Thimerosal is an ingredient that helps keep vaccines pathogen free. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

CDC advisory committee recommends thimerosal-free influenza vaccines for all adults and children, despite claims that the mercury-based preservative poses no health risks.

A new slate of vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted Thursday to recommend that Americans receive influenza vaccines that are free of thimerosal even though ...

Meanwhile, over 100,000 people have been hospitalized with the annual flu so far this season and at least 9.1 million have been infected, according to CDC data. CDC expects more than 200,000 ...

A newly posted agenda for next week’s meeting of the just-appointed group of outside vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention includes a discussion and vote on ...

In their first meeting, the recently remade Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted in favor of only recommending flu shots that don’t contain the mercury-based preservative thimerosal.

CDC vaccine panel recommends thimerosal-free flu vaccines for all ages. Read more here. ... The recommendation is that the flu vaccines be thimerosal free using single-dose vials.

The effective removal of thimerosal from influenza vaccines would have limited impact, but it illustrates how the anti-vaccine movement is achieving its goals.

Lyn Redwood, a nurse practitioner who once led anti-vaccine organizations, presented on thimerosal in flu vaccines Thursday at a meeting of the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.

According to the CDC's most updated information, about 94% of flu vaccines distributed in the U.S. this season are thimerosal free or completely preservative free.. The topic, added late to the ...