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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisory panel is holding two days of meetings about childhood vaccine schedules, and plans to vote Friday on whether to continue recommending the hepatitis B vaccine be given to all children at birth or change its guidance to delay the first dose.

That vote was postponed from Thursday until Friday amid confusion on the exact wording of the questions the committee was set to vote on.

The hepatitis B vaccine has been universally recommended for newborns in the U.S. since 1991. Since then, research shows hepatitis B infections among infants and children have dropped 99%.

Hepatitis B is an incurable infection that can lead to liver disease, cancer and early death.

The shot has become a target of vaccine skeptic

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