Working at a tribal hospital in Anchorage, Alaska, liver specialist Brian McMahon has witnessed the devastating effects of hepatitis B, particularly in children, before the vaccine’s introduction in the 1980s. Thanks to vaccination efforts, cases have drastically decreased, with no liver cancer in children since 1995. However, a CDC advisory panel, influenced by misinformation from figures like Robert F. Kennedy Jr., may reconsider the birth dose recommendation, potentially undermining these public health gains. McMahon warns that this could sow distrust in vaccination, jeopardizing the protection against a highly infectious virus.
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