RFK Jr. to eliminate thimerous mercury preservative from flu vaccines


The Secretary of Health and Human Services of the United States (HHS), Robert F. Kennedy Jr., speaks with the Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins and Senator Roger Marshall (R-KS) before a round table event as part of the “Make America Again” agenda (Maha), in Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on July 15, 2025.

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The Department of Health and Human Services said on Wednesday that it will officially eliminate the preservative thimeria based on mercury of all the flu vaccines distributed in the US. UU, although there is no evidence of ingredient damage.

While few soaps still contain timerosal, the movement eliminates a vaccine option for Americans and is a victory for the anti -cccine movement, which for a long time has attacked the ingredient.

The secretary of the HHS, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., formally adopted a June recommendation from a key government panel, called the Immunization Practices Advisory Committee, or ACIP, against the influenza shots containing Thimerosal. At the beginning of that month, Kennedy destroyed that panel and reacted it with new members, including some widely known anti -cacamic activists.

The decision affects approximately 5% to 5% of the supply of the Vaccine against the US flu. UU. Which includes some multiple dose forms HealthyFlilica and two shots of the CSL Seqirus biotechnological company. According to the CDC data, the rest of the Vaccines against the Flu of the Nation did not have timerosal during the last season of the virus.

Vaccine manufacturers have confirmed that they have the ability to replace multiple dose roads containing Mercury, HHS said. That will ensure that the adult flu vaccine and a government program that provides shots to children without insurance and insufficient insurance is not interrupted, the agency added.

Even so, health experts have said that eliminating flu vaccines that contain timerosal as an option for Americans could take fewer people who receive blows.

The measure also reinforces the unfounded and unfounded fears that the substance can lead to developmental disabilities, such as autism. The skepticism of Kennedy's vaccines is completed with ACIP vote: a decade before participating in his current role, he published a book that required the elimination of the thymusal of the shots and linked it to developmental disorders.

“After more than two decades of delay, this action meets a very long promise to protect our most vulnerable populations from unnecessary exposure to mercury,” Kennedy said in a statement, urging global health authorities to do the same.

More than 40 studies for several decades have not found any link between the thimerosal and development delays. Timerosal has been widely used for decades as a preservative to prevent the growth of harmful bacteria in several medications and vaccines with multiple doses.

HHS said other recommendations from the panel meeting in June are still under review.

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