NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — A federal vaccine advisory committee has ended a long-standing recommendation that babies in the United States should receive the Hepatitis B vaccine when they’re born.
According to the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, babies born to mothers with Hepatitis B or to mothers who have not been tested should receive the vaccine at birth. Instead, they recommend that a baby start receiving immunizations at two months old.
Dr. William Schaffner is a leading vaccine expert and professor at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. At one time, he was a part of the same committee that made this new recommendation…