** Shares of vaccine makers fall after President Donald Trump's pick for U.S. health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., moved closer to the job following a favorable vote by a U.S. Senate panel
** Kennedy, who founded the anti-vaccine group Children's Health Defense, has long sown doubts about the safety and efficacy of vaccines
** Shares of Pfizer PFE.N fall 1.5%, Moderna MRNA.O fall 4.2%, U.S.-listed shares of BioNTech 22UAy.DE down 2.5% and Novavax NVAX.O down 2.3%
** Earlier on Tuesday, Pfizer shares were up 2% in pre-market trading on better-than-expected quarterly results
** Up to the last close, PFE down 2.7%, MRNA down 62.5% in the last 12 months
(Reporting by Christy Santhosh)
((Christy.Santhosh@thomsonreuters.com))
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