{"id":1210,"date":"2010-11-03T09:16:22","date_gmt":"2010-11-03T15:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-fromme\/?p=1210"},"modified":"2010-11-03T09:16:22","modified_gmt":"2010-11-03T15:16:22","slug":"neither-safe-nor-necessary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-fromme\/neither-safe-nor-necessary\/","title":{"rendered":"Neither Safe nor Necessary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are many medical procedures where the cure is worse than the dis-ease. There are also many where the risks far outweigh the benefits. This can be especially true, when it comes to infants.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"text-align: left;\"><p>Hepatitis B vaccination has been recommended by federal health officials since 1991 for all infants and children.<\/p>\n<p>There are now hepatitis B vaccine mandates for children to attend  daycare or school in 47 states, despite strong evidence that the health  risks of doing this outweighs the benefit for your child.<\/p>\n<p>Three hepatitis B shots are part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/vaccines\/recs\/schedules\/downloads\/child\/2009\/09_0-6yrs_schedule_pr.pdf\">standard government-recommended childhood vaccination schedule<\/a>, with the first dose given at 12 hours of age in the newborn nursery of most hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>But hepatitis B is a primarily blood-transmitted disease associated  with risky lifestyle choices such as unprotected sex with multiple  partners and intravenous drug use involving sharing needles\u2014it is NOT  primarily a &#8220;children&#8217;s disease.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; [About the risks]<\/p>\n<p>You can find  many of these tragic cases presented in peer reviewed medical journals  over the past twenty years. (For scientific references, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercola.com\/article\/vaccines\/references.htm\">this page<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>The array of serious health problems people have reported experiencing after hep B vaccinations is quite shocking:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Multiple sclerosis (MS)<\/li>\n<li>Guillain Barre syndrome<\/li>\n<li>Bell&#8217;s Palsy<\/li>\n<li>Diabetes<\/li>\n<li>Rheumatoid arthritis<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/articles.mercola.com\/sites\/articles\/archive\/2001\/05\/12\/vaccines-part-two.aspx\">Lupus<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Idiopathic Thrombocytopenia purpura<\/li>\n<li>Convulsions, and brain disorders such as  encephalitis (brain swelling) and brain <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science?_ob=ArticleURL&amp;_udi=B6T1B-49K59F6-2KP&amp;_user=10&amp;_coverDate=11%2F09%2F1991&amp;_rdoc=1&amp;_fmt=high&amp;_orig=search&amp;_origin=search&amp;_sort=d&amp;_docanchor=&amp;view=c&amp;_acct=C000050221&amp;_version=1&amp;_urlVersion=0&amp;_userid=10&amp;md5=e874ef8a4d36a50e80ed0756cbc3c397&amp;searchtype=a\">demyelination<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Immune dysfunction<\/li>\n<li>Visual and hearing impairments, including optic  neuritis<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Pancreatitis<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/articles.mercola.com\/sites\/articles\/archive\/2010\/11\/03\/hepatitis-b-vaccines-at-birth.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">read the whole article<\/a> @ Mercola.com<\/p>\n<p>For <a href=\"http:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\" target=\"_blank\">Me &amp; My House<\/a>,<br \/>\nLisa<\/p>\n<p>Keep in touch by \u201cLiking\u201d us on Facebook @ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MeAndMyHouse\" target=\"_blank\">MeAndMyHouse<\/a> and subscribing to our free monthly email newsletter, <a href=\"http:\/\/newsletter.frommeandmyhouse.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Me &amp; My House musings<\/a>, as well as subscribing to our feed here.<\/p>\n<p><!--subscribe2--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are many medical procedures where the cure is worse than the dis-ease. There are also many where the risks far outweigh the benefits. This can be especially true, when it comes to infants. Hepatitis B vaccination has been recommended by federal health officials since 1991 for all infants and \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-fromme\/neither-safe-nor-necessary\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-health-helps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-fromme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-fromme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-fromme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-fromme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-fromme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1210"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-fromme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1214,"href":"http:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-fromme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210\/revisions\/1214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-fromme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-fromme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-fromme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}