[Editorial] ACIP's HBV birth-dose vaccine recommendations: a fiasco

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), a panel that advises the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on national vaccine policy, voted on Dec 5, 2025, to abandon recommendations for universal hepatitis B vaccination in newborns, revoking guidance that had seen the number of childhood cases of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection in the USA fall by 99% since being adopted in 1991.