Hepatitis B is a bad illness. However, following the current recommended CDC guidelines, and giving hep B vaccine to all newborns as a routine vaccination causes unnecessary injury, illness, and death, and exposes these newborns and infants to toxins from the vaccine which may cause other adverse health conditions.
The CDC should change the recommended age of hep B vaccination to a preteen year. Instead of recommending this vaccine for all newborns, all pregnant mothers should be tested for hep B disease, and only newborns from hep B positive mothers should be vaccinated for this disease. In this way, unnecessary vaccine injury of children can be avoided, and the vaccine given only to newborns who are at highest risk of this disease.
How can a person become infected with hepatitis B virus?
Directly from the CDC website Vaccine Information Statement for Hepatitis Vaccine:
Vaccine Information Statement: Hepatitis B Vaccine – What you need to know
“Hepatitis B is spread when blood, semen, or other bodily fluid infected with the hepatitis B virus enters the body of a person who is not infected. People can become infected through:
- Birth (if a pregnant woman has hepatitis B, her baby can become infected)
- Sharing items such as razors or toothbrushes with an infected person
- Contact with the blood or open sores of an infected person
- Sex with an infected partner
- Sharing needles, syringes, or other drug-injection equipment
- Exposure to blood from needlesticks or other sharp instruments.”
In case you were wondering about “other bodily fluid” from the above CDC Vaccine Information Statement causing infection from hep b virus, this does not mean saliva. In fact, the CDC has a separate quote for saliva and can be found here:
Hepatitis B Basics | Hepatitis B | CDC
“Although HBV (hepatitis b virus) can be found in saliva, it is not spread through kissing or sharing utensils. It is also not spread through sneezing, coughing, hugging, breastfeeding, or food or water.”
As you can see from the above list provided by the CDC, the only realistic way an infant or young child can become infected with the hepatitis B virus is by birth from a mother who has hepatitis B. Therefore, any vaccine injury or death resulting to an infant or young child due to the administration of the hepatitis B vaccine, other than for a hep B infected mother, is an unnecessary injury or death.
This is why all newborn mothers should be tested for hepatitis B virus, and only children of mothers infected with hep B virus be administered the hep B vaccine at birth. This will protect those children who are at highest risk of exposure to this virus, while also not exposing the remaining children born of mothers not infected with hep B virus to the toxins from these vaccines, thereby reducing unnecessary vaccine injury.
How long does hepatitis B vaccine protect a person from hep B virus?
According to the above noted CDC document: “Most people who are vaccinated with hepatitis B vaccine are immune for life.”
There are no documents or studies noted to go along with this blanket statement, which they hope the reader will believe without questioning. Unfortunately for the CDC and those who wrote this document, there are studies that indicate this is not a true statement.
One study, done by the CDC itself, noted that when hep B vaccine is given to infants (<1 year old), that only 16% of these same individuals at 18 years of age show antibodies indicative of protection against hep B infection. Please see this study here, under section of the study which is titled “Persistence of Vaccine-Induced Antibody”:
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr6210a1.htm
According to another study noted in Annals of Internal Medicine titled For How Long is the Hepatitis B Vaccine Effective? by Angelo DePalma PhD 3/1/2005, the protection from the vaccine is limited. Please view the results noted from the study here:
https://www.medpagetoday.com/gastroenterology/hepatitis/647
According to this study, “… hepatitis B vaccination-induced protective antibodies can last for up to 15 years, but appear to fall off over time… Patients who were vaccinated 10 to 15 years ago, especially those who were vaccinated as children, may not be adequately protected.”
The results of these studies do not concur with the statement by the CDC that the hepatitis B vaccine gives immunity to most people “for life.”
If you give your newborn/infant child hepatitis B vaccine, then according to scientific studies protection from hep B virus by the vaccine will wear off at the time of life when teenage children and young adults need to be protected from this disease. This makes no sense. This is why it seems prudent to recommend and administer this vaccine prior to high school, when exposure to this virus becomes more likely.
By waiting until a pre-teen year before high school to administer the hep B vaccine (for those children not born of hep b positive mothers), you are protecting children at the ages of life when they are more likely to be exposed to this virus, while also preventing unnecessary vaccine injury or death to newborns and infants. This is a win-win scenario that would make more sense than what is currently being recommended by the CDC.
How much hepatitis B vaccine injury is occurring?
From the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC), which is the best source of vaccine information by a consumer advocate group in the United States:
https://www.nvic.org/disease-vaccine/hepatitis-b/vaccine-injury
“Using the MedAlerts search engine, as of February 28, 2025, there have been 111,013 adverse events reported to the federal Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) in connection with Hepatitis B and Hepatitis B containing vaccines. Nearly 56 percent (60,465) of serious Hepatitis B vaccine-related adverse events occurred in children under three years old, with over 70 percent (1,754) of deaths occurring in children under three years of age. Of the vaccine-related adverse events reported to VAERS there were 2,414 related deaths, 16,899 hospitalizations, and 3,787 related disabilities.”
It is important to note here that these are the numbers only of those doctors, nurses, and parents who took time out of their lives to place these vaccine injuries into the VAERS database because they thought it was important to do so. Most vaccine injuries due to hep B vaccination are therefore unreported, and the true numbers of vaccine injury are likely to be much higher than reported.
The hepatitis B vaccine has been recommended at birth by the CDC since 1991. If we had only vaccinated those very few children who were born to hep B infected mothers, we could have easily prevented tens of thousands of unnecessary hep B vaccine injuries and deaths of children born of healthy mothers not infected with this virus.
We can stop these unnecessary injuries and deaths by hep B vaccine, and we can protect children and young adults by recommending the vaccination just before high school, when the majority of those in the population will begin to be exposed to the risk of hepatitis B virus.
What other factors should be considered about hep B vaccine at birth?
It is an irrefutable fact that autism cases have skyrocketed since the hep B vaccine recommendation by the CDC for newborns in 1991. This does not prove this vaccination caused these autism cases to rise, but it certainly does make one wonder if there is a connection. The equation of less toxins = less injuries = healthier children makes a lot of sense.
Hepatitis B vaccines contain aluminum and brewer’s yeast, which are toxic to the human body. The risks of injecting a known neurotoxin such as aluminum into a newborn’s body, along with brewer’s yeast, which is also a toxin, should be weighed against the value of protection against hep B virus, which is basically zero for infants and young children born of mothers not infected with hep B. Why are we taking unnecessary risks with newborns and young children who have no realistic chance of being exposed to this disease?
It would certainly do no harm to postpone this vaccination for newborn children who are not at risk of this disease, and it may be beneficial in many ways we cannot yet fathom. Less toxins being introduced to infants should be beneficial to the health of these young children with their still developing bodies and brains.
Routine hep B vaccination at birth is causing unnecessary suffering, vaccine injury, and death as is indicated by the above VAERS data. This unnecessary death and vaccine injury can be stopped with a CDC recommendation which makes sense. This is why it is proposed that all pregnant women be tested for hep B virus, and only those who test positive for hep B virus should vaccinate their children for protection from this disease.
In Summary, Hepatitis B Vaccination should be delayed until a pre-teen year because:
- If given right after birth, hep B vaccine immunity wears off just when children need protection against hep B virus.
- When hep B vaccine is given after birth to children of mothers who are not hep B infected, unnecessary vaccine injury or death results.
- Reducing the number of hep B vaccines given to newborns and infants will reduce the amount of toxins (aluminum and yeast) received and thereby should reduce the amount of vaccine injury or death of children.
- Newborns, infants, toddlers, and young children not born of hep B positive mothers typically have no risk of contracting hep B virus.
- Hep B vaccine given just before high school should protect these children and young adults through most of the ages of typical hep B exposure.
It is for these reasons that all pregnant women be tested for hep B virus, and only those who test positive for hep B virus should give their newborn children hep B vaccine.
For more information on injury or death associated with routine hep B vaccination for newborns and infants, please see prior articles in this blog:
Hepatitis B and Vaccine Injury – StephenHeartland.com
MY STORY: Part 1 – The birth of our child and the hepatitis B vaccine. – StephenHeartland.com