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posted on 03-17-2007 11:33 AM
What is it Hepatitis B? Why children in the above grades need Hep B shots? How save it for them, pros and cons. Alternative ways of pervention from Hep B. Thank you,
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Hepatitis B is a rare, mainly blood-transmitted disease. infection that primarily affects the liver and can progress into a chronic infection that can result in cirrhosis that may lead to liver cancer.

Hepatitis B is largely transmitted through exposure to bodily fluids containing the virus. There are only a few ways that you can get this infection:

  • Unprotected sexual contact
  • Blood transfusions
  • Reuse of contaminated needles and syringes
  • Vertical transmission from mother to child

Every single one of these risk factors is easily preventable without the use of vaccines. However five years ago the US government made the outrageous and inexcusable recommendation to have all infants immunized with hepatitis B vaccine.


Why Are We Giving Vaccine at Birth to Helpless Infants?

The only possible justification is to prevent the transmission from an infected mother to her child but this is FAR easier and less expensive to do by screening mothers and giving those at risk the vaccine. We screen all mothers already for a variety of conditions, why can’t we add another one?

Instead of using common sense we are mandating this vaccine to ALL children. In the hope that when they get older and actually have the opportunity to engage in risky behaviors that they will be protected.

Well guess what?

In over half the kids the immune protection lasts less than seven years which is well before these kids will need any possible benefits of the vaccine.


Some Hepatitis B Vaccines Still Have Mercury

Aside from the question of whether or not it is appropirate to give infants this vaccine, today, over 8 years after federal agencies advised vaccine manufacturers to remove mercury from their vaccines, some still contain them.

ActHIB, HibTITER in single-dose vials, and PedvaxHIB do not contain thimerosal as a preservative. However, PRP-T (ActHIB) reconstituted with DTaP (Tripedia) to form TriHIBit STILL contain organic mercury. 

Does This Make ANY Sense???


Physicians Are Harming 4,000 Children to Protect One From Hepatitis B Complications

Even if a child does become infected with hepatitis B what is the problem? Just how serious is it? Will they die just as surely as if they came down with pancreatic cancer?

Hardly.

The numbers speak for themselves. Only one in 100 who get this infection will run the risk of ANY serious illness.

So just how serious is an infection with Hepatitis B?

Please remember Hepatitis B is a rare, mainly blood-transmitted disease.

Far less than 100 children under the age of 1 become infected with hepatitis B. Since there are about 4 million children born in the US every year this works out to about one child in every 200 births that develop hepatitis B. As you will see below this number is actually far lower as only 1% of these children develop serious complications or about 4 or 5 kids.

The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) reported over 2,000 total reports of adverse reactions from hepatitis B vaccine in the 0-1 age group, with over 50 deaths reported. Here is the kicker, it is well recognized that this is only about 10% of the actual cases. So if you multiply this by 10 you have 20,000 injured infants from the vaccine.

So as a result of all these immunizations physicians are harming 20,000 infants to protect 5 from serious problems.


Why Is This Being Done??

Simple answer - - Money and Greed

Merck is the company that makes the hepatitis B vaccine. Remember Merck? They are the ones that are defending thousands of lawsuits for killing over 60,000 people for Vioxx. They are earning a cool $1 billion dollars per year from selling this vaccine.

Guess you have to pay those Vioxx lawsuits some way.


Some Physicians Understand the Truth


Am I the only doctor that feels this way?

Absolutely not. There are many independent physicians who share my belief but I am a member of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS). This is a group of over 10,000 US medical doctors (MDs and DOs), 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." .

AAPS opposes federal mandates for vaccines, on principle, on the grounds that they are:

  • An unconstitutional expansion of the power of the federal government.
  • An unconstitutional delegation of power to a public-private partnership.
  • An unconstitutional and destructive intrusion into the patient-physician and parent-child relationships.
  • A violation of the Nuremberg Code in that they force individuals to have medical treatment against their will, or to participate in the functional equivalent of a vast experiment without fully informed consent.
  • A violation of rights to free speech and to the practice of one's religion (which may require one to keep oaths).

AAPS would specifically oppose the campaign for universal immunization against hepatitis B, even if the above did not apply, because the safety of the vaccine is in question.


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.


Act Now - - There is Not a Moment to Spare!!

Contact every pregnant woman you know immediately. Save a life.

God Bless you in your efforts to protect the future of our civilization.

 
 
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Answered (Verified) replied on 03-18-2007 12:00 AM

Learn How to Ask Your Own Q&A

Hepatitis B is a rare, mainly blood-transmitted disease. infection that primarily affects the liver and can progress into a chronic infection that can result in cirrhosis that may lead to liver cancer.

Hepatitis B is largely transmitted through exposure to bodily fluids containing the virus. There are only a few ways that you can get this infection:

  • Unprotected sexual contact
  • Blood transfusions
  • Reuse of contaminated needles and syringes
  • Vertical transmission from mother to child

Every single one of these risk factors is easily preventable without the use of vaccines. However five years ago the US government made the outrageous and inexcusable recommendation to have all infants immunized with hepatitis B vaccine.


Why Are We Giving Vaccine at Birth to Helpless Infants?

The only possible justification is to prevent the transmission from an infected mother to her child but this is FAR easier and less expensive to do by screening mothers and giving those at risk the vaccine. We screen all mothers already for a variety of conditions, why can’t we add another one?

Instead of using common sense we are mandating this vaccine to ALL children. In the hope that when they get older and actually have the opportunity to engage in risky behaviors that they will be protected.

Well guess what?

In over half the kids the immune protection lasts less than seven years which is well before these kids will need any possible benefits of the vaccine.


Some Hepatitis B Vaccines Still Have Mercury

Aside from the question of whether or not it is appropirate to give infants this vaccine, today, over 8 years after federal agencies advised vaccine manufacturers to remove mercury from their vaccines, some still contain them.

ActHIB, HibTITER in single-dose vials, and PedvaxHIB do not contain thimerosal as a preservative. However, PRP-T (ActHIB) reconstituted with DTaP (Tripedia) to form TriHIBit STILL contain organic mercury. 

Does This Make ANY Sense???


Physicians Are Harming 4,000 Children to Protect One From Hepatitis B Complications

Even if a child does become infected with hepatitis B what is the problem? Just how serious is it? Will they die just as surely as if they came down with pancreatic cancer?

Hardly.

The numbers speak for themselves. Only one in 100 who get this infection will run the risk of ANY serious illness.

So just how serious is an infection with Hepatitis B?

Please remember Hepatitis B is a rare, mainly blood-transmitted disease.

Far less than 100 children under the age of 1 become infected with hepatitis B. Since there are about 4 million children born in the US every year this works out to about one child in every 200 births that develop hepatitis B. As you will see below this number is actually far lower as only 1% of these children develop serious complications or about 4 or 5 kids.

The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) reported over 2,000 total reports of adverse reactions from hepatitis B vaccine in the 0-1 age group, with over 50 deaths reported. Here is the kicker, it is well recognized that this is only about 10% of the actual cases. So if you multiply this by 10 you have 20,000 injured infants from the vaccine.

So as a result of all these immunizations physicians are harming 20,000 infants to protect 5 from serious problems.


Why Is This Being Done??

Simple answer - - Money and Greed

Merck is the company that makes the hepatitis B vaccine. Remember Merck? They are the ones that are defending thousands of lawsuits for killing over 60,000 people for Vioxx. They are earning a cool $1 billion dollars per year from selling this vaccine.

Guess you have to pay those Vioxx lawsuits some way.


Some Physicians Understand the Truth


Am I the only doctor that feels this way?

Absolutely not. There are many independent physicians who share my belief but I am a member of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS). This is a group of over 10,000 US medical doctors (MDs and DOs), 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." .

AAPS opposes federal mandates for vaccines, on principle, on the grounds that they are:

  • An unconstitutional expansion of the power of the federal government.
  • An unconstitutional delegation of power to a public-private partnership.
  • An unconstitutional and destructive intrusion into the patient-physician and parent-child relationships.
  • A violation of the Nuremberg Code in that they force individuals to have medical treatment against their will, or to participate in the functional equivalent of a vast experiment without fully informed consent.
  • A violation of rights to free speech and to the practice of one's religion (which may require one to keep oaths).

AAPS would specifically oppose the campaign for universal immunization against hepatitis B, even if the above did not apply, because the safety of the vaccine is in question.


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.


Act Now - - There is Not a Moment to Spare!!

Contact every pregnant woman you know immediately. Save a life.

God Bless you in your efforts to protect the future of our civilization.

 
 
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replied on 03-20-2007 12:08 AM
Very nice work. I can tell you are passionate about your work. I feel the same. Why immunize the kids if there is statistical data giving rationale for not doing it.


 
 
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I agree whole heartedly with Mercola's video. After watching that documentary posted earlier Vaccination: The Hidden Truth and reviewing vaccine info on the site, as well as reading it elsewhere I am convinced that vaccines are unnatural and unsafe. It doesn't make sense for something that's "safe" and meant to help us be loaded with toxins like mercury (among the other toxic ingredients on that exhaustive list!)

Diet, exercise, lifestyle, stress, as well as our ingested toxins, are the cause to our sickness and disease. Vaccines fit right up there with "toxins".

Vaccines by-pass normal body defenses. Since when will a person naturally encounter a virus by having it injected into their body? Unless you have a gaping hole in your arm and someone bleeds on it then I don't see that as a very natural way to catch many of these infections that children are being vaccinated against.

Vaccines are unnatural, toxic, and studies have been done to prove that they aren't effective, and can sometimes be counter-productive. With all of this evidence, especially with what we know about the reputation of drug companies' and their relationship with capital gain, do we really want to entrust the lives of our newborn babies with these strangers who only want profit? I don't!
 
 
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Excellent article/information. I had a baby 6 months ago and I didn't vaccinate him against HepB. I felt it in my heart that it was wrong and why do it if it's not necessary?!
 
 
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THANKS Dr. Mercola!
Your efforts are so important to us.
There is no other place that we know of to find so much real, honest, health information. Keep up the great effort!!
 
 
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Greetings, Dr. Mercola! Your statistics on the low occurrences of hepatitis are very impressive --- but these low numbers are attained with the background of almost all infants having been vaccinated for many, many years --- as you note!!!
What would be the rate if for 10 to 20 years no general vaccinations had occurred? In fact, it is surprising, that with "universal vaccinations" there are as many cases as you report!
Another point you make is of course the removal of mercury-stabilizers from any fluids used for vaccination. That should be done and seems to be accomplished by now.
The question on stopping vaccinations in the West is a topic for general discussion, since many of the diseases to be protected against have essentially been eliminated in the West. True, but now we are seeing some of these sicknesses re-appearing --- reintroduced from "third-world countries" --- and our Western population is now unprotected --- and after some deaths "emergency vaccinations" were initiated to suppress these sicknesses again at certain times in certain locations!
 Eliminating vaccinations is really a much more complex matter than just eliminating vaccinations!
FRED
 
 
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in response to fred's comment:

low immunity is not attributed to lack of altered viral proteins being introduced to our bodies in an unnatural way, but rather from poor diet and lifestyle. all kinds of things could be improved if we just knew how to eat well and handle our day to day lives and stressors. what do people in third world countries all have in common? hint: it's not the lack of antibacterial soap! it's because they're hungry people. i think it's safe to say malnutrition is the main reason for any immune deficiency. if you can't eat your body isn't being nourished, and with no fuels it can't work efficiently.

watch the documentary that was up here a while ago. it's called Vaccination: A Hidden Truth. it'll give you another perspective. it talks about all kinds of fraud in the vaccine industry and about the lives that were taken for capital gain. it's worth a watch.

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Always trust your instincts. They're usually right. Mine are always right! You made a good choice. If you feel it's wrong, don't let others convince you otherwise. :o)
 
 
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I don't know what the regime of hep B vaccinations is in America, but it is probably the same as Australia where there are 4 doses-birth, 8 weeks, 6 months and 12 months. If you start the vaccination at 8 weeks then you only need 3 doses to achieve the same immunity at 12 months. So the newborn's immature immune system is not making enough antibodies for longlasting immunity. No surprises there really. It is scary to think of what longlasting effects there will be from injecting this crude substance into the newborn's very finely tuned body. I am a midwife in a tertiary hospital. I and a lot of my colleagues find it frightening the blind acceptance of this largely unecessary vaccination. I always tell women about the birth dose being an extra and unecessary injection. Mostly they go ahead and have it anyway often for reasons such as needing up to date immunisations for daycare and immunisation allowance from the government.
 
 
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At the age of 41, a year ago,  I had my first child. I had a lovely and very healthy girl who never received any single vaccines, not even the infamous vitamine K -- nothing.

Many years ago I started educating myself about the dangers and horros of vaccines. When I met my dear husband I let him know of my decision of not wanting to vaccinated a child (in case we have any). At first he was horrified of the idea. Like most of us, he grow up convinced vaccines are God sent blessings to save Mankind (or should I say to enrich Big Pharma!!). My husband took the decision to investigate the debate about vaccines. We bought many books, visited many sites and forums, we asked questions, we contacted parents who child was injured in some way with vaccines. After several months of investigation, my husband needed no more studies, he now was convinced that the whole thing has not foundation, no logic.

We try to our best ability and knowledge to eat healthy and so our little precious gift from God.

As Mercola says in the video, please, please investigate before putting all those toxins to your child's body. How on earth we can claim we are inteligent people when we allow other human beings take decision for us? This world is going mad in many ways, so many horrific things on the name of science. We need to help to stop all this madness for the sakes of our beloved children.

All the best to all and greetings from the UK

Rose
 
 
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Gosh, this topic is a big issue!

Our daughter was born six weeks early on Jan 1 and spent 2 weeks in the NICU. Certainly a different situtation than the planned homebirth. Anyway, we knew we'd be facing the vaccine issue. We signed the consent form and check the "NO" box. We learned that a nurse went ahead and gave our daughter the vaccine!

The only compensation we got was the cost of the vax removed from our bill, aside from the many, many apologies. I was so exhausted from managing a toddler and making daily trips to the NICU that I didn't know what to do about it other than accept the apologies.

It's just sad that consent forms don't matter.  Naturally, I've been very vocal at pediatrician visits regarding our children not getting vaccines.
 
 
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I discovered the dangers of vaccines about 10 years ago.  I tell anyone and everyone to help spread the word.  I've recently enroled as a student for Mental Health Nursing, and have been told that a requirement to stay on the course is for me to have the HepB vaccination.  I'm in the process of trying to get out of this as I'm not sure where I stand legally.  I mean, I know they cannot force me to have the jab, but can they chuck me off the course?  I'm willing to go into battle over this, but worried about the financial implications and being evicted from my council home.  Oh well, such things are sent to try us, LOL. 
 
 
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Dear Zarrah.  That is absolutely awful that they would go ahead and vaccinate your baby, even though you had expressly denied consent.  I can understand your exhaustion at such an emotional time, and I can imagine that the thought of legal action is maybe just too much for you to contemplate at the moment.  If you feel up to it, maybe you could seek some legal advice.  I know that here in the UK we have a Citizens Advice Bureau that gives legal advice for free.  Not sure if the US has anything similar.  Maybe just writing a letter to the hospital will at least get down on paper this terrible injustice that has been done to your baby and your family.
The most important thing right now is that you relax, regain your strength and enjoy your beautiful baby.  Everything else is secondary.
health and happiness to you and your family.
Frankie x
 
 
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This is a huge issue for me, as well, as a similar thing happened in our family. Our son was born last April 1st via emergency c-section. Like you, we had planned a homebirth. I went into the emergency room for an unrelated problem, and was sent to labor and delivery because the ER doctor decided I must be in labor. As I was aware, I wasn't in labor, but it was a good thing I was monitored because the baby had contracted the upper-respiratory virus I had and was very sick and in distress. So, 5 weeks early, they delivered this very sick little baby and carted him off to NICU. We had also checked the NO box on the consent form and commented to the nurses that we were very adamantly opposed to the vaccination. A couple of hours after birth, the neonatologist informed us that, in spite of us making our wishes clear, they had administered the shot to this very sick little baby! Her justification was was that they didn't have a history on me and they didn't know what was wrong with the baby, so it was standard medical procedure to go ahead with the vaccination. It is standard medical procedure to inject a toxic substance into a helpless baby who is already fighting for his life!!!!
 
 
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