{"id":3681,"date":"2025-06-26T17:48:57","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T00:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wrwofficial.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/26\/rfk-jr-s-vaccine-advisers-raise-disproven-fears-about-the-preservative-thimerosal-shots\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T17:49:02","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T00:49:02","slug":"rfk-jr-s-vaccine-advisers-raise-disproven-fears-about-the-preservative-thimerosal-shots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wrwofficial.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/26\/rfk-jr-s-vaccine-advisers-raise-disproven-fears-about-the-preservative-thimerosal-shots\/","title":{"rendered":"RFK Jr.\u2019s vaccine advisers raise disproven fears about the preservative thimerosal : Shots"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n New committee members Dr. Robert Malone, left, and Dr. Joseph Hibbeln during the first meeting of the CDC’s Advisory Committee On Immunization Practices at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Ga.
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An influential committee that shapes U.S. vaccine policy \u2013 a flashpoint under the leadership of Secretary of Health Robert F. Kennedy Jr. \u2013 has recommended that adults and children no longer receive flu vaccines containing trace amounts of a preservative<\/a> that’s rarely used anymore.<\/p>\n

The discussion of thimerosal, a form of mercury that’s sometimes added to vaccines for sterilization, dominated much of Thursday’s public meeting of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, or ACIP. The committee guides the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on the vaccine schedule for children and adults.<\/p>\n

The two-day meeting at CDC headquarters in Atlanta was unusually high-profile, given Kennedy’s recent decision to boot the entire committee of experts a few weeks ago and replace them with his own hand-picked roster<\/a>, which included some members with a history<\/a> of making inaccurate claims about the safety of vaccines.<\/p>\n