Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the members of his newly appointed vaccine panel are casting doubt on the hepatitis B vaccine and the established practice of vaccinating newborns.
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Additionally, Kennedy claimed, without evidence … that the CDC conducted a study that found the hepatitis B vaccine increases the risk of autism, and that researchers hid the results of the study from the public.
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An infectious disease expert told ABC News that there is no evidence to suggest the hepatitis B vaccine is unsafe and that vaccinating babies at birth has been key to virtually eliminating the virus among children.
“Hepatitis B … causes inflammation in the liver …and that inflammation leads to the liver not working well at all,” [Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, an infectious disease specialist at the University of California, San Francisco] said. “So that’s cirrhosis and liver failure and, ultimately, also liver cancer.”
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“There’s no evidence that the hepatitis B vaccine leads to autism or is a risk factor for autism, and that is unquestionable,” Chin-Hong said.
