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Except when they are born. Whoops!
Let's not protect newborns from hepatitis B
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Hepatitis B is a virus that can attack the liver. It causes liver inflammation, and chronic exposure to the virus can lead to liver cancer or liver failure. The virus is spread by bodily fluids and can be transmitted through blood, sexual contact or sharing needles. Pregnant patients can also spread the virus in utero to a baby.
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People infected with hepatitis B might not know they’re carrying the virus for a few key reasons. Primarily this is because the virus can lie dormant without symptoms for a long time, only emerging later in life or flaring up at the same time as another health issue. Additionally, hepatitis B has good staying power. Many viruses don’t survive more than 48 hours outside the body, but the hepatitis B virus can stay potent for up to a week outside the body.
Hepatitis B and children
There’s a common misconception that hepatitis B is “just” a sexually transmitted infection. That’s not true. A single drop of infected blood—on a washcloth, a toothbrush, a razor or anything else—has enough of the virus to infect others. And since so many folks do not know they are infected, it’s easier than you might think to get infected at school, day care or even with contact sports.
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Here’s the good news: Hepatitis B is totally preventable. For decades, we’ve had access to a safe, effective vaccine that can prevent infection. In 1991, the United States began recommending that all babies receive the hepatitis B vaccine at birth, and over 100 other countries also recommend the vaccine for newborns.
The vaccine is particularly important because there is no cure for hepatitis B. The only way to help protect your child from hepatitis B is the vaccine.
There are many possible outcomes if your child gets hepatitis B, and some are very serious. Liver failure is a possibility, which can result in death.
Pediatric vaccines are here to keep us protected at birth, and the hepatitis B vaccine has done just that. Before the 1991 vaccine recommendation, 18,000 children per year were diagnosed with hepatitis B as a new case. Since newborns started being vaccinated for the virus routinely, that’s dropped to 20 children per year. Extrapolate the data, and you get 90,000 deaths that have been prevented in just a few decades.
The vaccine is particularly important because there is no cure for hepatitis B. The only way to help protect your child from hepatitis B is the vaccine.
There are many possible outcomes if your child gets hepatitis B, and some are very serious. Liver failure is a possibility, which can result in death.
Pediatric vaccines are here to keep us protected at birth, and the hepatitis B vaccine has done just that. Before the 1991 vaccine recommendation, 18,000 children per year were diagnosed with hepatitis B as a new case. Since newborns started being vaccinated for the virus routinely, that’s dropped to 20 children per year. Extrapolate the data, and you get 90,000 deaths that have been prevented in just a few decades.
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Bret Weinstein says that if he could go back, he would not vaccinate his newborn children.“I believe the adverse events from regular old vaccines are far more common than we imagine, including things like allergies.”“I believe that my allergy to wheat is likely the result of an adjuvant that caused my immune system to react to something normal in my gut in a way that I will never be free from.”“One of my sons has seasonal allergies that are significant enough to get in his way.”“The other has an allergy to dairy… What I now think is that he developed an allergy very early, probably from an adjuvant in a childhood vaccine.”“Given all of that education that I have now painfully received, if I had it to do all over again, I would not end up giving any vaccines to my newborn children.”“I’m not saying it’s impossible that any of them are more beneficial than they are harmful, but I now know that I cannot trust the safety testing.”
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Bret Weinstein says that if he could go back, he would not vaccinate his newborn children.“I believe the adverse events from regular old vaccines are far more common than we imagine, including things like allergies.”“I believe that my allergy to wheat is likely the result of an adjuvant that caused my immune system to react to something normal in my gut in a way that I will never be free from.”“One of my sons has seasonal allergies that are significant enough to get in his way.”“The other has an allergy to dairy… What I now think is that he developed an allergy very early, probably from an adjuvant in a childhood vaccine.”“Given all of that education that I have now painfully received, if I had it to do all over again, I would not end up giving any vaccines to my newborn children.”“I’m not saying it’s impossible that any of them are more beneficial than they are harmful, but I now know that I cannot trust the safety testing.”
If the mother is negative for Hep B you are exposing newborns to potentially lethal side effects of the vaccine for almost ZERO benefits.
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Heb B can spread through bodily fluid contact. A shared toothbrush can pass it. So can a shared razor, contaminated eating utensils, etc.
Toddlers share bodily fluids pretty easily, putting things in their mouths that may have been in some other kids mouth, etc.
Vaccination against Heb B does make a certain amount of sense. It is usually included as part of the battery of immunizations given to babies. This one is done in three doses.
Of course, the immunizations should be voluntary, not government mandated. The CDC has recently re-emphasized this.
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Random words. No apparent coherency. Go learn English.
Into the Night
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Random words. No apparent coherency. Go learn English.
Into the Night
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You are still locked in this paradox.
CDC says that if the mother tests negative you can wait a few months, and what does the OP do? They panic post about ending vaccinations...
The left wants you terrified, if you are terrified you will do exactly as they say when they say it, how they want it done, so you can feel safe. Fascism is always easier to slip past you when they call it "Democratic Socialism" and couch it in terms where they are making you feel safe.
The left wants you terrified, if you are terrified you will do exactly as they say when they say it, how they want it done, so you can feel safe. Fascism is always easier to slip past you when they call it "Democratic Socialism" and couch it in terms where they are making you feel safe.
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Random words. No apparent coherency. Go learn English.
Into the Night
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What metals??? Random words. No apparent coherency.
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What 'human extinction movement', Chicom???
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Lile.
I do not recommend suicide. You should seek help.
Random words ignored.
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Not really. This vaccine is pretty safe, and it does help particularly during the toddler years, when kids share everything, including mucus, saliva, even occasionally blood. The slobber on each other's stuff, they have drippy noses that get on each other's stuff, etc. Somebody cuts a finger and someone else sucks on the blood stain that appears on a toy.
Toddlers are VERY effective at sharing all of each other's various ills!
The vaccine series for Hep A and B is pretty effective at mitigating the effects of infection.
Allergic reactions are rare, and can be dealt with. If an allergic reaction is found, it's probably to the carrier solution and it's a good idea to find out quickly since that solution is used for a variety of immunizations.
That said, immunizations should be voluntary, decided by the parents, not the government.
If a child is already infected from the mother, a vaccination does nothing.