Dr. Sue Kressly

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The MeidasTouch Podcast · Meidas Health: AAP President Strongly Pushes Back on Hepatitis B Vaccine Changes · 8 Dec 2025 podcast

The other problem with hepatitis B is in adults, at least half of the people in this country who have hepatitis B don't know they have it.

So they are unknowingly leaving hepatitis B germs places that can put other people at risk.

And so that includes, and I've seen this personally, there was a child in my practice who got hepatitis B in the first several weeks of life.

And everybody tried to figure out where did this child get hepatitis B?

Well, it was a grandparent that didn't know that they had hepatitis B and was helping to care for the child.

And so hepatitis B is out there.

You can't see it.

Many people who shed the virus don't know that they do.

And so when we get to these places where we can't tell 100% who's at risk, the right answer is to protect everyone.

Yeah, so let's just say that there is always a conversation before we immunize children.

This is not something we do without talking to parents, answering their questions, and obtaining their consent.

So this conversation, and there's been a lot of talk about that over the last couple of days, is part of normal medical care for those of us who are caring for children and realize that we need to have that conversation with the family, with the parents.

The problem with testing, testing mothers is absolutely universally recommended.

There are mothers who somehow slip to the cracks and don't get tested.

There are mothers who get tested and their test results are lost and can't be found.

There are mothers who get tested early in pregnancy and they're negative.

but then they have more months of pregnancy and they may become infected after they were tested.

And so there is no just-in-time testing as you are laboring and delivering to check if you have hepatitis B at the time of delivery.

It's done earlier in pregnancy.

And so there is a window that someone may get infected.

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