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CDC formally stops recommending hepatitis B vaccines for all newborns
The CDC now advises parental consultation for hepatitis B vaccination at birth for babies of hepatitis B–negative mothers, while maintaining immediate vaccination for babies of positive or untested mothers.
- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ended its recommendation for all newborn babies to get a hepatitis B vaccine within 24 hours of birth.
- The CDC adopted an advisory committee's recommendation for a birth dose of the vaccine only for babies whose mothers test positive for hepatitis B infection or were not tested.
- For other babies, it will be up to parents and doctors to decide if a birth dose is appropriate, with the vaccination series to begin at 2 months old if delayed.
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CDC drops hepatitis B shot recommendation for some infants
·Washington, United States
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CDC adopts advisers’ recommendation against universal hepatitis B vaccines for babies
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officially abandoned universal hepatitis B vaccination for newborns on Tuesday, signing off on its vaccine advisers’ recommendation for individual decision-making — a move that experts and researchers say will lead to more illness.
·Atlanta, United States
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CDC formally ends recommendation for hepatitis B vaccines for all newborns
A vaccine advisory panel, appointed by U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. voted to end the decades-long recommendation earlier this month.
·Sacramento, United States
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