Newborns Undervaccinated for Hepatitis B

[Guest guest]

s beautiful baby daughter was murdered by Dr. Katz and others and

the drug company after her 2nd hepatitis b vaccine.

See my webpages for details http://www.nccn.net/~wwithin/hepatitisb.htm

This article is filled with absolute LIES and I for one am sick of it.

Note also http://www.909shot.com/hepBfacts.htm HEPATITIS B DISEASE AND

VACCINE FACTS

Sheri

Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2001 07:32:51 -0400

From: Belkin

I wonder how innocent newborns have been spared convulsions, death and

brain damage because they did not get this unnecessary and toxic vaccine at

birth. Dr. Katz (Chairman of the Advisory Committee on Immunization

Practices in 1991 when hep B vaccine was mandated for newborns) admitted at

his NY Cornell lecture on " Vaccines in the New Millenium " that they had no

published, peer-reviewed evidence that hep B vaccine was safe to give to

newborns when the policy was implemented in 1991.

http://dailynews./h/nm/20010402/hl/hepatitis_2.html

Monday April 2 5:56 PM ET

Newborns Undervaccinated for Hepatitis B

By Will Boggs, MD

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Despite recommendations from at least three

expert committees that all infants receive hepatitis B vaccine (preferably

at birth), routine vaccination rates have fallen significantly, researchers

reported on Monday.

This is most likely due to a July 1999 statement from the American Academy

of Pediatrics and the US Public Health Service suggesting that

immunizations be temporarily delayed until age 2 to 6 months, according to

Marjorie Hurie from the Wisconsin Division of Public Health in Madison and

associates.

This change was prompted by concerns about thimerosal--a mercury-containing

preservative--found in the hepatitis B vaccine.

After the release of a thimerosal-free vaccine in September 1999, the

experts advised healthcare providers and hospitals to restart their routine

hepatitis B immunization programs. But in the April issue of the journal

Pediatrics, the authors report that many hospitals have failed to heed that

advice.

``If your doctor is not providing this simple form of lifesaving protection

to your infant at birth, they ought to,'' said study co-author Dr

Saari, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. ``Two billion people

worldwide have received the hepatitis B vaccine to date, and it is one of

the safest vaccines ever made. It is extraordinarily safe and effective in

infants who have received it at birth since 1982.''

Hepatitis B can be spread through contaminated needles, blood products and

infected bodily fluids, but it is more dangerous to children than adults

who become infected. Children are at risk for infection from adults with a

chronic hepatitis B infection--who might not be aware that they have the

liver-damaging virus.

Before the July 1999 scare, the researchers note, 81% of Wisconsin

hospitals routinely offered hepatitis B vaccine for newborns. After the

thimerosal alert, 90% of these hospitals halted their routine immunization

for hepatitis B. By March 2000, 6 months after the thimerosal-free vaccine

became available, only 50% of Wisconsin hospitals had resumed their routine

vaccination programs.

Hospital officials said that some physicians had decided to replace the

routine immunization with a combination vaccine for Haemophilus influenza

and hepatitis B that had become available, and that others were giving the

first vaccination in their offices. Some infants were not immunized because

their parents lacked the insurance to cover the shot.

But many hospitals had no immunization policy in effect. Six percent of

hospitals, in fact, did not even have a policy to vaccinate the infants of

mothers who had active hepatitis B, the report indicates.

In responding to the hospitals' claims, the authors reiterate that

vaccination at birth is effective prevention and increases the chance that

the infant will receive the entire hepatitis B vaccine series. Moreover,

hospitals should realize that vaccine costs can be covered for most

uninsured infants under the Vaccines for Children program. And doctors

should understand that giving hepatitis B vaccine at birth does not

interfere with giving the combination vaccine later.

The researchers also emphasize the importance of hospitals having

vaccination policies in place.

The authors conclude with a word of advice to the experts who announce

policy changes. ``In the future, policymakers should include anticipated

consequences that may result from changes in immunization policy in their

recommendations,'' they write.

``Physicians who delay giving a birth dose because they know the mother

(tested) negative at the beginning of the pregnancy are missing a very

important opportunity to protect an infant leaving the hospital to go to a

household where another family member is a hepatitis B carrier,'' Saari said.

SOURCE: Pediatrics 2001;107:755-758.

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