Some researchers who may be more intense about their suspicions into the connection between vaccines and the meteoric rise in autism (among other diabilities) have long suggested that the Hep B is one of the bad ones. Is it mere coincidence that the California Centers who have been charting the [prevalance of LD’s for the kids who are served under them have founf that in the last 27 years, 2/3 of all the autistic kids that have come thru their doors were born after 1988, the year the Hep B jab was introduced? Medical science has not given a hard, critical look into this matter to either rule out the connection or show that it is there.
I did get this emailed to me, and it is interesting. Three points about it: Until new productin begun in the year 2000, Hep B contained thimerosal, an anti-microbal substance containing organic mercury (also known as merthiolate), deemed highly neuro-toxic, and too dangerous to swab on the skin when you get a boo-boo, yet injected into the arms of babies within the first two days of life. And the adverse reaction that an adult may get from a vaccine has no where near the impact the same reaction would have on a child 1/20 the size and with a central nervous system still 8 years from complete development. Finally, the CDC, FDA and NIH all begrusgingly admit that less than 10% of the adverse reactions to vaccines are reported to VAERS, mostly because doctors in the fields do not know what an adverse reaction is, or else attribute the reaction they see to other sources than the vaccines given.
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Hepatitis B vaccination safety.Geier MR, Geier DA.
The Genetic Centers of America, Silver Spring, MD
20905-5726, USA. mgeier@e…
BACKGROUND: Recent studies have suggested that adult hepatitis B vaccination may be associated with adverse reactions.
OBJECTIVE: To further examine the relative risk, percentage association, and statistical significance of arthritic, immunologic, and gastrointestinal adverse reactions reported after adult hepatitis B vaccination compared with control vaccines.
DESIGN: The Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) database was analyzed for the incidence of adverse reactions after adult hepatitis B immunization compared with the incidence of adverse reactions reported to VAERS about vaccine control groups.
SETTING: The medical and scientific communities have generally accepted that hepatitis B vaccine, a highly purified, genetically engineered single-antigen vaccine, is a safe vaccine.
METHODS: The VAERS database was analyzed from 1997 to 2000 for adverse reactions associated with adult hepatitis B vaccination and from 1991 to 2000 for adverse reactions reported about vaccine control groups.
RESULTS: The results showed a statistically significant increase in the incidence of adverse reactions reported after adult hepatitis B vaccination when compared with the incidence of adverse reactions reported to VAERS about control vaccines.
CONCLUSIONS: Patients and physicians need to be fully informed of the potential adverse reactions associated with hepatitis B vaccination so that together they can make an informed consent decision about the risk versus the benefit. Patients who may have had an associated adverse reaction to hepatitis B vaccine should be made aware that they may be eligible for compensation from the no-fault Vaccine Compensation Act, administered by the US Court of Claims.
PMID: 11895045 [PubMed - in process]
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Vaccine-induced autoimmunity.
Cohen AD, Shoenfeld Y.
Department of Medicine B & Research, Sheba Medical Center,
Tel-Hashomer, Israel.
The current review summarizes case reports attributing autoimmune diseases and phenomena to various vaccines and suggests potential mechanisms. It has to be emphasized that the demonstration of a temporal relationship does not necessarily attribute autoimmunity to a vaccine. The subject is complicated by the fact that one vaccine may cause more than one autoimmune phenomenon, and a particular immune process may be caused by more than one vaccine.
Furthermore, vaccines differ in their pathogenic influence on the immune system. There is no doubt that the new recombinant hepatitis B virus vaccine is different from mumps, measles and rubella vaccines in its ability to trigger autoimmunity, probably by completely different mechanisms.
The data summarized here suggest that some vaccines may in rare cases induce autoimmune disorders. The subject of the vaccine-autoimmunity relationship is still obscure; reports have been rare, no laboratory experimentation on this topic has been undertaken, and there are few animal models. For the time being no conclusions can be drawn.
Since vaccines are an important prophylactic intervention, the risk-benefit ratio clearly leans towards the advantages of infectious disease prevention. Vaccination routines should not be changed in the healthy population or for patients with known autoimmune disorders. Laborious clinical and laboratory studies should be initiated in order to evaluate the new emerging subject of vaccine-induced autoimmunity.
Publication Types:
Review
Review, Tutorial
PMID: 9115571 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Kaiser the HMO in our area no longer gives any vacinations with thimerosal.
They went through a period or 6 months that they stopped giving Hep B until the thimerosal-free vacination was available. I think I was told the the Flu shot was the only shot they give with thimerosal. It will be interesting if the autism rate in CA goes down over the next five years.
Helen