Dr. Sue Kressly
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first heard Dec 2025
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Thanks so much for having me.
So I want to start historically.
I mean, hepatitis B has been a problem in this country.
It's an infection that is often silent early.
And when young infants and children get hepatitis B, they can go on to have chronic hepatitis, that's chronic liver disease, can lead to liver failure, need a liver transplant, and can even end up with liver cancer.
And so since we've made the connection between infection with hepatitis B and all of these outcomes for children, science has really worked hard to figure out how do we protect every young infant and child from getting hepatitis B in the first place?
And that is through robust vaccination.
When I started
When I started in practice, hepatitis B was only recommended for what we considered high-risk individuals.
We now know that it is such a ubiquitous virus and it is so contagious that we can't use a risk strategy in order to protect our young children.
And so in...
we have moved to a universal strong recommendation saying that every infant should get the hepatitis B shot after birth before they go home from the hospital in order to make sure they have protection.
That whole scientific fact-based schedule
was questioned over the last two days by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, which is the committee that sets public health recommendations for our entire country.
Yeah, that is only part of the picture.
And quite frankly, remember, if you're having a baby, somebody had sex.
So that includes everybody who's ever had a baby, right?
But let's talk about the contagiousness of hepatitis B. It can live on surfaces.
It can be spread through touching from someone who's shedding the virus to someone else.
And it's more contagious than HIV.
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