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An influential panel of U.S. vaccine advisers voted to revoke a longstanding recommendation that all babies receive hepatitis B shots within 24 hours of birth, a move expected to reverse the country’s progress toward eliminating the disease.

The decision is the most consequential action taken by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices since the group was recast under U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. earlier this year.

The vote allows parents to delay the shot for at least two months if the mother tests negative for the virus. The panel also said parents and health-care providers

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