The seven members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, whom Kennedy hired two weeks ago after firing the original members of the board, voted on Thursday to recommend that children, adults, and pregnant women no longer receive multi-dose influenza vaccines that contain thimerosal.
Anti-vaccine groups have advocated for the removal of thimerosal from vaccines for decades, on the unsupported claim that thimerosal is linked to autism. But multi-dose influenza vaccines are the only vaccines on the market in the United States that still use trace amounts of thimerosal as a preservative.
All other thimerosal-containing vaccines were removed from the U.S. market in 1999, when the CDC and the American Academy of Pediatrics agreed to remove thimerosal from children’s vaccines as a “precautionary measure” following
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