We go to such lengths to conceive a child and maintain good health during pregnancy it would be catastrophic to have a misjudgment during the important first year of life. It’s becoming common knowledge that breastfeeding the newborn correlates to increased health and proper development. Vaccination of newborns used to be considered a “given” but now concerned citizen are revisiting that idea. Specifically speaking the hepatitis B vaccine has been coming under some scrutiny. In fact on March 23, 2011 the United States Federal Court stated in HARRIS v. SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF
HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, that the hepatitis B vaccine involves too much risk without sufficient benefit. The court acknowledged that newborns are not in the two groups most susceptible to hepatitis B (intravenous drug users sharing needles and those who practice unsafe sex.)
So how did we get to this place of vaccinating our newborns since the early 90’s against a disease that they are likely not to be exposed to? The Center for Disease Control gives “grants and other financial incentives to state health departments to reward them for promoting mass vaccination. Since 1965, the CDC has given state health departments hundreds of millions of dollars through categorical grant programs to promote mass use of federally recommended vaccines. At the same time, if state health officials do not show federal health officials proof they have attained a certain vaccination rate in their state, federal grants to state health departments can be withheld.’ ‘In addition to federal grants, many states get money from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (Johnson & Johnson), which operates All Kids Count, to set up vaccine tracking systems to enforce state vaccination mandates. (In 1989 Merck & Co., the U.S. manufacturer of the measles, mumps, rubella (MMR), chicken pox and hepatitis B vaccines, joined with Johnson & Johnson to form Worldwide Consumer Pharmaceuticals Co. with the goal of becoming “one of the premier worldwide consumer products companies.” Merck’s 1997 vaccine sales reached 1 billion dollars.) .”National Vaccine Information Center. So how can the public be confident in the mandates of the CDC when they are essentially funded by big pharmaceuticals? They can’t. So for the hepatitis B vaccination the risks seem extreme, especially for a newborn with an immune system that has not fully developed. Just because the masses do it doesn’t mean its safe. Take the above facts and examine the research and educate yourself before your told to vaccinate.
--William Harnage
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