The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) has voted to recommend the first hepatitis B vaccine should be delayed until two months of age for infants born to mothers who test negative for the virus. Infants born to mothers who test positive for hepatitis B or whose status is unknown will still receive the birth dose. Additionally, ACIP voted that subsequent vaccine doses should be evaluated after anti-HBs serology testing, moving away from a recommendation for the full three-dose series.

If approved by CDC Acting Director Jim O’Neil, ACIP’s recommendation would overturn the decades-old universal hepatitis B birth dose. 

Take action now and tell Secretary Kennedy, Acting Director O'Neil and Congress the universal hepatitis B birth dose must be maintained. 

Reversing the current universal birth dose recommendation runs counter to scientific evidence and places newborns at serious risk of chronic hepatitis B infection and liver cancer.

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