How Often Do You Need Hepatitis B Vaccine

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RFK Jr. wants to delay hepatitis B vaccine. Here's what parents need to know.

Working out of a tribal-owned hospital in Anchorage, Alaska, liver specialist Brian McMahon has spent decades treating the long shadow of hepatitis B. Before a vaccine became available in the 1980s, he saw the virus claim young lives in western Alaskan communities with stunning speed.

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RFK Jr.'s vaccine panel could soon upend the hepatitis B vaccine. What to know

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RFK Jr.’s vaccine advisers plan biggest change yet to childhood schedule

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US vaccine committee's hepatitis B changes would be most consequential yet

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s hand-picked vaccine advisory committee will vote later this week on whether to delay hepatitis B shots for most American children but has not settled on exactl...

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What you should know about the hepatitis B vaccine for newborns

The first shot in the multi-dose vaccine has been recommended at birth for decades, but that could soon change.

Politifact

Hepatitis B vaccine Q&A: Why do babies need the shot?

Hepatitis B is a potentially fatal liver disease. It spreads through contact with bodily fluids, and certain groups including health care workers and IV drug users are at higher risk. Anyone can be infected. Babies can be infected during childbirth or ...

New York Post

Do babies really need the hepatitis B vaccine? What we know as RFK Jr. moves to delay shots for kids

Do newborns need the hepatitis B vaccine to B healthy? That’s slated to be deliberated Thursday at a meeting of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). The influential vaccine advisory panel is expected to vote to recommend ...

The New York Times

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

Rates of the disease have fallen since 1991, when all newborns began receiving the shot. President Trump recently said he thought children should not get it until age 12. By Dani Blum In the latest and perhaps most high-profile attack on the practice of ...

STAT

Key federal vaccine panel tables vote on delaying newborn hepatitis B shot

Anil Oza is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the NIH and health equity. You can reach him on Signal at aniloza.16. A key government advisory committee voted Friday to postpone a vote on whether to delay infants’ first hepatitis B vaccine ...

CNN

CDC advisers vote to recommend against combo vaccine for young kids, delay vote on newborn hepatitis B shot

A meeting of advisers chosen by US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to guide US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention vaccine recommendations ended abruptly Thursday with a delayed vote on one vaccine, a vote against a vaccine ...

Vaccine Committee May Make Significant Changes to Childhood Schedule

Comments by President Trump, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and some panelists suggest the committee is likely to delay hepatitis B shots and discuss revising the use of other vaccines.