A Chinese review of ten trials covering 1,624 infants found no difference in hepatitis B infection between breastfed babies who received proper immunoprophylaxis and non-breastfed babies. By one diagnostic measure, breastfed infants were 14 percent less likely to acquire the virus.
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Using the First Amendment to Opt Out of This Potentially Damaging Procedure
Mercola describes religious exemptions to vaccination, which he says 48 states allow, arguing parents need not belong to a church that opposes vaccines but must be ready to explain sincerely held beliefs to state officials, and can go to court if a school district denies the right.
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The Dangerous Procedure Doctors Swear by (but Aren't Liable for)
Barbara Loe Fisher argues that people reporting complications after vaccination are dismissed rather than treated with compassion, and points to an Institute of Medicine report finding the published vaccine science too thin to say whether many routine vaccines cause brain and immune dysfunction.
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What Every Parent Must Know: This Occurs Before the Age of 6
Mercola argues the CDC's schedule of 49 vaccine doses by age six over-vaccinates children. He cites a study reporting that nations giving the most first-year doses have the worst infant mortality, and claims multiple early vaccines can harm brain development and raise autism risk.
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How to Help Eliminate the Hidden Enemy that Triggers Autism
Mercola highlights Helen Ratajczak's review in the Journal of Immunotoxicology, which surveys published theories connecting vaccines and autism since 1943, including cases following post-vaccination encephalitis and her suggestion that human DNA in vaccines could play a part.
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60 Things that Can Go Terribly Wrong with Hepatitis B Vaccination
Green Med Info has gathered 44 articles listing 60 diseases and adverse outcomes reported in connection with hepatitis B vaccination, among them multiple sclerosis, arthritis and Bell's palsy. Mercola argues the birth dose is hard to justify, since an infected mother is an infant's main risk.
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Urgent: Please, Do This NOW to Protect Your Child's Health...
A Mercola-posted appeal urging parents who feel pressured into 69 doses of 16 vaccines, or threatened with job loss over flu shots, to speak out against drug companies and to press elected officials on vaccine safety and informed consent rights.
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Blood on Their Hands: The World’s Slickest Con Job and a Stack of Deadly LIES
Mercola traces the US childhood vaccine schedule from four vaccines in the 1950s to as many as 37 doses of 14 vaccines by age two, and argues the diseases it covers have stayed stable, citing Robert Sears's 2007 case counts.
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New Proof that This Common Medical Treatment is Unnecessary and Ineffective
Dr. Mercola argues the previous season's swine flu proved milder than warned, that only 90 million of 170 million US vaccine doses ordered were used, and questions the safety evidence behind advice that everyone over six months old get a flu shot every year for life.
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Swine flu milder than seasonal flu, vitamin D helps prevent both
A JAMA study of 6,874 Wisconsin patients found 2009 pandemic H1N1 was not associated with more hospital admissions or pneumonia than recent seasonal flu strains. The article also points to a study suggesting vitamin D may beat influenza vaccine at preventing flu.
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Flu Plan Scandal Ahead – An Urgent Warning (Video)
Mercola interviews Barbara Loe Fisher of the National Vaccine Information Center about the aftermath of the 2009 swine flu response, declared over by the WHO in August, and changes to that season's vaccine. He notes only 90 million of the 170 million US doses ordered were used.
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Vaccine coverage expands among U.S. teens - CDC
A CDC report in MMWR found vaccination coverage among U.S. teens aged 13 to 17 rose in 2009 from 2008, with HPV vaccination climbing from 37.3 percent to 44.3 percent. An editor's note argues vitamin D may also prevent certain infections.
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Tainted rotavirus vaccine safe to use, FDA says
The FDA said DNA fragments of porcine circovirus found in GlaxoSmithKline's and Merck's rotavirus vaccines show no evidence of harm and that both vaccines remain safe to use. Some strains cause wasting in piglets, but whether they affect humans is unknown.
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Where can I learn about infant vaccinations?
A reference answer pointing readers to state health departments, the CDC, the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System and the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program for information on infant and adult vaccinations and on reporting adverse events.
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The Vaccines That Worry Parents Most
In a University of Michigan survey of more than 1,500 parents, about 12 percent said they had refused a vaccine their doctor recommended, most often HPV, meningococcal, MMR or chickenpox. Most cited something they had read or heard, or feared side effects.
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Japanese Data Show Vaccines Cause Autism
Mercola reprints an argument that Japanese autism rates rose and fell with the number of children vaccinated each year, which the author calls conclusive evidence of a causal link. The piece claims a 2005 Honda and Rutter paper was flawed and, once corrected, supports that conclusion.
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Andrew Wakefield, Scientific Censorship, and Fourteen Monkeys
Mercola reprints a statement by Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey claiming Andrew Wakefield's Lancet retraction is part of a vaccine-industry smear campaign meant to suppress new primate studies they say found vaccinated monkeys lost reflexes critical for survival.
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STOP! Read This Before Vaccinating for Anything
Barbara Loe Fisher sets out three points for parents weighing vaccination: informed consent is a human right, states have held authority to mandate vaccines since a 1905 Supreme Court ruling, and all 50 states allow medical exemptions, 48 religious ones and 18 personal-belief ones.
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