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From the CDC website, they list the ways of transmission as "Hepatitis B is spread when blood, semen, or other body fluids from a person infected with the virus enters the body of someone who is not infected. This can happen through sexual contact; sharing needles, syringes, or other drug-injection equipment; or from mother to baby at birth." https://www.cdc.gov/hepatitis/hbv/index.htm
From CDC website, https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/parents/by-age/newborn-birth.html All babies should get the first shot of hepatitis B vaccine within first 12 hours after birth.
I don't think all babies need to get a Hep B vaccination because a relatively few mothers have been infected with Hep B virus. The CDC started the recommendation in 1991. "Hepatitis B vaccine was first recommended for administration to all infants in 1991 by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) as the primary focus of a strategy to eliminate hepatitis B virus (HBV) transmission in the United States (1)"
I'm glad I was born before 1991.