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Hepatitis vaccines credited as life-saving for Alaska children may be upended

Posted 12/5/25

Western Alaska, where almost all the residents are Indigenous, used to have the world’s highest rate of childhood liver cancer caused by Hepatitis B. After decades of screenings and vaccinations, that problem has been eliminated; since 1995, only one person under the age of 30 has been diagnosed with hepatitis-caused cancer. Now the Trump administration […]

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