The federal government is recommending flu vaccines remove the preservative thimerosal after Health and Human Services ...

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

The CDC says there is no evidence of harm from mercury-based thimerosal.

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

The US Department of Health and Human Services has adopted a recommendation to remove a preservative called thimerosal from all influenza vaccines distributed in the United States.

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

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The mercury-based preservative thimerosal will be removed from all flu shots distributed in United States, Health and Human Services Director Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said.

Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday accepted the recommendation to remove mercury-based preservative thimerosal from all influenza ...

Although it has been largely phased out of U.S. vaccines, thimerosal has long been targeted by anti-vaccine advocates.