Doctors reject the hepatitis b jab

01 October 1993

Speaking of limited vaccines, American doctors do not support the government recommendations to add the hepatitis B vaccine to the growing list of vaccines given to infants.

In a recent survey in North Carolina, only a third of pediatricians and a fifth of family physicians supported the new guidelines.No one knows if the vaccine given to infants to protect them from the sexually transmitted disease in adolescence will last that long.

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