Warning: New Hepatitis Vaccine Recs
Can Devastate Newborn's Health
The newly released 2002 immunization schedule encourages
the routine use of hepatitis B vaccine for all infants before
hospital discharge to
- Safeguard against maternal hepatitis B testing errors
and test reporting failures
- Protect neonates discharged to households in which
hepatitis B chronic carriers other than the mother may reside
- Enhance the completion of the childhood immunization
series
The annual "Recommended Childhood Immunization
Schedule" of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the Advisory
Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) of the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention (CDC), and the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) is
issued in January of each year.
Pediatrics
Vol. 109 No. 1 January 2002, pp. 162
DR. MERCOLA'S COMMENT:
Folks I am outraged. We need to take action now. These
recommendations are inexcusable.
There is no possible logical recommendation for this
action. All of these arguments are fatally
flawed.
If you are new to the site these may sound like lunatic
ramblings of some quack, but before you come to that, or a similar conclusion, I
challenge you to examine the facts.
The central fact, and the one that helps to explain
these insane recommendations, is that the maker of hepatitis B vaccine, Merck,
makes one billion dollars a year from this
vaccine.
A billion dollars a year goes a long way toward
influencing public policy.
Who is
Behind This?
The group that is pushing this
through is called The Hepatitis B coalition. Part of the Immunization Action
Coalition, this group was started by a $750,000 grant from the CDC. It is
supported by the World Health Organization, World Bank, Rockefeller Foundation
and ongoing funding from Smith-Kline, Merck, Aventis and Johnson & Johnson.
Let us not forget that it has been less than three
years since the federal government asked the drug companies to take mercury
out of this vaccine, and they still haven't complied.
I have seen many dozens of children who were given this
vaccine on the first day of life and subsequently developed autism. Others, like
Michael Belkin's daughter, weren't as lucky and died immediately after the
vaccine.
Michael is a successful Wall Street Financial analyst
with his own company, and has testified to Congress on this
issue and regularly forwards news health stories to me.
Well in the single dose hepatitis B
vials, the drug companies have replaced the mercury with aluminum, which is
another potent neurotoxin that has been associated with Alzheimer's.
But who knows what damage it will do to the immature central nervous system of a
one-day old infant.
The multi dose hepatitis B vials still contain mercury.
Folks, hepatitis B is about as difficult to catch as
AIDS. Namely, you nearly always need to have blood or sexual contact of some
sort. That is why the main risk factors are IV drug abusers and those who engage
in sex with multiple partners.
Is Hepatitis Vaccine Safe?
The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) was
developed by the government to report vaccine reactions. Many experts believe
that only 10% of the adverse reactions are reported though as reporting is not
mandated by law.
Even with only 10% of the problems being reported there
were nearly 25,000 VAERS hepatitis B
reports from July 1990 to October 31, 1998, showing 439 deaths and 9673 serious
reactions involving emergency room visits, hospitalization, disablement or
death.
The presence of findings such as brain edema in healthy
infants who die very soon after receiving hepatitis B vaccine is profoundly
disturbing, especially in view of the frequency of neurologic symptoms in the
VAERS.
Does this make any sense?
Is Hepatitis B Vaccine
Effective in Newborns?
Vaccine derived immunity is thought to be short lived.
Between 30-50% of vaccinated individuals lose their antibiodies within 7 years.
Up to 60% of persons who initially respond will lose
detectable antibodies within 12 years.. So that means that these vaccines will
provide little to no protection to the real risks of acquiring hepatitis B,
promiscuous sexual behavior and IV drug abuse.
Does this make any sense?
How Many Children Are Hurt or
Helped By Hepatitis B Vaccine?
Hepatitis B is a rare, mainly blood-transmitted
disease. In 1996 only 54 cases of the disease were reported to the CDC in the
0-1 age group. There were 3.9 million births that year, so the observed
incidence of hepatitis B in the 0-1 age group was just 0.001%. In the Vaccine
Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), there were 1,080 total reports of
adverse reactions from hepatitis B vaccine in 1996 in the 0-1 age group, with 47
deaths reported.
Let us put this in simpler terms. For every child with
hepatitis B there were 20 that were reported to have severe complications. Let
us also remember that only 10% of the reactions are reported to VAERS, so this
means:
Traditional medicine is harming 200
children to protect one from hepatitis B.
Does this make any sense?
How
Serious Is a Hepatitis B Infection?
The numbers speak for
themselves.
Approximately
50% of patients who contract Hepatitis B develop no symptoms after exposure.
However, the exposure ensures
that they will have life-time immunity. An additional 30% develop only flu-like
symptoms, and again, this group will acquire life-time immunity.
Of the remaining 20% exposed to
Hepatitis B will develop the symptoms of the disease. 95% of this 20% will fully
recover, with life-time immunity.
Therefore, less
than 5% of people who contract Hepatitis B will become chronic carriers
of the infection.
The numbers get even smaller: of
that 5%, nearly 75% (or 3.75% of the total exposed) will live with an
asymptomatic infection and only 25%, (or only 1.25% of the total number of
people exposed) will develop chronic liver disease or liver cancer, 10-30 years
after the acute infection. (Hyams, K.C. (1995) Risks of chronicity following
acute hepatitis B virus infection: A review. Clin. Infect. Dis. 20, 992-1000.)
Think of that in terms of
probability: the possibility of contracting the disease is exceedingly difficult
for children and only 1.25% of those that are exposed will actually develop the
most serious complication!
This type of a "protecting
the needle in the haystack" medicine is absurd at best, dangerous at worst.
Does this make any sense?
How Many Safety Studies Have
Been Done On Hepatitis B Vaccine?
None.
A manufacturer's representative
was asked in a 1997 Illinois Board of Health hearing to show evidence that the
hepatitis B vaccine is safe for a 1-day old infant. The representative stated:
"We have none. Our studies
were done on 5- and 10-year-olds."
--The Congressional Quarterly,
August 25, 2000, pg. 647
One would think that these would be mandatory, but they
are not. All that is required is to show efficacy, (i.e. that the vaccine
stimulates an antibody response after it is give), not safety.
In most other industries the fraud represented here
would lead to criminal charges.
Does this make any sense?
What Can You Do?
Please tell every pregnant woman you know who about
this issue. They need to know the facts BEFORE they are in the hospital and have
time to make an informed objective decision. If they are still convinced their
child needs hepatitis B vaccine, beg them to make sure their child does not
receive the vaccine as a newborn. Delay the vaccine until they really are at a
possible risk, like late adolescence.
I am not asking much here. Only some compassion for the helpless. If you have
ever seen the agony of families who are struggling with caring for brain injured
children you will know what I mean.
I have shown dozens of times in this newsletter, drugs that are thought to be
safe are pulled from the market after they have killed dozens or hundreds of
people. I am hopeful that hepatitis B vaccinations in newborns will be stopped.
Medical science will have to recognize the truth sooner or later.
Folks, drug deaths pale in comparison to the devastation in lost lives that is
resulting from implementation of this hepatitis B recommendation.
You can play a large role here. Most of all us did not have a chance to make a
difference in the 9/11 tragedy, but nearly everyone of us can help protect the
precious brain cells of a newborn.
Don't Delay.
Contact every pregnant woman you know immediately. Save
a life.
God Bless you in your efforts to protect the future of our civilization.
Note To Physicians:
I am a member of the Association
of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS). This is a group of over 10,000
US medical doctors, and most of us have reached the conclusion
that the head of the organization, Dr. Jane Orient, has about this issue.
To the extent that the physician simply complies
without making an independent evaluation of the appropriateness of the vaccine
for each patient, he is abdicating his responsibility under the Oath of
Hippocrates to:
"prescribe regimen for the good of my patients
according to my ability and my judgment and never do harm to anyone."
- My thanks to Dr. Sherri
Tenpenny for her editing assistance on this important topic.
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