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A CDC panel met Thursday to debate changing the recommended birth dose of the hepatitis B vaccine.

Public insurance programs could no longer be required to cover the vaccine, putting a birth dose out of reach for millions of families.

The disease is typically transmitted from mothers or caregivers to infants, leading to liver cancer or cirrhosis later in life.

A vaccine advisory panel for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was poised to vote Friday on whether to scrap the recommended birth dose of the hepatitis B vaccine, a move that would be the body’s most controversial decision since it was overhauled by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr in

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