The committee that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may advise the agency to change the current recommendation that all infants receive a dose of the hepatitis B vaccine shortly after birth, according to a document released on Sept. 18.
Advisers at the end of a 7.5 hour meeting on Thursday will vote on whether the childhood immunization schedule should be updated to state that for children born to mothers who test negative for the illness, the vaccine “is not given until the child is at least one month old,” the document shows.
It had been known that the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices would vote on hepatitis B vaccination, but the language of the vote had not been disclosed….