Baby's injury spurs bill on vaccine
By Gail Elber, The World | Posted: Saturday, February 19, 2011 11:00 am
The World
In 2009, Kyle and Sara Cox and their newborn son Zakkary had a close call. An apparent reaction to a hepatitis B vaccine gave Zakkary a stroke -- and could have sent his parents to jail.
The Coxes were lucky. Now Zakkary's grandmother, Tracy Kidd, is on a mission to make sure that other families don't have to go through what hers did.
She convinced state Rep. Arnie Roblan, D-Coos Bay, to introduce House Bill 2635, a bill requiring medical personnel to show parents the package insert about side effects that comes with the vaccine before administering it.
On Wednesday, she's going to Salem to testify before the Oregon House of Representatives' Health Care Committee in support of HB 2635.
But with the Oregon Pediatrics Society opposing the bill, she'll have a tough audience. FULL STORY
Grandma is up against the very definition of Medical Fascism
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