When to Get Hepatitis B Shots

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CDC panel postpones vote on hepatitis B vaccine for newborns

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's vaccine advisory panel met Thursday for the first of two days of discussions about childhood vaccine schedules and recommendations. The panel is focusing on the hepatitis B vaccine and now plans to vote Friday on whether to continue recommending it be given to all children at birth or delay the first dose.

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What to know about the hepatitis B shot for infants ahead of CDC vaccine panel meeting

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RFK Jr.'s vaccine panel delays hepatitis B shot vote after chaotic meeting

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

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CDC panel postpones vote on hepatitis vaccine changes

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Hepatitis B infant shot: Health experts concerned over potential changes in vaccine panel's guidance

At least 1,400 children each year could get a hepatitis B infection if the initial jab given to infants at birth was delayed by two months, according to an analysis done by researchers and public heal...

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CDC vaccine panel delays hepatitis B vote amid chaotic meeting

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What is hepatitis B? RFK Jr.'s vaccine panel revisits newborn vaccine

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Kennedy's vaccine advisers to weigh hepatitis B vaccine timing in consequential policy change

A group of vaccine advisers to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will consider on Thursday whether to delay hepatitis B shots for the vast majority of American children in what would be the most significant change yet to U.

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What to know about the hepatitis B shot — and why Trump officials are targeting it

Dr. Baruch Blumberg, a federal scientist, identified the virus behind the infection in 1965. He won the Nobel Prize for the discovery, which led to tests and vaccines. The first hepatitis B vaccine was licensed in the U.S. in 1981.