BOSTON —

Massachusetts lawmakers expressed outrage over the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention panel's controversial decision on Friday to end the longstanding recommendation that all U.S. babies get the hepatitis B vaccine on the day they're born.

"This is about the health and safety of our children," Gov. Maura Healey said. "This vote by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s handpicked advisers is dangerous and wrong."

For more than three decades, the federal government has advised all babies be vaccinated against the liver infection right after birth, and the shots are widely considered to be a public health success.

But Kennedy Jr.'s committee voted 8-3 Friday morning to recommend the birth dose only for babies whose mothers test positive for hepatitis

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