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Article: Vaccine Safety Group Endorses Government Action to Eliminate Mercury In Childhood Vaccines and Roll Back Hepatitis B Vaccination For Most Newborn Infants.
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- July 8, 1999
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WASHINGTON, July 8 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC), the oldest and largest organization in the U.S. representing vaccine consumers and parents of vaccine injured children, is calling yesterday's joint statement issued by the U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS) and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) to eliminate the mercury content in hepatitis B vaccine and other childhood vaccines and to roll back the universal recommendation that all newborn infants receive hepatitis B vaccine at birth as "an important step" in improving the safety of childhood vaccines and vaccine policies.
The cumulative effects of ingesting mercury can ...