A recent Community View expressed concerns about protecting children from "toxic toys"; what about protecting kids from toxic ingredients routinely found in recommended and approved childhood vaccines?
Re " New York must protect kids from toxic toys," June 16 Community View:
I appreciate Dr. John Delfs' concerns to "protect kids from toxic toys." I cannot ignore a far larger concern — protecting kids from toxic ingredients routinely found in recommended and approved childhood vaccines.
Consider the HEP B vaccine, administered to infants within hours of birth, ostensibly to protect newborn infants from contracting HEP B.
The CDC states babies and children can get hepatitis B:
"At birth from their infected mother; from bites from an infected person; touching open cuts or sores of an infected person; through sharing toothbrushes or other personal items used by an infected person; from food chewed (for a baby) by an infected person; from ear piercing needles that were not cleaned well."
Except for the mother being HEP B positive, the likelihood of a newborn infant contracting HEP B through these unusual exposures in the first moments of life appears extremely remote, yet, every day newborns are "injected" with this vaccine which, according to manufacturer inserts of HEP B vaccines, contains this partial list of ingredients: Aluminum hydroxide, phosphate buffers, amorphous aluminum hydroxyphosphate sulfate, amino acids, dextrose, formaldehyde, mineral salts, potassium aluminum sulfate, soy peptone, MRC-5 cells, neomycin sulfate.
Considering the HEP B contains formaldehyde and aluminum, and the vaccine is injected directly into the newborn infant at the most critical stage of physical, biological and neurological development, it seems to place infants at unnecessary risk that far outweighs any hoped for benefits.