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The number of antigens children receive today is significantly lower than it was decades ago.
Their wordseven though there are more vaccines, the design and manufacture of vaccines are much more precise, such that the number of antigens children receive today by age 4 is at least 25-fold fewer than it was 30-40 years ago even as children receive vaccines against many more diseases.
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Delaying the hepatitis B birth dose will likely lead to more cases of hepatitis B and liver cancer.
Their wordsThe only likely effect of delaying the birth dose, as this administration has been trying to do, will be more cases of hepatitis B and, decades from now, more cases of liver cancer, the most deadly late complication of chronic hepatitis B infection.
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