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A panel of CDC vaccine advisors, handpicked by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., voted to stop recommending the hepatitis B vaccine to all newborns

Medical experts called it “devastating to children’s health”

President Donald Trump has called hepatitis B “sexually transmitted," but that is only one way the virus spreads; half of all children are infected at birth

A panel of U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) vaccine advisors recommended that newborns should no longer receive the hepatitis B vaccination at birth — a routine protective shot that has been administered for 30 years.

In an 8 to 3 decision on Friday, Dec. 5, the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommended that, for mothers who test negative for the disease,

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