{"id":10316,"date":"2025-09-17T11:11:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T16:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=10316"},"modified":"2025-09-17T11:11:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T16:11:11","slug":"kennedys-vaccine-panel-expected-to-recommend-delaying-hepatitis-b-shot-in-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/09\/17\/kennedys-vaccine-panel-expected-to-recommend-delaying-hepatitis-b-shot-in-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Kennedy&#8217;s vaccine panel expected to recommend delaying hepatitis B shot in children"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/shots-health-news\/2025\/09\/16\/nx-s1-5542405\/rfk-jr-acip-vaccine-advisory-panel-vote-delay-hepatitis-b-shot-in-infants\">NPR<\/a> 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&#8217;s currently given to newborns, according to two former senior officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Triatomine bugs \u2014 kissing bugs \u2014 are bloodsucking insects that tend to bite people\u2019s faces, hence their macabre nickname. About\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kissingbug.tamu.edu\/faq\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"half, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">half<\/a>\u00a0carry 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.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s currently given to newborns, according to two former senior officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Triatomine bugs \u2014 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-policy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10317,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10316\/revisions\/10317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}