Court Links Hepatitis B Vaccine To A Death

In 1994, the government's Immunization Advisory Committee recommended routine vaccination against hepatitis B virus. It was a widely welcomed strategy to fight a serious and sometimes deadly disease. The CDC currently recommends vaccination for "all infants, beginning at birth," people under age 19, and at-risk adults. But after nearly 15 years, there's debate over who should receive this vaccine and when.

How is Hep B "caught" or transmitted? Through direct contact with infectious blood, semen and/or body fluids through sex, sharing needles, or infected mother to newborn. In my interview several months ago with the former head of the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Bernadine Healy (who is pro-vaccine), she expressed concern about infants receiving Hep B shots. She and some other medical experts reason that it's unnecessary to expose infants to this vaccine and its potential side effects at such an early age, unless they are at special risk for contracting the disease; most infants have no direct contact with body fluids of someone infected with hepatitis B, so what's the rush in exposing them to the series of vaccinations?

A special Vaccine Court ruled that hepatitis B vaccines caused an MS type illness in an adult woman, a woman who ultimately died.

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