CDC advisory panel delays vote on hepatitis B vaccines

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CDC advisers delay crucial vote on hepatitis B vaccination in sometimes-tense meeting
In a meeting punctuated by conflict and confusion, the independent vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday again delayed a vote that could dramatically change hepatitis B vaccination practice in the United States.

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CDC again delays vote on hepatitis vaccine recommendation
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An advisory panel for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will vote Dec. 5 whether to recommend that children should be vaccinated against the highly infectious hepatitis B virus at birth o...

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If the recommendation for the hepatitis B vaccine is delayed past ages 2 or 3 months, pediatricians might avoid using those combination vaccines, Demetre Daskalakis, former director at the CDC's Natio...

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