The CDC's vaccine advisory committee is set to meet Thursday and Friday to discuss the childhood vaccine schedule, adjuvants and contaminants, and the hepatitis B shot.

Vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may vote this week to make a major change to the childhood vaccine schedule, potentially delaying a dose of the hepatitis B vaccine given to newborns by weeks or even years.

Amid an outbreak of Marburg virus disease in Ethiopia, the CDC alerted U.S. doctors to be on the lookout for travel cases of the Ebola-like virus. Meanwhile, at least 39 infants have been hospitalized in the botulism outbreak linked to ByHeart's recalled infant formula, according to the FDA.

Monkeys have been test subjects for infectious diseases for decades. However, that will soon come to an end, according to the CDC.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued health warnings for India and Haiti after rabies cases were seen in travelers.

Public health experts warn delaying newborn hepatitis B shots could lead to preventable infections as a CDC advisory panel reconsiders long-standing vaccine guidelines.