Since our society is conditioned to consider all vaccines are “secure and efficient” many don’t understand the dangers and advantages of every vaccine fluctuate significantly. One of the 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 threat of contracting hepatitis B being negligible.
“Bonnie Dunbar PhD has additionally been involved with quite a few physicians and analysis scientists from a number of international locations who’ve independently described hundreds of similar 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 issues:
• 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 comparable 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 issues threatening to derail the hepatitis B vaccine program, comparable to increasingly more folks 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 occurring, and that in July, attorneys representing 15,000 folks sued France’s authorities for exaggerating the vaccine’s advantages and downplaying its dangers (after which France suspended the vaccine in colleges — 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 lined them and Congress held a listening to. There “consultants” stated there was no proof of hurt and we would have liked extra analysis.
Yesterday, they used the very same traces and omitted that tons of of research now present… pic.twitter.com/SatHgbUBV2
— A Midwestern Physician (@MidwesternDoc) September 20, 2025
Word: 55 different information packages criticizing vaccines they might by no means air as we speak could be learn right here.
• A Could 1999 Congressional listening to on the vaccine highlighted that:12
◦ Severe uncomfortable side effects included toddler demise, seizures, autism, dysautonomia, MS, RA diabetes, and uncommon instances of liver most cancers in kids post-vaccination, with (vastly underreported) VAERS knowledge exhibiting over 8,000 reactions, together with 43 deaths in kids underneath 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 potential profit.
◦ There was large underreporting of accidents (e.g., 4 to five day trials have been too quick to establish them, and physicians denied they’d occurred when mother and father reported them) and no effort had been made to establish harm susceptibility.
◦ All long-term analysis into the protection of the vaccine was being stonewalled, but the medical group argued the dearth of sturdy long-term security research truly proved the vaccines have been “secure” however promised to do future analysis to find out if the vaccines have been secure (which 25 years later nonetheless has not occurred — however once more was repeatedly promised this yr as a approach 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 Harm 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 info on the vaccine’s dangers, newborns have been vaccinated with out parental consent, and oldsters confronted coercion, together with threats of social companies intervention if they didn’t vaccine.
Word: 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 (dropping the flexibility to stroll) together with a number of sorts of autoimmune issues.
• This adolescent lady grew to become disabled from the neurological and autoimmune issues of the vaccine.
Right here, this younger lady shares with Congress how the debilitating neurological issues from the vaccine took most of her life away, offering an actual face to what vaccine autoimmune issues are wish to stay with each 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 hazards 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 (normal,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
Word: This vaccine has additionally been linked to quite a lot of different issues not classically labeled 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 sicknesses (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 scary substance (e.g., an an infection or antigen co-administered with an adjuvant like aluminum) overlaps with human tissue, it might probably 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 prone to be adopted by quite a lot 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 couple of.3X for thrombocytopenia).207
An analogous 2002 examine discovered a 6.1X enhance for continual arthritis (persisting for at the very least one yr), which affected ladies 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, throughout the subsequent two months, have been 1.8 occasions as prone 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 prone 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 kids discovered that the GSK’s hepatitis B vaccine, which incorporates 5 occasions extra yeast protein antigen than different manufacturers, was related to a 2.77X elevated threat 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
Word: Kennedy seemingly referred to this (unpublished) examine, which, through the CDC’s personal database, discovered the very 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 kids discovered boys who obtained the hepatitis B vaccine have been 9 occasions as prone to have a developmental incapacity.215
• A follow-up 2010 examine discovered giving the hepatitis B vaccine at start 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
Word: 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).
Related 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 examine discovered the vaccine impaired neurogenesis, behavioral performances and hippocampal long-term potentiation which concurrently elevated mind irritation (that was proportional to the neurologic injury which occurred),221 later decided to largely end result from elevated IL-4.222
Word: A 2013 examine discovered that hepatitis B vaccination spiked their inflammatory CRP ranges, and in 22 out of 70 infants, this enhance was giant 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 knowledge exhibits:
• 17% to 22% of adults reported injection web site reactions.227,228
• 5% to 14% of adults and 10.4% of kids reported systemic antagonistic reactions (e.g., fatigue/weak spot, 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 spot).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
Word: 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 antagonistic occasion.235,236,237
Word: A definitive 1994 report by the Institute of Drugs famous that whereas preliminary knowledge existed for lots of the accidents attributed to the hepatitis B vaccine, no additional analysis had ever been finished (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 somewhat of a gross failure by the scientific group.
Vaccine Justifications
Assessing the advantage of a vaccine is kind of difficult as a variety of issues need to lineup for a proposed profit to happen, and since this not often happens in observe, quite a lot of overly optimistic assumptions are used to justify the vaccine (whereas conversely, each potential rationalization is used to downplay any potential vaccine harm). Within the case of the hepatitis B vaccine, its justifications are that:
• Giant numbers of individuals get hepatitis B annually and might progress to continual hepatitis B.
• Persistent hepatitis B is a illness that may severely impression one’s high quality of life, and there’s no good treatment 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 one among their crowning achievements (which they therefore will struggle tooth and nail to guard). Nonetheless:
1. Hepatitis B requires blood-to-blood contact, which is often by means of unprotected intercourse (significantly anal intercourse239), unintentional blood exchanges (primarily needle stick accidents or sharing contaminated drug needles240), or throughout childbirth (which is the first approach 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 round 1 / 4 having it within the Eighties, and in IV drug customers, research discover continual hepatitis B at charges between 3.5% to twenty%241).
Word: In depth knowledge signifies AIDS originated from contaminated (chimp derived) hepatitis B vaccines examined within the homosexual group through the Eighties.
3. The one approach a baby can get extreme continual Hepatitis B is from a childbirth transmission (another route is basically not possible), which requires:
• The mom to have hepatitis B (roughly 0.1% do242).
• Prenatal care and the hospital failing to establish 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 prone 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 changing 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% might progress to develop extreme sicknesses like liver most cancers or failure later in life as adults.247
• The HepB vaccine ceaselessly fails to stop a transmission (publications recommend 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).
Word: Due to this partial efficacy (infants would not have totally developed immune methods), immunoglobulins are additionally given to kids of HepB+ moms. Nonetheless, that is non-applicable for mass vaccination (which is finished to guard kids missed by screening).
These numbers, which I took from official sources, are essential, as a result of once you multiply them out, you have to vaccinate over one million kids to stop one case of consequential hepatitis B (and 5 million to stop a extreme complication) — demonstrating the vaccine injures much more kids than it protects.
Moreover societal knowledge, exhibits that the hepatitis B vaccine campaigns significantly lowered acute hepatitis B in high-risk teams, but additionally that:
• This decline preceded toddler vaccination, and {that a} comparable decline occurred for hepatitis C252,253 (which shares hepatitis B’s transmission patterns however isn’t 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
Word: Provided that the hepatitis B vaccine failure fee is much like the proportion of people that cannot get rid of an acute hepatitis an infection and change into continual carriers (5%256), I believe this failure is a results of the vaccine being unable to guard those that impaired immune methods are literally susceptible to growing continual hepatitis — significantly since an identical phenomenon was noticed with the early smallpox vaccines and most not too long ago with the COVID vaccines.
Why Is the Vaccine Given?
Because the official purpose (stopping maternal-to-fetal transmission) does 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”) embody:
• 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 degree.
• Vietnam has amongst the very best charges of hepatitis B on the planet (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 struggle (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 companies (and if their little one begins life neurologically injured, much less capable of acknowledge subsequent accidents of their little one — significantly the refined 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 more durable for them to acknowledge the refined harms that ceaselessly happen following vaccination, once more making it simpler to extend affected person compliance.
Most not too long ago, 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 might depart 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 interior 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 trade will nonetheless power moms who would not have hepatitis B to vaccinate their kids, however it’s seemingly a number of the others performed a job as properly.
Conclusion
When the 1986 Vaccine Harm Act was handed, one among its main functions was to make sure safer vaccines might be created. Nonetheless, 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 might be written on the implications of it; think about for a second how a lot struggling might have been averted if the trade had merely been pressured to develop a hepatitis B vaccine that didn’t overlap with human myelin.
For years, they’ve instructed us there’s “no proof” the hepatitis B vaccine, regardless of the very fact I’ve cited tons of of research on this article exhibiting it is something however secure. Fortuitously, a long time of suppression and gaslighting can now not preserve the established order and there’s now sturdy strain to vary it (e.g., not too long ago President Trump publicly said kids mustn’t get the hepatitis B vaccine259).
At present, 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 pointers) will meet, and for the primary time, impartial members will assess if this vaccine ought to truly 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 produce consideration to this travesty, we are able to create very important public assist for ACIP to rescind each new child getting this vaccine. Please take into account sharing this text with these and nearly attending this assembly.
Creator’s Word: That is an abridged model of an extended article which particulars the atrocious historical past of the hepatitis B vaccine (and could be learn right here). Moreover a companion article on the professionals and cons of every particular person childhood vaccine could be learn right here. Lastly, an article offering the in depth proof vaccines trigger a variety of refined and extreme issues (e.g., making many continual sicknesses 3-10X extra seemingly) could be learn right here.
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