Yes, and unfortunately it talks enough that the WHO have PRE-approved (as in it can skip much of the testing) for the vaccines to be used on young boys now too.
Yes, apparently you're risking your baby by being cautious and not giving them a vaccination on their first day of life for a disease they are highly unlikely to get at that age. The thing I don't get is the rationale that it's okay to risk auto-immune issues, SIDS, life-long disabilities and even death for a disease that if they do end up getting it (and in a Western country the odds of that are fairly low) *might* one day give them liver cancer in 40 years time. Unless the baby is high risk (i.e. mum has hep b) I don't see how the risk/benefit ratio even comes close to adding up.







The way it was written tho - was like it was a bad thing iykwim?
. The thing I don't get is the rationale that it's okay to risk auto-immune issues, SIDS, life-long disabilities and even death for a disease that if they do end up getting it (and in a Western country the odds of that are fairly low) *might* one day give them liver cancer in 40 years time. Unless the baby is high risk (i.e. mum has hep b) I don't see how the risk/benefit ratio even comes close to adding up.
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