CDC advisory panel, selected by RFK Jr., recommends thimerosal be dropped from flu vaccines
STAT
JUNE 26, 2025
A federal vaccine advisory panel, which health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently stacked with handpicked members , recommended on Thursday that Americans should not receive flu vaccines containing the preservative thimerosal. The votes — there were three related to the topic — reflected new members’ concerns about safety issues tied to the preservative, despite numerous studies conducted over the past quarter-century that have found no such issues.
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