US EditionCDC formally stops recommending hepatitis B vaccines for all newborns
CDC restricts hepatitis B vaccine birth dose to infants of infected or untested mothers, citing parental choice for others; pediatric infections fell 99% since 1990, experts warn of risks.
- On Tuesday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officially ended its recommendation that all newborns receive a hepatitis B vaccine within 24 hours, with Acting CDC Director Jim O'Neill accepting the change.
- After Kennedy replaced the panel in June, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices whose members Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appointed voted earlier this month to change the vaccine recommendation.
- The CDC adopted the panel's recommendation to give the birth dose only to babies whose mothers test positive for hepatitis B or when testing is unknown, leaving others to parents and doctors, with vaccination starting at 2 months if delayed.
- Many medical and public health leaders criticized the new recommendation, while the American Academy of Pediatrics still recommends the birth dose within 24 hours and programs like Vaccines for Children and Kaiser Permanente pledge to continue offering it.
- Public health experts warn ending the 1991 recommendation could lead to increased pediatric hepatitis B cases, reversing decades of progress following the CDC webpage change last month.
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CDC adopts controversial Hepatitis B vaccine change
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is no longer recommending giving all infants a dose of the Hepatitis B vaccine within 24 hours after birth, approving a sweeping and highly controversial change recommended by the agency’s vaccine advisory panel.
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CDC Officially Moves Away From Universal Hepatitis B Shot at Birth
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Hep B vax vote by CDC committee rattles local vaccine experts
Bay Area infectious disease and immunization experts see the future of childhood vaccinations in jeopardy after the CDC’s advisory committee decided to no longer recommend newborns receive the hepatitis B vaccine.
Against the explicit advice of experts, the US Health Authority no longer recommends CDC to inoculate all infants against hepatitis B. Doctors are concerned after the advance of Secretary of Health Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
U.S. health policy is changing among the designated vaccination skeptic Health Minister Kennedy Jr., which has now overturned a recommendation that has been in force for decades to vaccinate infants against hepatitis B. Experts warn of the consequences.
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