An advisory panel appointed by the Trump administration's vaccine-skeptic health secretary voted Friday to stop recommending that all newborns in the United States receive a hepatitis B vaccine.

The move to end the three-decade-old recommendation is the panel's latest contentious decision overturning long-standing medical advice since its overhaul by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has spent decades spreading anti-vaccine rhetoric.

US health authorities previously recommended all babies receive the first of three hepatitis B shots just after birth, mainly to prevent infections from mothers who unknowingly had the liver disease or had falsely tested negative.

The approach has virtually eradicated hepatitis B infections among young people in the United States.

Hepatitis B is

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