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Now What?
HEPATITIS A, B AND C
By Donna Powers
Donna Powers: Welcome to the Vaccine Free: Now What? 12-week teleseminar
course. This is class 12, our last class together, where we will continue talking about
infectious illness. These particular illnesses we are covering today are the ones where
conventional vaccines are used as prevention and nowadays in childhood school age
children, teens and adults. Today's infectious illnesses being discussed are hepatitis A,
B and C. We are going to cover all three of those today.
DP: So here we go, as always I ended up doing more research and I'll offer what I can
today and I'll try and keep it in an organized fashion and there is a little bit to cover. So
in my clinical microbiology text for made ridiculously simple which sometimes it's not,
they have one chapter that is devoted to the hepatitis viridae, which just simply means
hepatitis virus. In fact, when you start doing the research, you'll find out that these
different letters to the hepatitis are in different families, but what's important to know
that a viral hepatitis is an infection of the liver, hepatocytes. So these are the cells in the
liver that's what "hepa", "hepato" and "cytes" mean, it's just liver cells, by viruses.
DP: So any time you see itis on the end of any name of an infection or an illness, it
simply means inflammation. So this is an inflammation of the liver. So it can be
attributable to these particular viruses, but you can get inflammation of the liver from
other kinds of things like cirrhosis of the liver, which is alcohol can sometimes be a
contributing factor. But what they have identified with hepatitis where there is a
common group of symptoms including the jaundice, so even babies were born or
sometimes put on the light and the reason that they have jaundice is because of the
bilirubin, their liver is not quite up to functioning. So with the hepatitis illnesses you do
get that jaundice look, the yellow skin, the yellow eyes, the pee can be very, very yellow
as well.
DP: But with viral hepatitis there are five RNA viruses. So there is a difference between
RNA and DNA. So I did do some research with that and I am going to include a link for
you because I found one of the most entertaining websites where they have lectures,
podcasts and you just got to love what you can get for education now on the Internet.
So I will include that in the... Let's see if I've got it, yes, diffen.com. And all I did was
Google the question what is the difference between DNA and RNA? And there is a
structural difference and the functional difference, which is what you learned in your
anatomy.
DP: So it was interesting to me that there would be one is a DNA virus and then the
rest are RNA viruses. So I am not sure what all of that means, but I was curious simply
because there are some serious complications and adverse risks to the hepatitis B
vaccine which is given to babies in the US at birth. And I believe it's being introduced, I
didn't look it up on the Canadian schedule. So my curiosity was aroused with that. So
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DP: And, you just simply ask when you book your appointment, do you have an
autoclave? And are all of your instruments either single use, or are they sterilized in
between? They have to have a standard of hospital sterilization techniques, and that's
why an autoclave. Same as if you go to a dentist, they put all of their instruments
through an autoclave because they're reused and they need to be sterile so you're not
transferring infectious viruses.
DP: So, if you travel and you're not getting a tattoo, you're not anticipating you'll have
to have blood products, you're not in drug use, you're not going to brothels, it's highly
unlikely that you would need an A or a B. With the A, the only other one you want to be
aware of are ice cubes, and you'll see that on the ad on TV. Generally, in all-inclusive
restaurants they have their own water filtration system and they are impeccable about
their sanitation and the hygiene. These places are set up for North American people to
bring their money and spend time there. So, they do not want anybody leaving there
with sickness.
DP: So, in January there's a group of us from the Western College of Homeopathic
Medicine who will be travelling to India. So my husband will be doing a lot of travelling.
It's possible he's already had hepatitis A. We're from that same generation born in the
'50s and growing up through the '60s and '70s. It's likely his family also had yellow
jaundice. So, the only thing for him would be to make sure that he's carrying his own
bottled water, which the team who is getting ready for our arrival has already
suggested. And that he'll have to wash his hands, cleanliness. So, I even do it here in
Calgary, if I'm out grocery shopping, pushing the cart around, I don't use those sterile
things. But, when I do go home and before unload groceries, I'm careful to wash my
hands. So, that will help with some of that.
DP: So, the hepatitis B is from another family of viruses, Hepadnaviridae. So, just so
you know that the Hep A is from one other family and this is from a completely different
one. This is from Franz Vermeulen's Monera book and it's about the hepatitis B. He has
it in there, and again transmission person to person in blood, saliva, and semen, thus
ranking it among venereal diseases. So unless the mother has this particular virus,
babies being born generally do not need this vaccine.
DP: So it's a concern worldwide simply because there are areas of the world where this
is prevalent. So, the incubation period can be as long as six months versus six weeks
for hepatitis A. So, you might have, say, you actually decided to get a tattoo. Who
knows how we make these decisions, and you might not know for six months and then
you end up with a flu like kind of illness. It's an extremely stable virus and it can survive
for prolonged periods on needles, so drug abuse, body piercing, tattooing that's not
done in a licensed facility, surgical tools, and even thorns or sharp stones. So some
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