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I too have trouble with the hep B vaccine. I give
parents accurate and unbiased information (instead of the propaganda given them
in the pamphlets) and also encourage them to take the decision as an important
one, and talk about VISA etc. Although, I have to say I am not pushy in this,
and those parents who have made up their minds, I give the vaccine without much
further information given. I try always to present it as a choice that needs to
be informed. What I've heard, but don't remember where from, was that the birth
and early vaccination is, like Emily said, a way of "getting to" all babies
while they're in hospital, i.e. a control mechanism, like the breast check and
pap smear questions in pregnancy - while we've got them, lets knock these other
things off the list. As if women aren't able to maintain their own health.
Anyway, I thought too that it was all in order to have a population of teenagers
and adults (in 15 years time) who are immune to hep B. I think it hasn't
much to do with the risk of hep B in newborns at all (in fact almost
non-existant surely). And even with this as the wanted outcome, I heard also
(wish I could remember a source for this) that these teenagers are likely to
need a booster anyway, as the early childhood ones won't last. Why then do they
not just immunise the teenagers in the first place? I too am sceptical and
wonder about money-making for the drug companies.
Liz
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