Since our society is conditioned to consider all vaccines are “protected and efficient” many don’t notice the dangers and advantages of each vaccine vary greatly. Probably the most controversial vaccines has been the Hepatitis B vaccine, which is given to each new child within the nation at their most fragile second of life regardless of their danger of contracting hepatitis B being negligible.
“Bonnie Dunbar PhD has additionally been in touch with quite a few physicians and analysis scientists from a number of international locations who’ve independently described hundreds of equivalent extreme reactions occurring in Caucasian recipients of the hepatitis vaccine.”1
Since coming into the market, the hepatitis B vaccine has been marred with security considerations:
• As early as 1976, one researcher cautioned that since autoimmunity is concerned within the pathogenesis of hepatitis B infections, they could even be provoked by molecularly related hepatitis B vaccines. Quite a few papers and main information articles since have proven that vaccine provokes a variety of autoimmune issues.2,3,4,5,6,7,8
• In 1998 Scientist9 highlighted rising considerations threatening to derail the hepatitis B vaccine program, equivalent to increasingly individuals claiming it brought about critical autoimmune illnesses (e.g., rheumatoid arthritis [RA], optic neuritis, and a number of sclerosis [MS]), that one physician had collected over 600 instances of this taking place, and that in July, attorneys representing 15,000 individuals sued France’s authorities for exaggerating the vaccine’s advantages and downplaying its dangers (after which France suspended the vaccine in faculties — a transfer broadly condemned by well being authorities10).
• In January 1999 ABC Information aired a scathing criticism of the Hepatitis B vaccine:11
The Hepatitis vaccine brought about so many accidents that in 1999, ABC information coated them and Congress held a listening to. There “specialists” stated there was no proof of hurt and we would have liked extra analysis.
Yesterday, they used the very same strains and omitted that tons of of research now present… pic.twitter.com/SatHgbUBV2
— A Midwestern Physician (@MidwesternDoc) September 20, 2025
Notice: 55 different information packages criticizing vaccines they’d by no means air as we speak could be learn here.
• A Could 1999 Congressional listening to on the vaccine highlighted that:12
◦ Critical uncomfortable side effects included toddler demise, seizures, autism, dysautonomia, MS, RA diabetes, and uncommon instances of liver most cancers in youngsters post-vaccination, with (vastly underreported) VAERS information displaying over 8,000 reactions, together with 43 deaths in youngsters below 2 in 1997. In distinction, there have been solely 95 (or much less13) annual hepatitis B instances and no toddler deaths, indicating the dangers of new child vaccination vastly outweighed any doable profit.
◦ There was huge underreporting of accidents (e.g., 4 to five day trials have been too brief to determine them, and physicians denied they’d occurred when mother and father reported them) and no effort had been made to determine harm susceptibility.
◦ All long-term analysis into the security of the vaccine was being stonewalled, but the medical group argued the dearth of sturdy long-term security research really proved the vaccines have been “protected” however promised to do future analysis to find out if the vaccines have been protected (which 25 years later nonetheless has not occurred — however once more was repeatedly promised this yr as a technique to dismiss proposals to cease giving the vaccine to newborns).
◦ Vaccinating low-risk newborns for an adult-associated illness is inappropriate, significantly since immunity can wane earlier than adolescence and 10% to 30% of people fail to provide antibodies, questioning efficacy.
◦ The Nationwide Vaccine Damage Compensation Program denied most claims, leaving debilitated victims unsupported regardless of a $1 billion belief fund, with restrictions limiting filings for hepatitis B vaccine accidents.
◦ There was no knowledgeable consent as mother and father weren’t supplied with data on the vaccine’s dangers, newborns have been vaccinated with out parental consent, and fogeys confronted coercion, together with threats of social providers intervention if they didn’t vaccine.
Notice: That is nonetheless a difficulty. Think about what these readers reported.
Most of the testimonials have been fairly riveting:
• This lady’s son developed seizures, then neurologic issues, then autism after the vaccine.
• This nurse developed continual inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (shedding the flexibility to stroll) together with a number of forms of autoimmune issues.
• This adolescent woman turned disabled from the neurological and autoimmune problems of the vaccine.
Right here, this younger woman shares with Congress how the debilitating neurological problems from the vaccine took most of her life away, offering an actual face to what vaccine autoimmune issues are prefer to stay with every day pic.twitter.com/oPUn51xq8y
— A Midwestern Physician (@MidwesternDoc) October 6, 2025
• This father’s daughter died instantly after vaccination.
Right here, one father tells Congress the tragic story of how the vaccine killed his daughter pic.twitter.com/f8BMIAFaXB
— A Midwestern Physician (@MidwesternDoc) September 20, 2025
Vaccine Autoimmune Issues
One of many Congressional witnesses, produced a report highlighting the risks of the hepatitis B vaccine together with instances of encephalomyelitis he’d noticed (leading to a two week coma for one, a 4 week coma for the opposite, together with optic neuritis and important neurological incapacity for each).14 He and others15,16,17 finally recognized tons of of publications linking that vaccine to a large diploma of autoimmune issues:
• A number of Sclerosis,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31 myelitis,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45 encephalitis,46 encephalomyelitis,47 optic neuritis,48,49,50,51,52 Guillain-Barré syndrome,53,54,55,56,57,58,59,60,61 neuropathy,62,63,64,65,66,67,68,69,70,71 myopathy,72,73,74,75,76,77,78,79 Myasthenia Gravis,80,81,82 APMPPE (an eye fixed illness)83 and uveitis.84
• Arthritis,85,86,87,88,89,90,91,92,93,94,95,96,97 Lupus,98,99,100,101,102,103,104,105,106,107,108,109,110,111,112,113,114,115,116,117,118,119 juvenile dermatomyositis,120,121,122,123,124 macrophagic myofasciitis,125 polyarthralgia-myalgia,126 Nonetheless’s illness.127
• Vasculitis (basic,128,129,130,131 pulmonary and cutaneous,132,133 Churg-Strauss,134,135 Henoch-Schonlein purpura,136 Kawasaki’s illness137 polyarteritis nodosa138), hemolytic anemia,139 thrombocytopenia,140,141,142,143,144,145,146 antiphospholipid syndrome.147,148
• Lichen planus,149,150,151,152,153,154,155,156,157,158,159,160,161,162,163,164,165,166,167 lichen striatus,168 bullous pemphigoid,169,170 erythema multiforme,171,172,173 erythema nodosum174 Gianotti-Crosti syndrome,175,176 alopecia,177,178 buccal aphthosis.
• Persistent Fatigue Syndrome,179,180,181,182,183,184 Fibromyalgia,185 Graves’ illness,186,187 Sjogren’s syndrome.188
• Hepatitis,189,190,191,192 glomerulonephritis,193 pancreatitis194 pneumonitis.195
Notice: This vaccine has additionally been linked to a wide range of different issues not classically categorised as autoimmune issues such seizures,196,197 Bell’s palsy,198,199 cerebellar ataxia,200 tic issues,201 anorexia,202 tufted angioma203 and to extend frequent childhood diseases (e.g., one examine discovered a 1.6X enhance in acute ear infections and a 1.41X enhance in pharyngitis and nasopharyngitis204). Worse nonetheless, one examine discovered an 81% enhance in demise.205
Molecular Mimicry
If an immune frightening substance (e.g., an an infection or antigen co-administered with an adjuvant like aluminum) overlaps with human tissue, it could trigger the immune system to focus on human tissue and therefore trigger autoimmunity. From the beginning, many believed the Hepatitis B vaccine’s points resulted from it overlapping with myelin (what coats nerves).
This hyperlink was vociferously denied by the medical group (but by no means researched) however in 2005, confirmed by a examine which confirmed till the hepatitis B vaccine had a major overlap with myelin and that 60% of its recipients additionally developed immune reactivity to the myelin coating their nerves (which within the majority of instances persevered for over 6 months).206
Moreover:
• A 2005 VAERS examine discovered the hepatitis B vaccine, in adults, (in comparison with a tetanus vaccine) was extra more likely to be adopted by a wide range of autoimmune issues (5.2X for MS, 18X for rheumatoid arthritis, 14X for optic neuritis, 9.1X for lupus, 7.2X for alopecia, 2.6X for vasculitis, and a pair of.3X for thrombocytopenia).207
The same 2002 examine discovered a 6.1X enhance for continual arthritis (persisting for a minimum of one yr), which affected girls 3.5X as a lot as males, and on common occurred 16 days after vaccination.208
• A 2002 examine discovered people who obtained a hepatitis B vaccine, inside the subsequent two months, have been 1.8 instances as more likely to expertise a demyelinating occasion.209
• A 2015 examine discovered instances of MS in France rose by 65% within the years following an aggressive nationwide marketing campaign to extend hepatitis B vaccination charges, and {that a} statistically important correlation existed between the variety of hepatitis B vaccine doses given and the variety of MS instances 1 to 2 years later.210
• A 2004 examine examine 163 MS sufferers with 1,604 randomly chosen matched controls with out MS. It discovered that MS sufferers have been 3 times extra more likely to have obtained the hepatitis B vaccine inside three years of symptom onset (which was not seen from tetanus or influenza vaccination).211
• A 2009 examine in youngsters discovered that the GSK’s hepatitis B vaccine, which incorporates 5 instances extra yeast protein antigen than different manufacturers, was related to a 2.77X elevated danger of growing MS. A smaller enhance (1.5X) was noticed for different CNS inflammatory demyelinating issues.212
The hepatitis B vaccine has additionally been repeatedly linked to autism and different developmental disabilities:
• Secretary Kennedy revealed that in 1999, the CDC performed a examine which discovered that receiving a hepatitis B vaccine within the first 30 days of life brought about a 12.35X enhance in autism — after which the examine was buried.213
Notice: Kennedy doubtless referred to this (unpublished) examine, which, through the CDC’s non-public database, discovered the best doses of mercury containing vaccines brought about a 1.8X enhance in neurologic improvement issues, a 7.6X enhance in autism, a 5.0X enhance in nonorganic sleep issues and a 2.1X enhance in nonorganic sleep issues.214
• A 2007 examine of 1824 youngsters discovered boys who obtained the hepatitis B vaccine have been 9 instances as more likely to have a developmental incapacity.215
• A follow-up 2010 examine discovered giving the hepatitis B vaccine at beginning elevated autism 3X,216 whereas a 2017 examine discovered new child (mercury containing) hepatitis B vaccines elevated the chance of autism by 4.6 to six.7X.217
Notice: A 2015 examine discovered they elevated the chance of developmental delays by 1.6X to 1.7X218 (which a 2016 examine estimated equated to over a trillion in healthcare prices219).
Comparable outcomes have been additionally seen in animals:
• A 2010 monkey examine decided that the vaccine brought about a major delay within the acquisition of root, snout, and suck reflexes (crucial processes for improvement).220
• A 2016 mouse study discovered the vaccine impaired neurogenesis, behavioral performances and hippocampal long-term potentiation which concurrently elevated mind irritation (that was proportional to the neurologic harm which occurred),221 later decided to largely end result from elevated IL-4.222
Notice: A 2013 examine discovered that hepatitis B vaccination spiked their inflammatory CRP ranges, and in 22 out of 70 infants, this enhance was massive sufficient to go the diagnostic threshold for sepsis.223
In distinction, the licensing research for the vaccines solely monitored for uncomfortable side effects throughout a brief window lengthy earlier than these uncomfortable side effects would emerge (sometimes 4 to five days224) and didn’t use precise placebos.225,226 This restricted information exhibits:
• 17% to 22% of adults reported injection website reactions.227,228
• 5% to 14% of adults and 10.4% of kids reported systemic adversarial reactions (e.g., fatigue/weak point, dizziness, headache, fevers above 100°F, malaise, nausea, diarrhea, pharyngitis, higher respiratory an infection).229,230
• Round 1% (or 3.8% of diabetics) had important systemic reactions (e.g., anorexia, somnolence, hypotension, a variety of gastrointestinal situations, hives, irritability, and weak point).231
• In newborns, inside 48 hours of vaccination, the next have been reported: ache (9%), erythema (20%), swelling (4%), irritability (20%), vomiting (23%), diarrhea (12%), feeding difficulties (17%), drowsiness (28% to 32%), restlessness (31%), and fever ≥38°C (0.7%).232,233,234
Notice: Many of those signs could be immensely consequential in infants (e.g., fevers set off invasive sepsis workups).
• The one long-term examine of those vaccines discovered that after 7 months, 5.8% to six.2% of recipients reported a critical adversarial occasion.235,236,237
Notice: A definitive 1994 report by the Institute of Medication famous that whereas preliminary information existed for most of the accidents attributed to the hepatitis B vaccine, no additional analysis had ever been completed (and nonetheless has not been), so there was inadequate proof to show or disprove a hyperlink between these situations.238 Remarkably, that was taken as proof the vaccines didn’t trigger hurt relatively of a gross failure by the scientific group.
Vaccine Justifications
Assessing the advantage of a vaccine is kind of difficult as quite a few issues must lineup for a proposed profit to happen, and since this hardly ever happens in follow, a wide range of overly optimistic assumptions are used to justify the vaccine (whereas conversely, each doable rationalization is used to downplay any doable vaccine harm). Within the case of the hepatitis B vaccine, its justifications are that:
• Massive numbers of individuals get hepatitis B every year and might progress to continual hepatitis B.
• Persistent hepatitis B is a illness that may severely influence one’s high quality of life, and there’s no good remedy for it.
• The vaccine prevents hepatitis B.
In flip, when the hepatitis B vaccine got here out, hepatitis B charges dropped throughout the nation, and the general public well being occupation has lengthy thought of this vaccine to be certainly one of their crowning achievements (which they therefore will struggle tooth and nail to guard). Nevertheless:
1. Hepatitis B requires blood-to-blood contact, which is often via unprotected intercourse (significantly anal intercourse239), unintended blood exchanges (primarily needle stick accidents or sharing contaminated drug needles240), or throughout childbirth (which is the first manner hepatitis B is transmitted in excessive prevalence areas).
2. Hepatitis B transmission therefore is remoted to particular communities (e.g., the homosexual group volunteered to be topics for the vaccine as a result of around a quarter having it in the 1980s, and in IV drug customers, research discover continual hepatitis B at charges between 3.5% to twenty%241).
Notice: Extensive data indicates AIDS originated from contaminated (chimp derived) hepatitis B vaccines examined within the homosexual group throughout the Eighties.
3. The one manner a baby can get extreme continual Hepatitis B is from a childbirth transmission (any other route is essentially impossible), which requires:
• The mom to have hepatitis B (roughly 0.1% do242).
• Prenatal care and the hospital failing to determine it with (sometimes legally mandated) screening (making use of to far lower than 1% of hospital births).
• If the mom has a extra extreme HepEAg+ an infection that’s extra more likely to transmit the illness (constituting roughly 10% of maternal hepatitis infections243).
• The an infection transmitting throughout childbirth (80% with HepEAg+,244 round 10% with HepEAg245).
• The acute an infection turning into continual (85% to 95% from a HepEAg+ mom, much less from a HepEAg- mom246).
Moreover:
• Of these with continual HBV, about 15% to 25% could progress to develop extreme diseases like liver most cancers or failure later in life as adults.247
• The HepB vaccine regularly fails to stop a transmission (publications counsel a 68% to 86% efficacy248,249,250 with higher vaccine efficacy seen in HepEAg- mom, with one examine discovering 9.26% of infants born to a HepEAg+ mom who have been vaccinated and given immunoglobulin nonetheless developed continual hepatitis251).
Notice: Due to this partial efficacy (infants don’t have totally developed immune programs), immunoglobulins are additionally given to youngsters of HepB+ moms. Nevertheless, that is non-applicable for mass vaccination (which is completed to guard youngsters missed by screening).
These numbers, which I took from official sources, are vital, as a result of while you multiply them out, that you must vaccinate over 1,000,000 youngsters to stop one case of consequential hepatitis B (and 5 million to stop a extreme complication) — demonstrating the vaccine injures way more youngsters than it protects.
Moreover societal information, exhibits that the hepatitis B vaccine campaigns greatly lowered acute hepatitis B in high-risk groups, but in addition that:
• This decline preceded toddler vaccination, and {that a} related decline occurred for hepatitis C252,253 (which shares hepatitis B’s transmission patterns however shouldn’t be vaccinated towards).
• Whereas acute hepatitis B charges have dropped, the precise goal, prevalence of continual hepatitis (0.003%) has not modified since 1976 in the US.254,255
Notice: Provided that the hepatitis B vaccine failure fee is much like the proportion of people that cannot remove an acute hepatitis an infection and turn into continual carriers (5%256), I think this failure is a results of the vaccine being unable to guard those that impaired immune programs are literally vulnerable to growing continual hepatitis — significantly since an identical phenomenon was observed with the early smallpox vaccines and most just lately with the COVID vaccines.
Why Is the Vaccine Given?
Because the official purpose (stopping maternal-to-fetal transmission) would not justify vaccinating each toddler, I’ve searched for many years for the precise justification for this coverage. Probably the most compelling ones (lots of which got here from “insiders”) embrace:
• For the reason that goal demographics for the hepatitis B vaccine are small, common vaccination was wanted to extend gross sales to a worthwhile and sustainable stage.
• Vietnam has amongst the best charges of hepatitis B on the earth (10% in city areas and as much as 40% in rural areas257). As soon as a big flood of refugees got here right here after the battle (roughly doubling in each the Eighties and Nineties to 988,000 immigrants by 2000258), it brought about a (relative) explosion in neonatal transmission right here authorities felt wanted to be addressed by vaccinating each American toddler.
• Vaccine producers solely have authorized immunity if their vaccine is on the childhood vaccine schedule.
• Vaccinating their new child within the hospital situations mother and father to come back in for his or her 2-month vaccination appointment and therefore be compliant sufferers who routinely purchase medical items and providers (and if their little one begins life neurologically injured, much less capable of acknowledge subsequent accidents of their little one — particularly the subtle ones).
• Since accidents from new child vaccines will happen earlier than mother and father have a transparent sense of what’s “regular” for his or her little one, it makes it a lot tougher for them to acknowledge the subtle harms that frequently occur following vaccination, once more making it simpler to extend affected person compliance.
Most just lately, a reader (I vetted) shared that:
“[After the 1991 vote, a close colleague on ACIP] defined to me in confidence that they added vaccine to not stop vertical [mother to child] transmission however to get the vaccine administered to a “captive viewers” earlier than they may go away the hospital. Their concern was that it could be the one alternative to stop Hep B an infection later in life to the highest-risk inside metropolis youth populations [the primary source of hepatitis B transmission].”
Of those, I consider the ultimate one is probably the most possible, significantly for the reason that medical business will nonetheless power moms who don’t have hepatitis B to vaccinate their youngsters, however it’s doubtless a number of the others performed a task as nicely.
Conclusion
When the 1986 Vaccine Damage Act was handed, certainly one of its main functions was to make sure safer vaccines may very well be created. Nevertheless, since direct legal responsibility was eliminated and each provision to provide safer vaccines was positioned on the discretion of the federal government (which was additionally made financially liable compensating vaccine accidents), this eradicated all incentive to create safer vaccines and even acknowledge there was an issue to start with.
Books may very well be written on the implications of it; think about for a second how a lot struggling may have been averted if the business had merely been pressured to develop a hepatitis B vaccine that didn’t overlap with human myelin.
For years, they’ve informed us there may be “no proof” the hepatitis B vaccine, regardless of the very fact I’ve cited tons of of research on this article displaying it is something however protected. Happily, a long time of suppression and gaslighting can now not preserve the established order and there may be now sturdy stress to vary it (e.g., just lately President Trump publicly acknowledged youngsters shouldn’t get the hepatitis B vaccine259).
Right now, probably the most pivotal second within the historical past of this vaccine will happen and the American Committee on Immunization Practices (which creates the CDC’s vaccine tips) will meet, and for the primary time, impartial members will assess if this vaccine ought to really be given to each new child.
Because of the vested pursuits behind that vaccine, the pushback towards altering the coverage has been immense, however I consider if we converse out and convey consideration to this travesty, we will create very important public help for ACIP to rescind each new child getting this vaccine. Please contemplate sharing this text with these you already know and virtually attending this meeting.
Writer’s Notice: That is an abridged model of a longer article which particulars the atrocious historical past of the hepatitis B vaccine (and could be learn here). Moreover a companion article on the professionals and cons of every particular person childhood vaccine could be learn here. Lastly, an article offering the in depth proof vaccines trigger a variety of refined and extreme problems (e.g., making many continual diseases 3-10X extra doubtless) could be learn here.
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