{"id":6955,"date":"2025-09-18T23:02:22","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T23:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/18\/cdc-acip-vaccine-panel-hepatitis-b-vaccine-schedule\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T23:02:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T23:02:22","slug":"cdc-acip-vaccine-panel-hepatitis-b-vaccine-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/18\/cdc-acip-vaccine-panel-hepatitis-b-vaccine-schedule\/","title":{"rendered":"Key federal vaccine panel debates delay to newborn hepatitis B shot, risking resurgence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Key federal vaccine panel debates delay to newborn hepatitis B shot, risking resurgence<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A key government advisory committee<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/09\/18\/cdc-acip-vaccine-meeting-martin-kulldorff-debate-challenge\/\"> discussed on Thursday<\/a> whether to recommend delaying the first hepatitis B vaccine shot, currently given at birth, by at least one month for babies who are born to mothers that test negative for the virus. Experts fear such a change could set back <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/09\/03\/childhood-vaccine-schedule-at-risk-rfk-cdc-turmoil\/?utm_campaign=twitter_organic&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social\">decades of public health work<\/a> that has almost eliminated infant hepatitis B cases in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>The members of the Advisory Committee on Immunizations Practices pushed a vote on the issue to Friday. Experts fear that if ACIP does shift the initial shot, more children will develop chronic liver infections and complications.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/09\/18\/cdc-acip-vaccine-panel-hepatitis-b-vaccine-schedule\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Read the rest\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Anil Oza, Elaine Chen, and Chelsea Cirruzzo<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/09\/18\/cdc-acip-vaccine-panel-hepatitis-b-vaccine-schedule\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Go to statnews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key federal vaccine panel debates delay to newborn hepatitis B shot, risking resurgence A key government advisory committee discussed on Thursday whether to recommend delaying the first hepatitis B vaccine shot, currently given at birth, by at least one month for babies who are born to mothers that test negative for the virus. Experts fear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2194,2154,2145,1428,2179,2176,2155,2151,2144,2180,2195],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-6955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech","category-biotechnology","category-cdc","category-health","category-infectious-disease","category-pharma","category-pharmaceuticals","category-policy","category-politics","category-public-health","category-vaccines","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6955"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}