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One of a newborn baby's earliest experiences after emerging from the secure world of the womb is to be injected with a poisonous vaccine to prevent a disease for which s/he has virtually no likelihood of exposure.   

The people at risk for hepatitis B are intravenous drug users and the sexually promiscuous, both activities well beyond the realm of a helpless infant except the unfortunate few whose mothers happen to be
infected.  Yet, most states mandate that infants be vaccinated willy nilly rather than determining whether they are at risk by requiring that pregnant women be screened for the disease.

The disease is not particularly contagious, being transmitted by body fluids, and, while serious, is usually not life-threatening.  Those who recover are thought to have life-long immunity.  Of those who do not fully recover, less that 5% become carriers.  The incidence in the US is low (18003 cases in 1991 or about 0.00007% of the population).  So why does the Centers for Disease Control recommend that every newborn be vaccinated?

Hep B vaccine has caused autoimmune disease and nervous system damage in adults resulting in joint problems, seizures and blindness.  We are in the process of learning what it will do to our children when they are vaccinated as newborns whose T-cells are not fully developed.

The New Zealand Medical Journal ( May 24, 1996) reported an increase of 64% between 1988 and 1991 in the occurrence of Type one diabetes in New Zealand children following a massive campaign to administer hep B injections to babies six weeks of age and older.

The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) found that among children under 14 there were three times as many serious adverse reactions to the vaccine in 1996 as there were cases of the disease itself.

Serious reactions following the injection involved everything from the necessity for a visit to a hospital emergency room, life-threatening health problems, permanent disability, to up to 48 deaths.  Of the 872 children with serious reactions, 214 had received only hep B vaccine.  The rest had been given more than one vaccine at the same time.  Since 1990, over 16,000 hospitalizations, injuries and deaths have been attributed to hep B vaccines.

These findings from the raw computer data of the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) caused NVIC to denounce the government-mandated hep B inoculation as "dangerous and scientifically unsubstantiated".  If anything, the number of adverse events was even higher than reported because doctors tend to be lax about filing VAERS reports, and infant deaths tend to be classified under the catchall Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) instead of being attributed to vaccinations which are generally considered to be "safe and effective" despite the heart-wrenching testimony of parents who have lost their children or are spending their lives caring for an irreparably damaged child.

NVIC cites over 40 studies, mostly in international medical journals,
attributing chronic immune and neurological disease in children and adults to reactions to hep B vaccine.  Nurses and laboratory workers who are forced to take the shots as a condition of their employment
are prominent among the victims.

Vaccines in general may be incubated in monkey, rabbit, calf, horse, chicken or egg tissue.  They may contain formaldehyde, mercury, aluminum, phenol and other harmful ingredients.  The body has no chance to muster a defense when they are injected subcutaneously and circulated in the blood.

Sources: National Vaccine Information Center, 512 Maple Ave. #206, Vienna VA 22180
<http://www.909shot.com/>

March/April 1999 Newsletter of Vaccination Alternatives, PO Box 346, NYC NY 10023

"Disposable Children"  Alive September 1998

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