{"id":334324,"date":"2025-12-08T06:10:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T06:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/334324\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T06:10:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T06:10:22","slug":"a-ticking-time-bomb-rfk-jrs-advisers-vote-to-end-routine-hep-b-vaccines-at-birth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/334324\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;A ticking time bomb&#8217;: RFK Jr&#8217;s advisers vote to end routine hep B vaccines at birth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A key US vaccine advisory committee has voted to overturn the 30-year-old recommendation that all babies receive the hepatitis B vaccine at birth, with doctors describing the decision as a \u201cticking time bomb\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>It was voted through 8-3 by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, whose members were hand-picked by US Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr after he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ausdoc.com.au\/news\/us-vaccine-advisor-speaks-to-ausdoc-after-being-sacked-by-a-rfk-jr-newspaper-column\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.ausdoc.com.au\/news\/us-vaccine-advisor-speaks-to-ausdoc-after-being-sacked-by-a-rfk-jr-newspaper-column\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">fired all 17 previous members<\/a> in June.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo you want to expose your child, your baby, to an intervention that could have some potential harms when the risk is so low?\u201d said committee member Professor Retsef Levi.<\/p>\n<p>A mathematician with a research interest in operations management, Professor Levi once called for an end to mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, claiming the evidence was \u201cmounting and indisputable that mRNA vaccines cause serious harm, including death, especially among young people\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\u00d7<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tSign in\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"d-none message adg-password-reset\">\n\t\t\t\tIf this is your first visit to the new AusDoc website, reset your password<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"adg-reset_password_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ausdoc.com.au\/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here.<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A key US vaccine advisory committee has voted to overturn the 30-year-old recommendation that all babies receive the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334325,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[64,63,3786,137,5560,48341,1731,68245,2166,186648,186649,115487,44,2041,48167,10839],"class_list":["post-334324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-government","tag-health","tag-health-policy","tag-hepatitis","tag-hepatology","tag-immunisation","tag-infectious-diseases","tag-infectious-diseases-immunisation","tag-medical-politics","tag-neonatal","tag-news","tag-north-america","tag-paediatrics","tag-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}