Factcheck.org: Debunking False Vaccine Claim (that the FDA said vaccines cause autism)

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18. An infant can still get Hepatitis B and the consequences are severe

Many people have Hepatitis B and don't know it. An infant can get it from its mother at birth. The mother many not know she has it. Even if tested, the test can have a false negatives. An infant can also get Hepatitis B from other caregivers or children who don't know they have it. The consequences of getting Hep B as an infant are severe, with a 90% probability of getting a chronic form that causes liver damage when they grow up.
http://www.immunize.org/catg.d/p4110.pdf


AAP recommends that premature infants not get the Hep B vaccine right away due to concerns about effectiveness, not harm, and in any event recommends they get the vaccine before leaving the hospital.



I could only find one study linking the vaccine to autism in boys, and that is this one
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21058170

Heb B vaccine was first recommended for newborns in 1991. The study looked at boys born before 1999 and aged 3 to 17 (i. e. born 1982 to 1999) who were growing up during a time when autism diagnosis increased rapidly mostly due to better detection and a 1994 change in diagnostic criteria. Due to the rapid increase in detection, any study done across this time period will find a correlation with anything that changed in this time, such as the introduction of a new vaccine.