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From: Dawn Richardson
Sent: Monday, January 25, 1999 9:10 PM
Subject: Hepatitis B Vaccine: Is it really necessary?
Dear PROVE Members,
This was sent to me by one of the fathers interviewed on 20/20 whose baby
died from the hepatitis B vaccine. Share this with people you love who are
pregnant right now. Dawn
Government-mandated Thalidomide for babies?
By Michael Belkin 1999 WorldNetDaily.com
In Hulett, Wyoming, 20 percent of the parents boycotted the school district's
seventh grade and turned to home schooling rather than subject their children
to a state-mandated Hepatitis B vaccine. In Keene, New Hampshire, Gerhard
Bedding (vice president of New Hampshire Citizens for Health Freedom) is
organizing a state recall petition to remove the legislative mandate that
all New Hampshire public school students must receive the Hepatitis B vaccine.
In France, a national Hepatitis B vaccination school program was halted
after angry parents won a court judgment against mandatory vaccination.
In Vienna, Virginia, the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) is sending
an urgent notice of Hepatitis B vaccine adverse effects to every pediatrician
in the US. What is wrong with this supposedly-safe vaccine that 80% of US
babies now receive at birth?
Ask Martha Durham in Wilmington, Delaware. Her daughter Eliza became highly
agitated with a fever in the hospital immediately after getting the Hepatitis
B vaccine at birth. Martha's doctor accused her of being a drug addict and
diagnosed the baby as having withdrawals -- denying any connection with
the vaccine. Eliza survived but now has hearing loss. Ask Debbie Parker
in Porterville, California. Her son Matthew died in her arms after getting
the Hepatitis B vaccine and the local Sheriff threatened her with murder
charges -- denying any connection with the vaccine. Ask vaccine researcher
Dr. Bonnie Dunbar at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. Her brother
has severe, debilitating auto-immune neurological damage after a Hepatitis
B vaccination and Bonnie has moved into the forefront of medical research
regarding the adverse effects of the Hepatitis B vaccine. Ask Dr. Burton
A. Waisbren at the Waisbren Clinic in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He has seen
enough cases of central nervous system damage from this vaccine to title
a paper "Universal Hepatitis B Vaccination: Is it a Sword of Damocles
Hanging Over the Head of the American People?" Ask me. My five-week-old
daughter Lyla Rose died hours after receiving the Hepatitis B vaccine and
the New York City medical examiner refused to even mention her swollen brain
or the vaccination in the autopsy report -- telling me "vaccines do
a lot of good things for people."
As a grieving father looking for answers, my preliminary investigation into
the matter generated only scoffs from doctors and health officials. However,
my subsequent investigation has produced some answers and many more questions
that every parent and doctor should be aware of:
Question: Who is at risk of Hepatitis B?
Answer: In the US, the Hepatitis B disease mainly infects intravenous drug
users, homosexuals, prostitutes and promiscuous heterosexuals. Since the
disease is transmitted by blood, through sex, dirty needles, or infected
mothers, the likelihood that a newborn baby from a non-infected mother could
contract Hepatitis B is virtually nil. In 1996, only 279 reported cases
of Hepatitis B disease occurred in US children under 14 years old, according
to the "Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, Summary of Notifiable
Diseases, United States, 1996" published by the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention. Only 54 of those cases occurred in the 0-1 age group.
With 3.9 million US births in 1996, the observed incidence of Hepatitis
B was therefore an infinitesimal 0.001 percent for babies less than 1 year
old, according to the CDC's own data. Newborns are not mentioned in the
risk groups on the CDC Hepatitis B fact sheet.
Question: Then why are millions of US babies inoculated with the Hepatitis
B vaccine at birth?
Answer: An intrusive and incompetent government health care bureaucracy
(led by the CDC) couldn't get junkies, gays, prostitutes, promiscuous heterosexuals
and Hepatitis B infected mothers to take the Hepatitis B vaccine -- and
has mandated that all babies must be vaccinated at birth -- regardless of
whether or not they are at risk.
Question: Can the Hepatitis B vaccine harm children?
Answer: The day of the autopsy, the coroner told me that Lyla's brain was
swollen. That is a classic adverse reaction to vaccination, which can lead
to death or permanent neurological damage. Reported adverse effects to the
Hepatitis B vaccine include: Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), multiple
sclerosis, lupus, Guillain-Barre Syndrome and other central demyelinating
diseases including transverse myelitis and optic neuritis; and immune system
dysfunction including chronic arthritis. Although the Hepatitis B vaccine
is government-mandated at birth, it was tested in very few newborns. Newborns
have under-developed immune systems, which are weaker than the adult immune
system. The independent National Vaccine Information Center in Vienna, Virginia
receives new reports every week of deaths, seizures and other auto-immune
and brain dysfunctions following Hepatitis B vaccination.
In response to the scientific community's concern over reports on Hepatitis
B vaccine-related infant deaths, the National Academy of Science held a
workshop last fall. Data presented from the Food and Drug Administration
(FDA) showed that there have been 19 reported neonatal SIDS deaths since
1991 related to the Hepatitis B vaccine. But that may only be part of the
story.
Upon closer examination of government data, I found 54 reported SIDS cases
after Hepatitis B vaccination in an 17-month period from January 1996 to
May 1997. That is almost 15 times the annual death rate that the FDA study
reports and might be related to the fact that the second Hepatitis B booster
shot (after which my daughter died) usually occurs after four weeks of age
-- beyond the definition used by their survey. Furthermore, an analysis
by the NVIC of the government's raw data for 1990-98 shows more than 17,000
reports of adverse reactions to this vaccine. 5,748 of those reports were
serious events that involved life-threatening health problems, hospitalization
or left the individual disabled. Since the FDA reporting system never bothered
to return the NY City Medical Examiner's call after Lyla's death, the official
reported numbers probably vastly understate the number of injuries and deaths
caused by this vaccine.
Question: Can the Hepatitis B vaccine benefit newborns?
Answer: Only if the mother carries the disease. In the US, the risk of contracting
Hepatitis B as a healthy infant born to a non-infected mother is virtually
nil, so vaccination has absolutely no benefit. Furthermore, the vaccine
manufacturers state that the duration of the protective effect is unknown
and the need for booster doses is not yet defined. In other words, vaccination
at birth may provide no protection years later when the child grows up and
could actually be exposed to the disease through sexual contact.
Question: If babies don't benefit from the vaccine, then who does?
Answer: Vaccine manufacturers gain a lucrative, captive market when bureaucrats
and governments mandate vaccination. Merck and Smithkline Beecham are the
two US manufacturers of Hepatitis B vaccine. In late August, Merck doubled
the newborn dose (and price) of its Recombivax Hepatitis B vaccine. So far,
officials at the Centers for Disease Control have dismissed those 17,000
reports of adverse reactions to the Hepatitis B vaccine. But one has to
wonder whether these same advocates for "public health" would
have a similar reaction to an outbreak of 17,000 cases of a life-threatening
disease. With less than 300 reported annual childhood cases of the disease
(according to CDC data) and thousands of reports of adverse reactions to
the vaccine, the risk/reward ratio for the Hepatitis B vaccine is clearly
disproportionate -- particularly for newborns.
The Centers for Disease Control, the Food and Drug Administration and vaccine
manufacturers may be delivering the 1990's version of Thalidomide, in the
name of children's health, to control a disease most babies can't possibly
get. Vaccinations in the name of public health are needlessly causing harm
to uninformed families. Parents should know that the risk of death and severe
neurological reactions is greater than the risk of their newborn child contracting
the Hepatitis B disease. Parents must educate themselves on these important
matters and cannot rely on government (or even their gullible doctors) for
answers. The government has abused its authority by mandating this risky
and useless vaccine for helpless babies who can't object. Nothing will ever
bring my lovely daughter Lyla Rose back, but other needless deaths and injuries
can be prevented if this senseless Hepatitis B newborn vaccination program
is halted.
For further information, please see the National Vaccine Information Center
Web site. http://www.909shot.com/
Dawn Richardson
PROVE(Parents Requesting Open Vaccine Education)
P.O. Box 1071
Cedar Park, TX 78630-1071
(512) 918-8760
prove@swbell.net (email)
http://home.swbell.net/prove (web site)
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