"This is a very clear effort to shine a light on this anti-vaccine trope: that thimerosal is somehow dangerous.” ...

And this time, it’s not just fringe actors fanning the flames. It’s policymakers. It’s media personalities. It’s individuals ...

Thimerosal has been at the heart of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s antivaccine activism for 20 ...

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Hear what ACSH's Dr. Josh Bloom, Dr. Chuck Dinerstein and Dr. Henry Miller have to say about the falsehoods of thimerosal claims in regards to vaccine safety, and perhaps the unintended consequences ...

The preservative is in only a small fraction of influenza vaccine vials, specifically the multi-dose vials that constitute a ...

RFK Jr. has long linked thimerosal to autism – a connection that extensive scientific research has thoroughly debunked.

A CDC advisory panel voted 5–1 to recommend only flu vaccines without the preservative thimerosal, a mercury-containing ...

The mercury-based preservative has come under fire from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices and health secretary ...

That whole meeting was a travesty,” says Fiona Havers, a physician and epidemiologist. After the ACIP firings, Havers ...

Thimerosal has long been considered safe by health agencies worldwide, with its use already limited to a few multi-dose flu ...