Centers for Disease Control & Prevention Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices issued updated guidelines for vaccination against the disease of hepatitis B virus. The agency has supplemented the new guid
Further, these recommendations are intended for those who have not completed an HBV vaccine series or who have a history of infection. In the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), the CDC noted that this decision is based on 4 decades of safety, immunogenicity, and efficacy ...
making it the first shot most babies receive before leaving the hospital. That said, many adults born before the 1991 hepatitis B vaccine recommendation are living unprotected against the hepatitis B virus.[3]
A majority of the agency's COVID-19 vaccine work group now backs narrower "risk-based" recommendations.
3.Hepatitis B Vaccine Administration 2024https://www.cdc.gov/hepatitis-b/hcp/vaccine-administration/ 4.Screening and Testing for Hepatitis B Virus Infection: CDC Recommendations — United States, 2023https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/...
1. Adult Immunization Schedule by Age, Recommendations for Ages 19 Years or Older, United States, 2025 https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/imz-schedules/adult-age.html 2. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Hepatit...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently published new recommendations on screening for hepatitis B infection.1They recommend screening all adults (ages 18 years and older) at least once. These recommendations differ in a few ways from those of the US Pre...
CDC updates RSV vaccine recommendations for ages 60 and older The updated recommendations reflect a June 2024 vote from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. On August 6, 2024, the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated itsrecommendations for resp...
In addition, health care and public safety workers at risk for blood exposure; adults with chronic liver disease, end-stage renal disease, or human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection; travelers to HBV-endemic regions; and adults seeking protection from HBV infection should also get the vaccine...
As of April, more than three-quarters of the working group on the Covid-19 vaccine recommendations for this coming fall and winter favored risk-based recommendations, though they don’t plan to formally vote on the policy change until the next meeting, which is scheduled for June....