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>>Patrice Bobier wrote:

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>>> >In a message dated 1/26/99 11:38:28 AM Pacific Standard Time,

>>> >gloria_lemay@... writes:

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>>> > For those of you who are interested in what Physicians are being

taught

>>> > about Vaccines there is a site on the internet

>>> >

>>> >

>http://www-med.stanford.edu/school/DGIM/teaching/modules/immunization.html

>>> >

>>> > Interestingly enough, one of the most prestigious medical

>>> > schools, STANFORD UNIVERSITY,is NOT in agreement about vaccinating

>>> > newborns against Hepatitis B. In his teaching module, Eliseo

>>> > -Stable, MD, says the following:

>>> >

>>> > " ACIP, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Academy

of

>>> > Family Practice recommend universal immunization of all infants

against

>>> > HBV, regardless of risk. Although this policy is moderately

>economically

>>> > attractive, many have criticized the unneeded vaccinations and the

>added

>>> > pain of more " baby shots " . Bloom and colleagues completed a cost

>>> > effectiveness study on HBV vaccination strategies and concluded

that

>the

>>> > strategy with the lowest cost per year of life saved was

>>> >

>>> > l)Screen all pregnant women

>>> >

>>> > 2)If HBsAg positive: vaccinate infant against HBV and administer

HBIG.

>>> >

>>> > 3)vaccinate all children at l0 years and re-vaccinate with a

booster l0

>>> > years later. "

>>> >

>>> > I urge you to send this information on to others. I am committed

to

>>> > stopping the routine vaccine of newborns throughout N. America.

>Babies'

>>> > immune systems are not developed enough to take this vaccine. I

fear

>>> > that this is a huge money-making scheme on the part of the

>pharmaceutical

>>> > companies and that it is going to have huge health costs for the

>general

>>> > public.

>>> >

>>> > Contact at least one public health official in your community

today and

>>> > let them know there is a campaign to end the vaccination of babies

>>> > against Hepatitis B. When the people lead, the leaders follow.

>>> >

>>> > Yours in partnership to save one child's life,

>>> >

>>> > Gloria Lemay, Private Birth Attendant, Mother, Grandmother, Uppity

>Woman

>>> > Vancouver, B.C., Canada >>

>>> >

>>> Patrice Bobier, Midwife in Michigan

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