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Feeling cute today. Might go doom a bunch of babies to chronic hepatitis later on
What could possibly go wrong??
The change upends decades of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance and goes against widespread public health consensus.
The change upends decades of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance and goes against widespread public health consensus.
Dec. 5, 2025, 7:18 AM MST / Updated Dec. 5, 2025, 8:45 AM MST
By Aria Bendix and Erika Edwards
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisory panel on Friday rolled back a decadeslong recommendation that all newborns get a first dose of the hepatitis B vaccine within 24 hours of birth.
The vote came after a day and a half of heated debate and confusion that included misinterpreted data and pleas from public health experts to uphold recommendations for the vaccine that protects against an incurable infection.
$1.6m project drew outrage over ethical questions about withholding vaccines proven to prevent disease
Reblogs turned off but I want to share the update on this
From the article:
"“It’s of importance for Africa CDC to have evidence that can be translated in policy, but this has to be done within the norm. So we are glad that at this point the study is being cancelled,” Boum said. The study was halted because it raised critical questions on the ethics of the trial, he said, adding: “The way the study was designed was a big challenge.”
Officials in Guinea-Bissau say the trial will still happen, according to one journalist on the press call. But Africa CDC officials said the trial would only move forward once it has been redesigned to address ethical issues. There were “still some conversations happening” between Guinea-Bissau officials and the US on how to conduct a trial like this ethically, and Africa CDC, which is not affiliated with the HHS, had assembled a team to make sure Guinea-Bissau officials “receive the adequate support to ensure that this study, if it has to happen, will also fit the ethical regulations”, Boum said."
So its been. Cancelled* and theyre supposedly "tweaking" it. I hope they continue to be frustrated in their attempts to deprive babies of valuable medical care that drastically improves their lives and health with little downsides.
hey so all due respect — which in this instance is absolutely fucking none — why the fuck did you think it appropriate to tag a post about yet another nakedly racist and eugenicist attempt by the imperial American core to circumvent biomedical ethics and experiment on African people with “my blorbo”
Hepatitis B vaccines given at birth have essentially eliminated the disease in kids. A vote this week could upend that success.
Erika Edwards at NBC News:
A group of advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is preparing to vote on whether the agency should scrap its long-standing recommendation that every baby get a hepatitis B vaccination within 24 hours of birth. The shot — universally recommended for newborns in the U.S since the early 1990s — is credited with driving down cases of acute hepatitis B infections in kids by 99%. The virus, which can be passed from mother to baby during childbirth, can lead to liver disease and early death. There is no cure. Despite its success, the hepatitis B vaccine has become the latest target of skeptics who question whether the benefits of the shot outweigh potential risks.
A vaccine given on “day one has a risk of neonatal fever, which causes more interventions” like blood work to determine the cause of the fever, said Dr. Kirk Milhoan, a pediatric cardiologist who practices at Driscoll Children’s Hospital in Corpus Christi, Texas.
Milhoan has been a member of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) since June, when Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired all of its members, replacing them with his own appointees. On Monday, Milhoan was named the new ACIP chair, replacing Martin Kuldorff, a biostatistician who previously cast doubt on childhood vaccines, including the one for hepatitis B.
Dr. Sean O’Leary, a pediatric infectious disease expert and spokesman for the American Academy of Pediatrics, said he has never seen a serious reaction after “thousands of babies” have been given the hepatitis B vaccine. “I never once saw a fever actually associated with hepatitis B vaccine,” O’Leary said at a media briefing Tuesday. And a review of more than 400 studies found no evidence that the birth dose of the vaccines causes any short- or long-term health problems. On the contrary, the review of research, published Tuesday by the Vaccine Integrity Project, an independent group of experts led by the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, found that giving newborns the hepatitis B vaccine has prevented more than 6 million infections and nearly 1 million hospitalizations. The paper was not published in a peer-reviewed journal, but was reviewed by major medical societies.
ACIP is scheduled to meet Thursday and Friday. The committee makes recommendations to the CDC director, who can then choose whether to adopt them. While a vote against newborn vaccination does not prohibit doctors from administering the shot, the panel’s recommendations influence insurance coverage. It’s unclear whether the ACIP members would vote to eliminate or delay that first dose of a hepatitis B vaccine by a month or two. The agenda posted online as of Tuesday described the meeting in broad strokes, offering no details about who would be presenting data. A vote on the vaccine was supposed to take place at an ACIP meeting in September, but it was tabled because of confusion among committee members.
Hepatitis B can spread through sexual contact and sharing drug paraphernalia, such as needles. It can also pass from person to person if they share common household items such as toothbrushes or razors.
Milhoan said any decision to give newborns hepatitis B vaccines should be made based on clinicians’ individual assessments of the babies’ risk for infection — that is, whether a pregnant woman tests positive for the infection or has a “questionable infectious disease background.” At September’s ACIP meeting, the panel voted unanimously to recommend testing all pregnant women for hepatitis B. But not all pregnant women receive prenatal care, and if they do, not all feel comfortable speaking frankly with their doctors.
This is pure insanity for the CDC advisory panel to even consider.
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