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Hepatitis B Virus and Vaccine
As the Era of MAGA continues on, the stupidity never ceases. With the CDC now being run by a bunch of fools, and anti-vaxers, the health of our citizens ,our children will be affected for an entire generation. The CDC's vaccine committee has voted to roll back a universal recommendation that newborns be vaccinated against hepatitis B, which is one of public health's major success stories. An influential vaccine advisory committee to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has voted to eliminate the recommendation for universal vaccination of newborns against the hepatitis B virus (HBV). The committee voted that instead of getting a first dose within 24 hours of birth, children of mothers who test negative for the virus get the vaccine at 2 months of age. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), which steers the CDC's vaccine policy, was recently overhauled by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Its members now include prominent vaccine skeptics who have sown doubt in the established childhood vaccine schedule. Diseases which were once under control, almost eradicated have now came back with a vengeance, kill one such disease is the measles. The vote came Dec. 5th after a dysfunctional meeting and a series of delayed votes. The vote overturns a 30-year-old recommendation that newborns in the U.S. be vaccinated against HBV. This vacine has been a public health success story, having dramatically reduced the rate of hepatitis B infections among children, as well as adults up to 39 years old, who were among the first to get the vaccine as infants. There has been no rational science has been presented to support the new recommendations, a doctor and a ACIP committee member and former Chief of the Section on Nutritional Neurosciences at the National Institutes of Health, expressed in the meeting. Hepatitis B, a viral infection, can easily go undetected because it doesn't always cause overt symptoms. However, when the infection becomes chronic, it can cause liver damage and raise the risk of liver cancer. The infections contribute to about one-third of liver cancer deaths globally. The permanent infection must be managed with medications for life, and the organ damage can lead people to need liver transplants. Up to 1 in 4 four newborns infected with hepatitis B die prematurely of liver disease as adults. This chronic form of the disease is especially common among people who are infected as kids. In about 95% of cases, hepatitis B contracted in early childhood becomes chronic, according to the World Health Organization. That's why the hepatitis B vaccine, first licensed in 1971, has been recommended to newborns in the U.S. since 1991. The most common means of transmission are from mother to child at the time of birth or from an infected person to an uninfected child in the first five years of the child's life. They can get the infection from a biting incident at daycare or from accidentally touching another child’s scraped knee, as the virus can be spread thru contact with small amounts of blood. In the U.S., vaccinating babies at birth heads off these two common ways of transmission. A second dose of the vaccine was recommended to be given at 1 to 2 months old, and then a third at 6 to 18 months old. This three-dose series in childhood also later protects against the types of transmission that are common in adults, such as unsafe intravenous drug use and sexual activity. Anti-vaccine advocates have argued that the shot is unnecessary for kids because these latter two routes of transmission presumably aren't relevant to them. As with other vaccines given in early childhood, anti-vaxers have claimed that the safety of the schedule hasn't been studied — which it has — and that the vaccines cause autism spectrum disorder — which they do not. The ignorance of these so-called Dr’s has and will cause many unnecessary deaths, a life of misery for those people who contract the disease, tremendous medical bills and a life that has been needlessly negatively affected because of a few ignorant and mentally disturbed republicans, and in some cases religious zealots who would rather believe in the tooth fairy, or believe they can pray away the disease and support the beliefs of a man who claims that he has a brain eating worm in his head . Than believe in facts and science which has proven the safety of vaccines. Some people are falling for this radicicolous notions and will cause undue harm to their children.
Tammy
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