Mass Vaccination Campaign in China Has Doubled Hepatitis B Virus MutationsMelissa Melton Hepatitis B can cause abdominal and joint pain, jaundice, nausea and vomiting, fatigue and in severe cases, it can lead to death. While vaccination campaigns are widely credited by the medical community in protecting inoculated children from the disease, breakout viral mutations would essentially render these protections useless. These findings seem to corroborate those published in the journal Hepatology earlier this year which showed that protections for a significant portion of adolescents who receive a full set of Hep B shots actually wear off over time. Depending on the brand, 3-4 doses of Hep B vaccine are required during infancy to be considered effective at building immunity against the disease. Researchers tried to spin these new findings into a positive: Researcher Tao Bian of Chapel Hill says that the vaccine remains quite effective, but that because escape mutants are likely to increase, public health officials need to track the rise of escape mutants, in order to know when it becomes time to consider new vaccination strategies. (source) In other words, the neverending spiral of mutations caused by the creation of the Hepatitis B vaccine will require a neverending supply of new vaccines. When asked for comment on this new studys findings, the pharmaceutical industry screamed, Woo-hoo! What a great business model! Melissa Melton is a writer, researcher, and analyst for The Daily Sheeple, where this first appeared, and a co-creator of Truthstream Media. Wake the flock up! 