What is thimerosal, does it have side effects and why is RFK Jr. removing the controversial preservative from the flu shot?

The Department of Health and Human Services moved to eliminate thimerosal from flu shots in a victory for antivaccine ...

Federal guidelines no longer recommend flu vaccines containing a preservative, used in a small percentage of vaccines, that ...

The decision follows last month’s vote of the CDC’s revamped vaccine advisory committee. Thimerosal, mostly removed from ...

Banning vaccine ingredients without cause increases the perceived risk of vaccines,” one prominent health group said.

Thimerosal is an ingredient that helps keep vaccines pathogen free. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a noted vaccine skeptic, has falsely stated the ingredient is a ...

Doctors and infectious disease experts stress that flu vaccines are safe, and they are especially important for older adults ...

The United States will stop distributing all influenza vaccines that contain mercury-based preservative thimerosal, marking ...

RFK Jr.’s vaccine-safety investigator has previously used government vaccine data to publish research with glaring flaws.

THIMEROSAL AND AUTISM….Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and thousands of distraught parents to the contrary, the evidence linking thimerosal to autism has never been very strong. Thimerosal is a mercury ...

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has approved a major Centers for Disease Control & Prevention ...

Thimerosal was ordered removed from most childhood vaccines in 1999, and by the early 2000s children had stopped receiving virtually all thimerosal-based vaccines. If autism rates then decreased ...