"A key Centers for Disease Control and Prevention panel voted Friday to abandon its longtime recommendation that every newborn get a dose of the vaccine for hepatitis B, a decision likely to impact residents in the Bay Area, where more than 100,000 people are living with the virus. Medical associations and doctors who are experts in the treatment of hepatitis B a preventable infection that can lead to chronic cases, liver cancer and liver disease condemned the decision by the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization"
"President Donald Trump's pick for U.S. Health Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is a skeptic of vaccines who said that the hepatitis B shot is a likely culprit of autism. Kennedy asserts that a link exists between childhood vaccination and autism, without evidence. Earlier this year, Kennedy fired the members of the CDC's vaccine advisory panel, and some of his replacements are similarly skeptical of vaccine safety but lack the qualifications to be considered experts in the medical community."
The CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted to recommend the hepatitis B birth dose only for babies whose mothers have hepatitis B, ending a universal newborn-dose policy. Medical associations and hepatitis B treatment experts condemned the decision. The hepatitis B vaccine requires three doses. The virus is most often transmitted from mother to child, and the CDC's 1990s universal newborn dose recommendation sharply reduced transmission and is credited with preventing millions of hospitalizations and deaths. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has promoted vaccine skepticism and removed prior CDC vaccine advisory panel members, raising concerns about replacements and potential declines in childhood vaccination rates.
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