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The Hepatitis B Vaccine Is Under Threat. Here’s What to Know.

Rates of the disease have fallen since 1991, when a vaccine committee recommended all newborns receive the shot.

The hepatitis B vaccine has sharply cut infections in children. Why are some against it?

Without vaccination, 90% of babies exposed to the hepatitis B virus during birth develop chronic hepatitis, an incurable ...

The hepatitis B vaccine was a public health win. Now it’s under threat

Young children who contract hepatitis B are at far greater risk of becoming chronically ill. Babies receive three doses of ...

C.D.C. Vaccine Advisers May Limit Hepatitis B Shots for Newborns

Committee members, some of whom are vaccine skeptics, are likely to recommend restricting the use of the shots at birth or ...

Kennedy's vaccine committee plans to vote on COVID-19, hepatitis B and chickenpox shots

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s new vaccine advisory committee meets this week, with votes expected on whether to ...
Scientific American

CDC Panel to Review Childhood Vaccines: What's at Stake

A child picks out a bandaid as he prepares to get his COVID vaccination in San Jose, Calif., in 2022. COVID shots are among ...
WLRN

Hepatitis B is rising in Florida. The vaccine against it will soon be optional for infants

The hepatitis B shot is "not a live, replicating virus, unlike some vaccines, so almost anybody can take it. It can be given ...
MedTech Dive

A key CDC panel meets this week to discuss vaccines. Here’s what to know.

A two-day meeting could prove an inflection point in HHS Secretary’s Kennedy’s efforts to overhaul U.S. vaccine policy, as ...
STAT

Dropping hepatitis B shots for newborns would ignore history and endanger children, scientists warn

People who study, treat, or have hepatitis B say ending routine vaccination at birth - as some vaccine critics want - could ...