Kennedy’s vaccine panel expected to recommend delaying hepatitis B shot in children

NPR A key federal vaccine advisory panel whose members were recently replaced by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is expected to vote to recommend delaying, until age 4, the hepatitis B vaccine that’s currently given to newborns, according to two former senior officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Triatomine bugs — kissing bugs — are bloodsucking insects that tend to bite people’s faces, hence their macabre nickname. About half carry a parasite that causes Chagas disease, which is passed when the insects defecate. Scratching the bite or rubbing your eyes can push the infected fecal material inside your body.