The hepatitis B vaccine has been marred by controversy since its inception, particularly since it is now given to every newborn child despite less than one in a million children benefitting from this policy
Remarkably, much of that controversy (e.g., Congressional hearings, mainstream news programs, and HIV vaccine contamination concerns) has been largely forgotten
The hepatitis B vaccine has long been associated with autoimmune disorders, particularly demyelinating ones. While the medical community has insisted for over 50 years that this link remains unproven and requires “further research,” evidence demonstrates this process indeed occurs
While the hepatitis B vaccine has reduced acute cases in high-risk demographics (e.g., intravenous drug users), there is no evidence it has done the same in newborns (as applicable circumstances are incredibly rare) or reduced chronic hepatitis cases
Today, the blanket policy to give it to every newborn will at last be re-evaluated. It is critical we understand what is at stake and why we actually vaccinate every newborn so we can support this policy being changed
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Since our society is conditioned to believe all vaccines are “safe and effective” many do not realize the risks and benefits of each vaccine vary greatly. One of the most controversial vaccines has been the Hepatitis B vaccine, which is given to every newborn in the country at their most fragile moment of life despite their risk of contracting hepatitis B being negligible.
“Bonnie Dunbar PhD has also been in contact with numerous physicians and research scientists from several countries who have independently described thousands of identical severe reactions occurring in Caucasian recipients of the hepatitis vaccine.”1
Since entering the market, the hepatitis B vaccine has been marred with safety concerns:
• As early as 1976, one researcher cautioned that since autoimmunity is involved in the pathogenesis of hepatitis B infections, they might also be provoked by molecularly similar hepatitis B vaccines. Numerous papers and major news articles since have shown that vaccine provokes a wide range of autoimmune disorders.2,3,4,5,6,7,8
• In 1998 Scientist9 highlighted growing concerns threatening to derail the hepatitis B vaccine program, such as more and more people claiming it caused serious autoimmune diseases (e.g., rheumatoid arthritis [RA], optic neuritis, and multiple sclerosis [MS]), that one doctor had collected over 600 cases of this happening, and that in July, attorneys representing 15,000 people sued France’s government for exaggerating the vaccine’s benefits and downplaying its risks (after which France suspended the vaccine in schools — a move widely condemned by health authorities10).
• In January 1999 ABC News aired a scathing criticism of the Hepatitis B vaccine:11
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Note: 55 other news programs criticizing vaccines they would never air today can be read here.
• A May 1999 Congressional hearing on the vaccine highlighted that:12
◦ Serious side effects included infant death, seizures, autism, dysautonomia, MS, RA diabetes, and rare cases of liver cancer in children post-vaccination, with (vastly underreported) VAERS data showing over 8,000 reactions, including 43 deaths in children under 2 in 1997. In contrast, there were only 95 (or less13) annual hepatitis B cases and no infant deaths, indicating the risks of newborn vaccination vastly outweighed any possible benefit.
◦ There was massive underreporting of injuries (e.g., 4 to 5 day trials were too short to identify them, and physicians denied they’d occurred when parents reported them) and no effort had been made to identify injury susceptibility.
◦ All long-term research into the safety of the vaccine was being stonewalled, yet the medical community argued the lack of robust long-term safety studies actually proved the vaccines were “safe” but promised to do future research to determine if the vaccines were safe (which 25 years later still has not happened — but again was repeatedly promised this year as a way to dismiss proposals to stop giving the vaccine to newborns).
◦ Vaccinating low-risk newborns for an adult-associated disease is inappropriate, particularly since immunity can wane before adolescence and 10% to 30% of individuals fail to produce antibodies, questioning efficacy.
◦ The National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program denied most claims, leaving debilitated victims unsupported despite a $1 billion trust fund, with restrictions limiting filings for hepatitis B vaccine injuries.
◦ There was no informed consent as parents were not provided with information on the vaccine’s risks, newborns were vaccinated without parental consent, and parents faced coercion, including threats of social services intervention if they did not vaccine.
Note: This is still an issue. Consider what these readers reported.
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Many of the testimonials were quite riveting:
• This woman’s son developed seizures, then neurologic disorders, then autism after the vaccine.
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• This nurse developed chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (losing the ability to walk) along with multiple types of autoimmune disorders.
See this.
• This adolescent girl became disabled from the neurological and autoimmune complications of the vaccine.
See this.
• This father’s daughter died immediately after vaccination.
See this.
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Vaccine Autoimmune Disorders
One of the Congressional witnesses, produced a report highlighting the dangers of the hepatitis B vaccine including cases of encephalomyelitis he’d observed (resulting in a two week coma for one, a four week coma for the other, along with optic neuritis and significant neurological disability for both).14 He and others15,16,17 ultimately identified hundreds of publications linking that vaccine to a wide degree of autoimmune disorders:
- Multiple Sclerosis,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31
myelitis,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45
encephalitis,46
encephalomyelitis,47
optic neuritis,48,49,50,51,52
Guillain-Barré syndrome,53,54,55,56,57,58,59,60,61
neuropathy,62,63,64,65,66,67,68,69,70,71
myopathy,72,73,74,75,76,77,78,79
Myasthenia Gravis,80,81,82
APMPPE (an eye disease)83 and
uveitis.84
- Arthritis,85,86,87,88,89,90,91,92,93,94,95,96,97
Lupus,98,99,100,101,102,103,104,105,106,107,108,109,110,111,112,113,114,115,116,117,118,119
juvenile dermatomyositis,120,121,122,123,124
macrophagic myofasciitis,125
polyarthralgia-myalgia,126
Still’s disease.127
- Vasculitis (general,128,129,130,131 pulmonary and cutaneous,132,133 Churg-Strauss,134,135 Henoch-Schonlein purpura,136 Kawasaki’s disease137 polyarteritis nodosa138),
hemolytic anemia,139
thrombocytopenia,140,141,142,143,144,145,146
antiphospholipid syndrome.147,148
- Lichen planus,149,150,151,152,153,154,155,156,157,158,159,160,161,162,163,164,165,166,167
lichen striatus,168
bullous pemphigoid,169,170
erythema multiforme,171,172,173
erythema nodosum174
Gianotti-Crosti syndrome,175,176
alopecia,177,178
buccal aphthosis.
- Chronic Fatigue Syndrome,179,180,181,182,183,184
Fibromyalgia,185
Graves’ disease,186,187
Sjogren’s syndrome.188
- Hepatitis,189,190,191,192
glomerulonephritis,193
pancreatitis194
pneumonitis.195
Note: This vaccine has also been linked to a variety of other disorders not classically classified as autoimmune disorders such seizures,196,197 Bell’s palsy,198,199 cerebellar ataxia,200 tic disorders,201 anorexia,202tufted angioma203 and to increase common childhood illnesses (e.g., one study found a 1.6X increase in acute ear infections and a 1.41X increase in pharyngitis and nasopharyngitis204). Worse still, one study found an 81% increase in death.205
Molecular Mimicry
If an immune provoking substance (e.g., an infection or antigen co-administered with an adjuvant like aluminum) overlaps with human tissue, it can cause the immune system to target human tissue and hence cause autoimmunity. From the start, many believed the Hepatitis B vaccine’s issues resulted from it overlapping with myelin (what coats nerves).
This link was vociferously denied by the medical community (yet never researched) but in 2005, proven by a study which showed until the hepatitis B vaccine had a significant overlap with myelin and that 60% of its recipients also developed immune reactivity to the myelin coating their nerves (which in the majority of cases persisted for over 6 months).206
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