Health written question – answered at on 18 April 2006.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will introduce a universal vaccine for babies against chronic hepatitis B.
Hepatitis B vaccine is not currently recommended for universal childhood immunisation in the United Kingdom. This is because the UK is a low incidence country for hepatitis B and has one of the lowest level of chronic hepatitis B infection in the world. The UK hepatitis B vaccination programme is under ongoing review by the joint committee on vaccination and immunisation.
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