{"id":8878,"date":"2025-12-05T23:03:30","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T23:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/05\/cdc-hepatitis-b-vaccination-acip-panel-overturns-30-year-policy\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T23:03:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T23:03:30","slug":"cdc-hepatitis-b-vaccination-acip-panel-overturns-30-year-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/05\/cdc-hepatitis-b-vaccination-acip-panel-overturns-30-year-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"CDC panel recommends delaying birth dose of hepatitis B vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"

CDC panel recommends delaying birth dose of hepatitis B vaccine
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A panel that advises on U.S. vaccine policy voted on Friday to recommend a delay in when most babies begin to be vaccinated against hepatitis B, overturning a 30-year-old policy that has contributed to a massive decline in cases of the virus<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted 8-3 to recommend the change, following more than a day of contentious discussion<\/a>. The new recommendation is that parents should discuss with their doctors whether to give the hepatitis B vaccine at birth, or at all, and that those who choose to do so should wait to begin the vaccine series until their baby is at least 2 months old.<\/p>\n

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CDC panel recommends delaying birth dose of hepatitis B vaccine A panel that advises on U.S. vaccine policy voted on Friday to recommend a delay in when most babies begin to be vaccinated against hepatitis B, overturning a 30-year-old policy that has contributed to a massive decline in cases of the virus. The Advisory Committee […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2154,2216,2159,2145,2433,1428,2179,2176,2155,2144,2180,2149,2195],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-8878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotechnology","category-breaking-news","category-cancer","category-cdc","category-childrens-health","category-health","category-infectious-disease","category-pharma","category-pharmaceuticals","category-politics","category-public-health","category-rfk-jr","category-vaccines","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8878"}],"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=8878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}