The panel that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will analyze the effects on children of the administration of all recommended vaccines and consider whether to change the current recommendations for Hepatitis B vaccines, the committee’s new chair said on June 25.
“The number of vaccines that our children and adolescents receive today exceed what children in most other developed nations receive and what most of us in this room received when we were children,” Martin Kulldorff, an epidemiologist formerly with Harvard Medical School who is now chairing the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), said during the panel’s meeting in Atlanta.
