U.S. vaccine panel chair questions polio recommendation for children

By Leah Douglas
WASHINGTON, Jan 23 (Reuters) - The chair of a U.S. government vaccine advisory panel questioned broad vaccine recommendations for polio and other childhood diseases and said promoting individual choice, not public health, is the key aim of the panel, drawing a rebuke ‌on Friday from the nation's top doctors group.
Kirk Milhoan, a pediatric cardiologist who was named chair of the Centers for Disease ‌Control and Prevention's outside Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices in December, made the comment