Hep B vaccine proven to cause increased risk of Autism

When the medical personnel at the Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops BC wanted me to allow them to Vaccinate my newborn daughter for Hepatitis B I told them to go jump in the lake.  The very thought of vaccinating my newborn with ANYTHING made me want to puke, but vaccinating against a disease that is considered a sexually transmitted disease (yes, I know, you can also get it through sharing needles....) was so beyond belief that I think I actually laughed in the public health nurses face.  There is just something inherently wrong about injecting any sort of chemical into a fragile newborn baby, let alone a vaccine to protect her from a disease she most like would only be at risk for if she had unprotected sex or became a heroine  addict!!!  At the time that this came about I was still on the fence about vaccines.  I had delayed my eldest daughters vaccines by several months but still had nagging doubts about the decision to give her the vaccinations at all.  I guess I really should thank the nurses and Kamloops public health for trying to push this Hep B vax on us, because it was that push that started  the stone rolling leading to several years of seriously researching vaccines and their ingredients.

My 3 youngest children are NOT vaccinated, and I oh so wish I could go back in time and unvaccinate my eldest daughter.  But I digress...

This study will be followed by several others according to this article, which of course will be closely followed by the usual Big Pharma backlash of spin doctoring and creative manufactured studies to prove that these studies are all wrong and that they are perfect- Big Pharma that is.
... I'm looking forward to reading them.



New Study: Hepatitis B Vaccine Triples Risk of Autism in Infant Boys
by David Kirby

Conventional wisdom holds that the autism-vaccine question has been "asked and answered," and that at least 16 large, well-constructed epidemiological studies have thoroughly addressed and debunked any hypothesis that childhood vaccination is in any way associated with an increased risk for autism spectrum disorders.
But there are several critical flaws in such an oversimplified generalization, and they are rarely given close examination by public health experts or members of the media.
To begin with, it is unscientific and perilously misleading for anyone to assert that "vaccines and autism" have been studied and that no link has been found. That's because the 16 or so studies constantly cited by critics of the hypothesis have examined just one vaccine and one vaccine ingredient.
And, the population studies themselves have had critical design flaws and limitations.
The current US childhood immunization schedule calls for 28 injections with 11 different vaccines against 15 different diseases by two years of age. Of those 11 vaccines, only the Measles-Mumps-Rubella (MMR) shot has been studied in association with autism, (although a CDC study of an MMR-plus-chickenpox vaccine did show that the risk for febrile seizures in infants was doubled.) Meanwhile, those 11 vaccines contain scores of ingredients, only one of which, thimerosal, has ever been tested in association with autism.
It is illogical to exonerate all vaccines, all vaccine ingredients, and the total US vaccine program as a whole, based solely on a handful of epidemiological studies of just one vaccine and one vaccine ingredient. It is akin to claiming that every form of animal protein is beneficial to people, when all you have studied is fish.
Now, a new study has shown that giving Hepatitis B vaccine to newborn baby boys may triple the risk of developing an autism spectrum disorder.
An abstract of the study was published in the September, 2009 issue of the respected journal Annals of Epidemiology. In it, Carolyn Gallagher and Melody Goodman of the Graduate Program in Public Health at Stony Brook University Medical Center, NY, wrote that, "Boys who received the hepatitis B vaccine during the first month of life had 2.94 greater odds for ASD compared to later- or unvaccinated boys."...
A study published last October in the journal Neurology found that children who received the Hepatitis B vaccine series were 50% more likely to develop "central nervous system inflammatory demyelination" than children who did not receive the vaccine.
Most of this increase was due to the Engerix B brand of the vaccine, manufactured by the UK's GlaxoSmithKline. That brand increased the risk of demyelination by 74%, and patients with confirmed multiple sclerosis were nearly three times more likely to develop the disorder. 

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