{"id":40384,"date":"2026-02-15T06:04:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T06:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=40384"},"modified":"2026-02-15T06:04:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T06:04:33","slug":"who-flags-issues-with-us-vaccine-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=40384","title":{"rendered":"WHO flags issues with US vaccine trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The World Health Organization on Friday voiced serious concerns over a planned US-funded hepatitis B vaccine trial on newborn babies in junta-run Guinea-Bissau, questioning it on scientific and ethical grounds.<\/p>\n<p>The WHO insisted in a statement that the existing hepatitis B birth dose vaccine was an &#8220;effective and essential&#8221; public health intervention, with a proven record.<\/p>\n<p>The agency&#8217;s latest statement comes two months after an advisory pan-el \u2014\u00a0appointed by US health chief Robert F Kennedy Jr \u2014\u00a0voted to stop recommending that all newborns in the United States receive a hepatitis B vaccine. Kennedy has long been a vocal sceptic of vaccines, and his department says the Guinea-Bissau study seeks to &#8220;answer questions about the broader health effects&#8221; of the vaccine and &#8220;fill existing evidence gaps&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The US move to end the decades-old recommendation is the panel&#8217;s latest contentious about-face concerning vaccines. Defending the existing vaccine, the WHO said Friday: &#8220;It prevents life-threatening liver disease by stopping mother-to-child transmission at birth.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Health Organization on Friday voiced serious concerns over a planned US-funded hepatitis B vaccine trial on newborn babies in junta-run Guinea-Bissau, questioning it on scientific and ethical grounds. The WHO insisted in a statement that the existing hepatitis B birth dose vaccine was an &#8220;effective and essential&#8221; public health intervention, with a proven [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}