Protecting newborns from hepatitis B

Protecting newborns from hepatitis B

Published: December 5, 2025

Duration: 5:40

Medical experts are urging continued hepatitis B vaccine birth doses for newborns. This recommendation is based on decades of data showing that policies put in place for hepatitis B vaccines that have long been the status quo are estimated to have prevented one million hospitalizations and 90,000 deaths. Read the full article.


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