Vaccine committee votes to scrap universal hepatitis B shots for newborns despite outcry from children’s health experts

By: David Higgins, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, The Conversation

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Published: December 5, 2025

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By David Higgins, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

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 …

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