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The risk of getting Hep B from a blood transfusion is a tiny number, but it's a bigger number than the risk of side effects from the vaccine.

~Eula Biss

Topics: Bigger Blood Effects Getting Number Risk Side Than Tiny Vaccine

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There's something ancient and inevitable about this desire to do whatever you can to protect your child.

~Eula Biss

Topics: About Ancient Child Desire Inevitable Protect Something Whatever You Your Your Child

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Yes, we can make prudent choices as parents, but we can't create an environment where there's zero risk for our children. Not only is that impossible, I don't think it's desirable, either.

~Eula Biss

Topics: Children Choices Create Desirable Either Environment Impossible Make Only Our Parents Prudent Risk Think Where Yes Zero

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In the story of Thetis and Achilles, it's clear this isn't really a safe environment. She's gone down to the River Styx - the dead are being ferried across in the background. There's something in this mythology that says that if you want invulnerability, if you want immortality, you pay a price.

~Eula Biss

Topics: Achilles Across Background Being Clear Dead Down Environment Gone Immortality Mythology Pay Price Really River Safe Says She Something Story Styx Want You

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Most of us believe that dirt is good for our kids, but some of us are wary of the grass in the parks, which may or may not have been treated with toxic chemicals.

~Eula Biss

Topics: Been Believe Chemicals Dirt Good Grass Kids May Most Our Parks Some Toxic Treated Us Wary Which

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As for mercury, a child will almost certainly get more mercury exposure from her immediate environment than from vaccination. This is true, too, of the aluminum that is often used as an adjuvant in vaccines to intensify the immune response.

~Eula Biss

Topics: Almost Certainly Child Environment Exposure Get Her Immediate Immune Mercury More Often Response Than Too True Used Vaccination Vaccines Will

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My son is fully vaccinated, but there is one immunization on the standard schedule that he did not receive on time. This was meant to be his very first shot, the hep B administered to most babies immediately after birth.

~Eula Biss

Topics: After Babies Birth Did First Fully He His Immediately Meant Meant To Be Most Receive Schedule Shot Son Standard Time Very

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The belief that public health measures are not intended for people like us is widely held by many people like me. Public health, we assume, is for people with less - less education, less-healthy habits, less access to quality health care, less time and money.

~Eula Biss

Topics: Access Assume Belief Care Education Habits Health Health Care Held Intended Less Less Time Like Many Me Measures Money People Public Public Health Quality Quality Health Care Time Time And Money Us Widely

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Babies born to women who are infected with hep B - and mothers can carry the virus without their knowledge - will almost certainly be infected if they are not vaccinated within twelve hours of birth.

~Eula Biss

Topics: Almost Babies Birth Born Carry Certainly Hours Infected Knowledge Mothers Twelve Virus Who Will Within Without Women

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One of the mysteries of hep B immunization is that vaccinating only 'high risk' groups, which was the original public health strategy, did not bring down rates of infection.

~Eula Biss

Topics: Bring Did Down Groups Health High Infection Mysteries Only Original Public Public Health Rates Risk Strategy Which

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Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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