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For infants who do not receive the vaccine at birth, the first dose is recommended no earlier than two months of age.<br \/>The decision was approved despite strong objections from numerous medical and public health organizations, which warned that the universal birth dose has been a key component of a successful strategy that has nearly eliminated HBV transmission among children in the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)&#8217;s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) voted on Friday to end the long-standing recommendation that all newborns receive a Hepatitis B vaccine dose shortly after birth.The committee voted 8-3 in favor of removing the universal birth-dose recommendation for infants under two months old.Under the revised guidance, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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