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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There's no reason why the hep b vax can't be pushed a few months like every other vaccine for the vast majority of people. The odds of contracting it are very low outside of the high risk population. [/quote]

There is every risk. It’s contracted when passing through birth canal. That immediate vaccine is vital. If one waits several months, it’s too late. 
Many women don’t get tested or contract it after being tested. It’s the best way to prevent serious illlness and suffering. Have you ever seen anyone with hepatitis b? A child? With a totally preventable horrible illness?![/quote]

I stayed at home after birth for a couple years. Neither DH nor I had hep B. Why would my baby need it until daycare or school? I believe in vaccines but asked the pediatrician to space out the number of shots they were giving and they accommodated that.[/quote]

Did you never go to a store, restaurant, shopping mall?  Because if I did you could have been infected by anyone you passed. Don't vaccinate and run the risk that you are deliberately running the risk if infecting your child and if this happens then you have only yourself to blame and don't come crying to the rest of us if your child dies because you are a fool who believed a moron with a brain worm.[/quote]

Please INFORM yourself with facts before posting!!!

Hep b is transmitted by bodily fluids -- blood and semen. You cannot get it from casual contact. As long as your newborn is not having sex or exchanging needles with someone infected with Hep B, she will be fine.

Yes, as long as no one in your family has Hep B, you can wait until daycare or preschool to get Hep B vax. But if you want it at birth for your baby just ask for it!! Problem solved!![/quote]

Inform yourself. You can acquire it from casual transmission - a nanny who cut a finger and touched a toy can result in a kid dying from liver cancer.

But you do you. The more you idiots stop protecting your kids, the more likely it is they die before they can breed another generation of idiots. Thanks for doing your part to ensure a stronger, more intelligent and more pro-social gene pool. [/quote]

To be fair, parents should require testing and/or vaccines from nannies and other long term care givers. [/quote]

Rich parents will have no problem with this. Everyone else will get what they get, which will increasingly consist of unvaccinated caregivers who do not have affordable and reliable access to healthcare.

We are a third world nation when it comes to healthcare for 70%+ of Americans. It’s time we started acting like it. [/quote]

State health departments should offer testing at a low cost, if they don't already. Why should food handlers have higher health screening requirements than people working directly with small children.

Look, I get my son vaccinated. His dad acquired Hep C (not B) when he was a young boy going through medical issues. I get it. But, Americans are allowed to question public health policy, especially when it's a blanket policy and targeted interventions would drive the rate lower, which in 1991 for non-Asian children was .024% and 2.58% for Asian children born in the US. This minor change in recommendation should not be producing this reaction. I am alarmed by the anti-vaxxers, but I'm also becoming alarmed by the individuals who rail against anything that breaks with the establishment. Both groups seem to be composed of non-critical thinkers. [/quote]

I think the frustration is that there was no reason for this change. It was not that there was some real safety issue. Furthermore, targeted interventions were not successful in the US previously. This change will result in a small increase in cases, small because we still recommend vaccination at two months instead of birth. However, there still was no good reason to change policy and cause what will inevitably be a slight increase in cases and impacted children. Again, if there was a real safety issue, fine. There was not. [/quote]

+1. [b]And once you give an inch to the antivax hysterics, they will take a mil[/b]e. There will be a nonzero number of children who will be negatively impacted by this. Someone will die of liver cancer so easily influenced, terminally online, failed remedial biology Instamoms “feel better.” [/quote]

I disagree. I think that kind of framing makes our side sound like we are not pro-science and we just want to stand our ground even if new or better data were to come out.

RFK is crazy but the PP talking pts didn't help either.[/quote]

When you kill kids to make low IQ, low information, functionally r-worded idiots “feel smart”, you have failed as a society. [/quote]

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