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Universal Infant Vaccine Birth Dose Saves Thousands of Lives:

A response from the Hepatitis B Foundation

The Hepatitis B Foundation is gravely concerned that efforts to revisit and review the longstanding ACIP recommendation for all U.S. infants to receive the hepatitis B vaccine within 24 hours of birth could lead to its eventual elimination.

This change to the “birth dose” recommendation marks a dangerous departure from evidence-based public health policy and places newborns at unacceptable risk for chronic infection and liver cancer.

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