Since our society is conditioned to imagine all vaccines are “secure and efficient” many don’t notice the dangers and advantages of every vaccine range enormously. 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 1000’s of equivalent extreme reactions occurring in Caucasian recipients of the hepatitis vaccine.”1
Since getting 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 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 issues threatening to derail the hepatitis B vaccine program, equivalent to an increasing number of folks claiming it prompted critical autoimmune ailments (e.g., rheumatoid arthritis [RA], optic neuritis, and a number of sclerosis [MS]), that one physician had collected over 600 circumstances of this taking place, 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 prompted so many accidents that in 1999, ABC information coated them and Congress held a listening to. There “specialists” mentioned there was no proof of hurt and we would have liked extra analysis.Yesterday, they used the very same traces and omitted that a whole lot of research now present… pic.twitter.com/SatHgbUBV2
— A Midwestern Physician (@MidwesternDoc) September 20, 2025
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Word: 55 different information applications criticizing vaccines they’d by no means air as we speak could be learn right here.
• A Might 1999 Congressional listening to on the vaccine highlighted that:12
◦ Critical unwanted side effects included toddler dying, seizures, autism, dysautonomia, MS, RA diabetes, and uncommon circumstances of liver most cancers in youngsters post-vaccination, with (vastly underreported) VAERS knowledge exhibiting over 8,000 reactions, together with 43 deaths in youngsters beneath 2 in 1997. In distinction, there have been solely 95 (or much less13) annual hepatitis B circumstances 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 dad and mom reported them) and no effort had been made to determine harm susceptibility.
◦ All long-term analysis into the protection of the vaccine was being stonewalled, but the medical neighborhood argued the dearth of strong 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 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 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 dad and mom weren’t supplied with data 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. Take into account what these readers reported.
Lots of the testimonials have been fairly riveting:
• This lady’s son developed seizures, then neurologic issues, then autism after the vaccine.
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• This nurse developed persistent inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (dropping the flexibility to stroll) together with a number of forms of autoimmune issues.
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• This adolescent woman grew to become 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 wish to dwell with each day pic.twitter.com/oPUn51xq8y
— A Midwestern Physician (@MidwesternDoc) October 6, 2025
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• 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
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Vaccine Autoimmune Problems
One of many Congressional witnesses, produced a report highlighting the risks of the hepatitis B vaccine together with circumstances 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 vital neurological incapacity for each).14 He and others15,16,17 in the end recognized a whole lot 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.
• Continual 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 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 research discovered a 1.6X improve in acute ear infections and a 1.41X improve in pharyngitis and nasopharyngitis204). Worse nonetheless, one research discovered an 81% improve in dying.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 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 neighborhood (but by no means researched) however in 2005, confirmed by a research 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 circumstances persevered for over 6 months).206
Moreover:
• A 2005 VAERS research discovered the hepatitis B vaccine, in adults, (in comparison with a tetanus vaccine) was extra prone 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 couple of.3X for thrombocytopenia).207
An identical 2002 research discovered a 6.1X improve for persistent arthritis (persisting for at the very least one yr), which affected girls 3.5X as a lot as males, and on common occurred 16 days after vaccination.208
• A 2002 research discovered people who acquired a hepatitis B vaccine, throughout the subsequent two months, have been 1.8 instances as prone to expertise a demyelinating occasion.209
• A 2015 research discovered circumstances 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 vital correlation existed between the variety of hepatitis B vaccine doses given and the variety of MS circumstances 1 to 2 years later.210
• A 2004 research examine 163 MS sufferers with 1,604 randomly chosen matched controls with out MS. It discovered that MS sufferers have been thrice extra prone to have acquired the hepatitis B vaccine inside three years of symptom onset (which was not seen from tetanus or influenza vaccination).211
• A 2009 research in youngsters discovered that the GSK’s hepatitis B vaccine, which comprises 5 instances extra yeast protein antigen than different manufacturers, was related to a 2.77X elevated threat of creating MS. A smaller improve (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 research which discovered that receiving a hepatitis B vaccine within the first 30 days of life prompted a 12.35X improve in autism — after which the research was buried.213
Word: Kennedy seemingly referred to this (unpublished) research, which, by way of the CDC’s non-public database, discovered the very best doses of mercury containing vaccines prompted a 1.8X improve in neurologic improvement issues, a 7.6X improve in autism, a 5.0X improve in nonorganic sleep issues and a 2.1X improve in nonorganic sleep issues.214
• A 2007 research of 1824 youngsters discovered boys who acquired the hepatitis B vaccine have been 9 instances as prone to have a developmental incapacity.215
• A follow-up 2010 research discovered giving the hepatitis B vaccine at delivery elevated autism 3X,216 whereas a 2017 research discovered new child (mercury containing) hepatitis B vaccines elevated the chance of autism by 4.6 to six.7X.217
Word: A 2015 research discovered they elevated the chance of developmental delays by 1.6X to 1.7X218 (which a 2016 research estimated equated to over a trillion in healthcare prices219).
Related outcomes have been additionally seen in animals:
• A 2010 monkey research decided that the vaccine prompted a major delay within the acquisition of root, snout, and suck reflexes (crucial processes for improvement).220
• A 2016 mouse research 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 consequence from elevated IL-4.222
Word: A 2013 research discovered that hepatitis B vaccination spiked their inflammatory CRP ranges, and in 22 out of 70 infants, this improve was massive sufficient to go the diagnostic threshold for sepsis.223
In distinction, the licensing research for the vaccines solely monitored for unwanted side effects throughout a brief window lengthy earlier than these unwanted side effects would emerge (usually 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 hostile 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 vital 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 research of those vaccines discovered that after 7 months, 5.8% to six.2% of recipients reported a critical hostile 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 executed (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 neighborhood.
Vaccine Justifications
Assessing the advantage of a vaccine is sort of difficult as a lot of issues must lineup for a proposed profit to happen, and since this not often happens in apply, 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 annually and might progress to persistent hepatitis B.
• Continual 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-about this vaccine to be one in all their crowning achievements (which they therefore will struggle tooth and nail to guard). Nevertheless:
1. Hepatitis B requires blood-to-blood contact, which is usually by 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 neighborhood volunteered to be topics for the vaccine because of round 1 / 4 having it within the Nineteen Eighties, and in IV drug customers, research discover persistent 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 neighborhood in the course of the Nineteen Eighties.
3. The one manner a baby can get extreme persistent Hepatitis B is from a childbirth transmission (every other route is actually not possible), which requires:
• The mom to have hepatitis B (roughly 0.1% do242).
• Prenatal care and the hospital failing to determine it with (usually 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 persistent (85% to 95% from a HepEAg+ mom, much less from a HepEAg- mom246).
Moreover:
• Of these with persistent HBV, about 15% to 25% might progress to develop extreme diseases like liver most cancers or failure later in life as adults.247
• The HepB vaccine often fails to forestall a transmission (publications recommend a 68% to 86% efficacy248,249,250 with better vaccine efficacy seen in HepEAg- mom, with one research discovering 9.26% of infants born to a HepEAg+ mom who have been vaccinated and given immunoglobulin nonetheless developed persistent hepatitis251).
Word: Due to this partial efficacy (infants would not 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 once you multiply them out, it is advisable vaccinate over one million youngsters to forestall one case of consequential hepatitis B (and 5 million to forestall a extreme complication) — demonstrating the vaccine injures way more youngsters than it protects.
Moreover societal knowledge, exhibits that the hepatitis B vaccine campaigns enormously lowered acute hepatitis B in high-risk teams, 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 will not be vaccinated towards).
• Whereas acute hepatitis B charges have dropped, the precise goal, prevalence of persistent hepatitis (0.003%) has not modified since 1976 in the US.254,255
Word: On condition that the hepatitis B vaccine failure charge is just like the proportion of people that cannot eradicate an acute hepatitis an infection and develop into persistent carriers (5%256), I think this failure is a results of the vaccine being unable to guard those that impaired immune programs are literally susceptible to creating persistent hepatitis — significantly since an analogous phenomenon was noticed with the early smallpox vaccines and most lately with the COVID vaccines.
Why Is the Vaccine Given?
Because the official motive (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 (a lot of which got here from “insiders”) embody:
• Because the 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 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 warfare (roughly doubling in each the Nineteen Eighties and Nineteen Nineties to 988,000 immigrants by 2000258), it prompted 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 dad and mom 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 youngster begins life neurologically injured, much less capable of acknowledge subsequent accidents of their youngster — significantly the delicate ones).
• Since accidents from new child vaccines will happen earlier than dad and mom have a transparent sense of what’s “regular” for his or her youngster, it makes it a lot more durable for them to acknowledge the delicate harms that often happen following vaccination, once more making it simpler to extend affected person compliance.
Most 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 forestall 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 forestall Hep B an infection later in life to the highest-risk internal metropolis youth populations [the primary source of hepatitis B transmission].”
Of those, I imagine the ultimate one is probably the most possible, significantly for the reason that medical business will nonetheless drive moms who would not have hepatitis B to vaccinate their youngsters, however it’s seemingly a number of the others performed a task as properly.
Conclusion
When the 1986 Vaccine Harm Act was handed, one in all 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 results of it; think about for a second how a lot struggling might 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’s “no proof” the hepatitis B vaccine, regardless of the very fact I’ve cited a whole lot of research on this article exhibiting it is something however secure. Fortuitously, a long time of suppression and gaslighting can not preserve the established order and there’s now sturdy stress to vary it (e.g., lately President Trump publicly acknowledged youngsters mustn’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, unbiased 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 imagine if we communicate out and convey consideration to this travesty, we will create very important public assist for ACIP to rescind each new child getting this vaccine. Please think about sharing this text with these you already know and nearly attending this assembly.
Writer’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 delicate and extreme problems (e.g., making many persistent diseases 3-10X extra seemingly) could be learn right here.
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