The hepatitis B vaccine has been recommended for all infants and young children since 1991.

The panel will meet this week and could limit access to measles, Hep B, COVID vaccines.

Rates of the disease have fallen since 1991, when a vaccine committee recommended all newborns receive the shot.

Committee members, some of whom are vaccine skeptics, are likely to recommend restricting the use of the shots at birth or delaying them until later in childhood.

The committee is meeting this week to review guidance on shots for hepatitis B, measles-mumps-rubella-varicella and COVID-19.

The CDC's vaccine advisory panel is scheduled to meet Thursday and Friday to discuss the long-used hepatitis B vaccine for newborns and other vaccines.

The hepatitis B vaccine has been recommended for all infants and young children since 1991.

Decision by US advisory committee on immunisation criticised as ‘strategy to scare parents’

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s vaccine panel voted to maintain current guidance on a vaccine that has been recommended for children for decades.

Committee cited inconsistency in proposed policy changes and it is not clear how they will proceed on the issue

The group also voted to emphasize that the Covid vaccine is beneficial for those at high risk of severe illness from the disease.

The panel has also changed the recommendation for the MMRV vaccine and delayed a vote on the hepatitis B jab.