CDC advisers vote to overturn decades-long policy on hepatitis B vaccine for infants ^63.5%

NPR - By Pien Huang, Rob Stein, Carmel Wroth - 12/5/2025, 4:20 PM

In a historic vote, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's vaccine advisers recommended narrowing the agency's hepatitis B immunization guidance for newborns. The result, if approved by the CDC's acting director, will be a rollback of a universal recommendation to start hepatitis B immunization at birth, a standard practice in... more