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CDC advisory committee recommends thimerosal-free influenza vaccines for all adults and children, despite claims that the mercury-based preservative poses no health risks.

A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advisory panel, recently restructured by Health and Human Services Secretary ...

ATLANTA (AP) — U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s new vaccine advisory committee backed another option to protect ...

The panel recommends that most Americans get the vaccine, but it can not contain Thimerosal. Melania Trump's visa questioned in congressional hearing Peta claims Prince William and Kate are ...

The vaccine panel hand-selected by health secretary and anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Thursday voted ...

The newly appointed vaccine advisory panel for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) met Wednesday for the first time to review upcoming immunization recommendations.

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

Havers had led the CDC's Respiratory Virus Hospitalization Surveillance Network, or RESP-NET, that collects and studies trends in hospitalizations from COVID-19, RSV and influenza.

CDC virus expert resigns after RFK Jr.’s purge of vaccine advisers Fiona Havers, who oversaw CDC respiratory virus data, told colleagues she no longer had confidence the data would be used ...

Dr. Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos, one of the CDC officials overseeing the work group on COVID-19 vaccines, resigned last week after Kennedy ordered edits to the CDC's recommendations to exclude ...

Children as young as 6-months-old may still receive COVID-19 vaccines, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) advised Thursday — but the shot is no longer recommended for healthy kids.