The CDC's vaccine advisory panel is scheduled to meet on Thursday and Friday to discuss the long-used hepatitis B vaccine for newborns and other vaccines. Photo by Yuri Gripas/UPI | License Photo
Sept. 18 (UPI) -- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's vaccine advisory panel voted to advise against using a combined measles, mumps, rubella and varicella vaccine for young children.
Members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted 8-3 to alter the CDC's current recommendation that allows the use of the combined MMRV vaccine younger than age 4, according to NPR.
The varicella vaccine protects against the varicella-zoster virus that causes chickenpox and shingles.
About 85% of U.S. children receive a vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella and another one for chickenpox, but the CDC allows parents to opt for a single combined vaccine for all four.
