Do babies need Hep B?
In 1991 the CDC recommended that all infants get their first Hepatitis B vaccination just hours after birth. The disease is mostly spread from dirty needles and unprotected sex. It can create deadly liver disease. The vaccine has been blamed for mysterious deaths following the shots, sometimes filed as sudden infant death syndrome. One is the Sept. 16, 1998, death of Lyla Rose Belkin at age 5 weeks. She died 15 hours after getting her second Hepatitis B vaccine booster shot. Michael Belkin said in a telephone interview from Seattle that his daughter was lively and alert prior to receiving the shot. She became agitated and noisy, suddenly fell asleep, and died 15 hours later. Belkin said the coroner indicated that his daughter’s brain was swollen; a reaction some researchers believe could be caused by the vaccine. “So in the CDC and (the Vaccine Advisory Committee’s) own words, almost every newborn U.S. baby is now greeted on its entry into the world by a vaccine injection against a sex
