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"The committee advising the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on
vaccine policy voted on Dec. 5, 2025, to stop recommending that all newborns be
routinely vaccinated against the hepatitis B virus – undoing a 34-year
prevention strategy that has nearly eliminated early childhood hepatitis B
infections in the United States.
Before the U.S. began vaccinating all infants at birth with the hepatitis B
vaccine in 1991, around 18,000 children every year contracted the virus before
their 10th birthday – about half of them at birth. About 90% of that subset
developed a chronic infection.
In the U.S., 1 in 4 children chronically infected with hepatitis B will die
prematurely from cirrhosis or liver cancer.
Today, fewer than 1,000 American children or adolescents contract the virus
every year – a 95% drop. Fewer than 20 babies each year are reported infected
at birth.
I am a pediatrician and preventive medicine specialist who studies vaccine
delivery and policy. Vaccinating babies for hepatitis B at birth remains one of
the clearest, most evidence-based ways to keep American children free of this
lifelong, deadly infection."
Via Kenny Chaffin.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
