Why Are Infants Vaccinated Against Hepatitis B?

The anti-vaccine activists promoters of infectious disease condemn the use of hepatitis B vaccine in infancy (J.B. Handley, David Kirby, Vaccine Liberation, Think Twice, Sherri Nakken's Vaccine Network, NCCN.net, whale.to) They are all...misinformed.

Joseph Albietz has written an elegant post on the need for neonatal Hepatitis B vaccination, in lay language.

To put this in perspective, the mortality from [Hepatitis B] HBV in the US was 5 times higher than Heamophilus influenza type B and 10 times greater than measles before vaccination was introduced.

I strongly recommend Why Universal Hepatitis B Vaccination Isn’t Quite Universal to expectant parents who may have concerns about vaccination.