Since our society is conditioned to imagine all vaccines are “secure and efficient” many don’t understand the dangers and advantages of every vaccine differ vastly. 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 danger 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 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 may 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, corresponding to increasingly more individuals claiming it brought on critical autoimmune ailments (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 individuals 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 on so many accidents that in 1999, ABC information coated them and Congress held a listening to. There “consultants” mentioned there was no proof of hurt and we would have liked extra analysis.
Yesterday, they used the very same strains and omitted that tons of of research now present… pic.twitter.com/SatHgbUBV2
— A Midwestern Physician (@MidwesternDoc) September 20, 2025
Observe: 55 different information packages criticizing vaccines they’d by no means air as we speak may be learn right here.
• A Could 1999 Congressional listening to on the vaccine highlighted that:12
◦ Critical unwanted effects included toddler demise, seizures, autism, dysautonomia, MS, RA diabetes, and uncommon instances of liver most cancers in youngsters post-vaccination, with (vastly underreported) VAERS information displaying over 8,000 reactions, together with 43 deaths in youngsters 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 doable profit.
◦ There was huge underreporting of accidents (e.g., 4 to five day trials have been too quick to determine them, and physicians denied they’d occurred when dad and mom reported them) and no effort had been made to determine damage susceptibility.
◦ All long-term analysis into the security of the vaccine was being stonewalled, but the medical neighborhood argued the dearth of strong long-term security research really 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, notably 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 info on the vaccine’s dangers, newborns have been vaccinated with out parental consent, and fogeys confronted coercion, together with threats of social companies intervention if they didn’t vaccine.
Observe: That is nonetheless a difficulty. Take into account what these readers reported.
Lots of the testimonials have been fairly riveting:
• This girl’s son developed seizures, then neurologic issues, then autism after the vaccine.
• This nurse developed power inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (dropping the flexibility to stroll) together with a number of forms of autoimmune issues.
• This adolescent lady turned disabled from the neurological and autoimmune problems of the vaccine.
Right here, this younger lady 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 prefer to reside 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 Problems
One of many Congressional witnesses, produced a report highlighting the risks 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 vital neurological incapacity for each).14 He and others15,16,17 in the end 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 (a watch 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
Observe: This vaccine has additionally been linked to quite a lot of different issues not classically categorized 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 research discovered a 1.6X enhance in acute ear infections and a 1.41X enhance in pharyngitis and nasopharyngitis204). Worse nonetheless, one research discovered an 81% enhance in demise.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 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 instances 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 more likely 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
The same 2002 research discovered a 6.1X enhance for power arthritis (persisting for not less than 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 obtained a hepatitis B vaccine, throughout the subsequent two months, have been 1.8 occasions as more likely to expertise a demyelinating occasion.209
• A 2015 research 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 vital 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 research evaluate 163 MS sufferers with 1,604 randomly chosen matched controls with out MS. It discovered that MS sufferers have been thrice extra more likely 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 research in youngsters discovered that the GSK’s hepatitis B vaccine, which accommodates 5 occasions extra yeast protein antigen than different manufacturers, was related to a 2.77X elevated danger 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 research which discovered that receiving a hepatitis B vaccine within the first 30 days of life brought on a 12.35X enhance in autism — after which the research was buried.213
Observe: Kennedy doubtless referred to this (unpublished) research, which, by way of the CDC’s personal database, discovered the best doses of mercury containing vaccines brought on a 1.8X enhance in neurologic growth 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 research of 1824 youngsters discovered boys who obtained the hepatitis B vaccine have been 9 occasions as more likely to have a developmental incapacity.215
• A follow-up 2010 research discovered giving the hepatitis B vaccine at start 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
Observe: 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).
Comparable outcomes have been additionally seen in animals:
• A 2010 monkey research decided that the vaccine brought on a major delay within the acquisition of root, snout, and suck reflexes (important processes for growth).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
Observe: A 2013 research discovered that hepatitis B vaccination spiked their inflammatory CRP ranges, and in 22 out of 70 infants, this enhance was massive sufficient to move the diagnostic threshold for sepsis.223
In distinction, the licensing research for the vaccines solely monitored for unwanted effects throughout a brief window lengthy earlier than these unwanted effects would emerge (sometimes 4 to five days224) and didn’t use precise placebos.225,226 This restricted information reveals:
• 17% to 22% of adults reported injection website reactions.227,228
• 5% to 14% of adults and 10.4% of youngsters reported systemic antagonistic reactions (e.g., fatigue/weak point, 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 point).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
Observe: Many of those signs may 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 antagonistic occasion.235,236,237
Observe: A definitive 1994 report by the Institute of Medication famous that whereas preliminary information existed for most of the accidents attributed to the hepatitis B vaccine, no additional analysis had ever been completed (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 relatively of a gross failure by the scientific neighborhood.
Vaccine Justifications
Assessing the advantage of a vaccine is kind of difficult as numerous issues need to lineup for a proposed profit to happen, and since this not often happens in follow, quite a lot of overly optimistic assumptions are used to justify the vaccine (whereas conversely, each doable rationalization is used to downplay any doable vaccine damage). Within the case of the hepatitis B vaccine, its justifications are that:
• Massive numbers of individuals get hepatitis B annually and may progress to power hepatitis B.
• Continual hepatitis B is a illness that may severely affect 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 career has lengthy thought-about this vaccine to be one among their crowning achievements (which they therefore will combat tooth and nail to guard). Nonetheless:
1. Hepatitis B requires blood-to-blood contact, which is often by unprotected intercourse (notably anal intercourse239), unintentional blood exchanges (primarily needle stick accidents or sharing contaminated drug needles240), or throughout childbirth (which is the first means 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 on account of round 1 / 4 having it within the Nineteen Eighties, and in IV drug customers, research discover power hepatitis B at charges between 3.5% to twenty%241).
Observe: In depth information signifies AIDS originated from contaminated (chimp derived) hepatitis B vaccines examined within the homosexual neighborhood through the Nineteen Eighties.
3. The one means a baby can get extreme power Hepatitis B is from a childbirth transmission (another route is basically unimaginable), which requires:
• The mom to have hepatitis B (roughly 0.1% do242).
• Prenatal care and the hospital failing to determine 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 more likely 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 turning into power (85% to 95% from a HepEAg+ mom, much less from a HepEAg- mom246).
Moreover:
• Of these with power 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 often fails to stop 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 power hepatitis251).
Observe: Due to this partial efficacy (infants don’t have totally developed immune methods), immunoglobulins are additionally given to youngsters of HepB+ moms. Nonetheless, that is non-applicable for mass vaccination (which is finished to guard youngsters missed by screening).
These numbers, which I took from official sources, are essential, as a result of if you multiply them out, it’s worthwhile to vaccinate over 1,000,000 youngsters to stop one case of consequential hepatitis B (and 5 million to stop a extreme complication) — demonstrating the vaccine injures much more youngsters than it protects.
Moreover societal information, reveals that the hepatitis B vaccine campaigns vastly lowered acute hepatitis B in high-risk teams, but in addition that:
• This decline preceded toddler vaccination, and {that a} comparable 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 power hepatitis (0.003%) has not modified since 1976 in the US.254,255
Observe: On condition that the hepatitis B vaccine failure fee is much like the share of people that cannot remove an acute hepatitis an infection and develop into power carriers (5%256), I think this failure is a results of the vaccine being unable to guard those that impaired immune methods are literally prone to growing power hepatitis — notably since an analogous 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 cause (stopping maternal-to-fetal transmission) would 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”) embrace:
• Because the goal demographics for the hepatitis B vaccine are small, common vaccination was wanted to extend gross sales to a worthwhile and sustainable stage.
• Vietnam has amongst the best charges of hepatitis B on this 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 battle (roughly doubling in each the Nineteen Eighties and Nineteen Nineties to 988,000 immigrants by 2000258), it brought on 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 baby begins life neurologically injured, much less capable of acknowledge subsequent accidents of their baby — notably the refined 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 baby, it makes it a lot tougher for them to acknowledge the refined harms that often 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 forestall vertical [mother to child] transmission however to get the vaccine administered to a “captive viewers” earlier than they might go away the hospital. Their concern was that it will be the one alternative to stop 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, notably for the reason that medical business will nonetheless power moms who don’t have hepatitis B to vaccinate their youngsters, however it’s doubtless among the others performed a task as nicely.
Conclusion
When the 1986 Vaccine Harm Act was handed, one among its main functions was to make sure safer vaccines could possibly 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 could possibly 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 instructed us there may be “no proof” the hepatitis B vaccine, regardless of the actual fact I’ve cited tons of of research on this article displaying it is something however secure. Happily, many years of suppression and gaslighting can now not preserve the established order and there may be now robust stress to vary it (e.g., not too long ago President Trump publicly said youngsters mustn’t get the hepatitis B vaccine259).
At the moment, 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 really 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 produce consideration to this travesty, we are able to create very important public help for ACIP to rescind each new child getting this vaccine. Please think about sharing this text with these and just about attending this assembly.
Writer’s Observe: That is an abridged model of an extended article which particulars the atrocious historical past of the hepatitis B vaccine (and may be learn right here). Moreover a companion article on the professionals and cons of every particular person childhood vaccine may be learn right here. Lastly, an article offering the in depth proof vaccines trigger a variety of refined and extreme problems (e.g., making many power sicknesses 3-10X extra doubtless) may be learn right here.
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A Midwestern Physician (AMD) is a board-certified doctor from the Midwest and a longtime reader of Mercola.com. I recognize AMD’s distinctive perception on a variety of matters and am grateful to share it. I additionally respect AMD’s need to stay nameless since AMD continues to be on the entrance strains treating sufferers. To seek out extra of AMD’s work, you’ll want to try The Forgotten Aspect of Medication on Substack.
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