FILE PHOTO: A view shows MMR vaccine at the City of Lubbock Health Department in Lubbock, Texas, U.S. February 27, 2025. REUTERS/Annie Rice/File Photo

(Reuters) -A panel of U.S. vaccine advisers appointed by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Thursday voted to remove the U.S. CDC's recommendations that allow for the use of a combined measles-mumps-rubella-varicella vaccine in children under 4 years of age.

The panel voted 8 to 3 against use of the combined shot, and recommended that children in this age group receive the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine, and a separate varicella vaccine.

(Reporting by Mariam Sunny in Bengaluru; Editing by Richard Chang and Leslie Adler)