{"id":30522,"date":"2025-06-26T09:02:07","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T09:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=30522"},"modified":"2025-06-26T09:28:02","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T09:28:02","slug":"a-c-d-c-committee-is-debating-the-use-of-thimerosal-in-vaccines-is-it-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=30522","title":{"rendered":"A C.D.C. Committee Is Debating the Use of Thimerosal in Vaccines. Is It Safe?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A C.D.C. advisory committee will debate the use of thimerosal in flu shots this week.<\/p>\n

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For decades, anti-vaccine groups have targeted thimerosal, a vaccine preservative that they claim, without credible evidence, is linked to autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders.<\/p>\n

These claims about the mercury-based preservative have long existed at the fringes \u2014 until now.<\/p>\n

Under the leadership of the health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy \u2014 who wrote a book supporting \u201cthe immediate removal of mercury\u201d from vaccines \u2014 these claims are now to be seriously considered by newly appointed members<\/a> of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices<\/a>, an influential group that makes vaccine recommendations to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, the panel is expected to discuss and vote on the use of thimerosal in flu vaccines, the only routine shots that still include the additive. Instead of a C.D.C. scientist presenting on the subject, as is custom, Lyn Redwood, the former leader of a prominent anti-vaccine group, will speak to the committee.<\/p>\n

Slides from that presentation, which were posted online ahead of the meeting, argue thimerosal is \u201cneurotoxic\u201d and harmful for pregnant women and children \u2014 claims that are contradicted by dozens of rigorous studies and have largely been rejected by vaccine scientists.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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