. We’re talking about a lot of “anecdotes” from around the world.
And I fully support Michael Belkin not releasing his daughter’s medical records.
Not a whole lot more that is of substance. But why don’t you pick the point that you find most convincing, and we discuss that?
How many is a lot? And in a world of seven billion people, what makes you think that there are more than would occur by chance?
Nathan,
The only way to find out if a cluster of “anecdotes” are not by chance is to actually investigate them. Alas, this doesn’t seem to happen very often.
What I have seen is a sort of circular logic. Vaccine reactions are rare. You say that your child suffered a vaccine reaction. But vaccine reactions are rare so it probably isn’t a vaccine reaction.
This isn’t an effective way to collect accurate data on vaccine reactions. Nor is it a good way to sort out if something is a reaction or not.
Let us imagine 20 medical practices in a large city. Over a 10 year period 50 families report similar vaccine reactions to the same vaccine scattered among the 20 medical practices. It would unfortunately be very easy for the pattern to be missed, for the reports to remain un-filed and for the doctors to continue to say that they have never seen a vaccine reaction.
Let us imagine, on the other hand, a national system for tracking vaccinations which includes a field for reporting a reaction. If staff are already recording vaccine, manufacturer and lot number into a database, one more field for recording reactions wouldn’t overwhelm the system. The second step would be to make reporting reactions, any reaction, mandatory. And the third step would be to correlate the data and see how many people are having reactions and how serious they actually are. All this is easy with computers, ya know?
And it would totally take the wind out of the anti-vaccine movement if there were a good system and the number of reactions being reported were low and minor.
As things currently stand we have parents whose child did have a reaction (I know several) and who reported it to the doctor and then found out that the doctor DID NOT file a report. One parent spent a year nagging the doctor before the doctor finally gave in and filed the report. The vaccine had occurred within hours following vaccination and was very serious.
The system could be improved. Let’s improve it.
Mistake in my next to last sentence, sorry! Should read:
The reaction had occurred within hours following vaccination and was very serious.
Though it does happen. This is a report when several reports were investigated: Neonatal Deaths After Hepatitis B Vaccine.
If a medical doctor does not report it, that is not an issue with VAERS. As you note the parents can report it themselves, it is an issue with that doctor. If you don’t like the VAERS system, then you can do a John Salamone and work in the system to improve it. Though I think that requiring making reporting mandatory should come with funds to deal with the data and the personnel to sift through it. VAERS already allows anyone to report, including someone in the UK!
Still, if someone who is going to keep using their own anecdote they should allow it to be investigated. Something Mr. Belkin has refused.
Hi, MV. I have a long comment here that is not posting correctly (at all, not just being sent to moderation) and I am going to try to break it up and see if the bits go through.
Yes! I agree! Twyla needs to hear this. The entire reason that I asked Twyla my questions is that she seems to ignore the numerous studies regarding a particular adverse event, and then claim that there are too many anecdotes to be a coincidence.
And for a moment we agreed. But with this part, I could not disagree more. I have read dozens of studies investigating concerns about vaccines, and they are only a fraction of what is out there. There are studies that evaluate the claims of virtually every concern raised about vaccines through anecdotes, from autism to asthma to MS to SIDS. They do not bear out the hypotheses generated by the anecdotes. It happens quite often, but they tend to be ignored by people who find the anecdotes more powerful. The “circular logic” you have convinced yourself of falls apart in the light of these studies.
I say “virtually” because there will always be anecdotes about bad things happening after vaccines, just as there will always be anecdotes about bad things happening on Friday the 13th. But concerns that are generated about vaccines that are supported by anecdotal evidence, and at least some scientific plausibility, have a history of being thoroughly studied.
Agreed (It’s nice to do so again). It’s also not how we collect data on vaccine reactions. It’s apparently something we are imagining. It is not up to the individual doctors to dermine a pattern prior to report. It is up to them to report serious adverse events following a vaccine, some of which are in fact mandatory. And patients can report them directly. Underreporting occurs (as does overreporting), buv VAERS has demonstrated itself to be quite sensitive to detecting possible concerns.
Agree again (three times – undoubtedly an internet vaccine debate record). That’s why we have to go to the studies that look at the events in relation to vaccines and find out, as I said above. I find that many people who believe that have experienced the anecdote are unwilling to do this, or are unwilling to accept the results. In the current system, the reporting system (VAERS) is a way to gather anecdotes to generate hypotheses for testing, then networks like the VSD (seven million patients, half a million children) and others are used to study the hypothesis in question. It has proven over the years to be a sensitive and thorough. The detection of intussusception following Rotashield vaccine is a fine example of this.
Now we’re talking. I am all in favor of a national database to track vaccinations. So is the AAP.
http://www.pediatricnews.com/specialty-focus/infectious-diseases/single-article-page/national-vaccine-registry-advocated-at-aap-forum.html
However, though such a system has been advocated for decades, many groups wary of nationalized health care seem opposed to the idea, and further, it does not seem well supported in the antivaccine community. Here are some examples via a quick Google search. Perhaps you could talk to them about that.
http://www.nvic.org/vaccine-laws/tracking-system-and-privacy/the-national-electronic-tracking-registry.aspx
http : // vaccineinfo .net/ issues/track ing/nati onalregistry/natio nalindex. shtml
http ://www .aapsonli ne. org/resolut ions/2001-2.htm
(I put spaces throughout those last two to avoid moderation; you will have to remove them in your address bar)
It could indeed be used to make adverse event reporting easier and more complete. I would be all for that as well. But we’re going to need to get such a system up in the first place and it seems to be a bureaucratic nightmare to get states (and different computer systems) to share data, to say nothing of the political opposition to such a system. I’m not familiar with all the reasons for resistance, but it does not seem to me to be coming from mainstream healthcare providers, the CDC, pharmaceutical industry, etc.
A few observations with your proposal, though:
Do you actually mean “reactions,” or do you mean “adverse events following vaccination?” I doubt you mean only things that are recognized reactions. Would you require, say, reporting of a broken leg a few days after vaccination? A charlie horse? A constipated stool? If so, you may well be in trouble with “overwhelming the system” especially if you mandate this reporting many weeks or months out. If not, where would you draw the line as to what does and does not need reporting? If there is any ambiguity, it will be very hard to make it mandatory. Keep in mind that there are already mandates for reporting of certain recognized adverse reactions.
I’m not entirely sure it is “easy” to get fifty different computer systems to work together to contribute to a national database, but the data would undoubtedly be useful.
Once again, I could not disagree more (shucks). Even if a perfect system could be implemented, I doubt that antivaccine sentiment would abate in the least, as it is primarily ideological rather than scientific, as evidenced by the fast clinging to things like SIDS as vaccine-caused, despite numerous studies looking specifically at the matter and finding a decreased risk of SIDS in the vaccinated. I find it unlikely that the system you propose will do anything more than make them further believe in a government conspiracy for forced vaccination (and falsification of data, of course) as insinuated by the preemptive attacks on a national registry in the links above. And the fact that all events would be ideally reported, even though many of them would not be vaccine related, would only give the AV movement higher numbers to pretend to be true reactions. That’s not to say these are reasons not to have such a system, but certainly it is not going to take the wind out of anyone’s sails.
But even more profoundly, though your system would ideally be more effective at collecting anecdotes, it seems to me that it will not actually answer the questions you proposed at the beginning of your comment. Your system cannot “collect accurate data on vaccine reactions,” because it will still not be able to differentiate between unrelated events and reactions, and it cannot ” sort out if something is a reaction or not” because it does not have a control of people who did not get the vaccine.
In other words, it is still primarily going to be hypothesis generating, like VAERS. Applying statistical analyses to the data may give stronger supporting evidence for or against a hypothesis, but you will still need a study using a system like the VSD to truly tell if something is a vaccine reaction or not. At least that is my non-epidemiologist non-biostatician impression.
Why didn’t they report it themselves? This is one advantage of VAERS over the system you propose.
All for it. A national vaccine registry would be a great first step, and I’m glad you support it. Nonetheless, I disagree with you that the the current system is not sensitive enough to detect adverse events and ensure a high degree of safety, and that anecdotes do not often trigger studies with regards to causality.
My baby was one of many who reacted to the hep-B at birth by reacting with four days and nights of endless screaming, vaccine-induced encephalitis, and was later diagnosed with autism. Judy Converse testified before Congress about her son suffering an adverse reaction almost identical to my daughter’s, but my daughter did not have the horrific bowel disease he had. Patti White testified that her association of school nurses was certain that the huge increase of autism in Missouri public schools starting in 1996 was because the vaccine campaign for hep-B at birth starting in 1991 had caused it.
I had told the pediatrician a month before she was born that I didn’t want her to get it, as I had read it often caused autism. He agreed, but forgot to tell the staff at the hospital, who gave it to her without asking permission. I had tested negative for hep-B, and I did not want her to get it. There was no reason: whatever “protection” it might offer would wear off before she was old enough to do drugs or have sex, the most usual means of transmission. Even people who get hep-B usually recover completely from it, though some may be carriers for years. Only about five percent eventually die from related liver disease, usually those who are drug addicts or alcoholics, whose health is already compromised for other reasons. I have MS, and people with MS and their children are advised not to get it, as they have a great risk of adverse reaction. No one even asked me at any time if there were autoimmune conditions in my family or in me. They just shot up my daughter, caused her days of excruciating encephalitic pain, and caused her permanent disability. She will never be independent. France put it on their mandatory vaccine list in 1994, but removed it in 1998 when so many people were getting MS shortly after getting it.
Hep-B is not transmitted by casual contact, it is a blood-borne disease, just as AIDS is. I remember years ago speculation that children with AIDS might infect others at school, but apparently that never proved to be the case. No case of a child infected by casual contact with a child infected with hep-B has ever been proven. Before the vaccine campaign began in 1991, Dr. Robert Sears in The Vaccine Book said that about 360 children a year were being diagnosed with it. Most if not all of them had been born to infected mothers. But the researchers just decided to say that the real figure must be 30,000 a year, with no basis in fact, to justify this lucrative vaccine mandate.
In Australia, vaccine publicists had to really reach to try to come up with a convincing scenario for possible transmission of hep-B: they said that if one infected guy on an orienteering team ran through a patch of saw grass which cut his legs, and other guys ran past through the same patch of grass, some of the blood from the first guy might enter the legs of the guys running through the same saw grass. You have to REALLY reach to come up with a sort of realistic scenario like this. In Australia the main groups of children at risk were aboriginal children, in New Zealand Maori children, because southeast Asians and native Americans have more of a genetic risk of being infected. They decided it would be better not to single out those really at risk and just to vaccinate everyone, although a huge number of people suffered adverse reactions to the vaccine.
Nathan,
I know it’s your job to sweep adverse reactions under the carpet, but still. Did you know that just three hours of constant inconsolable screaming in a baby is considered to be a symptom of encephalitis, and it is recommended that you take the baby to the ER? Do you disbelieve that it is ever a symptom of encephalitis, or do you believe that encephalitis caused by vaccines is always, always harmless. Many foolish doctors say that encephalitis can cause symptoms as mild as excessive somnolence, or twitching, or gazing into the distance and being hard to call back, but it’s still devastating. The Merck Manual admits that both diseases and vaccines can cause encephalitis, but you believe it’s only encephalitis caused by vaccine-preventable diseases that is capable of doing brain damage? Do you really believe that there is no such thing as a vaccine reaction, and that no matter what the symptom is or how soon after vaccination it occurs, it still means nothing, and if your child develops epilepsy or autism, asthma or peanut allergies, minutes after getting a vaccine, it still means absolutely nothing at all? Some people here have said that their child was unable to get a vaccine, Chris, for example, said that her son was unable to get a pertussis vaccine because of a health condition. Do you say pish-tosh, there’s no reason to ever withhold or delay giving any vaccine to any child, any adult, ever, any symptoms of anything don’t ever mean anything at all, since you (and your colleagues) insist that correlation never, ever, ever implies causation? Does it not bother you to be turning into a caricature?
Perhaps there is a compromise here regarding the HepB shot. My son got it after birth and was fine, and we went ahead with a modified shot schedule in which he got only one vaccine at a time (spread out month-to-month) to avoid overload on his young immune system. Now that we are due with our daughter soon, I am re-considering the HepB vaccine (unless I test positive for HepB before birth of course), and thinking we could push that one to when she is a few months older. She will still get all her vaccines, but on a modified schedule and probably not as a minutes-old newborn.
C-Mom,
Dr. Sears thinks you can safely wait until your child is an adolescent before getting them the hep-B vaccine, although I think that by the time they’re that old you should give them the facts and let them decide for themselves.
I think it would still be very risky to give it to your daughter when she’s several months old. Dr. Eisenstein gives a case report in his book (Make an Informed Vaccine Decision) of a mother who said her six year old son got the first dose of hep-B vax and it caused a fever of 103 degrees for five days, the second dose caused a fever that wouldn’t go away, three months later he was diagnosed with rheumatic fever, one month later his blood counts dropped and he was rediagnosed with A.L.L. leukemia. A mother of a two month old boy said he died right after the first dose of hep-B vaccine. VAERS case reports that anyone with a computer can access (I’ll only mention those in children older than newborns): 160271: 4 month old boy gets HBV, then diarrhea, goes into coma, and dies same evening. 49808: 4 month old girl get HBV, gets bleeding disorder, encephalitis, abnormal liver function, dies three days later. (And no, Nathan, I haven’t forgotten that correlation doesn’t ever, ever mean causation.) 107120: 5 month old boy gets HBV, gets fever, dies of “SIDS” following day. 76188: 6 month old girl gets HBV, diarrhea, bleeding lesions, Stevens-Johnson syndrome, dies two days later. 179608: 6 month old girl gets HBV and serious neurological sequelae 8 hours later, hospitalized with apnea, convulsions, cerebral edema, fontanelle bulging, and psychomotor retardation. 49035 7 month old girl gets HBV, gets cerebral hemorrhage, dies 4 days later. 160183: 9 month old baby gets HBV and dies 18 hours later. 180302: 10 month old girl gets HBV, gets bacterial infection bronchiolitis, goes into coma, dies next day. 74126: 10 month old girl gets HBV, gets liver cancer one month later, later dies of it. 173745: 18 month old girl gets HBV, later that evening found dead with profuse bleeding from nose and mouth. 212894: 3 year old girl gets HBV, develops juvenile onset diabetes 24 days later.
If no one in your immediate family has the disease, I think you should think long and hard before risking a baby’s life and health by giving them this vaccine.
@ella – what scientific evidence does “Dr. Sears” use to back up his assertions?
Oh wait, none, that’s right……
And yeah, and the VAERS gambit – why don’t you include the girl who died in a car accident after receiving the HPV vaccine – because don’t we all know that vaccines cause car accidents?
Ella, please tell us what you must read and understand before entering the VAERS database at http://vaers.hhs.gov/data/index ? Explain exactly why it says before hitting the button “I have read and understand the preceding statement.”
Does Eisenstein also mention in his book that he treats autism by chemically castrating children? He seems to do lots of questionable things, including selling supplements from his wife’s company, and unusual “insurance” plans.
And are you sure you are not Cia Parker, because this comment is almost exactly like several she made?
Can a girl get hepatitis b during sex from a guy even though she was vaccinated at birth?
“Can a girl get hepatitis b during sex from a guy even though she was vaccinated at birth?”
Not likely Bob, if the baby completed the recommended series (3 or 4 shots). See the VIS for Hepatitis B vaccine:
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/vis/downloads/vis-hep-b.pdf
I don’t truce the Heppiets B vaccunces child.
im due in 10 dys and im so scared i dont know what to do!!!! should he or shouldnt he get the shot!??? read this recent article and see why!!! also let me know what you tthink after reading this article. you can message me on http://www.facebook.com/GERMANxBARBiE
here is the article:
http://www.iansvoice.org/
What a ridiculous article. Even IF you believe in vaxing, i see no reason to start abuse on the immune system hours after birth. Even if your child must be in daycare, most mothers dont go back to work for 6, 8, or even 12 weeks….why not at LEAST wait those several weeks? The author lists the risk of being bitten by another child as a reason to get the shot….that is absurd! A newborn isnt going to be down in the sandbox playing with other kids….so should we also vax against rabies because our newborns MIGHT be bitten by a wild animal??? THINK PEOPLE! MOST babies are at no risk for Hep B, but ALL babies being given this shot are at risk for serious and deadly reactions! Look at the probability and statistics….the shot is dangerous….compared to the MINISCULE risk of catching it, and then the small percentage of actual serious outcomes of the illness.
@melanie
[citation needed].
@melanie – the human immune system is abused after birth regardless, because we aren’t born into a sterile environment & our bodies have adapted over a few million years to deal with the thousands of antigens and pathogens that we are exposed to, right from the get-go.
If the immune system of a baby was as weak as you claim, we’d all be dead within a week of birth.
As far as I am concerned, vaccination is an organised criminal enterprise dressed up as disease prevention by means of junk science. Hepatitis B vaccination for newborns is in my opinion blatant child abuse, but then so are in my books all other childhood vaccinations promoted as part of the vaccine child poisoning schedule. Check out this article:
http://www.ageofautism.com/2009/02/managing-editors-note-below-is-the-story-of-iam-gromowski-a-boy-who-lived-47-days-after-his-hepatitis-b-vaccination-thank.html
@erwin alber
[citaiton needed]
And conspiracy theory isn’t really used for proof, erwin.