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CDC Vaccine Panel Scraps Guidance for Universal Hepatitis B Shots at Birth


New guidance from the CDC’s vaccine advisory panel would do away with a decades-old universal birth dose recommendation for hepatitis B that helped cut infections by 99 percent in the U.S.

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