An advisory panel on vaccines handpicked by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Friday voted to drop the decades-old federal recommendation that all infants receive the hepatitis B vaccine at birth.

Experts warn the decision could confuse doctors, burden families, and revive preventable infections as the committee reopens the entire childhood vaccine schedule.

Pediatricians in Washington are urging hepatitis B vaccinations after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted to change its recommendation.

Vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may vote this week to make a major change to the childhood vaccine schedule, potentially delaying a dose of the hepatitis B vaccine given to newborns by weeks or even years.

The CDC has removed the functionality of the search tool for the Vaccines.gov website and practically all the information on vaccines that used to be there.

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