US EditionCDC formally stops recommending hepatitis B vaccines for all newborns
- 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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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.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the United States has officially stopped recommending hepatitis B vaccination for all newborns, in line with new guidelines from the agency's advisory panel.
CDC drops hepatitis B shot recommendation for some infants
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.
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