09/23/2025
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Everyone is talking about Trump’s ignorance and cruelty promoting the lie that acetaminophen causes autism and his claim that women should “tough it out” if they have pain or a fever in pregnancy. Women are apparently just incubators.
But we need to also talk about the fear mongering about vaccinating against hepatitis B at birth.
Hepatitis B is highly infectious. It is 100 times more transmissible than HIV and can be spread via minute amounts of blood not visible to the human eye. It can also be found in body fluids, like saliva. And, it can live on surfaces for up to 7 days. It can even be recovered from nail polish.
This means there are lots of ways that kids can get hepatitis B that have nothing to do with their mother having hepatitis B during pregnancy or sexual activity.
Before universal hepatitis B vaccine at birth, about 9,000 kids under the age of 10 acquired the virus at birth and another 9,000 from just being a kid. Swipe to see some of the ways that hepatitis B can be transmitted. Universal hepatitis B vaccine at birth has reduced this by 99%.
While hepatitis B is an STI, it can be transmitted in many other ways. Scaring people about the vaccine is cruel and it will harm and even kill kids.
We are in the cruelest and stupidest timeline.
Really full post at TheVajenda.com
