By Michael Erman, Julie Steenhuysen and Mariam Sunny, Reuters
Photo: Jim Watson / AFP
A group of vaccine advisers have scrapped a long-standing recommendation that all US children receive the hepatitis B shot at birth, a major policy win for health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr that disease experts say will reverse decades of public health gains.
The committee voted to keep the birth dose only for infants whose mothers test positive for the virus, replacing the 1991 universal recommendation that has protected all children from hepatiti
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