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Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital contacting 282 parents over ineffective hepatitis B vaccination

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Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital is contacting more than 280 mothers who recently delivered babies at the hospital, after it was discovered some infants were given ineffective hepatitis B vaccinations.

The hospital has contacted mothers who gave birth at the hospital between November 29 2016 and January 22 this year, after a batch of hepatitis B vaccinations were not stored at the correct temperature- making the vaccine ineffective.

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Six infants have been ordered back to the hospital to receive new doses of the vaccine, while 282 other mothers who gave birth at Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital have been contacted to have their children vaccinated again.

The hospital has assured parents the vaccine was not harmful.


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