Hepatitis B can cause lifelong chronic injury and complications that can lead to death among those infected as infants.

By Donald Eng, CTNewsJunkie.com 

Connecticut Senate Democrats on Friday criticized a decision by an advisory committee of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to end a 34-year-old universal vaccination recommendation for hepatitis B and replace it with a recommendation to vaccinate newborns only if the mother tests positive or has not been tested for the virus.

In a joint statement, Democratic state Senate President Martin Looney of New Haven, Majority Leader Bob Duff of Norwalk, and state Sen. Saud Anwar of South Windsor — a medical doctor and Senate chair of the Public Health Committee — called the new guidelines “outlandish and disturbing” and said the act made future decisions from the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) all but impossible to trust.

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