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Hepatitis A virus vaccine – How badly do we need it?
“Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.” ―Napoléon Bonaparte (French statesman and military leader)
Another hepatitis virus children are vaccinated for is the hepatitis A virus. Humans are the only ones to fall sick after contracting this virus. Other primates can contract it and transfer it over to humans, but it doesn’t actually infect other primates. The virus is excreted with the feces and that’s how it transfers from one human to another. For instance, imagine if someone who’s infected and is working at a fast food restaurant doesn’t wash his or her hands. As you eat the burger and fries they made and drink the Coke they poured complete with the ice they scooped with bare hands, the virus travels into your intestines.
As comedian Adam Carolla said, “Mmm, tastes like hepatitis!”
As you know, your gut, is permeable. The virus is able to penetrate the gut-brain barrier and enter the bloodstream. From there it reaches the liver and then attacks the liver cells, the virus replicates and sends its “offspring” into the bile. The bile is now covered in viruses, which are flushed out with the feces.
The hepatitis A virus can survive on surfaces outside the body for several days. According to a Canadian study published in 2000, hepatitis A:
“[…] can readily survive freezing, persist in fresh or salt water for up to 12 months and can retain its infectivity for a few days to weeks in dried feces.”
Once you have become infected with the virus, there is no treatment for it. Usually a treatment wouldn’t be necessary anyway since 99% of those who become infected with the virus recover on their own.
The CDC says that:
“Symptoms of hepatitis A can include:
“fever, fatigue, loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, and/or joint pain
“severe stomach pains and diarrhea (mainly in children), or
“jaundice […]
“Children often do not have symptoms, but most adults do. […]
“Hepatitis A can cause liver failure and death, although this is rare and occurs more commonly in persons 50 years of age or older and persons with other liver diseases […].”
What does the WHO say?
“Almost everyone recovers fully from hepatitis A with a lifelong immunity. However, a very small proportion of people infected with hepatitis A could die from fulminant hepatitis.
“Those infected in childhood do not experience any noticeable symptoms. Epidemics are uncommon because older children and adults are generally immune.”
Okay, maybe we’re just a couple of novices, but let’s look at this for a second. When children become infected with hepatitis A they are extremely unlikely to have any noticeable symptoms. In fact, according to the WHO, no children experience noticeable symptoms. It also states that these children who become infected carry a lifelong immunity. If you become infected when you’re older, you are more likely to become seriously ill to the point of liver failure or death.
Then why are we vaccinating children with a vaccine that doesn’t provide lifelong immunity, especially considering the disease itself is quite safe and clears up on its own? When they grow older and the vaccine wanes, they are in danger of becoming seriously ill from a disease they wouldn’t even know they had, if given the chance to become naturally infected at a young age.
The making of
The HepA vaccine is an inactivated whole virus vaccine. It’s grown in MRC-5 human cell culture. After the germ has grown in the culture media, the virus is attenuated using formaldehyde. It is now incapable of replicating any further. Although the virus is inactive, it’s still a whole virus. This is important in order for our immune system to recognize it as such and react to the invasion.
In short: in order to grow and inactivate the hepatitis A virus for vaccine use, human cell cultures and formaldehyde are used for the process.
Side effects
The problem with finding this vaccine’s specific side effects is that it is rarely, if ever, dispensed on its own. We feel that, as with most other vaccines, it is more the fact that it adds to the accumulative effect from multiple vaccines. This factor may also make it very difficult to pinpoint a vaccine as the cause of adverse effects in court cases. Perhaps that’s why not many cases even make it to court.
Researching how the adverse events from the vaccine looked compared to the effects of the natural illness, we ended up on a page created by the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (NVIC) where they listed the cases filed in court from 1988-2017. Although it says it covers the period from 1988, the Hepatitis A vaccines were not included in the compensation program until December 1, 2004. Cases filed relate to 97 injuries and seven deaths attributed specifically to the Hep A vaccines. It doesn’t specify which cases were dismissed, compensated or settled.
Although the vaccine is rumored to be linked with autism, there’s no direct evidence that it, or any other vaccine, causes autism. However, it has been pointed out that autism rates are linked with the use of human fetal cells in the vaccines. Hepatitis A contains human fetal cells and so do other vaccines given at the same time. So, there would be a higher concentration of human DNA contaminants being injected during the same doctor visit.
References for Chapter 35: Hepatitis A virus vaccine – how badly do we need it?
Carolla, A. and Kimmel, J. (1999-2014) The Man Show. Retrieved from https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0202741/...
Sattar, S. A., Jason, T., Bidawid, S., & Farber, J. (2000). Foodborne spread of hepatitis A: Recent studies on virus survival, transfer and inactivation. The Canadian journal of infectious diseases = Journal canadien des maladies infectieuses, 11(3), 159-163.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). (2016, July 20). Hepatitis A VIS. Retrieved from https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/vis/...
World Health Organization (WHO). (2018, September 19). Hepatitis A. Retrieved from http://www.who.int/news-room/fact-she...
Department of Health and Human Services. (2004, December 1). National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program: Inclusion of Hepatitis A Vaccines in the Vaccine in the injury Table. [Vol. 69, No. 230]. Retrieved from https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2004...
National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. (2017, November 28). Data & Statistics. [Monthly Statistics Report]. https://www.nvic.org/cmstemplates/nvi...