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

- Link: https://www.widthness.com/vaccine-committee-votes-to-scrap-universal-hepatitis-b-shots-for-newborns-despite-outcry-from-childrens-health-experts/
- Published: 2025-12-06T09:45:00-06:00
- Author: Curated by Theresa Wysocki

Photo credit: Jimmy Conover via Unsplash. Article by David Higgins. The Conversation – December 5, 2025. 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 in 1991, around 18,000 children every year contracted the virus before their 10th birthday – about half of them at birth. About 90% of that subset developed a chronic infection. […] Click here to view original web page at www.news.theconversation.com