“They [the CDC] found, in fact, in their small preliminary study, that hepatitis B immunization, when given after 2 months of life, was associated with almost a 90 percent increase in the incidence of diabetes…”
People at risk for contracting HBV are homosexuals and I.V. drug users.90 Forty percent of I.V. drug users are infected after one year of drug use and eighty percent of I.V. drug users are infected after ten years of drug use.91
HBV infections were at a high in the 1980’s with approximately 26,000 cases reported annually.92 In 1996 the rate of infections fell below 10,000 cases.93 The CDC states this decline is “attributed to reduction of transmission among homosexual men and injecting drug users as a result of HIV prevention.”94 In regards to the vaccine, the CDC states “the impact of vaccine on HBV disease has been less than optimal, and the incidence of reported hepatitis B cases is now only slightly less than as it was before the vaccine was licensed.”95
What is your child’s chance of contracting hepatitis? Dr. Ronald C. Kennedy, a Professor at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, stated during a 1999 Congressional Hearing that “…the chance of an infant or child getting either hepatitis A or hepatitis B is close to none or nonexistent.”96
