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

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 ...

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.

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.

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.