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What Is Thimerosal? Why Most Vaccines Don’t Contain Mercury Anymore
Thimerosal, which contains an organic compound of mercury, has mostly been phased out as a preservative for vaccines. Here’s ...
What to Know About the Vaccine Preservative Thimerosal
It is rarely included in vaccines in the United States. The flu shot was the sole routinely recommended vaccine to include ...
Thimerosal: what is it and why won’t it be used in vaccines in the US anymore?
Nevertheless, concerns about vaccine hesitancy, rising autism diagnoses and fears of a potential link to childhood vaccines ...
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New-Look ACIP Votes No to Flu Vaccines With Thimerosal
The CDC's newly rebuilt Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) took aim Thursday at a mercury-based preservative ...
New CDC vaccine advisers endorse thimerosal-free flu vaccines, despite no evidence of harm from the preservative
A new slate of vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted Thursday to recommend that ...
Why is thimerosal back on the CDC's agenda when it's barely in flu shots anymore?
An influential panel of CDC advisers is slated to vote on a little-used preservative called thimerosal -- a move that has ...
Friday briefing: Supreme Court rulings; thimerosal; Ali Khamenei; Diddy trial; another heat wave; fireball video; and more
Other administration news: A Canadian man died in ICE custody. And Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. won his fight ...
CDC scientists push back on vaccine presentations expected to cast doubt on immunization safety
At the start of an unprecedented meeting of vaccine committee of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the ...