I don't understand why they only get a slap on the wrist! These are crimes against humanity like some of the nazi's were arrested for. Is there that much bribery going on in the White House? I GUESS SO!! Dr. Mercola says no one can be forced to have their kids vaccinated so why did that fiasco in Maryland take place where people sadly took their children to the courthouse to get vaccinated for fear of going to jail if they didn't? Those children weren't allowed to go to school if they hadn't received their "deadly mercury laden shots." I'd like to know once and for all...do we or do we NOT have the freedom to choose NOT to vaccinate?! If we do then why doesn't someone tell all the mayors and governors to back off? Why are they getting away with these terrorist tactics? Whoever would have thought 50 years ago that American citizens would be bullied by such ignorant, greedy, pharma-whipped, murdering cowards!!! And by the way, the word "vaccination" is not the same as the word  "immunization." Vaccinations can actually GIVE you a disease and that disease can come back. But if you are allowed to just get the disease naturally, you are then immune against it for life. I hate it when people get those two words mixed up and think they're the same. Vaccines don't deserve to be called immunizations! They're based on nothing more than JUNK SCIENCE!! And they suppress the immune system! Read about the history of vaccines and you'll see how wrong they are. Such ignorance!!!

• 12,000 -- unnecessary surgery
• 7,000 -- medication errors in hospitals
• 20,000 -- other errors in hospitals
• 80,000 -- infections in hospitals
• 106,000 -- non-error, negative effects of drugs

These total to 225,000 deaths per year from iatrogenic causes !!

Sadly a wonderful young couple I know was tricked into having their child vaccinated with the hepatitis B vaccine.  The husband made his wishes clear when they went to the hospital to deliver their child and was pretty adamant about it.  But the hospital staff knew they could badger the wife as her convictions weren't as strong, but she wanted to respect her husband's wishes.  Well, there was a time when he wasn't around (went home or something) and the nurses kept bugging her and persisting that the baby needed the vaccine and she needed to reconsider.  The new mom was mentally and emotionally exhausted and weak and so to get them off her back, she relented and signed the form and their baby got the shot.  The husband was livid with the hospital when he found out.  They considered and talked about suing the hospital, but they didn't follow through and so the hospital ended up getting away with it.

There is no way I would have let them get away with it!  If I was the husband, I would have sued them for #1, disregarding my wishes; #2, putting my baby's life at risk by doing something that's been proven to be fatal; and #3, knowing my wife's state of mind they used that to their advantage to harrass her and cause her emotional and mental distress to the point she gave in and disregarded the decision she had made with her husband.  Oh, I would have sued alright.

This is why if I ever have kids, I'm delivering them at home with a midwife who understands these issues and my wishes.  My children will be homeschooled (most likely) too.

say a prayer for all of those that this came too late to help.   MKS  will never be well due to the hep B vaccine.   Once a nursing student,  now permanently disabled.   Now hopefully they will look at other vaccines.  

Remember this vaccine is HEP B vaccine and from being given to teenagers and older people it has attracted charges of MANSLAUGHTER.

In the USA the same vaccine is STILL being given to 1 day old babies.

Why does it take so long for the USA to appreciate why they have the worst record of G7 countries for keeping babies alive?

I know of TWO babies given this HEP B vaccine one only last year and resultant head swelling caused one death and one baby who will never lead a normal life.

HOW MANY WILL IT TAKE before SOMEONE decides it ain't MANSLAUGHTER but MURDER?

I just read this morning that  in New York State  "Any child born after Jan 1, 2008 will be required to be vaccinated against pneumonia before they can begin  attending daycare or school."

So lets add this chemical concoction to all of the other "mandatory" shots that are "required" for our children.  When will all of this madness stop?  When will the public realize that their children are being poisoned by the FDA (Federal Drugcompany Alliance.)

As a mother of two non immunized, attachment parented children I implore you to listen to this information.  I live in Canada and as soon as I mention that my children are non immunized everyone assumes they can not go to school. That is not the case and requires only a simple sworn statement that it is my personal philosphy not to immunize and have the recorded with the dept of public health. THATS all. You must agree that if your child is sick you keep them home from school. Is that not rediculous that it must be mandated to do that!!!!!  I have had doctors refuse to take my children as patients because of this issue which shows me they are not for us anyway. Information is power and thank you Dr Mercola for having the courage and comittment to share this knowledge.

While it is a fact that more people die from so called legal drugs, than illegal drugs, one has to wonder who is steering the boat?  Our protect the people from themselves, FDA appears to be missing in action, when it comes to doing the job it was set up to do.  Protect us from bad food F-, and protect us from the snake oil salesmen, F-.

Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me.  This is where the general public now stands.  All the brainwashing in the media these days really keeps many people from being able to make a rational choice.  Where is the FTC?  

The bottom line here is that we the people in the United States, are nothing more than "Shark Fodder."

Dr Merc says do your homework before vaccine, but shouldn`t it read, the only safe vaccine is no vaccine..

In principle, I am against the death penalty - but I would make an exception for these ****ards. And that also goes for the number one sicko in the number one American psychiatric ward - i.e. the White House - for crimes against humanity.

terryd1960:

I do not credit vaccines (poison) for eliminating incurable diseases. I credit education, awareness, and hygienic improvement. If you fully knew what you are talking about, you would know that every vaccine delivers immunity, nor is each disease that is being vaccinated for an incurable disease. Hepatitis B vaccines are nothing more than a cash cow for big pharma! This is does absolutely nothing but compromise the health of infants. Before you go giving credit to vaccines for improved health and longer lifespans, do your research and also look at how differently life was in the days of your grandparents. ALL vaccines are EVIL, and YES, the drug companies are just out for the almighty dollar at our expense.

I also agree, this is just a part of depopulation by the NWO.

Vive La France! They have my wholehearted support! The witchunt has begun! This is just the beginning...sooner or later you have to pay the piper for your misdeeds. Its a Universal law!

assume that you think vaccination is a good idea

Vaccination works by stimulating the body's immune system. A child's does not fully and properly respond until about two years of age. Therefore, the vaccine doesn't stimulate the immune system very much.

Relatively normal childhood used to mean that child didn't interact much outside the family until later (about 5 years of age). This was protective against transmission of all the "cruds" now so common in "daycare".

So there would be no good reason to vaccinate anybody before 2-5 yrs. of age, and every reason to raise your children at home until they are ready for school. (This is apart from the actual risks of the vaccination itself)

Another note. Polio (like Hepatitis A and cholera) is transmitted by oral-fecal, eating someone else's non processed bowel movement. Government Public Health agencies identified that water problem in the rapidly urbanizing America of the early 1900's. Improving infrastructure (not running poop water through the faucet) and personal hygiene was adequate to reduce several oral-fecal diseases dramatically (without vaccination). The AMA worked very hard to claim credit for the MD vaccination program instead of the PhD Public Health program, and succeeded.

Resistance is futile

You will be vaccinated.

That's what all this feels like, battling the Borg named Big Pharma.

Maybe we are doing this all wrong? Instead of protesting and looking for legal loopholes, we should do what Pharma does, pay the doctors off to NOT vaccinate. Go to the office and take a few extra dollars with us, cash is untraceable. All he has to do at that point is fill in the blanks on the shot record.

After all the only real reason the doctors give the shots is because they are paid off per shot they give.

My own doctor nearly went ballistic when I told him I wouldn't take last years flu shot! He didn't even ask me to take it, just sent the nurse in to give it to me. The man literally turned a purple with rage when I refused! He couldn't even give me a reason to take the shot. He didn't have one.

And about the IRS, I am a former agent and I know for a fact that it doesn't matter if you take them to court and win. There is no court that has any power over the IRS. They are immune to any judgement.They don't have to obey any court in this country. And they don't mind you spending all your money on lawyers and lawsuits, because in the end, you can't win.

Yes, it's true that they do target certain famous and very visible people to harass. They purposely make it loud and public to scare everybody into obeying. They go after them with a vengence! The whole idea is to make the population terrified of the IRS and all its power.

Makes perfect sense to me, if the income tax law itself is illegal, then the agency over those taxes is illegal too, and beyond the reach of any law.

The only way to beat them is for everybody, EVERYBODY to not pay taxes. Imagine what would happen if nobody filed a W4. Or if every business refused to send in the employees information. The IRS doesn't take out your money, your job does that for them.

What has been forgotten is that this nation was founded by rebels, common people fighting against tyranny.

Dear everyone,

Breastfeeding needs to be promoted more and more--especially on a website like this. The less babies are breastfeed, the more supplements they will be needing in the years to come. Females of the species: use your breasts as they were meant to be used and get rid of these stupid pthalate-leaching plastic bottles of Nestlé formula!

All I have to say is Hallelujah!!!  I am so thankful I was asked while I was pregnant with my first child “Are you going to vaccinate?”  I didn’t know I had a choice.  I choice not to, and am so pleased with that decision everyday.  I talk about it a lot.  I want other parents to know they have a choice as many don’t.  Education is empowering!  I hope this will start a ripple effect throughout the rest of the world.  

The troops at Walter Reed Hospital are being given anti-hepatitis B vaccines and their reactions are not good.

Dr Mercola seems to indicate that vaccines are effective in this article. I don't believe so. In my 15 years of studying the vaccine question I have found no evidence that vaccines work. Of course, if you just look at the manufacturers data (propaganda), you will think they are effective. One thing is for sure: whenever their is an out break of an illness then the vaccinated ones are most likely to get it.

I have read articles from my chiropractor's office about the dangers of vaccinations and that they often have mecury and other toxic substances in them.  I have learned that my chiropractor does not vaccinate his own children and they are among the happiest and healthiest youngsters I have ever seen!  The body has it's own immune system and we should let it use this rather than relying on outside sources which are potentially fatal.  It is a money making scheme-just like prescription drugs!  Incidentally, since I have started regularly seeing my chiropratctor and eating healtheir-I don't take anti-depressessants and feel better than when I did take them!!

I am so upset by this article.  I had the Hepatitis B series when I worked in an ER and I developed joint pain during the series of 3 shots and when I mentioned it I was told they had never heard of such a thing, I still have joint pain since that time, and it was all for naught as my titre they took said the vaccine had not worked. They offered it to me again but I said "no way" once was enough. I also was not allowed to work in a hospital without getting a measles vaccine as I had not had the measles as a child.  I had to have that done also. My employer tried to make me get a flu shot but I was able to slip past it. I had one flu shot in my life and that year I got sicker than I had ever gotten before.  So I won't let them do that again. But some hospitals won't let you work unless you get one. Talk about Big Brother.

I had excellent health until having a hep-b vaccine.   I had very short duration stroke-like symptoms and extreme thirst that I--several years later--realized was the onset of adult/ autoimmune/ type 1 diabetes.     Of course, there's not a way to properly report or attribute this onset.  As a social worker, I ran into the way vaccine damage went unreported when talking to parents of previously normal kids who became severely mentally disabled after vaccines.    Just as these people told me their doctors had told them-- my doctor assured me it was just a coincidence.   No.  I felt it clearly--that my body changed from healthy to unhealthy directly after the hep b shot.     My diabetic onset was insidious and compounded by a local doc who has been multiply reported to the state board  (my medical records where I reported severe thirst also went missing).    Complications included organ damage, vision loss, e.d., and autonomic neuropathy.     If you'd like to expose yourself or your children to expensive and debilitating autoimmune diseases, I'd say try the hep b vaccine.    It fried me thoroughly.     Wonder if its makers are the ones selling me my diabetes supplies?    Yes, it is profitable to create diabetes and I believe it is well known that a percentage of the population will have debilitating  autoimmune responses to vaccines.    Canadian research has shown a link between hep b shots and diabetic onset.     Yet it's profitable not to show or even look for such a link, so more of us need to speak out in a better organized fashion.      I wish I had more energy to pursue this, yet the aftermath of years of untreated diabetes have left me without proper resources or time.    --Matt Jasper    Farmington, NH  

Why do Americans have to be subjected to forced immos?  Isn't it time for Americans to speak up for the right to choose? I was forced by my job with NY state to have Hep B Series and a flu shot in 1998 and  I have had neuro problems since then resulting in young onset Parkinson's 5 years ago. I know it was from the shots but can't prove.  Thanks Dr. M for your articles.  Ron Paul - pray you can miraculously get Pres. nomination, we desperately need a man like you!

Forcing vaccinations on American citizens is only the beginning of having to fight for our right to say no to what the government mandates is best for us. The majority of our society are like sheep being led to slaughter - never questioning or thinking for themselves but relying on a greater power, the US government, to make decisions for them. Just think how easy it is going to be for Obama or Hillary to force government mandated health insurance onto the American population. As a growing number of our civil liberties are threatened I question what will be the breaking point for this mind numbed generation.

True Story: My doctor friend in NYC is getting a degree in public health. In her class the other day her prof. asked them to discuss why health care and pharmacueticals are so expensive in this country. One of the students brought up the topic of big pharma using "payola" with doctors and health care people to manipulate them into promoting their drugs. The guy was villified and everyone in the class asked him how can he say this? Basically the whole class ganged up on him and were very upset at this "accusation" and more upset when he showed the articles about it. People are brainwashed in this country and more especially so health care workers, administration et al. Yeah I am scared when the people who are supposedly taking a hippocratic oath don't take it seriously and people believe everything they are told...

It is NOT always possible to protect your children from gov know-it-alls about vaccines. My child was kidnapped by child "protection" of another state. I probably had the legal right to say no to the vaccines she was given--but would I ever have gotten her back?

A friend had a contested divorce. With courts severely prejudiced against men as it is, he could not always fight for what is best for his son, either.

100 000 children are kidnapped by the State every year. Many die. Millions are impacted by divorce every year.

I want my Constitution BACK. So I am a county level delegate for Ron Paul, working my way up to National.

parentalrights.org and a constitutional amendment!

Oh, please, what do you think is covered under

       UNALIENABLE RIGHTS

as in "...all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among [AMONG] these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent [FROM THE CONSENT] of the governed."   ???

Quit consenting!

I find this article quite interesting, in that before I was deployed to Katrina I had just received the Hep A & B shots (first dose only of each).  I became ill while there and had to leave shortly after I arrived.  Soon after returning home I fell ill, and the next few months were a nightmare.  The doctors said I had succumb to reactive arthritis, but my symptoms were much too sever and long lasting to be so, but my tests for RA were negative.  After reading this article, I am now wondering if in fact I had a reaction to the Hep B vaccine, which is causing my severe joint pain, swelling, etc.  No one has been able to help me thus far, and I will NOT take any more conventional medications.  I am on B supplements and more, per my urine tests.  I would very much like to find a cure for what I am living with, as it is worsening daily.

I had a nurse tell me my baby would not leave the hospital without HepB, period.  I don't even think they asked my permission and I was too out of it to pay attention. At the doctor office they make you sign for it but I didn't at the hospital.   After all the scary stuff on vaccines on 20/20 and other investigative programs 13 years ago, I refused vaccines for both my children until they were at least 6 months and then I would wait longer than 2 months in-between.  And insisted on the dead polio vaccine even before my best friends baby was infected with it from the live polio vaccine.  Doctors were totally fine with it but nurses could not stand it.  I was yelled at and gawked at by some nurses because I was leaving my 2 month old vulnerable to disease.  It was crazy.  They think those odds of a bad side effect were great!  I'm sorry but 1 in 100,000 is awful.  Think of how many babies in one large city are contracting polio or worse every year.  My 12 year old is very healthy and has a strong immune system and no allergies. I think it just made some of them mad that they had to figure out each time what it was that they needed instead of just looking at their age.

SUE, SUE, SUE, AND SUE THEM SOME MORE....THEN SHUT THEM DOWN!!!!

Indict every last lying big pharma executive all the way up and down the chain of command, hospital or doctor or nurse who FORCED vaccinations on anyone or SECRETLY innoculated anyone with these poisons!!  

You betcha....try them for manslaughter!!!  Take away their fat salaries, big homes and fancy cars.  When they finish their jail time, if they have any energy left, let them go help all those children and adults who they have harmed with their poisons.  

Use any of their monies left over to pay out to all the MILLIONS of autistic children, children

with cancer and parents of all these children who were bankrupted, lied to, conned,

threatened with lawsuits and parents who had their children taken away from them and made a ward of the state, etc.

Can we see some justice in this lifetime?  I surely hope so!

Burt G, This is the first time I have commented online like this but I would be very interested in hearing more about the seminar you attended and the conversation regarding vaccines.  I am making a documentary on the issue as well as corruption in the medical industry and it is of great interest.

I feel quite alone in the world.  My husband and I are adopting a baby and for 6 months the baby will be in the custody of the state, under our supervision, which mandates vaccinations.  After the 6 months and we legally adopt the baby then we are free to choose to vaccinate or not.  Texas has quite an extensive vaccination list.  I can't find a doctor who will do a decelerated vaccination schedule.  All the doctors are afraid of lawsuit.  Naturopathic doctors in Texas can not give vaccinations.  <sigh>  The irony of the story is that against my philosophical convictions I have to be the one to have my baby vaccinated.  Not everyone has rights.  Who will speak out for adopted children and their rights?

I had considered fostering children to give a needy child (ren) a loving home. However, when I went to the meeting I was informed that I would have to provide the medical care deemed appropriate by the state. As a former conventional medical provider who is now enlightened and reformed, I simply could not do it. Any child I know and love will not be subject to the ways of conventional medicine.

Let's focus on the positive though. Awareness is at an all time high. We can actually take back our health with common sense and informed choices.

Teresa Holler (www.holler4health.com)

The degree to which Hep B is difficult or easy to catch depend on the context of where you live, the quality of the medical services and the current prevalence within the population. It might be inappropriate in the USA but in various European countries the virus has long been widespread and common.

While rare in UK and N. Europe it is still very common in countries bordering the Mediterranean, there were 200,000 cases a year in Italy in the 1980s, many in babies born to infected mothers who in their turn were infected in the womb.

Given that "more than 95% of people who become infected as adults or older children will stage a full recovery and develop protective immunity to the virus" it might seem that vaccination is misplaced. However, "only 5% of newborns that acquire the infection from their mother at birth will clear the infection.

Of those infected between the age of one to six, 70% will clear the infection" and become chronic (occult) Hep B virus excretors, many of preschool and elementary school age (when transmission to classmates is far easier than Dr. Mercola suggests), and as many as 20% of these will go on to develop cirrhosis of the liver, requiring, if they are lucky, a transplant or a horrible death, whilst a significant number will develop liver cancer and die.

I'm not qualified to speak about the USA (where I understand that the disease is mercifully rare) but the deaths of several people PERHAPS as a result of an adverse reaction to a vaccination for a very nasty and common disease need to be set against the fact that in this part of the world where the annual death rates number in the tens of THOUSANDS.

I usually agree with Dr. Mercola re. pointless vaccinations but on this occasion I beg to differ. Rates of Hepatitis B infection have fallen almost to zero amongst school children in Italy and rates of Hep B in neo-natals are falling as the first mothers, vaccinated as small children, begin to feed through into the obstetric wards.

The immune system of a baby is a baby of an immune system. I find it hard to comprehend how a baby's immune system is supposed to mature properly when bombarded by a modern barrage of vaccines, including ones it can't possibly benefit from. It seems that as science and technology accelerates, our ability to discern benefits and risks diminishes, which is needless to say, a scary situation. At this rate, the only people who have control over their own health will be forced to live outside of the law.

When I was pregnant, I interviewed one of our city's most respected and loved pediatricians.  Knowing I was not going to vaccinate I broched the subject. All of his answers were text book denials.  "The internet has as many horror stories of non-vaccinated babies as vaccinated babies." He dismissed any study or book I brought up to him.  When I asked how an infant could possibly be at risk of Hep B, he told a story of a child playing in a park. This child found a hypodermic needle and the mom cought him playing with it.  He also told me that if I wasn't going to vaccinate, he did not want my child as a patient! Needless to say, I found a great group of open minded doctors. My mom's internist also freaked when she told him that I was not going to vaccinate. He told her that there is a great risk at daycare centers to pass Hep B from not so hygenic diper changing methods.  My heart breaks for those children whose parents are uninformed.  Thanks for such a great site.