CDC advisory panel delays vote on hepatitis B vaccines

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What to know about hepatitis B shot for infants ahead of CDC vaccine panel meeting
Dr. William Schaffner, a professor of preventive medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, told ABC News vaccination is important because if a pregnant person is hepatitis B-positive at the time of birth, the infant has an 85% chance of developing an infection.

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CDC advisers delay crucial vote on hepatitis B vaccination in sometimes-tense meeting
CDC advisory panel delays vote on hepatitis B vaccines after unruly meeting
Kennedy’s handpicked CDC advisers to weigh major change to childhood vaccine schedule
Vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may vote this week to make a major change to the childhood vaccine schedule, potentially delaying a dose of the hepatitis B vaccin...

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CDC poised to decide on hep B vaccine for newborns amid pressure from Trump officials
RFK Jr.'s vaccine advisory committee delays vote on hepatitis B shots for newborns
Kennedy advisers delay vote to drop hepatitis B vaccine recommendation, a major policy shift
If the recommendation for the hepatitis B vaccine is delayed past ages 2 or 3 months, pediatricians might avoid using those combination vaccines, Demetre Daskalakis, former director at the CDC's Natio...

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CDC vaccine panel delays hepatitis B vote amid chaotic meeting
US vaccine committee's hepatitis B changes would be most consequential yet

CDC's vaccine advisers are likely to make a controversial change to long-used vaccine

Advisers to the Centers for Disease Control Prevention will scrutinize the childhood vaccine schedule and may start to upend it.
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Health officials worried about the CDC changing vaccine recommendations

Public health officials across the country are worried about a possible change in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine recommendations. Health insurance providers could stop covering the cost of immunizations if that happens,
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'Winter Vomiting Disease' Is Spreading Rapidly in the US, CDC Data Shows

The name of the disease creeping across America is bad enough, but what makes the “winter vomiting disease” much like a malevolent holiday Grinch is that its numbers are creeping upwards. Officially,
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The CDC Is Ending Testing on Monkeys. Here’s What We Know.

Monkeys have been test subjects for infectious diseases for decades. However, that will soon come to an end, according to the CDC.

What will be the impacts of Dr. Ralph Abraham’s CDC new role?

BATON ROUGE, La. (KALB) - Louisiana’s first surgeon general, Dr. Ralph Abraham, will take on the new role of principal deputy director at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a move that may raise questions about vaccines around the nation and in the Pelican State.
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