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The US Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted in June to stop recommending certain kinds of flu vaccines, a ...

A CDC advisory has recommended to ban the use of thimerosal in flu shots despite no evidence that it causes any harm.

The virus has not yet evolved to spread efficiently between people. Excellent vaccine technology exists, but the government ...

Children around the world will suffer because RFK Jr. substitutes baseless theories and junk science for knowledge about ...

It’s a question laid to rest years ago, as studies showed no evidence that the preservative causes any health problems.

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s newly appointed Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) upheld ...

In February 1976, 19-year-old U.S. Army Pvt. David Lewis died at Fort Dix, New Jersey, from a respiratory illness. Testing revealed infection with a novel influenza strain similar to the 1918 Spanish ...

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s new vaccine advisory committee endorsed fall flu vaccinations Thursday for just ...

The Trump administration’s vaccine advisers are bringing up an old flu-shot debate: whether it’s time to wipe out the last small fraction of those vaccines that contain a controversial ...

A CDC panel’s vote to stop recommending thimerosal-containing flu shots would have limited impact, but it illustrates how the ...