Can you not vaccinate your child by your own selection and timeline?
Can you not vaccinate your child by your own selection and timeline?
The other issue at hand is that drug companies make a pretty penny if everyone gets Hep B at birth "just to be safe." Motivations become difficult to pull apart and people become suspicious. Exhibit B. The chicken pox vaccine, who's addition to the vaccine cocktail at birth no doubt helps Merck's bottom line, despite the fact that one does is only effective for five years and even at the height of protection afforded, you are still likely to contract varicella, but with lessened symptoms [3].
1: http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/18/6/12-0091_article.htm 2: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubella#Prognosis 3: http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/varicella-vaccine/pages/introdu...